Another rabbit hole

Another rabbit hole

So, yeah.  Last year, I fell into a rabbit hole involving a medieval method of chemically cooking using calcium carbonate.  Here’s an article I wrote about it…I need to revisit it one day, and expand on the article.   Medieval Fireless Cooking

Hungry?

Hungry?

Like many SCA Cooks, at some point you have to tackle a feast.  This is one I did in 2014…with a handout about the food that was there for the guests to read.  Now, I grant you, all my successes with feasts are because I …

Cheeeeeeese!

Cheeeeeeese!

Kitchen Chemistry Class 1   This might be the very first class handouts I wrote…a basic look at making cheese.  May have to update it someday…

I’ll be baaack…

I’ll be baaack…

No, not leaving.  It’s just that, many years ago, I took a class in pewter casting at the Estrella War.  And, as one does, I came home, wrote my own class handout, and taught the local group how to do it.  It’s basically, how to …

Another of my old class handouts—Intro to Mead

Another of my old class handouts—Intro to Mead

So, this is one of the oldest classes I taught where I wrote a handout.  Basic definitions on meadmaking terms, and the basics on how to make it yourself. Mead

WCCS X

WCCS X

So yeah, don’t try to pronounce that.  Stands for West Coast Culinary Symposium Ten, and that’s where I was this weekend, fighting against this mighty cold, and having a great time anyway. Womderful friends, food, learning, and teaching.  A whole medieval event dedicated to the …