Culinary Adventures with Camilla

It's almost barbeque season, folks! And I am going to share a super simple process that you can use to make your own barbeque sauce. You can substitute any fruits...be creative and use what you have! I happened to have fresh raspberries on the day I was making this.  Ingredients 1-1/2 cup crushed tomatoes or tomato sauce (you can also use ketchup in a pinch) 1-1/2 cups fresh raspberries (you can use whatever other fruits you have on-hand) 3/4 cup vinegar (I used a Raspberry Basil vinegar) 3 Tablespoons maple syrup (you can also substitute honey) 4 cloves garlic, peeled and minced 2 teaspoons raspberry chipotle seasoning blend (you can use any mixture of spices such as paprika, cumin, etc.) freshly ground salt, to taste freshly ground pepper, to taste  Procedure Combine all of the ingredients in a medium saucepan and simmer until it has reached the consistency that you want. Mine took between 15 and 20 minutes. Adjust seasoning - sugar, salt, and pepper - ...

  Today the Sunday Funday group is sharing quinoa recipes. Thanks to Stacy of  Food Lust People Love , Sue of  Palatable Pastime , Rebekah of  Making Miracles , and Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  for coordinating this low-stress group. This week, Renu is hosting and suggested we share recipes based on quinoa. Here's the list of recipes... Quinoa Chia Multiseed Bread from Cook with Renu Rustic Multigrain Bread from Karen's Kitchen Stories Mediterranean Quinoa Salad from A Day in the Life on the Farm Vegetable Quinoa Upma from Sneha’s Recipe Turkey Quinoa Meatloaf from Amy's Cooking Adventures Copycat Trader Joe’s Lemon Chicken and Arugula Salad from Palatable Pastime Quinoa Tangerine Salad from Mayuri’s Jikoni I decided to share a grain bowl recipe that I made as part of a 6-bowl video. These grain bowl salads are the perfect side dish or main dish. And I love that they are so, so simple to assemble! Here are six variations using thr...

This month, the World Wine Travel bloggers are traveling to Victoria, Australia and looking at white wine from the region. Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm is hosting. If you are reading this early enough, we are changing it up from our usual Twitter chat and opting for a Zoom chat. This should be lively though a wee bit early for us Left Coasters. I'll be the one with the messy bun, coffee in hand, and probably still in pajamas!  Join through this link on Saturday, May 28th at 8am Pacific. Here's the list of articles that the writers are sharing... Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm paired  Peach Chicken and a Chardonnay from Fowles Farm .  Cam of Culinary Adventures with Camilla shares  Steamed Mussels with a Citrus Drizzle + Punt Road Pinot Gris 2019 . Terri of Our Good Life is enjoying  Summertime Charcuterie with Whipped Feta + Butterfly Effect Rose Grenache . Jeff of Food Wine Click! serves up Frisk Prickly Riesling with Hoisin Pork . Deanna o...

Today the Sunday Funday group is sharing picnic recipes. Thanks to Stacy of  Food Lust People Love , Sue of  Palatable Pastime , Rebekah of  Making Miracles , and Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  for coordinating this low-stress group.  And, for this event, Renu is hosting. We are sharing any recipes that can be eaten at a picnic! Here's the line-up of our creations from the #SundayFunday bloggers... Bacon Broccoli Mac  from Amy's Cooking Adventures Cucumber Mozzarella Salad  from Palatable Pastime Cowboy Beans  from A Day in the Life on the Farm Mango Pico De Gallo  from Mayuri’s Jikoni Murukulu Janthikalu  from Sneha’s Recipe Smoked Salmon Toasts from Culinary Adventures with Camilla Spicy Avocado Mango Bean Salad  from Cook with Renu   pic·nic /ˈpikˌnik/  noun an outing or occasion that involves taking a packed meal to be eaten outdoors So for this picnic, I didn't venture far...I packed a meal for our pati...

This month the French Winophiles are looking at wines from the Southwest of France. Linda of  My Full Wine Glass  is hosting. She suggested: "Bergerac, Cahors, Gaillac, Irouléguy, Jurançon, Madiran - these are among the regions located in southwest France. If you've already written about one of these regions, why not choose another?" If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join our live Twitter chat on Saturday, May 21st at 8am Pacific. Follow the hashtag #Winophiles; be sure to add that to anything you tweet so we can see it. Here are the articles for the theme... Camilla at Culinary Adventures with Camilla : Garlic and Herb-Rubbed Standing Pork Rib Roast + Château Laulerie Bergerac Rosé 2020   Robin at Crushed Grape Chronicles : Fish, cheese, and red wine. Exploring the Basque region of Irouléguy Jeff at Food Wine Click! : Deconstructed Tartine & Domaine de L'Astré Pèlroge Deanna at Wineivore : Organic Negrette & Manseng Wines from SW France Paire...

