Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of  the  Consorzio Vino Orvieto . Complimentary wine was provided for this post and this page may contain affiliate links. However, all opinions expressed here are my own. This month the Italian Food Wine Travel group is looking at the wines of Orvieto. Jen of  Vino Travels  is hosting. If you are reading this early enough, feel free to jump in to our live chat on Twitter on Saturday, May 7th at 8am Pacific. Follow the hashtag #ItalianFWT and be sure to add that to anything you tweet so we can see it. Here are the articles that the writers are sharing... Wendy from A Day in the Life on the Farm shares Umbrian Red Wine Spaghetti and a Book Review . Liz at What‘s In That Bottle wonders  Why Aren’t we all Drinking more Orvieto? Robin at Crushed Grape Chronicles writes about Orvieto - the multifaceted white wine of Umbria . Lynn at Savor the Harvest focuses on Appreciating an Ancient Italian Wine Made For Toda...

The month, the Wine Pairing Weekend bloggers are looking at Cabernet Franc Around the World with Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm leading the discussion. You can read her invitation  here .  If you are reading this soon enough, feel free to join the Wine Pairing Weekend live Twitter chat on Saturday, December 12th at 8am Pacific. Just follow the hashtag #WinePW and be sure to add that to anything you post so we can see your tweets. In the meantime, all of these will go live before Saturday morning. Culinary Adventures with Camilla: Honey-Lemon-Sesame Drizzled Plancha'd Veggies + Garzón 2018 Reserva Cabernet Franc A Day in the Life on the Farm: Hungarian Short Ribs Paired with Dracaena Cab Franc The Quirky Cork: Francly Turkish! Turkish Cab Franc & Lamb Chops Grape Experiences: Crush On Cabernet Franc! Crushed Grape Chronicles: Cab Franc - Sailing the Loire with a Pirate Princess Exploring the Wine Glass: Championing for Cabernet Franc; The True Underdog Cooking C...

This month, the Wine Pairing Weekend bloggers are looking at the wines from New York's Finger Lakes region with Linda of  My Full Wine Glass  for hosting. You can read her invitation:  here . Though I did receive some sample wines from a Finger Lakes winery, my shipment arrived just the day before our scheduled posting date; so, the turnaround was too tight for me do a pairing dinner. Thankfully, I had been able to locate a couple of different wines on my own. But keep an eye out for a post featuring wines from Buttonwood Grove Winery soon. In the meantime, all of these posts will go live between Friday, June 12th and early morning on Saturday, June 13th. If you are seeing this early enough, feel free to join the live Twitter chat. We'll be on at 8am Pacific time. Follow the hasthtag #WinePW and be sure to add that to anything you tweet so we can see it. Wendy at A Day in the Life on the Farm is Exploring the Wines of New York’s Finger Lakes Region . C...

Before this week, I had never heard the term 'victory garden'. And, truth be told, D planted this garden before we were sheltered in place to flatten the curve of the coronavirus that's ravaging the globe. But, once I learned what a victory garden was, I was more than happy to call it that as we use it to supplement our groceries, considering the balancing act of preparedness versus panic-buying . And, really, who isn't proud to eat something they grew themselves?! This garden was what he chose to do for his Personal Project - that's a year-long project at the end of the MYP (Middle Years Programme) in the IB (International Baccalaureate) curriculum and includes a written paper that's akin to a thesis...except he's a sophomore in high school. I didn't have to write a thesis till I was graduating from Berkeley! In any case, as I've been editing the paper - all 59 pages of it! - this week, I know a lot more about it. So, I'll share some back...

Can you believe that it's November? That means that the Kitchen Matrix Cooking Project - really Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm , Karen of Karen's Kitchen Stories , and I - have been doing this for ten months already. You can read more about our project here . And this month, Wendy picked the recipes. This week, she selected Vegetable Soup + 12 Ways. Check out the line-up... An InLinkz Link-up In four categories - creamy, brothy, earthy, and hearty - Bittman offered a trio of options. It's still not really soup season here. We just got back from our annual Halloween camping trip and it was in the mid-60s till almost dinner time. Here's our crew carving pumpkins and me in a hammock - notice the shorts and short sleeves! But, when we pulled into the driveway on Sunday, I remembered that I needed to make a vegetable soup. So, I went easy and used all of the vegetables in my bin! I had onions, celery, carrots, zucchini, and spinach. I would ...