Redaction of historic recipes (mainly Middle Eastern and Roman). Historically period dishes are incredibly tasty, just requires a little experimentation and having a lot of fun cooking!
I was once told “Cooking isn’t hard. Period cooking isn’t that hard.” I was…shocked. The person who made this proclamation was missing the entire point of period cooking. Period cooking is not about throwing...
I had thought I had made a post on all my cookbooks, however I find that the several, many, few books I do have have not had a listing or commentary. So here goes!...
This is a bit of a rambling prelude for a really neat book. I have a friend who believes that meat appears mysteriously in the store wrapped in plastic. She’s only half joking. She...
Let’s talk birds. Small, medium or large. NO feathers please!! Unless the bird is a peacock or a pheasant with really gorgeous feathers, but that’s another post! So back to birds. There are a...
This is a simple posting for roasted hazelnuts (then candied). Hazelnuts are also known as filburt nuts. In period the nut was produced in Turkey, Italy and Greece. (Wikipedia) This is a very period...
Coffee in Period By Honorable Lady Sosha Lyons O’Rourke Coffee is thought to be a new world indulgence in many areas. This is not the case. Coffee is recognized through various historic depictions, stories,...
So this month has been working on recipes for the upcoming Kingdom A&S competition. Yeah…well I have part of the recipes down but this year’s project isn’t going to happen in February. The reason,...
So I was drooling over the holiday recipes that every one has coming out and had wanted to do a mincemeat pie for ages. Well along comes a recipe I could not wait to...
I was asked to help do a Nobles Luncheon a little bit ago. I like luncheons. I do! They are fun more intimate and one person can cook for 20 instead of arm wrestling...
