More feast planning

[bunnyjadwiga]

Mistress Brighid ni Chairain is a wonderful, wonderful woman.
We met at the Garlic Rose Bistro in Madison and had a dinner that couldn't be beat, then went and sat on a park bench and hammered out some suggestions for my feast menu. Here's my tentative thoughts, subject to confusion, indecision, and testing;

Starters:
Lombardy Sops (Melted/cheese bread strata cooked with broth, like the top of a french onion soup-- I will probably make a vegetarian version separately)
Sausage
?

Main courses:
- Eggplant Morisco out of de Nola
- Rice in the Oven
- grilled fish with orange juice (something out of de Nola)
- a stewed lamb dish, perhaps Adobado de Carnero (http://breadbaker.tripod.com/meat.html?)
- Roast pork
- Carrot-cheese pie http://gallowglass.org/jadwiga/SCA/cooking/LandsknechtBid.htm#carrotpie
- a lentil or chickpea dish (probably lentils, for the color balance)
- Jota, a cooked greens dish
- Millet Polenta (fried millet slices) or a blancmage of barley
- Armored capon (chicken with a parsley-egg crust)
- Limonada, a raisin-lemon-almond pudding, and/or a parsley pudding
- mirrauste of apples (apples with almond milk?)

Dessert:
Peach pie from granado
pears
Candied orange peel
quince paste
anise biscuits
'food for angels'

Comments

[amykb.livejournal.com]

What event is this, and how much am I allergic to? God, this sounds good!!

[lyzrecusant.livejournal.com]

What event is this? We might be able to make the trip, depending on when it is (I have heard that your feasts, unlike those of certain other members of the Shire of Eisental, are actually worth going to.) One request though - if this does turn out to be an event/feast it would be feasible for us to attend (i.e. it doesn't happen to coincide with the day we're closing on the house or something), Please Please don't serve eggplant as a main dish! Or have additional, eggplant-less main dishes available or something. While I am very fond of eggplant, my lord is deathly allergic (as in trip-to-the-emergency-room-because-he's-not-breathing allergic) to it. And of course, you already know about the little boys. I would like very much to take them to a well-cooked feast, as I have the feeling that their initial impression of SCA feasts leaves quite a bit to be desired.

[maziemaus.livejournal.com]

It looks like there's a chicken dish, a lamb dish, a fish dish, a pork dish. Those would count as mains.

If eggplant appears on the table and Tom is there would he be affected?

[lyzrecusant.livejournal.com]

Other than the eggplant nervousness, though, it sounds really good.

I picked up a book on "Traveling Dyshes" at Landsknecht - basically, it's a book of redacted period recipes that are simple and easy and suitable for things like potlucks or camping situations (Pennsic, for instance). I am hoping (once things settle down a bit) to start experimenting with some of the dishes as dinner meals for my family just in the normal course of things. My purpose is two-fold: 1) I would get experience with different recipes, so I would know which ones worked and which ones I like, so the next time I need to bring something to a potluck, or figure out a menu for a camping weekend or whatever, I can do it in a period manner, and 2) (almost more importantly) the little boys would have a chance to become familiar with some of these things, and with medieval cooking in general, and so would have an easier time at feasts and the like.