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...

Comments

[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.