Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Claudia from  Honey from Rock  is our   Cook the Books   hostess for this round (February-March 2019); she chose   Crazy Rich Asians  by Kevin Kwan.*  You can read Claudia's invitation:  here .  And, as luck would have it, we're doing a double-header with the book here and the movie over at Food'N'Flix. You can join in that party with Debra at the lead.  Read more in my post for that event: 'Eat the Baby' Handmade Dumplings , including Debra's invitation and what I thought of the movie. On the Page For this edition of Cook the Books, I had already read the book last summer...and not cared for it at all. You can read my first impressions of it in my post:  Sotong Bakar (Grilled Squid) with Spicy Peanut Sauce . I rarely prefer a movie version to a book. But that was definitely the case with Crazy Rich Asians. But I decided to keep an open mind and I asked my mom for the book back. She told me she hadn't had a chance to rea...

Here we are at the November 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. And this month, Ashley of  Cheese Curd in Paradise  is hosting as we explore soups featuring pumpkins or squash. Ashley writes, "Perfect time to cook with these seasonal ingredients. Get creative with an pumpkin or squash ingredients- or maybe a combination!" I just made a pumpkin stew inside a beautiful blue pumpkin! If I had known...I would have saved it for this event. You can see my Jarrahdale Pumpkin Posole: here . But I loved Ashley's idea of mixing pumpkin and acorn squash. So, I went with that. Before I get to my offering, here's the rest of the #SoupSwappers crew... An InLinkz Link-up Pumpkin Laska I opted to share a Malaysian-inspired soup with our two favorite squashes: a pumpkin and an acorn squash. We love that this is creamy, coconuty...