Culinary Adventures with Camilla

One of  February challenges  for the  Jamie Oliver Food Revolution  Ambassadors ( I'm the Monterey #FRD2014 rep! ) is to... Embrace Wonky Veg! Hmmm...okay. What do you think they mean by "wonky"??? won•ky ˈwäNGkē, (adj) informal 1. crooked; off-center; askew. 2. (of a thing) unsteady; shaky. 3. not functioning correctly; faulty. So, I'm going with the first definition, not the second or third. The whole point is that they are not faulty, right? So, we're embracing the crooked vegetables...the fruits and vegetables that aren't picture perfect. Easy enough. Here's an excerpt from a post I wrote in 2013 about choosing ugly tomatoes ( I Choose Ugly! ). Same idea.  " Ugly tomatoes are not the perfectly round, perfectly red specimens that you can find in almost every grocery store. They are not smooth; they often have fluting and they might have cracks. So long as the flutes and cracks haven't allowed rotting, they...

It's a not a party without a Dane.  But since one of my favorite Danes is pregnant and around the globe in Denmark...and my other favorite Dane doesn't drink beer, two kinds of Havarti had to suffice! Pale yellow, smooth, and creamy.  I thought Havarti's hidden intensity was a nice match for a hoppy pilsner.  I served a plain Havarti and a dill Havarti with Coney Island Lager from Shmaltz Brewing Company in San Francisco, California. L'Chaim!