So far, so brilliant. My medieval club has an annual get-together over the May 24 long weekend but I never go because it is too far away. This year, it was all offered via Zoom (and Google Hangouts when Zoom went down yesterday morning). I did classes on everything from sourdough to calligraphy to gardening and making a peplos dress. I participated in two bardic circles (once telling a story I had never written down until yesterday, though it has been in my head since last telling it over a decade ago, and the other time singing a song I haven't sung in even longer).
I found out things had moved on-line from a friend who makes sausages, so naturally I needed to make sausages too. That was Saturday morning.
In between, I worked on stitching up a pair of linen socks patterned after finds from 14th C Greenland while listening to classes and other performers, and tested out a 16th C Portuguese recipe for chicken Mouresco. I didn't get the procedure quite right (must read more carefully) but the flavours are delicious. It has cilantro, parsley, mint, dried ginger, cloves, saffron, salt, pepper, vinegar and onions. I did not expect it to be this good. Next time, I need to fry the chicken, onions and herbs in butter on the the stovetop before adding water, the vinegar and the spices. The final step, which I forgot completely, is to beat a couple of egg yolks and glaze the whole thing before serving. It is supposed to be served over bread, which is fine, but the broth was so full of flavour that I used it to cook rice which can be the base for future meals. The rice was amazing! I think I have just learned things about making better rice.
The other fun thing was a visit from Jane. We social distanced on my front porch and tested the Gooderham and Worts whiskey I have been wanting to try ever since discovering a bit of its history on an episode of Frankie Drake Mysteries, a CBC show set in 1920s Toronto. The Gooderham and Worts distillery was the scene of a crime. It was surprisingly good. Because the event is normally in medieval garb, most of us got dressed up even though we were just on Zoom. Of course, because we were just on Zoom, there were cheats. In my case, it was fuzzy slippers instead of proper shoes.
And this morning, the new #Glow video dropped. Here we are, all social distancing together: https://youtu.be/jEcPpevmC2o. I don't remember if I posted the previous one, so here it is again: https://youtu.be/wbyOE4gP6Eg.
And for something completely different, here is my front garden right now. The orange tulips were to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of The Netherlands. The Dutch royal family lived here in Ottawa during the war (one of the princesses was born here, in a room that was temporarily designated Dutch territory, and the children attended the same elementary school my kids went to). Our annual tulip festival began with a donation of bulbs from The Netherlands some years after the war.
I found out things had moved on-line from a friend who makes sausages, so naturally I needed to make sausages too. That was Saturday morning.
On Sunday, I got my sourdough going while participating in the sourdough discussion. That led to bread this morning.
In between, I worked on stitching up a pair of linen socks patterned after finds from 14th C Greenland while listening to classes and other performers, and tested out a 16th C Portuguese recipe for chicken Mouresco. I didn't get the procedure quite right (must read more carefully) but the flavours are delicious. It has cilantro, parsley, mint, dried ginger, cloves, saffron, salt, pepper, vinegar and onions. I did not expect it to be this good. Next time, I need to fry the chicken, onions and herbs in butter on the the stovetop before adding water, the vinegar and the spices. The final step, which I forgot completely, is to beat a couple of egg yolks and glaze the whole thing before serving. It is supposed to be served over bread, which is fine, but the broth was so full of flavour that I used it to cook rice which can be the base for future meals. The rice was amazing! I think I have just learned things about making better rice.
The other fun thing was a visit from Jane. We social distanced on my front porch and tested the Gooderham and Worts whiskey I have been wanting to try ever since discovering a bit of its history on an episode of Frankie Drake Mysteries, a CBC show set in 1920s Toronto. The Gooderham and Worts distillery was the scene of a crime. It was surprisingly good. Because the event is normally in medieval garb, most of us got dressed up even though we were just on Zoom. Of course, because we were just on Zoom, there were cheats. In my case, it was fuzzy slippers instead of proper shoes.
And this morning, the new #Glow video dropped. Here we are, all social distancing together: https://youtu.be/jEcPpevmC2o. I don't remember if I posted the previous one, so here it is again: https://youtu.be/wbyOE4gP6Eg.
And for something completely different, here is my front garden right now. The orange tulips were to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of The Netherlands. The Dutch royal family lived here in Ottawa during the war (one of the princesses was born here, in a room that was temporarily designated Dutch territory, and the children attended the same elementary school my kids went to). Our annual tulip festival began with a donation of bulbs from The Netherlands some years after the war.
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