Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Nuts.com.  Complimentary product was provided for this post and this page may contain affiliate links.  However, all opinions expressed here are my own. I found myself reading, taking notes, but not heading to the kitchen to post any inspired recipes for the entire final quarter of 2021. But I'm catching up now. So, let's start with  Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America  by Amy Butcher. On the Page In this poignant, heart-wrenching memoir, essayist Amy Butcher narrates her unlikely adventure on the loneliest road in America with this country's lone female ice trucker. The late Joy 'Mothertrucker' Wiebe was effervescent and inspiring. Through Butcher's recounting, we see her exploration and conversations with Joy about issues including Indigenous rights, religious beliefs, hypocrisy, and even environmental challenges. I read this book in just two sittings. A word of warning: if you are tri...

I am taking a three-part artisan pasta class. Yesterday was our first session. My über-talented and amazing friend from college is now leading future culinary artists at a local high school. So, for three Wednesdays, I'll be there with other pasta-loving gals, learning to make pasta. Jenn teased about me taking her class; "You could teach this class," she joked. Nah...there's always something to learn and I was quite inspired last night.  In roughly three hours we made two different kinds of homemade pasta, two different kinds of homemade sauce, we socialized, we drank coffee and tea, and we ate a plate of pasta before we all went our separate ways. Did I mention she's amazing?!? She provided recipes from Making Artisan Pasta by Aliza Green. Click to read my post about that: here . I went home, dug my copy off the shelf and read it, cover to cover, last night. But what I'm sharing here is because I learned three things last night. Or rather because ...