Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Earlier this month I hosted an 8-day online event celebrating food and romance - #TripleSBites. Along with 19 other bloggers, we shared over 130 recipes. I wanted to give my readers an easy way to view the recipes from each sponsor. Here are the 10 recipes, or mentions, posted using  Spicely Organics  goodies. Thanks, again, for sending product to the bloggers and for providing a wonderful prize package for our readers! Check out everything from chicken mole to blondies and lip balm to creme brulee. These recipes are listed in alphabetical not chronological posting order. Enjoy! All  of the  Spicely Organics   Recipes... Chicken Mole Skewers with Cilantro Pesto by Famished Fish, Finicky Shark Chocolate Mousse with a Kiss of Honey by A Day in the Life on the Farm Crumb Top Apple Pie by The Pajama Chef Homemade Lip Balm by The Spiffy Cookie Lapsang Souchong Blondies by Culinary Adventure with Camilla Mimosa Floats by Amy’s Cooking Ad...

I was recently introduced to  Spicely Organics ' spice and tea-infused chocolates*. I've known about Spicely for awhile; I buy their spices and herbs at Whole Foods all the time. But when we took our youngest Kitchen Elf on a chocolate walking tour in San Francisco , as an early birthday adventure,   we discovered that Spicely also has chocolates infused with spices and teas.  My son was so enamored with the chocolates that he changed the dessert course for his birthday party to a Curated Chocolate Tasting of a dozen Spicely chocolates. What I love about Spicely's infused chocolates: they are distinctive and potent. The pieces are small, but because the flavor is so intense, you don't need very much. I opted to create a recipe to showcase my favorite of the infused chocolates, the Lapsang Souchong. It's exotic and smoky.  In fact, one of my friends to whom I gave a sample called me and queried, "It's not bacon in there, is it? It's smoky, but...

Remember our Walking Chocolate Tour of San Francisco ? D was so inspired that he changed his dessert course - for his birthday dinner party - to include a curated chocolate tasting with a dozen tasty morsels from Spicely's Organics . He started by sharing raw cacao nibs. Then he guided his friends through twelve chocolates that were infused with spices and teas. They tried a wide variety of flavors and combinations, including - white chocolate-saffon, pink pepper-tulsi, jasmine, raspberry-rooibus, all-spice, cardamom-anise, lemon-tarragon, sage-lavender-orange, Chinese five spice, and lapsang souchong. After they finished the tasting, it was a free-for-all. D had them line up and grab the extras. My favorite is the lapsang souchong. It's exotic and smoky. I don't think many of the kids were fans. Fine...more for me!