Greetings the list!

  After just over three years of SCA participation, I finally made it to an
event that had a feast.

  Caer Adamant's "Counting the Sheep" event held last weekend in Maryland.

  I found it humorous that, when I started to ask some people at troll about the
feast menu (meaning to ask what cookbooks, when, where, and how can I get
recipes) ... these people, who had already discovered I lurk on this list, spent
a great deal of time reassuring me the food was going to be good but NOT PERIOD
because the cook was a REAL WORLD COOK but hadn't yet been converted to making
PERIOD food etc...etc...etc...

  Next, a query about their dayboard.  The most incredible yummy spinach ball
things were served.  I've been told by one person (who didn't do the dayboard)
that everything on the dayboard was documentable.  I was then told by someone
else (who also didn't do the dayboard) that most of the stuff of the dayboard
wasn't documentable, and the yummy spinach ball things were, at best,
documentable to the web.  Said person then proceeded to give me a recipe of:
stovetop stuffing (or bread crumbs), spinach, some egg, some grated cheese, form
into balls, bake.

  I would very much like to make these yummy spinach ball things.  I would
especially like to make these as I've got three humongous loaves of bread going
stale which would make wonderful bread crumbs for yummy spinach ball things.

  At the feast proper my boyfriend discovered that neither of us had feast gear.
He remembers packing feast gear.  But it wasn't in the tent.  And it wasn't in
the vehicle.  :^(
 Also at the feast proper both of my parents found the almond chicken to be
heavenly beyond belief and the beef to be uninspired.  My boyfriend and I found
the beef to be heavenly and the chicken to be uninspired.  One of the other
people at our table found both to be equally yummy but in need of salt.  :^)

  Oh, and if anyone has been following that "entertainment at the feast" thread
on rec.org.sca ... the entertainment in this question was anyone who came up to
the front and was willing to sing.  My impression of the bards in question is
rather harsh, as one had unclear diction (but a gorgeous voice, and projection),
one couldn't do anything period (but in a gorgeous voice), and one had a
mediocre voice, bad diction, and a mediocre repetoire of non period things.  I
was far more impressed by the singers and performers who were enticed into
playing rather than the ones who came up on their own (and I include myself in
the category of the unimpressive performers who came up on their own ).

  That's enough for now... (I really want help on those spinach balls)

-M