Culinary Adventures with Camilla

It's time for Fish Friday Foodies' December 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. And t his month Karen of  Karen's Kitchen Stories  is at the helm, while the group serves up a virtual  La Vigilia  which is short for  La  Vigilia di Natale . Karen provided a little guidance by sharing: "The Feast of the Seven Fishes is an Italian American Christmas Eve tradition. There are no hard rules." She gave us the outline of the courses according to Bon Appetit  magazine and let us run with it. Years ago, when I was in college, I dated a guy whose family was from Calabria. And the first Christmas I spent with them was when I learned about this tradition. His family, however, did twelve fish courses - not seven - in honor of the twelve apostles. Ironically, no one in that family really cooked; so twelve course...

So, I am new to The Cake Slice Bakers group which I stumbled across after drooling over Karen of Karen's Kitchen Stories ' post about last month's selection: Ukranian Caramel Cake . Karen is one of those bloggers who makes phenomenal looking breads and cakes and makes me wish I lived closer to her; I'd definitely be inviting myself over for dessert often! In any case, I immediately started asking questions about how to join this fun group. Here's the scoop... Each month The Cake Slice Bakers are offered a selection of cakes from the current book we are baking through. This year it is  The European Cake Cookbook  by Tatyana Nesteruk*. We each select 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 - and eating - cakes! Follow our  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Pinterest  pages where you can find all ...

I'm excited to be sharing this recipe as part of Cranberry Week - now in its third year! See all the tasty cranberry recipes being shared today below and follow # CranberryWeek on social media for more ideas all week long. Buddha's Hand-Cranberry Shortbread from Culinary Adventures with Camilla Cranberry Baked Brie from Cookaholic Wife Cranberry Fig Sauce from The Redhead Baker Cranberry Glazed Carrots from Palatable Pastime Cranberry Jam with Bacon and Onions from A Day in the Life on the Farm Cranberry Orange Sweet Rolls from The Saucy Fig Cranberry Whiskey Sour from Caroline's Cooking Dark Chocolate Cranberry Scones  from Cooking For My Soul Pork Chops with Cranberry Maple Pan Sauce from Karen's Kitchen Stories Spiced Cranberry Sangria  from A Joyfully Mad Kitchen Buddha's Hand Buddha's Hand resembles something that might have surfaced from the benthic zone or something that should be entombed in a jar of formaldehyde in a ...

  This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of the sponsors of #FabulousFallBounty. I received complimentary product for the purpose of review and recipe development, but all opinions are honest and they are my own.  This page may contain affiliate links. Here we are at the second day of our celebration of #FabulousFallBounty. You can read more about the event:  here . And, once again, many thanks to our event sponsors:  Silpat   for a handy silicone mat;  Le Creuset  for a lovely serving platter; and  Melissa's Produce  for providing the bloggers with a beautiful box of goodies, including the delicata squash I used here. Just a note: Melissa's does carry Buddha's Hand citron, but I picked these up at my local Whole Foods. Buddha's Hand resembles something that might have surfaced from the benthic zone or something that should be entombed in a jar of formaldehyde in a collector's basement. But it's a wildly gorgeous cit...

For this round - our October-November selection - of  Cook the Books , the book selection was chosen by Claudia from  Honey from Rock . She chose  The Patriarch: A Mystery of the French Countryside  by Martin Walker.* You can read Claudia's invitation in the book announcements:  here . On the Page This mystery, set in a sleepy French village, has a whole host of characters who could be interesting, but I just couldn't make myself care about any of them. Really. I slogged my way through the pages, even carting it along on a three-day robotics competition, but found the characters were disappointingly one-dimensional. And the plot seemed contrived as if the author were struggling to churn out the tenth book in the series. I might give one of the earlier books a try, but this one was not too appealing to me. While I wasn't enamored with the book, I did enjoy the descriptions of food that were sprinkled throughout. "Soon they were sipping Riesling an...