Culinary Adventures with Camilla

  Today the Sunday Funday group is celebrating Midsummer and Faerie mischief is afoot. Thanks to Stacy of  Food Lust People Love , Sue of  Palatable Pastime , Rebekah of  Making Miracles , and Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  for coordinating this low-stress group. To celebrate Midsummer, host Sue was looking for: Love potions, faerie cakes, recipes using flowers or herbs, small bites, delicate desserts, or recipes that remind of fairy tales. Here's today's line-up... Magical Cookie Bars  by A Day in the Life on the Farm Butterfly Cupcakes  by Amy's Cooking Adventures Chocolate Pixies  by Food Lust People Love Magical Meringue Mushrooms: Queen Mab's Dining Table  by Culinary Adventures with Camilla Pixie Stix Candy Straws  by Palatable Pastime Blueberry Lavender Mini Cheesecakes  by Making Miracles Beetroot & Chocolate Mini Muffins  by Mayuri's Jikoni Queen Mab's Dining Table I was inspired by this poem which ...

While we were camping in the redwoods last weekend, I brought The Blue Salt Road by Joanne M Harris with me.*  And I read it while relaxing in my hammock one morning before we headed off to the archery range. Selkie stories aren't new to me; I remember reading them in both my Norse Mythology and my British Folklore classes in college. And, when the boys were little, The Song of the Sea*  movie was one of our favorites! photos from amazon.com Selkies are 'seal people' who are seals in the water but can come ashore, shed their seal skin and become human. Problems arise when someone steals their seal skin as that traps them in their human form on land. Harris built her story around retelling this premise and has created a novella full of curiosity, passion, young love, confusion, and betrayal. Flora, a redheaded island girl, summons a selkie from the Grey Seal clan to shore through her tears. Then she seduces him, gets pregnant, and steals his seal skin so that he can't l...