Our First Feast ... Amid Snow!

[dawn_felagund]

Yesterday, Bobby and I acted as head cooks for our first SCA feast. To this point, we'd served one feast; we'd never eaten at feast, since they rarely have enough for me to eat to make it worth our while. We were counting on our years of experience as cooks in a very busy family restaurant, plus our masochistic love of cooking complicated, multi-

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[frenchpony]

Mmmm, that sounds like a yummy feast! And, frankly, it also sounds like exactly why God invented potlucks. Cook just two or three dishes, and, magically, a feast appears! (My contributions to the All-Day Singing's dinner on the grounds for Saturday: a corn salad, a quinoa salad, and a pumpkin pie.)

The kidney beans and rice with plum chutney intrigue me, because I sometimes make a dish that I suspect is fairly similar. It's a Georgian (as in Tblisi, not Atlanta) thing called Lobio Tkemali, and it's pretty much kidney beans in a savory plum sauce. I usually serve it with nice bread, if I've got any . . . but I bet I could put it over rice and it'd probably be pretty close to what you made.