Culinary Adventures with Camilla

I don't know how I totally missed that Peter B's Brewpub was holding another recipe contest - its 1st annual Wing Sauce Competition. Details on their facebook page . Thank goodness for friends who watch out for me! I am always up for some culinary adventure in the form of recipe development, especially a recipe that involves beer. Ummm...heck, yeah. Count me in. I had never actually made chicken wings before January of this year, thinking that I had to fry them. And, well, I don't fry. But, after a blogging friend levied a challenge to come up with a great wings recipe, I experimented and mastered that crispy delicious goodness in the oven. No frying necessary. For this recipe, I needed to include a Peter B's brew. I wanted to use a seasonal beer and tasted their Nitro Milk Stout. At least that's what the waitress called it. According to their facebook page, it's officially the Sumpin' English Maple Milk Stout. It's brewed with English ale...

This week's #SundaySupper event is being co-hosted by Marlene of  Nosh My Way  along with Cindy Cindy's Recipes and Writings . They have chosen a tropical theme.  I immediately started humming Aloha Oe while I mentally listed the possibilities. We haven't been to Kauai in far too long. I thought about the daily sunshine markets; I remembered the smell of beans roasting at the coffee plantations. I even considered burying a whole pig over hot coals. Ha`aheo ka ua ina pali, Ke nihi aela ka nahele E hahai ana i ka liko, Pua ahihi lehua o uka Aloha Oe, Aloha Oe, E ke onaona noho ika lipo A fond embrace, a hoi ae au, Until we meet again. O ka halia`loha i hiki mai, Ke hone ae nei ku`u manawa. O oe no ka`u ipon aloha, A lo ko e hana nei. Then I realized that we were in Costa Rica much more recently. I dreamt of the funky tropical fruits we bought at every roadside stand... ...and the guava tree across the street that we p...

For another cookie tray offering for the guys at work, I was inspired by the Chocolate Chili Dipped Sriracha Peanut Butter Cookies that I received from Awesome with Sprinkles for the #FBCookieSwap this year. Click to read more about that event: here . D liked them so much that he asked if Heidi could send some for his birthday dinner party. Ummmm...no. But she did send the recipe. Mine is slightly adapted. I skipped the dipping and I used some hot sauce from my friend Belle. Ingredients makes approximately 30 cookies 1 stick (1/2 C) butter, softened 3/4 C creamy peanut butter 1 C organic granulated sugar 2 T hot sauce (homemade or some kind of Sriracha) 1 egg 1/2 t pure vanilla extract 1-1/2 C flour 1/2 t baking powder 3/4 t baking soda more organic granulated sugar, for rolling Procedure In a mixing bowl, cream together butter, peanut butter and sugar. Slowly add in hot sauce, egg, and vanillaextract. Beat until well-combined. In...

It's time for Group B's  Secret Recipe Club   December reveal. This month I get to post a bonus recipe from  Cookaholic Wife , who was left out of Group A's reveal last week. Nichole is the Cookaholic Wife who writes: "Nothing makes me happier than feeding people." What a great, succinct formula for happiness. And it's one that I wholeheartedly embrace. We recently moved into our new-to-us house - after too many years in a postage stamp-sized townhouse. And I happily sent out an email to our close friends that since we have a dining room again, I'm ready to start hosting dinners again. They are all excited. I realized, as I perused her site, that I have cooked from her blog before...when I was part of Group A. I had made Nichole's Famous Crab Dip, Camilla-Style . This time I went for a recipe that I could share at a seasonal sips and nibbles party this past weekend. I swapped out for ground pork because that's what I had; I left out...