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Caerthe's
cooks guild is designed to further the art and science of
cooking in the Barony of Caerthe (Denver, CO.) Usually
one meeting per month is facilitated by Mistress Catrin von Berlin (called Gwen Cat), the guild head. Meetings are based around a
topic, always include discussion, often there is a
hands-on activity, sometimes hand-outs are available, and we
always share food. Garb is preferred, but not
required. Experience is not necessary. |
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Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013 Please join the Caerthen Cooks Guild on Sunday, May 19th, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the home of Mistress Kate Holford. Bring your favorite spring dish to share while we enjoy the lovely time of year. Mistress Kate Holford In Service and Gratitude For general Cooks Guild questions please contact Mistress Gwen Cat via email at tgrcat2001ATyahooDOTcom. Also check out the Guild’s website at http://rowdy.mscd.edu/~grasse/cooksguild1.htm . If you're looking for a reason to travel, some cooking events in other
kingdoms will be posted as they are announced For Pot-lucks, if possible, please bring a card with the recipe and information on your dish. I know fellow guild members would be very interested. I would like to encourage these information cards at future Cooks' Guild events as well, so we can create a recipe library of some of the Caerthen cooks' special dishes for future reference (and perhaps a even a cookbook someday!) ************************************************** |
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Planning Calendar for Caerthes Cooks Guild 2013 Future Possibilities: Other previously suggested meetings themes: Mistress Hinoki (Rowen) providing
a Japanese Tea Ceremony, brewing, outdoor firepit cooking (possibly a
weekend campout); practicing period table setting, carving and service,
as instructed by period manuscripts preparing herbal/cooking recipes for
largesse, outside evening (summer) meetings featuring Russian and/or Mongolian,
middle-eastern, Indian or Japanese foods, or a Japanese Snow-Viewing,
Russian easter-egg decorating, choosing and redacting a recipe from period
sources, and the long over-due Fritters Workshop II. |
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| Links to past years of Cooks Guild activities Previous months topics below |
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| Sunday, April 14, 2013 What a fun expedition we had. The group of 7 (or was it 8) sampled many tasty olive oils, both straight and infused with things like blood orange (YUM) and vinegars (my pick- the white balsamic with lemon) at EVOO before moving next door to Savory Spice who had Cubebs, Long Pepper, and Grains of Paradise in stock. We even managed to share some recipes using these 'exotic' spices with some mundanes at Savory :) Next, a quick peek at Pennseys before a final stop at In-Tea to fortify ourselves with tea while discussing feast requests and future meetings. Thank you Mistress Kseniya for suggesting this months trek, and to everyone who was able to join us (Baron William, Mistress Ursula, THL Thalia, Elyse and Isabella.
http://www.savoryspiceshop.com/colorado/littleton.html Below are some links with recipes or lists of spices in the various spice mixtures often used in period, specifically Poudre Fort (strong powder) feel free to find a variation that sounds tasty and get the indgredients on our shopping trip. |
| Friday March 4, 2013 Maslenitza was delicious. What a great March meeting for Caerthe's Cooks Guild on Sunday March 3, 2013. Mistress Kseniya and THL Johann hosted (thank you) and Kseniya made the blini batter (a 3 hour project) in advance. Then several folks took turn frying blini and everyone enjoyed the bountiful spread. Attendees included our wonderful hosts, THL Thalia, Lady Richenda, Lord Pai and his lady and their 3 offspring, Baron William Petheram, Mistress Elizabeth Freemountain, and Mistress Kate. The groaning board held blinis, sour cream, jams, caviar, berries, a soft cheese spread, bread pudding, a topping for the pudding, libations, candy orange peel, a ham and egg pie, lox, sausage, pickled herring, sausage and cheese tidbits, the required bread and salt, and from our newest and youngest guild participant, some very yummy and pretty sugar cookies. THANK you all for your tasty contributions to the meeting and the conversation. |
Friday February 1, 2013 Cooks Guild provided the Dinner portion of the revived Caerthen event "Dinner and a Tourney" I have a few photos, if I can get releases I will post them soon. |
| Saturday January 26, 2013 Cooks Guild hosted a tasting table and open discussion at the Northern Outlands A&S Collegium. Lady Tanwen, THL Thalia, Mistress Ursula, Baron William and I provided many tasty treats, including white torta, cheese, bread, cookies, strawberry tart, gingerbread and brie tart.. We had around a half dozen curious attendees. THANK you everyone for your participation and contributions! |
| Sunday December 16, 2012 The (now) Honorable Lady Thalia, Mistress Kseniya, and I traveled to the Christkindle Markt in Downtown Denver. While the wind blew cold, the Gluehwein, Bratwurst and Latkes were hot and the company was cheery. The bonus holiday treat of Domino stones were appreicated by all. |
Saturday November 17, 2012 HOLIDAY COOKIES Cooks guild metat Mistress Ursula's home to bake and decorate cookies to be shipped to an SCA member stationed overseas. This year our recipient was Lord Dunstan who currently is in Afganistan. Thanks to everyone who lent a hand: Lady Thalia, Lady Tanwen, Lord Yoshi, Baron William, and of course our hosts, Mistress Ursula and Earl Mika.
