This journal is friends only with the exception of information on feasts by Lady Tirzah MacCrudden (thehonorablellt). If you want me to friend you please give me an idea of how you found me and let me know if you are interested in SCA or Lace as those are special filters.

You guys know how eridun is a professional photographer right (Erika Morton Photography)? And that this year she took her camera to the Privateer Feast right? Well this weekend I got the pictures!

We decided to save bandwith on her photo page, we decided to post the pictures on Flickr. Here's just one sample

I broke up the photos into five categories but they're all located here.

Thanks to flt we now have pictures of two of LLT's latest ventures.

First, the Beauty - in cooperation with the talented feymaker, we have the Soltie from mysticsablewolf's Tournament of Love and Beauty Feast:

For this, LLT did the shell with help from feymaker, but the Venus herself was all feymaker's work. The picture comes from her display at KA&SF this weekend. We haven't seen pictures from the Tournament of Love and Beauty feast yet, but feymaker added fruit and rose petals much the way mysticsablewolf described them displaying it at the feast.


Next, the cool - This is part of LLT's KA&SF entry.

( LLT's documentation of the pig is under the cut )

Crossposted to food_porn.

( cut for length )

The important part of all this? We raised over $10K this year (in a bad economy) for Breast Cancer research - in one night!

As most of you know, over the last several years I have made several bobbin lace handkerchiefs for the Atlantian Lace Guild, with LLT assisting on the most of them. Up until now the ONLY way to get a lace hankie made by me was to become Queen and then hope that I was the one who did that reign's hankie.

In an effort to raise money for the 3 Day Walk Tirzah and I will be raffling off a lace hankie, with the lace made by me and with blackwork/construction by Tirzah.

The rules
1) Donation must be to either My fundraising page or Tirzah's fundraising page. If you want to mail in a donation and have it count the donation must be received by the site and acknowledged on one of our pages by the raffle deadline - Saturday, September 27 (the Saturday before the walk).
2) Donations can be made to either account
3) For each $25 donated you will get one entry in the raffle. While you don't have to donate all funds at once, $25 increments cannot cross the accounts. This means if you donate $25 to each of us you get 2 tickets. If you donate $50 to one of us you get 2 tickets. If you donate $10 to one of us and $15 to the other you don't get a ticket. Sorry, but I need to do this to make life easier for me.
4) If you have already donated $25 or more you already have entries - thanks for the donation!
5) On Saturday, September 27 I will tally all donations and hold the raffle. Tirzah will draw the winning name out of the bag and I will announce the winner here.


Rules may be added as I think of them, but the basic rules should stay the same.

Here is my fundraising page for the 3 day walk!

Wish me luck you guys. Somehow it's a little on the scary side realizing that I've now commited myself to not only walking 60 miles in 3 days but raising $2,300. But it's important, and I'm strangely looking forward to it.

Expect to hear more about this during the next few months, but I've set up a blog on my personal page so that I can keep track of my training there.

Next step is a "Getting Started" meeting next Wednesday (1/21) at 7 pm at Holy Cross Hospital.

The Privateer Feast still has tickets available!

For several years this feast has sold out in under 5 minutes so this is an unusual opportunity to go to a very neat evening.

For those of you who don't know, Team Wench throws the Privateer Feast every year to raise money for Breast Cancer research. The money is split between members of Team Wench who walk in the various Breast Cancer fundraising walks during the year. It's a worthy cause, but even more than that it's a VERY cool night.

There's wonderful food (cooked by LLT and her crew) and music from some well known music groups (including Ship's Company Chanteymen, The Salty Dogs, and The Pyrates Royale). So click the first link in this post and buy your tickets before they sell out!

Ahoy!

Team Wench be happy ta' announce that the eighth occ'rence of that
premier piratical party - the Privateer Feast, will be happenin' on
schedule.

Fer thems new ta' this shindig, that means that the crew of Team
Wench'll once more be settin' sail from Cherry Hill Park with the
evenin' tide on Saturday, February 28, 2009. Keep yer eyes peeled ta
this list closer ta the calendar's horizon fer information on when ya
might be able ta git yerself tickets.

