Culinary Adventures with Camilla

For  May's Wine Pairing Weekend event, Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  is inviting the blogging group to look at Middle Eastern wine pairings. So, after a bit of back and forth about what constitutes the Middle East, I landed on a Lebanese food and wine pairing.  I know that some of the group had trouble sourcing Middle Eastern wines, so Wendy opened up the field to include Middle Eastern inspired-dishes with whatever wine we wished. I do see in the titles that at least a few of us found wines from the region. If you are reading this early enough, feel free to jump into our live Twitter chat on Saturday, May 8th at 8am Pacific. Just follow the hashtag #WinePW and be sure to add it to anything you tweet so we can see it. Here's the line-up of articles from the crew... Robin of Crushed Grape Chronicles is Celebrating Sauvignon Blanc Day at the Table with St. Supéry and Easy Middle Eastern Dishes . Pinny of Chinese Food and Wine Pairing is  Drinking...

This week the Wine Pairing Weekend Bloggers are looking at Vinho Verde. Since it's summer and their price points are so attractive, I decided to do a nice exploration of a few bottles of Vinho Verde Rosé. Up first was a bottle of João Portugal Ramos Vinho Verde Rosé 2018. I will be sharing more about the wine and my tasting notes during the upcoming #WinePW event. For now, here's the recipe with which I paired it... Za'atar Manakeesh I have always called this  Man’oushe.  The Enthusiastic Kitchen Elf saw this on the table and said, "Oh, Mom! You made  Manakeesh . I love  Manakeesh ." Turns out that some of his classmates had made and brought a za'atar-laden flatbread to a class potluck and called it  Manakeesh . Fine. Whatever you want to call it, it's easy to make and delicious. You can eat this just as is, but you can serve it as an appetizer with olives and feta cheese. Or it can be part of a heavier Middle Eastern meal composed of h...

This month, Sue of  Palatable Pastime  told the Baking Bloggers that for February: "Share your baked Middle Eastern food with us, sweet or savoy. It can be a main dish, dessert,  pastry, anything as long as part of it is baked." Here's the #BakingBloggers virtual Middle Eastern bakery... Apricot Pistachio Cake from Food Lust People Love Basbousa Cake from Pandemonium Noshery Cottage Cheese and Veggies Borek from Sneha's Recipe Easy Middle Eastern Puff Pastry Cheese Bourekas  by Fatih, Hope, Love & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice Laffa Bread from Making Miracles Lebanese Sesame Cookies from Culinary Adventures with Camilla Mana'eesh (Palestinian Flatbread) from Karen's Kitchen Stories Parda Pulao - Iraqi Parda Plau from The Schizo Chef Roast Chicken Shwarma from A Day in the Life on the Farm Umm Ali from Caroline's Cooking Lebanese Sesame Cookies  Given that I could go sweet or savory for this challenge, I was...

This round  Debra of  Eliot's Eats  selected our April-May selection. Her announcement post is here .  The Feast Nearby: How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week)  by Robin Mather  is our current  Cook the Books   project. And you have plenty of time to join the party, if you wish. Submissions aren't due till June 1st! I just got an early start...because I read it in one sitting. On the Page... I have to admit: I was completely put off by the subtitle:  How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week) . I envisioned a self-absorbed memoir that was more focused on grocery receipts than the actual food. How wrong I was! She mentions her divorce only in the introduction and, while what transpired informs her current situation, it doe...