Successes!

My little changes seem to be working.  I worked out all five workday mornings last week and got in an extra workout on Thursday evening with my mom.  Even today, when my feet and ankles are still pretty sore, I did a workout but not at full capacity.  I need to do it this way because if I get out of the habit of getting up to do it, even one day, it becomes easy to do it another day, and another, and pretty soon I'm not doing it at all.

Saturday I didn't need a workout because, with the effort of the feast I walked over 15,000 steps and was foot sore and exhausted by the time we finished.  It was a very successful event in all ways that I could tell.  I'll post pictures in another post.  We were too busy to take many pictures after lunch though.

Sunday was a rest day and I did.  I took a nap at about 1:30 and woke up at 6:00.  It was a little difficult to get to bed last night because of the long nap.  I did shut down Netflix at 9:00 but puttered around the house for another hour and then I was another hour winding down in my bedroom.

I took the leftover pear juice (the pears for the custard on saturday had to be strained to remove some juice and I had two large crockpots full of pear juice and pulp) added some allspice, cinnamon, and clove and poured it into dehydrator trays to make fruit leather.  I only have 5 fruit leather trays so I used most of one crockpot but the other is full to bursting.  I spiced it and set it on warm to meld the flavors.  I have a lot of fruit leftovers from the event and most of the fruit came from my supplies anyway so I think there is going to be a lot of fruit leather in my future.

Pictures from Midwinters...

Making green eggs by flavoring them with cilantro and parsley.

Mortar and pestel used to grind the green leaves.

Beets for roasting

Carrots for roasting

Chickens roasting (I see a theme)

A volunteer peeling parsnips (I believe he also did carrots).

corvideye cutting the flavored cheese rounds

The lunch menu consisted of:

Fruit pies
Hot fruit with cream
bread
jam/jelly
cheese
shortbread
Chicken
Lentil soup
Rice pudding(Almond rice)
Baked roots
Baked onions
Fruit juice
Sekanjebin
Salad
Baklava
Stuffed eggs


The lunch set up







The only picture of dinner and it's the last remove.

Dinner consisted of:
Roman Remove
89 Platina book 8 Torta from gourds
[89] Cabbage ANOTHER WAY ALITER (roasted with cumin)
[98] Beets ANOTHER WAY ALITER BETAS ELIXAS (roasted with mustart seed, oil and vinegar)
[245] CHICKEN À LA VARUS [1] PULLUS VARDANUS (almond chicken in an egg based white sauce-no flour)
[161] A DISH OF PEARS PATINA DE PIRIS (pear custard with cumin)
[163] A DISH OF QUINCES PATINA DE CYDONIIS [1] (quinces in honey)

Visigoth Remove
A CASSEROLE [1] OF VEGETABLE AND CHICKEN CACCABINAM MINOREM (beets, parships, carrots, onions, garlic, with chicken and chickpeas- we made use of the leftover chicken and roasted roots)
[488] SUCKLING PIG, CORIANDER SAUCE PORCELLUM CORIANDRATUM (roasted pork with raisins and pine nuts - that got forgotten in the flurry)
Stewed apricots and peaches (We mixed the two but it tasted like apricots
Marinated Chickpeas

Moorish Remove
Gourd and chicken soup p 38 in red book (pumpkin and chicken soup with cumin and corriander)
Shurba lamb page 39 al-Baghdadi p. 44/7 (lamb and chickpeas roasted)
Rice safflower
Sugared anise seed
Olives

Andalusian Remove
A Type of Ahrash [small meat patty] (lamb patties  with vinegar, oil, pounded garlic, pepper, saffron, cumin, coriander, lavender, cinnamon, ginger, cloves)
K'ak (rose cinnamon rolls) Andalusian p 97 ( rolls stuffed with rose flavored marzipan and drizzled with rose syrup)
Sukkariyya, a Sugar Dish from the Dictation of Abu 'Ali al-Bagdadi  but with seseme.p 99 (a form of roca with sesame seeds)
Olives
Bread
Candied Orange peel
Quince paste
Marinated artichoke hearts

Overall the feedback was favorable and no one was hungry.