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I skipped taiko tonight - came home with a headache that would not quit and that Advil made no dent in, so I tried to nap a little with no success. I did, however, catch pleasant little indie movie called In A Day.
I need one of these. If a cooking Laurel can show up at an event eating tuna sandwiches made with one of these on the grounds that it's "Lenten," I totally need one, because I may be a bad Buddhist, but at least I KNOW when I'm being a bad Buddhist. She said she got hers at Soko Hardware, so a trip down there may be in order. May as well look for a decent mortar and pestle too in case I get sufficiently motivated to pound my own mochi, seeing as the mochi machines are expensive.
While we're at it, I think the House of Cheerful Monkeys needs to serve tea at an event. In an educational capacity. Tea is period, just not for everyone. (Certainly "tee" was enough of a novelty in Restoration London to warrant an entry in Samuel Pepys diary.) Of course, this will require acquisition of some decent matcha, so guests can sample that along with a couple varieties of leaf tea. I will not presume to perform tea ceremony, however, the Japanese were drinking tea ground to powder in period. Hmmm, perhaps I can rope
layla_lilah into this project regarding the drinking of tea in Central Asia in period too. Oh, goodie. More homework.
I need one of these. If a cooking Laurel can show up at an event eating tuna sandwiches made with one of these on the grounds that it's "Lenten," I totally need one, because I may be a bad Buddhist, but at least I KNOW when I'm being a bad Buddhist. She said she got hers at Soko Hardware, so a trip down there may be in order. May as well look for a decent mortar and pestle too in case I get sufficiently motivated to pound my own mochi, seeing as the mochi machines are expensive.
While we're at it, I think the House of Cheerful Monkeys needs to serve tea at an event. In an educational capacity. Tea is period, just not for everyone. (Certainly "tee" was enough of a novelty in Restoration London to warrant an entry in Samuel Pepys diary.) Of course, this will require acquisition of some decent matcha, so guests can sample that along with a couple varieties of leaf tea. I will not presume to perform tea ceremony, however, the Japanese were drinking tea ground to powder in period. Hmmm, perhaps I can rope
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Date: 2011-04-13 10:20 am (UTC)I'm pretty sure fish tayaki are not period for SCA Japan, since IIRC the first molds were things they got from the Europeans. But the world needs more taiyaki. Ooooh: must find a recipe and see if I can make them in raspberry or yuzu-lemon.
I don't get to Soko often enough these days; much of the good stuff is downstairs, and stairs are not my friend. (And it distresses the employees to see me wobble down the stairs after parking my wheelchair at the top, I suspect.) And sakura week is not the time to try it!
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Date: 2011-04-13 12:32 pm (UTC)OooOOooohhh....That might have come in handy when we made "fishburgers" for our Carnival vs. Lent feast (we cooked Paris Pye filling in cast-iron fish-shaped cornbread molds, which are currently languishing in the basement). There's also a Coptic/Ethiopian recipe for Lenten "fishcakes" made from chickpea flour (I suspect it's "traditional" rather than "period," but I'd like to try it in any case...).
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Date: 2011-04-13 03:17 pm (UTC)I need this. And to make some.
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Date: 2011-04-13 04:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-14 02:54 am (UTC)Start with The Book of Tea by Okakura. There's an online excerpt at http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tea.htm
The Japanese Tea Ceremony by Arthur Sadler is also worth looking at.