Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month the Wine Pairing Weekend Bloggers are taking a CSA Challenge and pairing produce from a local, organic farm - either through a CSA subscription or a farmers' market stand - with a bottle of wine. I am hosting the group this month; you can read my invitation here .  #WinePW Preview If you are reading this early enough, feel free to jump in on our live Twitter chat on Saturday, August 13th at 8am Pacific. Follow the hashtag #WinePW and be sure to add it to anything you tweet so we can see it.  Here's what the group is sharing... California Slow Wine Guide Wines by Wine Predator...Gwendolyn Alley CSA-Inspired: Whole Roasted Rockfish with Tomatillo Sauce + Seabold Cellars' 2021 Siletto Aligoté by Culinary Adventures with Camilla Easy Peasy Pairing with Dracaena Wines Chenin Blanc by The Quirky Cork Grilled Artichoke and Marianna Rocim Alentejo by Our Good Life Lodi Locavore Living by ENOFYLZ Wine Blog Mexican Street Corn and Sausage Salad with a Vino Blanc by A ...

Today the Wine Pairing Weekend writers are talking about Slow Wine. Gwendolyn of Wine Predator...Gwendolyn Alley is hosting; you can read her invitation . Last month, the Italian Food Wine Travel group looked at Italian Slow Wine. This month, we turn our eyes towards Slow Wine in the United States.  And, as a fantastic bonus, Gwendolyn arranged a Zoom meeting for us with the senior editor of the guide,  Pam Strayer. It was nice to see familiar names in the editorial masthead, including Nicole Ruiz Hudson of Somm's Table , I've known Nicole for years through our wine blogging groups, but I finally met her face to face in 2019 at a Prosecco Superiore lunch in San Francisco. And the presenter from that event is also one of the Slow Wine Guide editors - Iris Rowlee. The wine circles collide! But we are talking about Slow Wine... If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join our live chat on Twitter on Saturday, May 14th at 8am Pacific time. Follow the hashtag #WinePW an...

  Welcome to the May 2022 event of  our #EattheWorld project, being spearheaded by Evelyne of  CulturEatz . Here's  her challenge .  This month, we are sharing Turkish recipes, here's the #EattheWorld line-up... Magical Ingredients: Kumpir - Turkish Style Baked Potatoes   Amy’s Cooking Adventures: Turkish Simit Bread  A Day in the Life on the Farm: Pide Ekmek   Pandemonium Noshery: Sahanda Pirzola - Turkish Lamb and Tomatoe s  Sneha’s Recipe: Keto Turkish Menemen - Scrambled Eggs In Tomato Sauce  Kitchen Frau: Çilbir (Turkish Eggs in Garlic Yogurt)  Culinary Adventures with Camilla: Ekşili Balık – A Lemony Turkish Fish Stew Recipe Other Turkish Recipes I have made some Turkish dishes before, including  Soganli Tavuk Yahnisi (Turkish Chicken Stew) ,  Muhallebi , and Turkish Bazlama, photographed above, a delicious flatbread for which I never posted a recipe. Soon! But for this event, I wanted to make a main dish...and I s...

It's time for the February Fish Friday Foodies' 2022  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. Welcome to the February Fish Friday Foodies event. I am hosting and decided to ask the group to share recipes that use and focus on sustainable seafood. Here's what everyone is sharing. Braised Cod with Potatoes and Onions by Karen’s Kitchen Stories Broiled Asian-inspired Red Snapper Fillets by Food Lust People Love Khuboni/Khube Curry - East Indian by Sneha’s Recipe L'Uovo di Seppia by Culinary Adventures with Camilla Pasta with Spiced Vegetables and Anchovies by A Day in the Life on the Farm The Sustainability of Squid Whenever I purchase seafood, I rely on the Seafood Watch website and app run by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Additionally, the fish counter at our local Whole Foods labels what they sell as wild caught or farm raised so ...

This month I am hosting the Food'N'Flix group and I invited them to watch Only You . You can read my invitation here . Here's what the bloggers shared... Pasta Debra of Eliot's Eats offered a Roman Pasta and Only You , sharing, "This was a new film for me, even though it would have been a film the girlfriends and I would have sought out in 1994.   I loved the vintage wedding photos during the opening.  That set up the plot well.   This is the October film so the Ouija board, candles  and fortune tellers help set a seasonal vibe." Her Bucatini all’Amatriciana looked amazing and was something that I made often when I lived in Rome.  Pizza Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm made White Clam Pizza . Her synopsis of the movie reminded me of how much travel has changed since 9-11: "What ensues is a fun escapade through airports, onto planes and into Italy.  You could tell that this film was definitely pre 9-11.  There were no security stops and...

  Last month the #WorldWineTravel bloggers took a virtual trip to Rías Baixas. You can read my post: Sopa de Cebolla + 2020 Fillaboa Albariño . But within Galicia are a total of five Denominacións de Orixe (DO): Monterrei, Rías Baixas, Ribeira Sacra, Ribeiro, and Valdeorras. And I wanted to do a little deeper dive into some of the other DOs. In the Glass Valdeorras was named for the extensive gold mining that the Romans did in the area. Val-de-Oras is roughly 'valley of gold' in Latin and it is home to two of  Spain's indigenous grapes: Godello and Mencía. Bodegas Avancia lies in the mountains of Valdeorras which has predominantly slate soils. The estate is small - less than 25 acres - with the grapes being dry-farmed and cultivated organically.  Jorge Ordóñez specializes in working with the Godello grape which is native to northwest Spain. Though DNA profiling of the grape says it is genetically identical to the Portuguese  grape called Gouveio which grows througho...