It be fer a good cause -- even one a pirate can git behind!


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Translation from pirate-ese:
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Team Wench, Inc. will be keeping the /traditional/ date (last Saturday
in February) for the 2009 Privateer Feast.

Once again, the Feast will be held at the Cherry Hill Park Conference
Center on Saturday, February 28, 2009. Information regarding ticket
sales will be announced on the Team Wench Events email list
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TeamWenchEvents/) closer to
the year's end.

As always, all proceeds from the Privateer Feast will go to benefit
breast cancer research.

--
Ralph E. Nelson
Chairperson, 2009 Privateer Feast
Team Wench Inc. - http://www.teamwench.org/
--
NOTE: permission is specifically granted to repost this information in
any forum so long as:
* the complete message is included; and
* reposting it is not a violation of the ToS for that forum


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About the Icon
Thanks to webqatch for the link. Hrmmm...wondering if they'd be willing to make this strip a tee shirt?

Coronation has been cancelled
( text of email )

Well so much for my plans for the weekend. It looks like I'll be at work tomorrow...

Apparently TODAY ONLY Hulu.com has posted Dr. Horrible - even better it's all one file as opposed to 3.

Note: there's at least 2 commercials though.

With only 14 days left until Pennsic begins I would like to announce that Casa Bardicci has a new website and has posted an announcement for their Pennsic Subtlety Competition! If you would like to learn more about the competition, or about the Casa and its construction, please visit:

http://casabardicci.org/

http://casabardicci.org/subtlety.html

Or contact the Casa crew directly at: casabardicci(at)gmail.com

Please feel free to repost where appropriate.

Already posted to the Pennsic_war and SCA lj group.

forwarded at the request of xgreenjudasx

1) Note to self - fondant may be edible clay but air dry clay is not toxic fondant. Since the cake we're doing is made from cake blanks we decided to go with sculpy flowers and air dry clay for the cake covering. The sculpy worked wonderfully the clay not so much. It just doesn't act like fondant does. We couldn't roll it etc. We got it to work but it was much more effort than we wanted to do and we won't know until tomorrow if it actually turns white enough or if we should plan on hitting it with spray paint - something I DON'T want to do since I want to give it to Johanna complete on Monday.

2) Did the weekly shopping. While we were at AC Moore getting stuff for the cake I decided to get a knitting stitch counter which we adapted so that it would hang from a cord around my neck. Not that I'm taking up knitting but to keep track of the cough drops. Today's count? 22

3) Had a nice dinner at home with the 'rents who are up for the weekend. Tomorrow morning we're getting together with Bro's family for breakfast before the 'rents head home.

4) Okay tired now - have been running all day. Tomorrow is another busy day. Nighters

I looked up the two bobbin sites. It turns out that until you get 50-100 bobbins Lacy Susan is actually cheaper than Lace Maker's Circle for the ones you guys want.

The other useful website that you want is The University of Arizona's scanned books related to lace. cathgrace this is where the pdf of the 2nd volume of Le Pompe is as well

Here is the picture. Click the pic to see more.

Note this is NOT a Tirzah feast - we have a new head cook named Duncan. I've only met him once. I got Beatrix to send me the final menu and thought you guys would like to see it.

Novice Tourney Feast Menu
12-14 July 08
Feast 13 July

Starter
Assorted Pasteys
Mushroom
Onion and Cheese Tarts

Olives and Cheese with Bread

1st Remove

Salat with Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette
Grilled Chicken with Gauncelye (Garlic Sauce)
Makrouns – cheese and pasta

Bread with butter/Honey Butter

2nd Remove

Pork tenderloin stuffed with Pine nutse
Ryse of Flessh
Bread with Honey butter

3rd Remove
Shortbread
Pears in Confyte

( the event announcement )

( cut for email )

Edited:
( part of her response to my answers )
Edited 2: Some pictures from the event</b>

Warning - according to MS Word this post is at least 10 pages long - read at your own risk.

