What do you do when your evening plans are cancelled?

[storytimewithjoe]

You quickly fill in that time with another project, of course!

Last night was slotted for a dance rehearsal. So, after hitting the House of Pain, I raced home to meet with my troupe to run them through a 15th century ballo (you know... like ya do). On the drive home, I got a call saying one of them was sick, so we would have to just make do with the final dress rehearsal next week. No prob. I feel pretty darned confident that the group is doing well. But, of course, this meant that my action-packed evening was now open. For 2 seconds, perhaps. To make good use of that time, I moved one of my Friday night projects forward. So last night became... MUSTARD night.

For my cooking guild, I am working on a 14th century wine-reduction-mustard recipe. I made up a few different batches using some organic wines, some cheap stuff, etc,. etc. The kitchen smelled lovely while I was at work. Now to wait the 4 months that the recipe requires to see if it worked.

Comments

[aliskye.livejournal.com]

Oooo......the mustard sounds really neat. Will you share it with the rest of us not in your cooking guild? :)

Are you doing a dance performance somewhere? If so, I'll have to try and be there to see.

[joeguppy.livejournal.com]

The mustard recipe is part of the "Big project." We are working on the translation and redaction of a 14th century Neapolitan cookbook that, to the best of our knowledge, has never been worked before. We are in the process of putting all of the recipes together in booklet form, and will be selling the finished cookbook (at disgustingly low prices), to help fund the guild.

As for the dance performance, we plan to perform at the Festival of the Rose.

[aeddie.livejournal.com]

Have you guys looked at the Flory-thingy www.florilegium.org to see if it has been mentioned? Granted most translated books don't have redactions with them.

Let me know when and how much. New cookbooks are always good. :-)

[joeguppy.livejournal.com]

It has been mentioned, and I have seen references only to the original language, but nothing indicating the whole thing has been done. Ultimately, I'm not really worried if it has. Since we went from-scratch, translated all the original, and did our own redactions, our work is still unique.

[aliskye.livejournal.com]

Awesome cool! I don't really cook but every once in a while something comes up (potluck or whatever) and it's cool to have a reliable period recipe to bring to an event. You can put me down for a copy!

I'm not sure I'll make it to Festival of the Rose (when is it?) but I'll double check my schedule.

[joeguppy.livejournal.com]

FotR is comin' up on the 9th.