Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Welcome to the  Foodie Extravaganza !  v. June 2015 - celebrating the Incredible Edible Egg Foodie Extravaganza is where we celebrate obscure food holidays or cook and bake together with the same ingredient or theme each month. This month we celebrate the Incredible Edible Egg by serving up egg dishes of all kinds. This month, it's all about eggs which means you can see an additional 11 delicious and egg creations in this post. Hooray! Thanks to Wendy from  A Day in the Life on the Farm  for hosting this event. We hope you all enjoy our delicious egg dishes this month and come back to see what we bring for you next month. Posting day 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 ...

Amaretti are my sweets craving go-to...because they take only three ingredients and about 20 minutes. Awesome! Ingredients 2 egg whites 1 C organic powdered sugar 2 C ground almonds Procedure Beat egg whites to stiff peaks. Gradually beat in powdered sugar, again, forming stiff peaks. Gently fold in ground almonds. Spoon mixture onto parchment paper. Bake in a 375 degree oven till the cookies are firm and the tops cracked, about 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and place baking pan on a rack to cool. When cool gently peel cookies from parchment.

Heather of  girlichef  is hosting this month's  Food'N'Flix . This month, we had a choice - we could watch either Kung Fu Panda or Kung Fu Panda 2 .  Click to see Heather's  invitation .  Not only did we watch the movies in the theatre - possibly more than once! - but we own the discs. So, when we headed to Lake Tahoe for Spring Break, we brought both movies and I told the boys I needed help picking a dish. We watched both movies again while snuggled up in front of the fireplace last week. Then we cooked these this week. D voted for bean buns; but when he said he would try to stick 40 buns in his mouth like Po, I vetoed that idea. R asked for radishes. Just plain radishes. I explained that wasn't really post-worthy, but that I would get him radishes. Since inner peace plays a huge role in saving the world in Kung Fu Panda 2 - and Spring peas are all around - I decided to made some Inner Peas Dumplings! Get it? from http://kungfupanda.wikia....

I needed candied rose petals for the birthday cake tonight. So, I posed the question on facebook - Anyone local to me have any organic roses in bloom? - and Belle answered. I stopped by her house on my way home from work last night and picked up a few roses in various shades, from an inky bordeaux to a vibrant azalea to a delicate icy pink. She even gave me a few extra - for the learning curve. Thank you, Belle! Then I snagged a brand new paint brush from Jake's studio. Yes, it was new. And, yes, I did wash it and thank him profusely. Candying rose petals isn't like candying citrus. This is tad more delicate. But the results are gorgeous. It's well worth the effort. And if you happen to have a helpful kitchen elf, rope him (or her) into helping you. Ingredients organic rose petals 1 egg white organic granulated sugar Procedure Beat your egg white in a mixing bowl until soft peaks form. Place granulated sugar on a saucer. Using a clean brush, coa...