I am finally, finally jumping in to The Cake Slice Bakers events five months in to 2022. This year, the group is baking through Zoë Bakes Cakes: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Favorite Layers, Bundts, Loaves, and More by Zoë Francois. I haven't participated at all this year; I bought the book in late 2021, tested a few recipes for the holidays, and promptly misplaced the book. For. More. Than. Four. Months. So, it was serendipitous that I found my book just in time for the May edition of #TheCakeSliceBakers! I looked at the three recipes that were chosen and knew exactly which one I wanted to serve for my forty-ninth birthday party. Are you the kind of person who likes to be spoiled on your birthday? Or are you, like me, the kind of person who bakes her own cake?!!?  Before I get down to the recipe, I'll recap what the group is all about since I haven't posted with them for all of 2022. In this group, we are given a selection of three cake recipes. We each choose ...

It's time for the May Fish Friday Foodies' 2022  event. W e are a group of seafood-loving bloggers, rallied by Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm , to   share fish and seafood recipes on the third Friday of the month. This month I am hosting and told the group: " Let's make some diminutive seafood bites. Amuse-bouche are single, bite-sized hors d'œuvres. Get creative with a seafood-based amuse-bouche."  Here's the line-up... A Day in the Life on the Farm: Smoked Salmon Rolls Culinary Adventures with Camilla: Marbled Smoked Salmon-Topped Deviled Eggs Food Lust People Love: Baked Crawfish Rangoon Karen’s Kitchen Stories: Shrimp Cocktail Cucumber Cups Of Goats and Greens: Steamed Scallop Wontons Palatable Pastime: Kung Pao Shrimp Lettuce Wraps Sneha’s Recipe: Pudina/Minty Shrimp Skewers Marbled Smoked Salmon-Topped Deviled Eggs   One of my very favorite small bites to make: deviled eggs. They are easy, flexible, and the perfect bite or two to star...

  Today the Sunday Funday group is sharing shortcake recipes. Thanks to Stacy of  Food Lust People Love , Sue of  Palatable Pastime , Rebekah of  Making Miracles , and Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  for coordinating this low-stress group.  And, for this event, Sue is hosting. We are sharing shortcake recipes! Here's the line-up of our creations from the #SundayFunday bloggers... Buttermilk Shortcakes with Macerated Berries from Culinary Adventures with Camilla Chocolate Strawberry Shortcakes from Palatable Pastime Eggless Jam Shortcake Swirls from Sneha's Recipe Leftover Lemon Loaf Mixed Berry Shortcake from A Day in the Life on the Farm Mini Strawberry Shortcake Parfaits from Karen's Kitchen Stories Strawberry Lemon Shortcake from Mayuri's Jikoni Strawberry Shortcake with Sweet Biscuits from Amy's Cooking Adventures This was the dessert I made for myself to end my Mothers' Day feasting. It's the perfect ba...

Today the Wine Pairing Weekend writers are talking about Slow Wine. Gwendolyn of Wine Predator...Gwendolyn Alley is hosting; you can read her invitation . Last month, the Italian Food Wine Travel group looked at Italian Slow Wine. This month, we turn our eyes towards Slow Wine in the United States.  And, as a fantastic bonus, Gwendolyn arranged a Zoom meeting for us with the senior editor of the guide,  Pam Strayer. It was nice to see familiar names in the editorial masthead, including Nicole Ruiz Hudson of Somm's Table , I've known Nicole for years through our wine blogging groups, but I finally met her face to face in 2019 at a Prosecco Superiore lunch in San Francisco. And the presenter from that event is also one of the Slow Wine Guide editors - Iris Rowlee. The wine circles collide! But we are talking about Slow Wine... If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join our live chat on Twitter on Saturday, May 14th at 8am Pacific time. Follow the hashtag #WinePW an...

  Welcome to the May 2022 event of  our #EattheWorld project, being spearheaded by Evelyne of  CulturEatz . Here's  her challenge .  This month, we are sharing Turkish recipes, here's the #EattheWorld line-up... Magical Ingredients: Kumpir - Turkish Style Baked Potatoes   Amy’s Cooking Adventures: Turkish Simit Bread  A Day in the Life on the Farm: Pide Ekmek   Pandemonium Noshery: Sahanda Pirzola - Turkish Lamb and Tomatoe s  Sneha’s Recipe: Keto Turkish Menemen - Scrambled Eggs In Tomato Sauce  Kitchen Frau: Çilbir (Turkish Eggs in Garlic Yogurt)  Culinary Adventures with Camilla: Ekşili Balık – A Lemony Turkish Fish Stew Recipe Other Turkish Recipes I have made some Turkish dishes before, including  Soganli Tavuk Yahnisi (Turkish Chicken Stew) ,  Muhallebi , and Turkish Bazlama, photographed above, a delicious flatbread for which I never posted a recipe. Soon! But for this event, I wanted to make a main dish...and I s...