in happier news . . .
I'm going to Estrella! For a weekend. (Now that we live in California, that's not a completely insane proposition.)
That weekend happens to be my birthday. Therefore, I should make (vote for one in comments):
That weekend happens to be my birthday. Therefore, I should make (vote for one in comments):
- Chocolate cupcakes. Birthdays mean chocolate, cupcakes mean sharing.
- Excellent small cakes. It's not an SCA event without currant shortbread.
- A more elaborate medieval dessert: maybe lots of ginger wafers, fool, a late-period cookie I haven't played with before, a fancy dried-fruit tart . . .
- Lime bars. I have fifty limes on the dining-room table; I shouldn't be allowed to cook with other fruit.
- You will demonstrate a medieval dessert that uses vast quantities of citrus.