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| Saturday October 13, 2012 Guild met at my home for some quality time with dough. Baron William Petheram. Mistress Kseniya and I decided to keep it simple, we made a batch of pretzel bread that was quite tasty. Each participant took some home and the rest were provided to attendees at Lord Mordrake's vigil. With the small group we decided to wait for another time to explore the notes and recipes for a basic bread and a manchet provided by Bear (aka Barick Firehand.) |
| Saturday September 22, 2012 Caerthe's Cooks Guild met at the Great Wall Super Buffet (whose quality has gone down, and weekend prices up.) We had 13 (or was it 14) folks at the meeting, including 2 new persons, one of whom was just discovering the SCA. We selected dates and topics for the rest of this year as are listed above.
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| Saturday, August 18, 2012 at Pickle Gulch Campground What a fantastic meal this crew put together for the donation lunch at St. Sebastians Archery shoot.. I heard so many compliments and thanks for all you did! Elise, Isabella, that chicken shwarma was delish, and especially appreciated by the person with the walnut allergy, though everyone raved about it. Thalia, thank you for all your hard work making tons of arrow and target cookies (and of course THANKS to everyone who spent time on site decorating the cookies!) and the feta was much appreciated! Tanwen, your tzatsiki was super yummy! thank you for taking time out of your crazy busy schedule to make and bring it. Kseniya, the couscous was such a wonderful fit for this menu. Kate, the olives and feta were so tasty, and thank you for providing ready made cookie dough for the arrows. Ursula, the meat patties were delectable! and we had plenty to go around. The white torta was a nice added dessert. Thanks for grabbing pita too Our efforts, and everyone's generosity (not one person handed me receipts!) raised $186 for the Kingdom Travel Fund. (Jethro, Yoshi, we did chat at the event and re-affirmed we dont feel the need for a guild fund in the Baronial coffers at this time. We are content to donate the proceeds as planned.) |
Saturday, July 15, 2012 The July meeting was hosted by Mistress Ursula (thank you) and consisted of Kate providing home-made-ready to use cookie dough, and Lady Thalia converting the dough into arrow cookies, and then helping Mistress' Ursula and Gwen Cat create the spiced lamb and also spiced turkey patties for the St. Sab's lunch. THANKS everyone for your help! |
Sunday, June 3, 2012 Bear Creek Lake Park, 15600 W. Morrison Rd, Lakewood CO 80465 We had a tasty Caerthen Cooks Guild meeting at Bear Creek Lake Park on June 3, 2012. Yummy pomegranate chicken, herb chicken, bratwursts, mustards, raspberries in cream (swoon) and many other delicious treats sustained us as we settled on a menu for the Archers at St. Sebastians. This is planned as a Brass Bowl lunch with donations going back to defray costs of ingredients and any profit going to ____ The menu is: ground Lamb patties by Ursula, couscous by Kseniya, cucumber salad by Gwen Cat, yogurt sauce by Tanwen, pita and melons purchased, and of course the ever popular Arrow cookies. A work day is currently scheduled for July 15, tentatively hosted by Mistress Ursula, to make the cookies and perhaps the lamb, and/or prep for the food at Grace and Valor. Dona Arcadia specifically did NOT ask us to assist with food for a bid for an upcoming event, and no other requests were received prior to or at this meeting. Discussion regarding a possible "meet the cook's guild"™ session at Battlemoor was decidedly un-enthusiastic. The members present pointed out they also wanted time for fencing, archery, most are also on the Queens Guard… and time would probably be tight. I am open to other suggestions for September. |
| Saturday, May 19, 2012 Golden Europe Restaurant 6620 Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada, CO 80003 The dinner meeting at Golden Europe was a great success. Thank you THL Jethro (did I get it right this time :?) for organizing. Mistress Ursula, Earl Mika, Mistress Kseniya, THL Johann, THL Jethro and his lady, Lady Tanwen, Lady Thalia, and I had some AMAZING food and excellent discussion. It was agreed we would do the lunch for St. Sebastians archery event, and will use July as a working meeting to prep food. June will be a more relaxed and casul picnic to discuss the St. Sabs menu and other upcoming events and meetings. |
| Sunday, April 22, 2012We met at Known World Cooks and Bards for a round table discussion on 'How to Herd a Cooks Guild' I need to upload a photo (I think I took one) and set up the emails so the discussion may continue. My apologies for not doing it in a more timely fashion. |
