[Sca-cooks] Cooking at Pennsic

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

We arrived on site well after dark, didn't make it to the potluck 
dinner.  But I did get to cook this Pennsic.

Wed I had a small part in a Siege cooking contest that one of the 
merchants offered.  A lady in our camp entered.  My contributions 
were mostly having brought a mortar and pestle, grinding some oats to 
flour, and by loaning my feast gear.    The entrants picked up a VERY 
limited package of food and had to cook with those items and nothing 
else but water and salt.  This night was ground beef, Irish oats, 
butter, sugar, a bit of whiskey, mozzarella, a cabbage, and a leek. 
I didn't get to see the final presentation because I had promised 
to...

Wed night I helped cook for the Biyari, a period Indian dinner.  I 
had a great time, but the lady who planned to cook didn't make it to 
Pennsic, and there were a number of communication issues.  The head 
cook was expecting to use the kitchen tent, with its two burners, but 
it wasn't available to us after all. That left three burners and two 
of those broke.. down to one burner and an ambitious menu. They 
scratched several items from the menu, someone scrounged up a couple 
of replacement burners and things were going well.... Then it started 
to rain...

Like I said, I had a great time, the food that I tasted was 
wonderful, and I'm told that the participants weren't aware of the 
kitchen issues.
http://www.pir.net/~beth/Clothing/Chalukya/biyari-menu.html

Ranvaig