No Feast of Fools

[memelaina]

I was planning on cooking my first SCA feast in two years this weekend. I took a vacation from cooking feasts when we won the bid for the Denvention worldcon. So this was my "comeback". Since it's a small feast (only six tables) we could plan some more work-intensive dishes and since it's an April Fools feast we could plan some fun things like Green Eggs and Ham and Nipples of Venus.

I came home from Scrabble Club last night to find that the feast has been cancelled because of our impending snow storm. I have mixed feelings. The older I get the more a solid day of work in the kitchen distresses me. On the other hand, we've been practicing dishes and recipes for a couple of weeks and I was really getting in to this. Originally, I wanted to just pull one of my canned feasts from the computer and do it. Terry talked me into planning from scratch and researching and trying new dishes. Not a disaster, exactly, but what exactly am I going to DO with a bushel basket of red cabbage and five dozen eggs during a snowstorm?

On another side of the topic, do you think that it would be worthwhile putting together a website or printed book of ready-to-cook feasts? I have a couple dozen all complete with shopping lists, equipment lists, timetables and recipes. Would there be any interest in making those public? Whatcha think?

Comments

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

5 dozen eggs and a bushel of of cabbage? Call the local Unitarian church and see if they know which local food pantry is most in need.

[ashcomp.livejournal.com]

What--another snowstorm? Geez!

If it had just been rescheduled rather than cancelled, the eggs & cabbage might well have kept. Failing that, I have to agree with the fellow before me that those items seem eminently donatable.

Despite the minor problem I have with the term "canned feast" feeling like an oxymoron, the idea seems very useful.

It's been years since Judy did any SCA cooking, but I remember that one of her basic references was a U.S. Army manual full of recipes with measurements for (I think)50. Which scaled very readily. No idea if that's still around, and she's down in Tampa for a symposium this week.

[arwensouth.livejournal.com]

I think "canned feasts" are a cool idea. Maybe we ought to stir up the Stewpot and see if there's any interest?

[herald-tim.livejournal.com]

I think a reference of ready-to-cook feasts would be wonderful. In addition to having them available for use as they are, they'd be a great reference when learning to plan one's own feasts!

[lady-corbin.livejournal.com]

I don't know about down there, but so for the street in front of my Denver house is dry. So much for the storm.

I'm not so frustrated with the forecasters - these things are tricky to predict accurately - but we need the moisture! I hate to see the event cancelled, but I'd take the snow.

Today? Neither.

And yes, publish those canned feasts. I love it.

[filkferengi]

Definitely make the resource available. selenesue [aka, Ma Foxti] & others would be thrilled & probably squee adorably.

[kseniyamik.livejournal.com]

Definitely publish the feasts! That would be a grand resource.