Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Foodie Extravaganza is where we celebrate obscure food holidays or cook and bake together with the same ingredient or theme each month. Posting day for #FoodieExtravaganza is always the first Wednesday of each month. If you are a blogger and would like to join our group and blog along with us, come join our Facebook page  Foodie Extravaganza . We would love to have you! If you're a spectator looking for delicious tid-bits check out our  Foodie Extravaganza Pinterest Board ! This month Karen of Karen's Kitchen Stories  is hosting the #FoodieExtravaganza Potatoes event! Here's the line-up... Baked Potato Ragada Chat from Magical Ingredients Chorizo Stuffed Hash Browns from Karen's Kitchen Stories Lemon & Dill Potato Salad with No Mayonnaise from Faith Hope Love & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice Parmesan Bacon Potato Squares from Food Lust People Love Potato Lollipops from Sheha's Recipe Potato Puffs from A Day in the Life on the Farm Sa...

Today, I asked the Festive Foodies to join me in an event for Bastille Day. Bastille Day is celebrated on July 14th each year and, in France, is simply called  La Fête Nationale , literally “the national celebration” or “the national party.” It might also be referred to as  Le quatorze juillet , meaning ‘the fourteenth of July.” Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille and, in a very abridged and simplified explanation, the beginning of the revolution that brought the end to French feudalism. When the kids were smaller, I explained that it was sort of like Independence Day in France. I know that’s not completely accurate, but they understood it. “Do they have fireworks, too?” one of the boys asked. Yes! So, as most of our country is celebrating Independence Day with a bevy of American foods such as hot dogs, hamburgers, potato salad, and coleslaw, we usually head on a virtual trip, via tabletop, to France to honor their Bastille Day. The Bastille Day Li...