Christopher's dayboard menu from this weekend

[bunnyjadwiga]

-Garlic Torta
-Beef y-stewed
-Macrews (or losyns)-- noodles with cheese, anyway
-walnut pie
-Chicken with Another Sauce (vinegar-shallot)
-pea soup
-frumenty
-cumin onions
- Small pottage of carrots
-Cold ham and Salami
- Cheeses
- White Bread, rye bread, pitas
- butter and honey butter (don't ask me why he made honey butter, I thought he hated it)
- Pickles
- Daryal
- almonds
-Salat (massively interfered with by Jadwiga)
-Radish Salat forced on him by Jadwiga

Buffet (interfered with by Jadwiga)
- wafers (commercial pizelles) and food for Angels
- candied seeds and candied ginger, candied almonds
- dried peaches, apricots, figs, dates, cantelope (tastes like gumdrops), plums
- biskets (homemade-- shortbread I think)
- Roasted pears
- quince paste

To drink: water and lemon drink from syrup of lemons

Comments

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

I did my best to try it all.
I enjoyed everything I sampled, and thought the flavor balances were good.
There was great balance between the serious and the light food.
The chickens were cut in an interesting fashion. Made sense, but was a little confusing.
The radish sallat was good when we arrived, but got stronger and stronger... yipes! I'll be serving this all summer, but not preparing it in advance. Thank you for introducing me to it.

The garlic pie, frumenty, apple pie and roasted pears were all exceptional. I enjoyed them each as remarkably good examples of their type.
The beef stew tasted very nice, but I think the bones were perhaps challenging for some.

Please pass him my compliments, I would like very much to have any of his dishes again at any event.

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

MMM made quince paste before and so enjoyed it (was surprised on just how red it turned), sadly quince are so hard to come by here :(

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

I cheat and buy it from the Hispanic/Latino grocery. :)

[amykb.livejournal.com]

You forgot the Garlic Pie!!! mmmmmmm....

btw, can you get that recipe for me?

[amykb.livejournal.com]

Never mind, silly Olwyn, it was at the top of the list. I still would like the recipe though...

[yasmeanie.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful. I wish I had been able to go to the event.
Jaji mentioned the food was good. Can't wait to see what my brother has planned for Balfar's this weekend. Will I see you there?

Sorry sis

[bytchearse.livejournal.com]

I was at Coronation and missed Christopher's dayboard :-<

Still, it looks great!

[stringlady.livejournal.com]

It was very good.

I'm interested in that garlic torta recipe, too, and the roasted pears.

[giselle0002.livejournal.com]

~sigh~

I so miss dayboards. People here look at me as if I've suggested wearing polyester chausses when I talk about dayboards . . . They are so benighted . . .

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Tell us of this radish salat?

For we have a great tendency to grow far more radishes than my wee foursome could consume, and Coldwood could always use some more veggies on the table.

Radish Salat

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

Radishes, sliced, dressed with olive oil, vinegar and salt.

Rumpolt, bless him, gives you two versions, so you can poach/blanch them in a little water if they are too sharp:

44.Take radish (/ and cut it small/ broad and thin/ poach it in water/ cool it / season it with oil/ vinegar and salt. You may sprinkle it with sugar or not.

45. Or take a radish/ cut in small and thin/ or fine diced/
season it with vinegar/ oil and salt/ so it is good oo.

Translation by Gwen Cat

I made this first on a whim and discovered that it is startlingly addicting-- we went through nearly a whole daikon during prep for Seder this year. The key is enough salt. :)

Thank You

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

We shall be trying this shortly, and shall let you know how well it works...our dread Baron is not much of one for veggies, but perchance we could sneak it onto the tables anyway!

[iasmin.livejournal.com]

Recipe? Pretty please?

[bytchearse.livejournal.com]

Honey butter? Interesting. He and I are of the same mind on that. However, at Balfar's TRM's are getting a small bowl of it in the Royal tent per their request.
The poor schlubs below the salt are getting butter and honey and they can spread it themselves! :-P

Please ask him to post recipes somewhere!

Off-topic, but...

[hakerh.livejournal.com]

Do you check your gmail account listed on your website? I'm trying to get in touch with you regarding a present for someone, as discussed at Northern Lights.

[bunnykissd.livejournal.com]

Ok... non-SCAdian here... but I do like food! :D So, I am wondering what some things are on your listy here! What are frumenty, daryal, and salat?

And can I have recipes for some of these wonderful things? The garlic pie people mentioned (the garlic torta?), macrews (who doesn't love mac & cheese?), and walnut pie?

And how do you dry cantaloupe? Sounds delish!

Sure!

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

I bought the cantelope dried at the local Middle Eastern Market.

Frumenty is cooked bulgur wheat with various things in it-- sort of wheat pilaf. Daryals are cheese cake like pies, the predecessors of custard pies. And Salat would be the medieval version of salad, which differs mostly with more different greens and being dressed before serving with olive oil, vinegar and salt, separately.

I do need to get the recipes; I'll bug Christopher about them & post them on my LJ.

Re: Sure!

[bunnykissd.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[krings-keep.livejournal.com]

The only reason(s) that I didn't take any of the good food home - was:

1) sinus migraine coming on about an hour before the end of the event. (by the next morn it was gone)

2) I was going to Philly for the day - Sun -and then going on home to Eastern NJ and couldn't guarantee food safety on the trip.

What I can remember through the drug haze and the fiber overload -- was one word

WOW!!!!!!

Katheryne