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