Note - I'm sure some things were forgotten in this post - any errors are my fault, but LLT did make a few edits. Times listed came from either ladygriele or spikywheel since I never looked at the clock.

( ToC )

Now that I've written this I can go back and read the commentary and posts regarding ToC. If you see any feast reviews (good OR bad) please link them here.

Edited: to add Werner's name to the Kitchen crew list and to mention - Akiyo is responsible for the really spiff brochure that was on every table. LLT sent her the documentation, she did the preliminary lay out then I added the table sized recipes (based on LLT's ditcation) and Akiyo edited then printed and finished them. I want to reformat the end product so that it makes sense on the screen (as opposed to being formatted for easy copying) and then I'll post it somewhere.

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. ;)

Often when discussing menus people see fish of any sort and decide they automatically won't like the dish. For many of us we're just not a fish eating society. There is a tendancy for fish courses, no matter how good, to come back with large amounts still on the serving platter.

I admit it, I'm as bad as anyone else - it's taken me a long time to LIKE fish, and I still don't like a lot of it. Heck I've NEVER found a version of Salmon I've liked and I prefer crabcake to whole crabs because I dislike the amount of work for little reward in crab meat.

But the next two weekends have fish on the menus and even people who normally don't care for fish should try them.

spikywheel is serving Chilean Sea Bass for her fish course at Night on the Town and
thehonorablellt is serving poached sushi grade tuna for Tournament of Chivalry.

True, in a feast situation you're not going to get a whole plate of either fish, but I assure you that in a resturant these are NOT $10 meals if even if you could get them. Try $25-$30 for the Sea Bass, if not more considering it's something like $20/lb normally (she got a great sale).

So here's my point. For the next two weeks TRY a bite of the fish. You might find you like it.

During dinner tonight I actually took pictures of several of the courses. We've been wanting to do this for a while now and we just never manage to do it during a feast. Go figure.

Since I was downloading them I also finally got the pictures of Rowan's Hankie. So here they are. Click on the picture got get more. :)

Corner of hankie presented to Queen Rowan at A Day in the Middel East.

Lace by Lady Orlaith Carey
Eye Beads by Lady Ethelfelda Davidsottir
Construction by Lady Tirzah MacCrudden
Photos by Lord Frederich Von Teufel

Edited to say: BTW, for an extreme close up of any of the pictures, go into flickr, pick the picture you want to look at. RIGHT above the picture is a menu bar saying Add Note, Send to Group, etc. Select "All Sizes" and click on "Original". This gets you the whole picture at the resolution that frederich used to take the picture.

Thanks to herveus for posting the link.

Here's the article

He seems to have mentioned almost everyone he talked to who actually lives in PG county.

Since other people are posting their thoughts on menus for April...

Tournament of Chivalry
April 18-20, 2008
Barony of Storvik
American Legion Southern Maryland District Youth Camp
9201 Surratts Rd,Chettenham, MD 20623

( The Tenative TOC menu )

Menu subject to change at the whim of the cook.

As you can see this menu is not nearly complete. The final version will include references.

See the post here for details. Remember that last year this thing sold out in 2 mins 20 seconds so go check the post BEFORE 4.

( the first email )
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( the 2nd email )
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( the 3rd email )

If you are teaching please review this and make sure I have all the correct info for your class. ladyhelwynn I'm missing info for yours.

I will be submitting this on Wednesday (at the latest) so I need answers asap.

Edited: Since the only information I'm waiting on is an email from Khadir All information has been updated. I went ahead and sent in what I currently have.

( what I intend to submit for the cooking track )

Also for cathgrace: this is the book I was talking about at fighter practice (as seen on elizabethangarb: 'Lost from Her Majesties back': Items of clothing and jewels lost or given away by Queen Elizabeth I between 1561 and 1585, entered in one of the day books ... of robes (Costume Society extra series)
by Janet Arnold

It is often hard for me to keep a secret, especially since I regularly drain my brain onto lj. But I have proof that it IS possible. We got a request more than a month ago from lorebubeck to do a birthday cake which was due today. Since the recipient molly_world is on my friends list the request was made that I not discuss the cake.