| Sunday, March 18, 2012 In March we had a very successful working meeting: THANK YOU to everyone who made March 18th such a successful meeting!!!!! Masahide-nagon and Lady Thalia for prepping carrots, parsnips, and cabbage for the compost, Mistress Kate for bringing ingredients and mixing up a vat of pie crusts! Masahide and m'lord Yoshi for rolling out lots of vegetarian safe pie crusts, and to all 4 of them for prepping and assembling 6 yummy smelling mushroom tarts and 6 beautiful brie tarts. Thank you Thalia for giving the shroom tarts a home till the event, and thank you Mistress Ursula and Earl Mika for retrieving the brie tarts to let them reside in your freezer (a much safer place than mine. Mistress Kate also volunteered to take charge of 8 chicken tarts, based on the Mark Lasie (sorry if I butchered the spelling) chicken pie recipe, After everyone left I finished making the wine and honey 'brine', filled all 9 quart jars of compost up with it (sadly had to use some white zin along with the bottle of Moscato I had, but it smelled tasty) and processed them in boiling water bath for about 25 minutes per batch. If anyone wants to give them fridge space I would welcome it, but I think they should be ok at room temp. On the Monday after, Lady Tanwen came over and we created close to 4 pints of mustard (whole grain, whole grain with wine and honey, and a spiced version with horseradish and cubebs.) they are aging in the fridge. On Tuesday Lady Jervel, m'lord Sigmund, and I created 18 lbs of pork sausages which spent a little time on my smoker and are now in Mistress Ksenyias freezer. THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE!!! |
Sunday, February 26, 2012 Caerthe's Cooks Guild had a very tasty meeting to celebrate Butter Week. Mistress Kseniya and her Lord very kindly hosted us, providing bread and salt, and a bountiful and rich feast appeared and grew with each new attendee (even the one who just dropped off Ricotta, sugar and raisins for a sweet filling) Our hostess spent hours preparing Blintz batter (eggs and flour and yeast, and rising, and add more things and raise some more, and add separated and beaten eggs and scalded milk and raise some more) and the resulting pancakes were amazing! The table groaned under the bread, gouda, smoked mozarella, smoked oysters, fresh strawberries, a berry mixture, lemony cookies, elderberry syrup, the ricotta filling, marscapone cheese, sour cream, smoked salmon, diced prosciutto, pickled herring, and golden caviar. Everything was amazing, the blintz with marscapone and berries were tasty, t heard wonderful things of the ricotta with a drizzle of elderberry, but I think the most amazing was topping the fluffy hot pancake with fresh sour cream and caviar. Truly a decadent treat before the austerity of lent. THANKS to all who attended. |
| Sunday, January 22, 2012 Furukusu Nagon very kindly hosted Caerthe's Cooks Guild meeting for January. We celebrated the Chinese New Year (the year of the Dragon started on Jan 23, 2012) with a variety of Asian Dumplings. Dumplings are found in almost every culture and we explored several types with a hands on dumpling making (and tasting.) The Bao was delicious and educational (if the recipe starts by stating: let dough rise two hours, one does not expect the next step to be 'marinate the meat for five hours :) The Gyoza were tasty but lived up to their name of pot stickers (perhaps because I used elderly frozen and thawed wrappers?) and a wonderful lion meatball soup! Many thanks to Lord Hayashi, who put together some favorite recipes for Gyoza, Bao, even Taro cakes. I have scanned his handout into a PDF file and uploaded that to the files section in the yahoo group. Please let me know if you need me to email it to you. |
| Sunday, December 18, 2011 We had a lovely and well attended lunch at Namaste. Thank you Mistress Kseniya for organizing. There was a lot of discussion and I will post the tenative schedule for the first half of 2012 above. Happy Holidays everyone! See you next year! |
Saturday, November 19, 2011 Caerthes Cooks Guild met on Saturday November 19 at 230 to make cookies. With the more than able talents of Lady Talia, Lady Tanwen, Lord Ronan, and Mistress Ursula the guild rolled, cut, baked and decorated dozens of cookies. (images below) The majority of them were packed up and turned over to Mistress Ursula to mail to her son who is currently deployed in Afghanistan and the leftovers were brought to the joint Toys for Tots event. At that even Baroness Jean Marie asked for items to be sent ot one of their members who is also deployed, and the remaining cookies were promptly packed up and presented to her Excellency for said purpose. Thanks to all who assisted.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011 We had a very informative and well attended hands on cheese-making meeting hosted by Mistress Kate.
