Cook's Symposium and website updates

[guenievre]

So I went to Calontir this weekend, which was QUITE fun. The trip down was uneventful; TSA doesn't mind needles or small scissors, so I could work on the Embroidery Project of Doom; AirTran has XM radio on their planes now, which rocks; and a lovely man named Ulf met me at the gate with a sign (!!). Met wombatgirl, and valkyr8, and antigonetheban; taught two classes, met an Oldcastle cousin (Taidhg), and got to have a long conversation with Duke Cariadoc (!!). I was surprised at the size of the event, only 90-something people, but there were still people from 7 kingdoms there (!!), and it was a Calontirii Royal Progress. There was lots of food-geeking, and not enough embroidery, and I got to have dinner with intrepida. All in all, VERY much worth the plane ticket.

On the way back, I proceeded to prove I am in fact a ditz - Atlanta airport is huge, and one does NOT have time to mosey and/or stop for cheese fries on the way to your gate if your gates are in different terminals and there's only an hour between flights. Somehow, space kitten that I am, I managed to completely miss this fact, and missed my flight. Even more embarassing was that I sat there for a little while, calmly waiting for a flight that had already left and I didn't realize it... lucky for me, the  next flight wasn't full. However, it did mean I got a new entry in the "It's a tiny world book", in that when walking back to the other gate to catch the "replacement" flight back to Durham,  I ran into a chick from high school that I hadn't seen since we graduated. Go figure.

Since the pie class ran out of handouts, and I told people to check the website for it, I spent most of yesterday updating my website - look in the cooking and projects sections for updates. I'd love feedback, if anyone actually goes to see it. ::grin::

Tonight will be fun - 3_purple_irises and Lukas are coming over to help me get my underdress sewn for Crown, while I frantically finish embroidering the overgown. Meanwhile, nikulai and soucyn are in charge of dinner...

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[wombatgirl.livejournal.com]

BTW - if you're interested, the lovely Ulfr has his own LJ - it's rhino_boy.

[lady-guenievre.livejournal.com]

OK, now I'm *really* curious about the origin of the names...

[wombatgirl.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't say because it's probably a lot more interesting before you get the actual reason. :)

I'm wombatgirl because I did a study abroad trip in college to Australia and decided wombats were some of the neatest creatures ever to walk this earth. I got my hotmail account soon after that, and chose wombatgirl. It's stuck.

He's Rhino_boy, because he likes Rhinos and I think he was trying to do cutesy matching names.

[rhino-boy.livejournal.com]

That and the time people in another web group of hers refered to me as wombatboy.

[splagxna.livejournal.com]

i wish i'd put two and two together earlier - would have had you give valkyr8 some ginormous hugs from me!

[lady-guenievre.livejournal.com]

Yep, it IS a small world. :-)

[siobhan-sca.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, very well placed and superdeserving exclamation points! (!!) Glad to hear it was such a great time!

And in the words of our dear Izzy: I like pie! :-) and am supercurious about the making thereof in period ... all of my pie fu is inherited, starting at the had-to-stand-on-a-chair-to-reach-the-kitchen-counter age, and I'm keen on comparing and contrasting family with period. Thanks for posting!

[lady-guenievre.livejournal.com]

Some of the skills carry over, some very much do not. And a few of the the concepts - like Sabina Welserin's hot-water-and-melted-fat crust - are ENTIRELY counter-intuitive to the keep-everything-cold approach of most modern crusts.

Anyway, let me know if you have any questions re: the handout...

[3-purple-irises.livejournal.com]

I'm bringing a dessert to share with dinner tonight. I got bored this afternoon and was inspired by something Paula Dean made. It was really easy. I hope you all are in the mood for chocolate.

[lady-guenievre.livejournal.com]

Thank you again for coming over - see you tonight!

[cissa.livejournal.com]

The pie info looks fascinating! I have been thinking recently that I probably need to learn to make things akin to pasties. Every now and again I have to be up and running around before I am awake enough to want to eat- and yet if I do not eat something, my blood sugar tanks and it is bad. So I've been buying those stupid "Lean Pockets" about the only benefits of which are that they nuke in 2 minutes and aren't horribly high-fat. Therefore, I've been contemplating making an alternative. This looks like it will help- thanks!

[lady-guenievre.livejournal.com]

Well, the nice thing is that if you're not doing the medieval thing you can put potatoes in them, and end up with "stew in a pie"... or hashbrowns and sausage in a pie, if you're doing breakfast.

They're really good for leftover meat, too.

[flaming-rose.livejournal.com]

I've got to ask: Who did you see at ATL?

[lady-guenievre.livejournal.com]

Teesha - used to be Boyd, has apparently married a dashing Air Force officer now but I didn't catch her new last name.