Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month Wendy, from  A Day in the Life on the Farm , is hosting this month's edition of Food'N'Flix . And she has asked us to post a recipe inspired by  The Biggest Little Farm .* Read her invitation:  here . Before she assigned this, the movie wasn't on my radar at all. But, on one rainy afternoon this weekend, I watched it twice. The first time, I snuggled up with D, my Enthusiastic Kitchen Elf and resident gardener. If you follow my blog regularly, you'll probably know that he just finished building his sustainable garden fed by a fog collector and wrote a 50+ page paper about it that took me days to edit! Read my post: From Personal Project Garden to Victory Garden . Jake could hear the movie while he was working remotely in the living room and came in to ask about it when he was finished. He was intrigued, so I sat down with him to watch it again. On the Screen The Biggest Little Farm  is a documentary film about John and Molly C...

Trompe-l'oeuf  is not a real phrase. But it popped into my head as I happily cracked eggs into the pan that I had gotten from friends who have chickens. I looked into what the rules were for my city; and though I can technically have five chickens, Jake objected. He's right: I can't take care of plants. I should probably not have chickens! So, for now, I am grateful to generous, chicken-wrangling friends. Trompe l'oeil  (trick of the eye) is a technique in art that involves realistic imagery to create an optical illusion that the painted objects exist in three dimensions. Think Pozzo's painting in   Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio   in Rome.   L'oeuf  means 'egg'.  Trompe-l'oeuf =  egg trickery. That's what I was pondering while cooking breakfast this past weekend. Here are some questions: Can I really discern the taste difference of an über-fresh egg from pastured-raised, antibiotic-free, and pesticide-free layers? I think I can. A...