Now that the event is over and the surprise is sprung we can talk about it!

Note this is a public post so that people can find the link to the shoe pics.

( the making of the shoes )

Hey! Chapter 31 was posted a day early!!!!

Also

please clicky here and weigh in

kinzel Requested the Word Count for the Online Version of Fledgling. This is the count according to MS word.

The Counts do not include chapter titles (i.e. Chapter one) and the notes were counted seperately. However I'm not sure if Microsoft word includes the ** that are dividing some chapters.

( counts by chapter )

Notes on the peppers - while in general peppers were not period to SCA time period thehonorablellt says there is a variety of pepper that WAS available. She's promised she'd include it in the documentation, but price and availability may mean she uses bell peppers instead.

Recipes for TNT:
First Course

Premade items:
Pitas
Roasted Peppers

Recipes:
( Baba Ghanoush )

( hummas )

( kefta )

( Taboli )

Second Course
( Paella )

Third Course
( roast beef )

( Lombarda Salsa )

( Limonata (Lemon Sauce) )

( Menestra de piselli (Peas for Lent) )

( Rappe Turnips )

( Fritto Misto )

Dessert Sideboard (all items purchased premade)
Dried fruits and nuts
baklava
halva (sesame paste)

ebullientjenn is participating in the Race for the Cure in two weeks. She's doing this for friends who have been lost to breast cancer.

I'm happy to support her (which I will be doing as soon as my next paycheck hits) because I'm proud of her for doing this as well as for acheiving her weight goals.

Please consider supporting her as well. I know it seems like I'm reguarly posting asking for support for one person or another doing a breast cancer fundraiser - and next year I'm planning on asking you to support me. But we've all had so many people effected by this horrible disease. Please, if you have the ability, click the link and donate a little.

Forwarded on behalf of martelvonc

Important:
Please note that contrary to the printed event announcement in the September issue of The PIKESTAFF, the Barony of Bright Hills WILL NOT be providing a "public" dayboard for the event this year. The site itself WILL sell meals in their cafeteria.

The on line event announcements ARE correct regarding this.

There was a miscommunication between this years KC autocrat and Bright Hills.

Thank you,
Martelle

Today I created an account for LLT. Welcome thehonorablellt! The plan is for her to post food related stuff especially period recipes where she will post the biblography info, the recipe in the original language, the translation (if any) and how she would translate it. Then she'll wait a bit to see what comments are posted as to how people would redact it and she'll post her recadaction. Note: I don't anticipate this being a high traffic journal. I'm sure day to day stuff will still stay on my journal since I am on the computer much more often than she is.

Note I started her off with a few friends but I don't think she'll ever use any of the features that require friending - I doubt she'll ever either filter or even read her friends page. Normally she keeps up with all of you guys by asking me.

So here it is. Click here and you'll see more pictures of the helm then anyone could possibly want to. But do it anyway - the pictures are worth seeing. It was based on a helm that Frederich found on the internet and I think it's passed the Pennsic cake as my favorite cake we've done.

Several people last night said "Hey have you seen the helm on the commercial for Ace of Cakes?" To which I talk about the fact that we paused Tivo and frederich commented on problems with the helm (i.e. it should be longer here and more bowed there etc). Of course we had the advantage of a professional armorer to tell us the order that the pieces should be put on and where the rivets were supposed to go etc.

( Friday was baking day )

Don't you like how I managed to tell the story about the cake without actually saying what the cake design was? I'm kinda waiting for frederich to upload the pictures before I spill the beans.

The initial class schedule for Pennsic University is now online! We'll be adding updates and corrections as we go, as per usual; what's online now reflects the information that will be in the Pennsic Booklet itself. Please feel free to start planning your Pennsic leaning now. :)

And if you think you'll have a couple of hours, feel free to offer to help us out at A&S Point! We're always in need of a few folks to help teachers and students have that much the better of a Pennsic.