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| Saturday, September 17, 2011 We had awonderful exploration of the Cherry Creek Farmers Market. M'lady Emma and her son Tyler as well as Lady Yve deBruyere, Mistress Kseniya and I found beets, cucumbers, apples, plums, as well as empanadas, pirogi, croissants, and even Gewurtztraminer. In the process we also encountered Mistress' Rowen and Gwernin. THANKS all for a fun morning. |
| Friday, August 12, 2011 Caerthe's Cooks Guild met for a comfortable and low key Asian evening. Unfortunately Lady Bruyere was grounded in Japan, and so was only able to join us in spirit and via SKYPE. Mistress Kate, Lady Thalia and Lady Tanwen all brought yummy food and we had a feast while chatting for close to 2 hours with our currently most distant member. The meal included edamame, egg drop soup, tuna, salmon, and squid sashimi, grilled terriaki chicken, rice, cookies, pocky, and more. |
| Saturday, July 30, 2011 Lady Thalia, Mistress Kseniya and I had a lovely exploration of H-Mart, noting piles of familiar and unfamiliar veggies, fish and animal bits, teas, dry goods and more. We followed our excursion with a larger than expected and tasty lunch at Pho-Yo. Thanks for all who participated. |
| Sunday, June 5, 2011 Five of us met at Mistress Kseniya and THL Johanns home to discuss 'Packing a Period Cooler' and share foods that fit the topic. sparkling cider accompanied the various cheeses, smoked, dried, or grilled sausages, soft cheese spread with herbs, and several delicious breads. Thank you Thalia, Tanwen, Ursula and Ksenyia. We passed around several interesting articles on the topic and I hope to link them here soon. |
| Friday, May 20, 2011The plan was to have a nice outdoor gathering with friends, fire and food. Instead we had cold, wind, rain, and a lovely indoor gathering with friends and food. Mistress' Kate, Ursula, Ksenyia, Lady Thalia and I enjoyed grilled lamb, poppyseed cake, rhubarb pie, version 1 of Gulyas, cheese, and other yummy things I have since forgotten . |
| Sunday, April 17, 2011We met for hands on Indian food. Attending were Lady Thalia, Lord Tahir, Lady Ailea, Lady Tanwen, Mistress Kate and myself. (plus 2 drop in guests for the dinner portion) and the meal included samosas, naan, Sindi gosht, saag paneer, chicken korma, mango ice cream, kheer, and several varieties of chai. It was a tasty and relaxed gathering. Thanks to everyone who attended. |
Sunday, March 6, 2011 Thanks to everyone who was able to attend the lunch at the Arvada Yak and Yeti. We had 18, including 3 guests from Caer Galen, and 2 brand new to the SCA folks. I know the Lamb was raved about, and I personally enjoyed the Kheer. Feel free to jump in with your own favorite dish or suggestions for the next meeting.
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Sunday, Februay 6, 2011 THANK YOU LADY TANWEN AND MISTRESS KSENIYA! With the inclement weather Lady Tanwen was the only one who was able to come bake treats for the Outlands Queens Tea at Estrella. We had a lovely few hours making delicious Digby's Excellent Small Cakes, an Oatcake recipe that had been provided by her Majesty, and Mor Monsens Kake -which turned out to be a super buttery RICH cake, but only as thick as a cookie bar, topped with chopped nuts and currants or craisins. Mistress Kseniya and her lord braved the roads long enough to deliver a delicious Ukrainian Honey cake to send along as well, and I think Mistress Ursula was sending some items directly via Ear Mika. The above items, along with a container of fresh yogurt cheese and some sadly store bought bread were handed of to Countess Anna for delivery. THANK YOU ALL!
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January 8, 2011 The guild gathered at Caerthen 12 th Night to provide a tasting table to allow the populace to sample delicious period knibbles. I wish to thank everyone who contributed (and please forgive me, I was stricken with a stomach virus and only managed to be at the event for 3 very foggy hours.) I know the table happend because I had a lady thank me for providing the recipe handouts. |
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