[Public] Thoughts on fish at feasts

[orlacarey]

For my non SCA friends, please bear with me while I make a rare public post. You can just skip the entry if you want

Comments

[eridun]

oh dear sweet gods I love fish... spent a week in San Fran once and i was in HEAVEN!!!!!!

but yeah, not enough people in Society eat fish which is a shame because I've been a a few events where it was on the menu and the dish came out perfectly, even moreso than the 'usual feast fare' that people raved about. crying, cryin shame.

man, i wish there was a place around here to get good fish for lunch.

[pinkribbonwench]

I rarely cook fish at home - I had too much meh-quality fish growing up in a Catholic household. But if I'm at a restaurant and sea bass is on the menu, oh, baby. I very, very rarely pass it up. Yum.

[landverhuizer]

Actually... I'd be up for attending a proper fish day type feast, love most fish and in many forms... fried, baked, boiled, cakes, pies, cured... Just like most meat though, it should be of good quality and cooked well(properly).

[liamstliam]

There is also fish on the EK Coronation menu this weekend.

I am unsure what kind.

The problem with SCA feast fish is that it's often an "extra" main dish and often some kind of whitefish in an odd sauce.

But I try everything!

[eridun]

is there? YAY! I'll be at Coronation this weekend.

[liamstliam]

This is the original tentative menu for East Kingdom Coronation, as posted by the head cook.

Commencements - At the table

Greens of the field
Pickled vegetables

1st Course - Un service de cuisine française

Gourd Soup
Crepes
Mushroom Tart
Chicken Cominy
Carrots
Stewed Pears
Pipefarces

2nd course - Eine Deutsche mahlzeit

Pickled cabbage
Pork Roast with Garlic Sauce
Spaetzle
Grape pudding

3rd course - An'offerta dell'Italiano

Sour orange relish
White Fleshed fish
Currant and onion sauce
Little cakes of Monaco(Buns)
Lasagna

4th Course - Fins Douces

Cinnamon tart
Cream pudding
Raisin tart
Sour cherry puffs
Apple tart
Mortar cake
Pastries stuffed with cheese.
Assorted Nuts
Sharp cheeses

[bunnyjadwiga]

Whitefish in sauce-- how is that a problem?
Define 'odd sauce'? Sauce without capsicum pepper?

And of course it's an 'extra' main dish. Many people refuse to eat it, so you buy 2 oz per person and let the different tables fight it out.

New metaphor for SCA feasts: tapas bar. Try everything. eat more of what you like.

[siderea]

I dunno. As my mom used to say, "More for the rest of us!"

(And besides, I feel personally responsible for the depopulation of the Grand Banks.)

[orlacarey]

Normally I would agree with you. Except that the autocrats Night on the Town are thinking about lowering the number of feast spaces based on reservations and she already bought the fish. It's frozen in chunks large enough to make it unreasonable for househould cooking (I asked thinking I would buy some off of her).

But yes any leftover fish at ToC is coming home with us.

[siderea]

:( !! So sad! Orphaned fish!