Medieval Cooking

To clarify, the new schedule starts next week. I am writing updates in advance to make life better and will be doing random updates this week. I apologize for any confusion.

I am adjusting updates as my schedule has gotten a bit more involved over the last few weeks and with summer coming, it makes sense to switch up the updates. I’m also going to be pinning myself to a time, which will make posting even more predictable.
The update schedule is going to be Monday, [...]

In two weeks I will be cooking lunch for an event and have been playing around with redactions for it. The recipes are from all over Western Europe and some of the dishes are being specifically test-run for a feast I’m doing in October to see how they go over with the attendees. [...]

This week has been a light cooking week. There’s an art project taking up the time I would normally be cooking. It is cooking-related though; I am decorating a box in the fashion of a fourteenth century reliquary. A reliquary is the container in which a religious relic is kept. The [...]

This is the first week with the chickens and I must say that I am extremely enchanted with them.  They are sweet-natured birds and are wonderful pets with benefits (the benefits being that they provide breakfast).  I was put in touch with a wonderful man in Illinois that is an amateur historian of all things [...]

I apologize for this being two weeks in a row that I deviated from general food content and am addressing medieval recreation specifically. I am a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism [SCA] and participate in the Arts and Sciences community. Part of what I love about being in the organization is [...]

Food is expensive.
The fact is that even if you have cut restaurant eating out of your budget, you still are spending more for food this year than you did last year. The fact is that working forty hours a week means that you come home exhausted and barely able to contemplate what to make [...]

These are two out of three of our chickens. Enjoy!
Regular update later today.

I’d been thinking about raising chickens, but had resigned myself to doing something about it next year to give myself time to build a coop, etc. Earlier this week, a friend was informed that she could no longer keep her chickens, so she contacted me to tell me that she was willing to hand [...]

You are a cook in a Medieval Recreation Organization (which will be called the MRO) and you are pressed into service a week before an event. You, ever prepared, whip a six course fifteenth century English feast out of your back pocket and begin making up a shopping list.
Or-
You are a new cook in [...]