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SCA dinner
Tonight we hosted a pot-luck dinner for about a dozen SCA people. We declared the theme to be 14th-century English. We should have asked people to register their intent to make ember-day tarts; we had three. :-) All different and all tasty; this is certainly not a complaint. I was just surprised. (This happens to us. One time we declared the theme to be "once in a blue moon" and got half a dozen blueberry pies.)
As the hosts we provided the main course. I made sweet-and-sour fish, and because we had a vegetarian coming, I also made roasted and boiled chickpeas. Both went over well -- the fish surprisingly so since my haddock filets fell apart in the cooking so the presentation was off. But it still tasted good. And it turned out the vegetarian is actually a pescatarian, so the chickpeas weren't strictly necessary, but hey, people ate them (and I have enough for lunch a couple days this week).
One person brought beer bread, and explained that she had spent an evening at the Sharp Edge researching beers so she could choose an appropriate one. She ended up choosing a Sam Adams, but I didn't catch which one. The bread was tasty and I scored a small chunk from the leftovers. (I've actually been a little too aggressive in clearing out the bread etc before Pesach, so I can use this.)
We also had an onion soup (made with almond milk, not meat stock), rolls, a cheese pie (other than the ember-day tarts, I mean), and three desserts. There was the usual pot-luck issue of too much food overall, but everything was good and got eaten to significant degree. (I had anticipated that vegetables might be in short supply -- this isn't a strong theme in medieval English recipes -- and ate extra for lunch.)
The gathering was one of the highly-irregular get-togethers of a loose household. Once upon a time household dinners were roughly monthly, but in recent years that hasn't been happening and it's now very irregular. (Part of this is probably because the head of the household is in poor health. She did not attend today.) But it's a fun group of people to talk with and many of these people don't come to events often, so the dinners help keep folks connected. Almost everyone thanked us for having this, citing reasons along those lines. So maybe we've breathed a bit of life back into the tradition, and maybe someone (other than the person who seems to do more than her share of dinners) will pick it up and do another one in a few months.
As the hosts we provided the main course. I made sweet-and-sour fish, and because we had a vegetarian coming, I also made roasted and boiled chickpeas. Both went over well -- the fish surprisingly so since my haddock filets fell apart in the cooking so the presentation was off. But it still tasted good. And it turned out the vegetarian is actually a pescatarian, so the chickpeas weren't strictly necessary, but hey, people ate them (and I have enough for lunch a couple days this week).
One person brought beer bread, and explained that she had spent an evening at the Sharp Edge researching beers so she could choose an appropriate one. She ended up choosing a Sam Adams, but I didn't catch which one. The bread was tasty and I scored a small chunk from the leftovers. (I've actually been a little too aggressive in clearing out the bread etc before Pesach, so I can use this.)
We also had an onion soup (made with almond milk, not meat stock), rolls, a cheese pie (other than the ember-day tarts, I mean), and three desserts. There was the usual pot-luck issue of too much food overall, but everything was good and got eaten to significant degree. (I had anticipated that vegetables might be in short supply -- this isn't a strong theme in medieval English recipes -- and ate extra for lunch.)
The gathering was one of the highly-irregular get-togethers of a loose household. Once upon a time household dinners were roughly monthly, but in recent years that hasn't been happening and it's now very irregular. (Part of this is probably because the head of the household is in poor health. She did not attend today.) But it's a fun group of people to talk with and many of these people don't come to events often, so the dinners help keep folks connected. Almost everyone thanked us for having this, citing reasons along those lines. So maybe we've breathed a bit of life back into the tradition, and maybe someone (other than the person who seems to do more than her share of dinners) will pick it up and do another one in a few months.
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Actually, now that I think about it, there's this chicken pie with bacon (and some other stuff; can't remember, but not cheese) that I think is also German (13th C, IIRC). That was tasty too, back when I ate such things.