Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Today the #SundayFunday bloggers are celebrating the Year of the Ox and Lunar New Year. Wendy of  A Day in the Life on the Farm  is hosting. She urged: Join me as we celebrate The Year of the Ox. Chinese New Year is on February 12th this year. Share your favorite Chinese Recipe with us. 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.  Here's the line-up of recipes for this week's event... Baked Crispy Tofu Bowl by Cook with Renu Black Pepper Beef and Broccoli with Noodles by Food Lust People Love  Chinese New Year Skillet by Making Miracles  Easy Chicken Egg Rolls by A Day in the Life on the Farm  Lion's Head Meatballs by Amy's Cooking Adventures Lucky Duck, Gold Bars, and Longevity Noodles by Culinary Adventures with Camilla  Mongolian Lamb by Palatable Pastime Steak Fingers With Steamed Ri...

Next weekend, the #SundayFunday bloggers are sharing recipes for the Lunar New Year. So, we had some fun creating different dishes. Spring rolls, known as ' Chun Juan ', in Chinese, are eaten during the Lunar New Year as a symbol of wealth and prosperity because they resemble gold bars. The lucky saying for eating spring rolls is Hwung-Jin Wan-Lyang , which translates to 'a ton of gold.' These are certainly not totally traditional. Other recipes include mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and water chestnuts. We went with a more basic filling that included ground pork, carrots, celery, green beans, and onions. And I had the Kitchen Elves help me roll. Ingredients  makes approximately 2 dozen 1 pound ground pork 1 cup diced onions 1 cup diced celery 1 cup diced carrots 1 cup chopped green beans 1 to 2 Tablespoon olive oil wrappers (I found ours frozen at a local Asian market - they told me to get the round ones), defrosted and separated water oil for cooking (I used a canola oil) ...

It's time for Group B's March 2015  Secret Recipe Club   reveal. This month I was assigned to  Family, Food, and Fun , a blog written by Rebekah. This was a hit. I served it to celebrate the lunar new year, the year of the goat, a few weeks ago.  Gong Xi Fa Cai! Rebekah and Grant have five kids, two furry babies, and five feathered friends. She cooks and bakes from scratch because she really wants to provide the best possible future for her kids through a healthy and well-balanced diet. I love her main food philosophies: 1. If my grandparents couldn't have eaten it when they were kids (1920's), we don't need to eat it either (ie, boxed, packaged mixes, high fructose corn syrup, aspertame and other artificial sweeteners, msg, partially hydrogenated oils, etc) 2. If the ingredient list includes items my third-grader can't read or pronounce, we don't need to be eating it. So true, Rebekah. I had a lot of fun perusing your blog this m...