Offers to help, Corrections, and Questions may, of course, be directed to me, Master Asim. Also feel free to pass the word about both class postings and volunteering to whatever lists or persons you see fit.

Thanks to the people who are aiding me this year, and thank you to all of you who teach and attend!

-----Asim, Pennsic Chancellor for Pennsic War XXXVI

Please feel free to forward

Why I care - the Pennsic gift baskets

Note: Public posting in case anyone needs the info for the Pennsic Baskets.

According to the An Tir mailing list the winner of An Tir's Crown Tourney this weekend was - Sir Tiernan mor dal Cais fighting for Miranda Faoltiarna

Since An Tir doesn't seem to have an individual page set up for it's OP like Atlantia does ( here is the OP entry )

I am GUESSING that this is the O&A reference since it's the only one for An Tir with the same first name:

Tiernan Moor
This name was registered in February of 2003 (via An Tir).
The following device associated with this name was registered in February of 2003 (via An Tir):
Or, on a roundel gules a triskele Or and on a bordure gules an orle of chain Or. The link is to the Roll of Arms project - click to see a drawing of the arms.


AHHH and confirmation of my guess.

( Princess info )

Note: Posted publically since I mentioned this post in the theo_waitley community.

I love the Liaden books. Whenever people ask what they should be reading that's what I recommend. I've read all the Fledgling chapters so far and I'm in the process of reading the Liaden Universe Companion, Volume 1 for the 2nd time (the first time was at least a year ago while visiting D in Boston).

Still...REALLY PEOPLE....the current conversation in theo_waitley is driving me nuts.

According to the L.U.C. Vol 1 the first Liaden chapbook was published in 1995. We're currently in 2007. As far as I can tell Agent of Change was originally published in 1988. That means some of these stories are 20 years old.

Figuring out the dates the current story takes place logically based on statements in the past books is silly. Even more so because we don't know what age Theo is when she appears at the end of I Dare.

It is not really realistic to believe that Lee and Miller have had all these stories plotted out since the beginning.

I asked the Merry Rose today about which kingdom we're doing the Pennsic basket for. This is the response:

( e-mail from Merry Rose )

Being May and not knowing who is going to be Royal at Pennsic seems a little odd so I decided to look up the An Tir website. Coronation will be in July. It LOOKS like Crown will be May 18-19. Okay, that makes more sense (in that Kingdoms are different what do you mean two months as Prince/Princess way). For a while there I couldn't tell when Crown was going to be. So if they want personalized stuff for the Royals then I suggest people keep an eye out for the Crown Results.

Personally I think the idea of a wooden chest is cool - as long as included with the wooden chest is some sort of offer to make sure that the Chest gets shipped to An Tir so that the Royals don't have to worry about it.

Tomorrow museclio and webqatch will be working in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. This is Museclio's walk page. Please, if you have some extra change in your pockets, consider donating it to this worthy cause. Currently museclio is at 72% of her funding goal (webqatch has met his funding goal).

I hate this disease. I hate what it does to family and friends, let alone what it does to the people who have it.

( Friday shopping )
( Saturday )

( lessons learned )
For the record since those two websites are eventually going to go away here are the menus:
( Pirate Feast )
( KA&S Lunch )

This post is created thanks to a coversation I had on Saturday regarding reviewing feasts. A friend has started doing detailed reviews of feasts that she goes to and someone who doesn't cook was talking about it. I explained that the review she did for Storvik was one that I requested. I also explained that, while flattering, a review of "good feast" isn't really useful. I'd rather see a post talking about both the good and the bad then a simple statement of "good feast" or "feast sucked". Either way, a one sentence review is useless to a cook.

At the same time constructive critisim is an important idea. To see the post I wrote about this subject a couple of years ago go here.

