Post-Pennsic Thoughts
I went to Pennsic for a short while (Thursday-Tuesday) and had a pretty good time.
Looking at stuff and talking to people made me really think hard about what I'd like to be doing in the next year. Yes, I've sort of been resting on my laurels a bit (har) with the perfectly decent excuse of being in school. But I'll be graduating in May, and although job stuff is up in the air, I'm thinking about where I want to go in the SCA.
I think I'm ready to start teaching classes again. I did get pretty burnt out on it after so many years teaching at Pennsic and smaller events. I don't really have anything I can pull from my head fully formed, but here are a few ideas of things I would like to research more, and structure into classes:
Upping Your Game: Little things the average SCAdian to ease themselves into the idea of persona play without going the full whole forsooth hog. Touch on language, food, daily ritual, hobbies.
Medieval Food for Camping Weekends: Not a cooking class per se, but rather ideas, tips, and tricks for trying to eat as your persona would for a weekend. Intended for the average cook who can follow a recipe, but maybe hasn't delved much into medieval cooking. Overview of readily available recipe resources and things you can buy ready-to-go at the store.
To Feed An Army: A deeper look at what would have been eaten by soldiers and those engaged in military campaigns. Goal is to draw ideas from this to feed a large military household in the SCA with no or limited coolers.
I'm absolutely cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs over doing medieval food at events. I'm slowly pulling together a repertoire of recipes I can lean on, and am improving my kitchen 'kit' little by little. My goal is to, at some point next Summer, do an entire weekend of medieval food cooked over a fire without access to a cooler. I think I have a pretty good plan sketched out in my head of how this can happen, and may do certain aspects of it sooner rather than later. Harper's Retreat may wind up cooler-free, but I'll still need to use a camp stove, sadly.
In other news, we got the bid for Fall Crown, so I'll be co-autocratting my first event. I have a bunch of stuff I'd like to do before then, like new clothes and such, but I'm a little afraid that school is going to start kicking my ass right away. Here's hoping it holds off a bit. Meanwhile, I have most of August free, thanks to the wacky Pennsic scheduling.
GNEW food review and pics coming later.
Looking at stuff and talking to people made me really think hard about what I'd like to be doing in the next year. Yes, I've sort of been resting on my laurels a bit (har) with the perfectly decent excuse of being in school. But I'll be graduating in May, and although job stuff is up in the air, I'm thinking about where I want to go in the SCA.
I think I'm ready to start teaching classes again. I did get pretty burnt out on it after so many years teaching at Pennsic and smaller events. I don't really have anything I can pull from my head fully formed, but here are a few ideas of things I would like to research more, and structure into classes:
Upping Your Game: Little things the average SCAdian to ease themselves into the idea of persona play without going the full whole forsooth hog. Touch on language, food, daily ritual, hobbies.
Medieval Food for Camping Weekends: Not a cooking class per se, but rather ideas, tips, and tricks for trying to eat as your persona would for a weekend. Intended for the average cook who can follow a recipe, but maybe hasn't delved much into medieval cooking. Overview of readily available recipe resources and things you can buy ready-to-go at the store.
To Feed An Army: A deeper look at what would have been eaten by soldiers and those engaged in military campaigns. Goal is to draw ideas from this to feed a large military household in the SCA with no or limited coolers.
I'm absolutely cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs over doing medieval food at events. I'm slowly pulling together a repertoire of recipes I can lean on, and am improving my kitchen 'kit' little by little. My goal is to, at some point next Summer, do an entire weekend of medieval food cooked over a fire without access to a cooler. I think I have a pretty good plan sketched out in my head of how this can happen, and may do certain aspects of it sooner rather than later. Harper's Retreat may wind up cooler-free, but I'll still need to use a camp stove, sadly.
In other news, we got the bid for Fall Crown, so I'll be co-autocratting my first event. I have a bunch of stuff I'd like to do before then, like new clothes and such, but I'm a little afraid that school is going to start kicking my ass right away. Here's hoping it holds off a bit. Meanwhile, I have most of August free, thanks to the wacky Pennsic scheduling.
GNEW food review and pics coming later.