Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month, I hosted the online Movies & Munchies group and asked the crew to watch Letters to Juliet. You can read my invitation here . Our group is small and mighty, but the posts always make me hungry. The Recipe Round-Up Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm shared her  Mushroom Spaghetti . Wendy shared: "There was quite a bit of food inspiration.  When the film first starts Sophie is hand fed fresh spaghetti by her fiance.  When they first arrive in Verona her fiance is going to a conference about truffles and is very upset when Claire can't understand why he would want to sit in a class about mushrooms.  He corrects her, dispelling the notion that truffles are just a mushroom. Mushrooms show up again at the end of the film convincing me that I wanted to make a pasta recipe that starred mushrooms." Terri of Our Good Life posted Letters to Juliet Inspired Mushroom Risotto . Terri sets the stage: "A group of Italian women, Juliet's secretaries, answers ea...

Wine Pairing Weekend - #winePW - happens on the second Saturday of the month. And this month I'm hosting. "It's all about romance," I wrote in this month's #winePW invitation (click to read the invitation:  here ). In My Glass The first couple that popped into my head when I thought of romance was Romeo and Juliet. I don't mean one of Shakespeare's most well-known plays that borders on the ludicrous as far as being a veritable love story. Well, sort of. I mean Romeo and Juliet's city of Verona. Maybe it's because when I was there for a few days on my way to Venice, the entire city was shrouded in gossamer veil of fog. But Verona felt like romance...and I was traveling solo. Just outside the city of Verona are the vineyards of the Valpolicella region; all around Lago Garda, west of Verona, is the historic heart of this very traditional wine. The region produces a wine called Ripasso which translates to 'passed again.' It refers...