Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Here we are the May edition of the Cake Slice Bakers. For 2020, we'll be baking from  The New Way to Cake: Simple Recipes with Exceptional Flavor  by Benjamina Ebuehi.* In this group, we are given a selection of three cake recipes. We each choose one cake to bake, and then on the 20th - never before - we all post about our cake on our blogs. There are a few rules that we follow, but the most important ones are to have fun and enjoy baking & eating cakes! Follow our  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Pinterest   pages where you can find all of our cakes, as well as inspiration for many other cakes. You can also click on the links below to take you to each of our cakes. If you have a blog and are interested in joining The Cake Slice Bakers and baking along with us, please send an email to thecakeslicebakers at gmail dot com for more details. The Cake Slice Bakers also have a new Facebook group called  The Cake Slice Bakers and Friends . Th...

Here we are at the May 2020 Soup Saturday Swappers event. Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  started this event and, every month, I get a new array of soup recipes to put in my to-try pile. This month, we are hosted by Colleen of  Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice  who writes: "Create a soup using fresh vegetables. No frozen or canned vegetables allowed." Sounds fabulous. Here's the line-up of fresh veggie soup recipes from the #SoupSwappers... Colombian Crema de Aguacate by Pandemonium Noshery Cream of Mushroom Soup by Palatable Pastime Fresh Corn Soup with Seared Scallops by Karen's Kitchen Stories Fresh Green Peas Soup With Veg Cheese Parcel by Sneha's Recipe Minestrone from Campania by A Day in the Life on the Farm Pesang Manok by Culinary Adventures with Camilla Poached Shrimp & Spring Onion One-Pot Soup by Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice Tuscan Style Tur...

This month the French Winophiles are exploring Cru Beaujolais with Cindy of  Grape Experiences  at the lead. You can read her invitation here . If you are reading this early enough, feel free to jump into the discussion. We'll have a live Twitter chat on Saturday, May 16th at 8am Pacific. Follow the hashtag #Winophiles and be sure to add that to your tweet so we can see it. Cheers! In the meantime, here's the line-up of the Cru Beaujolais articles that will go live between Friday, May 15th and early morning Saturday, May 16th. Wendy from A Day in the Life on the Farm experiences A Casual COVID-19 Visit with Charcuterie and Chateau de Poncie Le Pre Roi Fleurie . Camilla from Culinary Adventures with Camilla pairs Tuna Pâté + Joseph Drouhin Hospices De Belleville Brouilly 2016. Jill at L’Occasion explores Soil + Wind: Tasting Cru Beaujolais with Château du Moulin-à-Vent . Payal of Keep the Peas is Welcoming Summer with a Berry Delicious Brouilly . Lynn at Savo...

I have never heard of this author, but much like Netflix's "picked for you" suggestions, my e-reader does the same and The Victory Garden by Rhys Bowen* popped up. Okay. Not much else to do these days while we enter our third month of sheltering in place. Reading seems a good way to pass the time. I actually had heard the term 'victory garden' recently - in relation to D's garden project and thought it would be more about cultivating a garden during a crisis. But it was more of a historical fiction set in a time and place with which I am woefully unfamiliar. So, I was happy to learn more about women's roles in the Great War all wrapped up in a compelling story about  middle class woman who wants more than the plush moneyed life her parents are offering...along with all the strings and familiar obligations that go along with that privilege. On the Page Bowen transports the reader to 1918 Torquay, on the Southern coast of England, where we ...

Every morning this week, R has been requesting things for breakfast. I don't know if he's taking notes so that when he goes away to college, he can make these things on his own, or what? But Monday he wanted and helped with crêpes; yesterday it was breakfast tacos; today, he requested popovers. These are not difficult, so I don't know why I don't make these more often! Maybe it's because I love the look of glee when these come to the table. All three of my boys love popovers. Jake asked, "How much butter do you use?"  Not that much . "So, they're kinda healthy?"  I guess so. I added some ground spices and vanilla salt to this version. But you can use whatever spices and extracts you wish. I actually am out of vanilla extract, so I added a splash of Calvados (apple brandy) instead. This really is an incredibly flexible recipe to have in your Sunday brunch repertoire. He asked if you could make these in a different pan. I have ...

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely bread by following our  Pinterest board  right here. Links are also updated after each event on the  Bread Bakers home page .  Today, the Bread Bakers, hosted by Karen's Kitchen Stories , are baking breads with rye. I'm excited to see everyone's rye breads! I had initially wanted to replicate a Swedish Rye Bread that a friend gave me a couple of weeks ago; I even had her recipe. But it didn't turn out the way I wanted. Probably because I was trying to substitute too many things: sourdough starter for yeast and butter for shortening. I'll get around to making it as written, but this month is not that time. In the meantime, check out this rye bread line-up from the #BreadBakers... Black Pepper Rye from A Messy Kitchen Coffee Scones with Maple, Raisins, and Rye from Palatable Pastime Everyday Multig...

If you've following my blog recently, you'll know that I just bought an e-reader - read about that in The Paris Architect, Three Lives of a Roasted Chicken, and an E-Reader - and I'm warming up to it. Though I have had to figure out balancing the number of titles I'm allowed to have checked out to my Kindle Unlimited account, I might even say that I like the convenience of having books in the cloud instead of on my nightstand. Gasp. And I will also readily admit that I added this book to my reading list simply because its cover is pretty! It All Comes Back to You by Beth Duke.* Gasp, again. On the Page Beautiful cover aside, this book actually inspired me to wince and cringe in response to the characters' actions. On the surface it's a relatively sweet tale of two women whose lives intersect because one is a caregiver at a retirement facility while the other is a resident. Sadly, I found the flashbacks somewhat contrived and silly and both main...