Ars Gratia Artis

There was a moment among the merchants in which the herald made the last cry of the war.* I stood among the booksellers and listened to the news she conveyed in her singsong cadence, listened to her well wishes for all until we all meet again. I found myself on the verge of tears; [...]

…. Although my birthday isn’t precisely today. We celebrate over the course of a weekend most of the time, and this is my weekend. So far, it has been nice.

We had coffee and sammys at Alterra on the Lake with Steve.
We went to the West Allis Farmer’s Market–where we ran into Ruhl Zilke, an [...]

I remembered when I bit into the sandwich, and the memory was visual. I saw myself standing in the Meade Superette, looking down at the corned beef sub I’d just bought, noting the chopped red pepper condiment spread across the sandwich: the first time I had hot peppers on a sub. The small store had [...]

Happy birthday to me. A Certain Age gets nearer with each anniversaire, but, fortunately, as the Baby Boom advances before me, A Certain Age, if it is an actual number, gets a smidge older with passing time. I’m not going to get there quite as fast as I might if this was, say, 1969. I’m [...]

So, it did not take me long to figure out that managing the site content with a blog for every subject might turn into a serious nightmare. I’m going to have to plan it out a little bit more. I KNOW I want to do the cookery bits as a blog, and I don’t have [...]

Some while ago, I stumbled across Resurrected Recipes–well, stumbled is not exactly the right word; I check the parent blog, Slumberland.org every once in a while because the woman writing that blog is, at least as much as I can tell from her blog, like me. She is at least remotely connected to the SCA, [...]

February was a rough work month. There is a certain amount of work that we are each obliged to complete according to the government contract we work under, and February is always a month of long days and cursing one’s salaried status, because there is lots of work, but not a lot of month. It [...]

Mmm, Cinco de Mayo food for piscetatians….well, this would work for vegan’s too. Yum. This is part of why I love America, one of the good things about it. Let’s all be happy about being Mexican for a day! Whee! …. Now if we could only help those opposed to immigration see that it’s not [...]

So, since Angelique has moved to Seattle, we have been watching the boys 1-2 days every weekend. This is nice, in that their father gets some help in caring for them and we get the opportunity to play with them at least once a week. Baby Ry has, for as long as we have known [...]

I really should update the persona blog.
Here is my summary of how the A&S 50 project for Lenten foodways turned out:
http://list.minstrel.com/public/northshield/2008-March/026242.html
Here is the redaction of the pie of parsnips:
http://cookalong.blogspot.com/2008/03/to-make-pie-of-parsnips-another-way.html
And I finished my knit bag for A&S 50:

I still knit terribly, but I am happy with this little bag. I simply could not get knitting in [...]

Welcome to Starvation
(Dear friend, skip to the next bit; we’re talking about fish here. You know who you are.)
Well, I like to cook, as you know, and I’ve been doing most of that write-up over at cook-a-long. Since Lent began this month, we decided to do a couple of Lent recipes. I have already redacted [...]

I think that after Michael heads down to the prop group, I’ll set up my archery stuff and shoot things. Or maybe I’ll work on an writing project, or cook. Or do all of that.
Other places public things have been written since the last entry:
*Two entries at Cook-a-long, which contains content related to redacting pre-1601 [...]

Really tired, but wanted to record my progress very briefly on my ongoing projects.

One more book wiped out from the One From Each; I did a meatloaf type of recipe from Seven Centuries. As the redaction she did clearly created a meatloafy thing and the period recipe created more of a patty/meatball kind of [...]

Michael’s home safely, and I’m glad to say that his weekend eventually began to look up. He brought me a present–a personalized, autographed picture of Robert Picardo, whom I have admired since Meg Mucklebones and China Beach, so when he became a cast member in the Trek franchise, it was a win for me. Apparently, [...]

One of the people I read on LJ brought this topic up. I have been working on a set of short articles about food for non-period cooks who are interested in at least presenting a bit of a more period table when bringing their own food to an event. This is still in its draft [...]