Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This week Rupal of Syrah Queen was supposed to host the Italian Food Wine Travel bloggers as we look at Ramato wines. But she had an opportunity to participate in a wine media trip and I stepped into help this month. You can read my invitation here .  If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join in our Twitter chat on Saturday, July 3rd at 8am Pacific time. Just follow the hashtag #ItalianFWT and be sure to add that to anything you tweet so we can see it. While Ramato wines are the focus, I opened up the theme to include any Pinot Grigio, an Italian dish with origins in the northeastern province of Friuli Venezia Giulia, or travel memories from that area, too. I also said I'd take articles on wines made in the Ramato style from anywhere in the world. Here's the group's line-up... Another BIPOC Celebrity Wine that I'm anxious to share with you by A Day in the Life on the Farm Bibimbap and Pinot Gris Ramato, Sort Of by The Quirky Cork Fregola Sarda Con ...

  This month, for Food'N'Flix , Amy of Amy's Cooking Adventures is hosting Food'N'Flix a month after our online book group Lit Happens read the book on which the movie is based:  P.S. I Love You* . You can read her invitation here .  I enjoyed P. S. I Love You , the book, but I'm going to say something that I rarely say: I vastly preferred the movie.  There are marked differences between the book and the movie that almost make it a completely different story! For starters, movie Holly was much more likeable than book Holly. A Rom-Com with a Twist P.S. I Love You is a rom-com with a twist, namely that the love story involves a woman, Holly, and her now deceased husband, Gerry. The movie opens with a marital spat between Holly, played by Hilary Swank, and Gerry, played by Gerard Butler, as they bicker about something he said to her mother at dinner. Gerry : I'm sorry I said the wrong thing to your mother. God, I still get nervous around her. I still think, a...

We are plowing ahead in our Cooking Around the World Adventure , taking full advantage of longer summer evenings and lack of homework and a schedule. I have to catch up on the blogging part of the process, so forgive me as I skip ahead a few countries. It's just that this meal rated so highly with my boys, I figured I'd go here first. But, I need to write a disclaimer. Throughout this adventure, my goal has been to teach the boys about different countries and their culinary traditions; it has not been about creating wholly traditional dishes. We improvise. A lot. And that was another goal - to give my kitchen elves some creative license, to experiment with herbs and spices, to get inventive. And, boy, did Kitchen Elf 2...he went to town with this dish. Let's start with the country: Montenegro . For much of the 20th century Montenegro was a part of Yugoslavia; from 2003 to 2006 it was a component of the federated union of Serbia and Montenegro. That explains why w...