Keep in mind that when we're in the kitchen we have no idea of what happens outside. We don't know if it seems like the food is taking forever between courses or if the food is coming out too fast. We don't know if one table had so much food they couldn't eat it or the next table snuck in an extra person so needs more food or had one person who so loves a specific dish that the rest of the table didn't get anything. Some people want one serving each and others want to take the leftovers home with them.

Detailed reactions of feasts (regardless of who cooked them) helps in planning for the future. Since I'm not sure how other people feel, I've created a ( poll )

( The scroll pic for those who missed seeing the link - note source info and materials listed behind cut )

feymaker you sneaky woman! I just noticed the loaf of bread while we were framing it! For those who don't get the joke, my house is known as "The House of Bread" because frederich tends to make 7-8 loaves at a time. When we're lucky and he has the time he will make the bread for LLT's feasts.

Note: Posted publically so that everyone can see it. :)

Every year I pimp someone in my journal who is walking in the Avon Walk. For the 2nd year in a row that person is museclio. The link to her personal donation page is here. If you have some extra money, please donate to the cause.

For those of you who don't know my personal history with Breast Cancer, my Grandmother died of it when I was around 13. Within the last couple of years I've lost two friends to it and another is currently fighting

SCA Meme by attack_laurel:
( the meme )

You guys might notice there is a new name to my lj. I was commenting to a friend that because I've had this journal since Sept of 2002 it no longer matches the spelling of my name anywhere but in the Laurel files - I've changed the spelling of my SCA name and acquired a new last name.

A while later I found a rename token in my e-mail. So now my LJ name matches my AIM screen name and looks more like every other e-mail addy I have. :)

Last year I promised to post this information on the Woodlawn Needlwork Exhibition when I got it. Of course I'm not going to manage to enter again this year. Someday I'll make it. Maybe in a year or two with Chicken's Graduation gift...

( 44th Annual Needlework Exhibition )
( About Woodlawn )
( awards )
( Exhibition Activities )
( Eligibility )
( Classifications for Competition )
( Judging )
( Fees )
( Entries by Mail )
( Hand-Delivered Entries )
( Return of Entries )
( Terms and Conditions )
( Entry Form )

Once upon a time (about 10 years ago) LLT played the clarinet. While we were at the Inner Vagabond at Pennsic there was a group of people playing middle eastern(?) music and they had a clarinet. At which point LLT said that she would love to pick up her's again if she could play music like that. Only problem is that it is in a box somewhere. So frederich and I were talking about giving her one as a gift. He went looking on ebay and quickly realized he's not qualified to pick one. Since we want it to be a surprise it's not like we can ask LLT questions.

So here's where you guys come in. I know that one of you has knowledge in your head that is useful here, if only to point me to someone who will know what we need to know. I talked to museclio about this last night and her suggestion was a good quality student clarinet. When LLT was playing she used the hardest reeds there were. I've already gotten her softer reeds (purchased before we realized we couldn't find the clarinet).

I'm also looking for ideas of where to find said music.

Advice please?

So I think while I drive. On the way to meet my parents for dinner tonight I was thinking about the whole concept of the Kingdom Baskets. I think there is a disconnect between the intention of gift baskets, which is in part to give the Royals things to give away as largess, and what we've actually been putting in the baskets.

At the same time I've been hearing rumors lately that Atlantia is running short on award medallions. This makes sense since according to the IRS the SCA can't actually purchase the medallions or the ingredients to make same. As Atlantia, probably so goes the rest of the Known World.

So how is this for an idea? Lets make the theme of the Pennsic 36 gift baskets Kingdom Medallions. All of the kingdoms have awards for which they give medallions and likely the Royals would LOVE to see an influx of such medallions. I'm even willing to bet that if we looked we could find descriptions of said medallions or their healdry. If the right people of the various kingdoms were consulted, we could probably even come up with a list of the most desirable ones for each kingdom.

Note that this WOULD take some coordination to make sure we don't end up with 50 things for the East Kingdom and None for the West etc.

While I think this is a cool idea it is something that would take a bit too mch time to organize for Gulf Wars which is why I'm suggesting Pennsic.

So what do you guys think?