Kiernan is making the face you make when you are rooting for Germany in the world cup. I am making the face you make when you just like watching big sporting events and you made cool pretzels.
My talented and helpful son did the boiling while I did the rolling and shaping.
I made a very nice singing loaf and started trying to learn how to carve shapes into bread.
I tried a very sharp knife
I also eventually got a lame which is a razor lade on a stick.
Watching the World Cup with Opa is a thing we look so much forward to.
Having Thanksgiving and Highland Havoc and the World Cup in one month is just a huge amount of energy ask for an introvert like myself.
On the other hand it means great food all around all the time.
Megan made fancy napkin shapes.
For Highland Havoc we (Kiernan and I) cooked late into the night. He stayed up all night baking bread. The next day we set up a ton of slow cookers and served mushroom soup and ginger cookies and rosemary bread and hot cider plus local apples. We had mom and a volunteer and us. Lots of people said really nice things about the food.
I got lots of things at H-Mart then some big things like flour and oil (plus a few cheeses and nuts and dried figs) at Costco.
I wanted to do as many local sources as possible so I got cheese from CapriKorn Farms
It was raining and chilly but the goats were nom'ing and happy.
The farmer (Alice) did went so far above and beyond. She gave me a great price and then individually packed several types for us.
If you get a chance and want fresh goat cheese or soap they are outstanding and close.
For the apples and cider I went to DLC Ciderworks . I go there quite a lot for our own stuff and was happy to give them a bigger order.
Rob the cider guy gave us a crazy good price and let me pick a whole variety of apples and then gave me a day to come pick up the cider (fresh from the morning) just before the event.
Then it was home to cook and bake and prep.
I was very happy with the mushroom soup recipe.
We had about 17 gallons of leek and mushroom soup. The shallot and leek cutting had us squinting and tearing up for quite a while.
The ginger cookies were easy and turned out perfectly.
The bread was another story.
Loaf after loaf collapsed. I had of course tried the recipe before hand. My only real guess is that the flour was off. I tried different techniques, the bread maker, completely different recipes. The bread failed and failed and failed.
I was offered this Feast Steward position because of my many bread posts.
Then the bread failed. I felt like a fraud and like I was letting everyone down.
I had rosemary from the garden that worked well...in the bread that failed.
I gave up after midnight. Kiernan said he had a few things he wanted to try. He stayed up till 5 in the morning baking and trying. He fell asleep for about half an hour before we left to serve the food. I ran off to Food Lion to get their Rosemary bread.
Our excellent volunteer met us and helped us set up and plug in the many slow cookers and preassemble many of the boxes.
Here is a prepacked box (all boxes and utensils were compostable and so were the trash bags). It was a very hippy version of boxed lunch.
Here is the feast board for those who brought their feast gear. Brining your own feast gear is a major thing in the SCA. I love it. There are so many cool dishes and personalities on display.
While we set up and served the equestrian events were happening just across from us and it was a great thing to watch out of the corner of the eye. I love horses.
As we were packing up to leave I got called up by a herald and given several wonderful awards.
I am now Lady Melissa of Highland Foorde. With a fancy coronet and title.
Look at these amazing works of art. Hand done by other SCA members. Look at that bat!!!
It was a great experience. Quite tireing of course. I was given about a 500 dollar budget and told to make 50-75 servings worth. The feast sold out and the boxes all got used up. We had soup for a few weeks and some cookies and cheese. I made it on time and within budget so I think it was a success.
Here is the about me section from the website.
There was a great deal of sanding.
Some precision tape work.
Various coats with various glosses.
So far so good.
A great deal of innards workings involving pickups and tremolos and some tuning destabilization to address.
Basically David is amazing.
I love this guitar.
She also got her braces off. Look at these beautiful teeth.
A reminder
The traffic jam that was Megan's jaw.
The shark teeth that were.
Progress is made.
She has been a trooper about the whole process.
Now I am thinking about having my teeth fixed.
A rare look at what I do all day.
Behold the robot babysitting at its finest.
Megan has been drawing (sometime with Erena). She worked on this for hours and I think it is beautiful.
I hit 300 days of Spanish on DuoLingo.
We got some very hot peppers from a fellow Havenite. They are in the dining room with a heating pad under them.
I finished up my last class to get my bachelors degree. I filled in all my intention to graduate paper work and felt really surprised. I have taken classes on and off since before Kiernan was born. Suddenly I am done.
The girls got me a wonderful gift card for lots of money. So we made reservations at the fanciest restaurant in Frederick and went to town!
Look at these fancy folk.
It was a crazy busy November.
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