( Spiced pork kababs, recipe under cut )

Gormflaith helped me harvest all the plums last night, so now I’ve got about a gallon of washed, pitted plums in the freezer. I might try making a pie later this fall, or just save them to make Bolas (15th century plum goo) when the weather is more amenable to standing over a hot stove.

http://xkcd-rss.livejournal.com/344879.html Ouch. I haven’t updated this journal in a while, not because of facebook, but because my evil day job has eaten my brain. I don’t want to write about work, because if I let it spill over I fear there will be nothing else.
So here’s the not-work Friday Five (Wednesday wobbles?)
Dance: We’re about to move ( Read more... )

I was standing in the coffee room at work, waiting for my asparagus to finish nuking, and wishing for a ham and cheese sandwich. I was really trying to convince myself that I was being good by eating my veggies and I didn’t need to walk down to the cafeteria and spend money on a grilled ham and cheese sandwich when the cafeteria food nearly always ( Read more... )

There were a lot of great things at the West Coast Culinary Symposium last weekend, but I think one of my favorites was hearing Eduardo telling the story of how his kids had seen this commercial about a lamb-bit http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7I9x/kmart-easter-shoes-lamb-bit and their first comment being “that would be tasty!”. Other high points included ( Read more... )

Over the past year, we’ve had a couple of discussions on creating mini-PPFs, or events-within-events, to explore a specific bit of history.
One of the things I’d like to do at West Collegium 2013* is “Lunch with Cardinal d’Este’s Retainers”. In her book, The Cardinal’s Hat, Mary Hollingworth uses the records of Ippolito d’Este to reconstruct what ( Read more... )

If I gave you a jar of chocolate sauce made with Splenda at 12th night, please do me (and yourself) a huge favor and just drop it in the trash. Don't open it, unless you have an actual compulsion to recycle the jar. Trust me, and just trash it. It's a failed experiment ( Read more... )

Christmas was nice. GM and I went to visit my parents in SoCal, so on Christmas day we went to the San Diego wildlife park to say hello to the rhinos and condors. On boxing day, we went to see the Adams Family Musical. Like most musicals it was charming, if a little thin on plot Then we came back home and lay around the house in utter sloth for a ( Read more... )

I've figured out my class for the Culinary symposium.

Give us this day our daily bread: Bread and Trenchers on the medieval table.

This class will cover the use of bread on the 15th and 16th century dining table, including hands-on carving of eating bread and bread trenchers. There will be a PowerPoint presentation of historical trenchers and bread ( Read more... )

Someone was recently telling me about a good tapas place in San Mateo. Unfortunately, I can't remember who or the name of the restaurant.

Help, please?