Culinary Adventures with Camilla

     This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of L'Ecole .  Complimentary wine was provided for this post and this page may contain affiliate links.  However, all opinions expressed here are my own.     If you're been following my blog, you'll know that I'm doing a series of monthly posts in collaboration with  L'Ecole Winery .* A group of us participate in a virtual tasting with their marketing manager, the winemaker, and the general manager and discuss timely topics. This month, we are honoring barbeque season with their 2018 Syrah .  L'Ecole's 2018 Syrah Winemaker Marcus Rafanelli has a soft spot for Shiraz (Syrah!). He told us that it is one of his favorite wines to make and that a bottle of Syrah - the  1988 Columbia Winery Red Willow Vineyard Syrah -  actu ally brought him to tears. Syrah was only introduced in Washington in 1986, so it's one of the newer Washington varieties though it is now the third most c...

This month our group's founder - Heather of of  All Roads Lead to the Kitchen  - is hosting the Food'n'Flix bloggers as we watch  Chocolat  to celebrate the group's 10th anniversary. You can read her invitation  here . If you don't have a DVD copy of it lying around, Amazon has it available for streaming. And for my online Lit Happens book group, Heather is also leading our discussion as we read the book by Joanne Harris* that inspired the movie! So, if you watch and read, we'd all love to hear a comparison. As for me, I (re)watched the movie this past weekend and started the book this week. A Decade of Food'N'Flix Ten years of Food'N'Flix? Wow. I looked back to see when I joined. It definitely wasn't in 2010, but I think I was participating fairly regularly by 2012. This is a fun, inspiring group and I enjoy that it gets to me watch movie that I might not select on my own. Here's a smattering of my posts throughout the yea...

So, I am new to The Cake Slice Bakers group which I stumbled across after drooling over Karen of Karen's Kitchen Stories ' post about last month's selection: Ukranian Caramel Cake . Karen is one of those bloggers who makes phenomenal looking breads and cakes and makes me wish I lived closer to her; I'd definitely be inviting myself over for dessert often! In any case, I immediately started asking questions about how to join this fun group. Here's the scoop... Each month The Cake Slice Bakers are offered a selection of cakes from the current book we are baking through. This year it is  The European Cake Cookbook  by Tatyana Nesteruk*. We each select one cake to bake, and then on the 20th - never before - we all post about our cake on our blogs. There are a few rules that we follow, but the most important ones are to have fun and enjoy baking - and eating - cakes! Follow our  Facebook ,  Instagram , and  Pinterest  pages where you can find all ...