Medieval Days Update

I wish I could say that we got great pictures of the Medieval Day at our house but sadly, no pictures. Near the end of the day I mentioned, yet again, that I really wanted to take some pictures and still I met with resistance. Until right at the end when dd was so hot that she didn't want to wear her costume any longer...then she said she wanted some photos. And wouldn't you know, no batteries for the camera! I was so frustrated with that! Two cameras and dead batteries in both. Sigh. But it was a great day anyway!

I mentioned in the previous post about how we had french toast for breakfast and what we planned for lunch and dinner. I think I like these "Days" deal- they did the work! Well, Lee did the work anyway. She did dishes so I could get started on the meat pies. We bought packaged pie crust mix (I'm not too great at making pie crust...) and wow, was that easy! I also had picked up some small pie pans, the little tin/aluminum (?) ones. A pack of 8 for $.99 I thought wasn't too bad a deal. Anyway, I made 8 little pie crusts as she finished up the dishes. She browned some beef. It called for either ground beef, sausage or another kind of meat and since we are fairly bland food lovers we chose the beef :) She then made the filling which consisted of the browned beef, 3 eggs, sage, oregano and one other thing we didn't have so it just got the two. It didn't give really specific measurements for the spices and she was worried about putting too much but she did just fine :) Then after the filling was made she filled each pie crust and we put it in the oven for 35 minutes.

While that was cooking she dug out the crockpot and I got some cabbage from the freezer. She cut up carrots, 1/4 of an onion and the cabbage. She measured out 6 cups of water and got 6 bouillon beef cubs from the cupboard for the cabbage and dumpling stew. She had me measure out 3/4 tsp of salt. I'm not terribly specific with salt I guess, because I just guesstimated by the palm of my hand. She stirred it all together in the crockpot and set it on the counter, on low. We hoped it would take a couple of hours.

We ate our meat pies- they were delicious! And Lee has been so worried that when she lives on her own she won't know how to cook or know what to eat...silly girl! She did great. Oh, we had milk with breakfast and lunch. Well, they did, not I- can't tolerate it.

While we waited for the dinner stuff to be done there was playing with the cardboard shields and swords that were made yesterday in anticipation for today. They were going to have a 'bow-and-arrow' contest and see who could shoot the farthest but we don't have bow-and-arrows. Instead the Nerf guns came back out. I let Fox's friend come over for a while to join in the 'hunt'- or rather I think it turned into a conquest of land or something...an all out war between all three. Good thing there were truces and we were able to set down peacefully for awhile later.

Dinner was 'trenchers' and the cabbage and dumpling stew. The trenchers were simply bread that had been extra toasted in the toaster. We were going to make the dough (pizza dough perhaps) and bake it in the oven but oh no, it was hot after cooking the meat pies! Oh, yes, forgot that Lee also tried to make the dumplings. The recipe doesn't call for enough flour so she panicked a bit when it was runny. I just tossed in a bit more flour to thicken it and plopped 8 dumplings in the crockpot. They were fairly too big for the crockpot after just a few minutes! They were good though :) We had mead with dinner- simply 1/2 cup honey, nutmeg, orange slices and 2 quarts water. She didn't like the idea of adding so much honey so I think she added maybe 1/4 cup. I think it would have been really good had we had more oranges- or put a bit of orange juice in with it. I liked it.

After dinner was some sparring- more sword fighting. It was so good to hear them laughing. Especially Fox- he's been having a difficult past two days (just very sour attitude; can't find happiness in anything but the wii or tv- neither of which he gets to even do often!). It was so nice to hear his loud laughter and when he was defeated even! It was great, great, great.

I wish there were pictures but there are not :( I have my memories and now I have somewhat shared our Medieval Day with you :) I am definitely getting fresh batteries for Greek/Roman Day!!