Walking, Medieval Cooking, & Cyber weight

[dalthauser]

I woke up at 5am this morning with a Cyber laying on my chest.  She is over 11 years old; this is the first time she's done this.  I opened my eyes and turned on the light - there she was looking down at me half squinting.  I was like "Hellooo???"  She kind of sneered and lazily got up and off of me.  Once up - I was up.

Morning Walk:  Mirror "J"  1 Hour 2 Minutes.  Listened to two latest episodes of Alan Watts Podcast and half of the All Things Medieval Podcast.  Picked up 20 cans (not kidding - many were road flattened).  No leg pain - but I did stay off the pavement as much as I could.

Nobody but me probably cares about this news, but I just found out that the Medieval Cookbook Form of Cury is going to be digitally photographed page by page and uploaded to the internet for everyone to study.  This is very  cool.  I have a little knowledge of medieval food/cookery from doing Renaissance banquets and catered events in a previous life, so I'm very much looking forward to viewing the book and reading the commentary.  You can get text from the book online, but this will be actual digitally reproduced pages!  I'm giddy - I'm not sure this makes me a geek or just weird  :-)  Here's a link to a news story for anyone interested:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/22/10

Comments

[madamealexis.livejournal.com]

The Medieval Cookbook is so interesting. I wonder how hard some of the ingredients would be to come by.

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

Not hard at all. The difficulty is in measuring and cooking times/temps because back then they used a different measurement system and cooked using simple wood stoves (hearth type).

[icantpickaname.livejournal.com]

not to scare you or anything but usually when elderly cats do something out of the ordinary that involves being close to you it could be a sign of sickness. OR a sign of cuteness. i grew up with a billion cats so im like a cat whisperer. but you know her best so im sure you would be able to tell.

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

I recently took her to the vet a few months ago because I was a little worried about her strange behavior overall lately. They said they couldn't find anything amiss. I may take her in again soon just to be on the safe side.

[walksbeauty.livejournal.com]

cats are so weird...
and medieval cooking?? like what would an example be? can't imagine.. interesting, tho'

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

There are online sources galore, but this cookbook is from the 1390! Medieval cooking is highly spiced (back then to mask the smell of "past prime" ingredients as there wasn't refrigeration), high fat, lots of meat, and I think very romantic. If I was a meat eater I'd still be experimenting heavily - I may get back to working with recipes for baked goods and desserts though.

[walksbeauty.livejournal.com]

wow.... interesting stuff... over ripe meat, eh? sounds dreadful... aargh.. I have a hard enough time digesting any flesh as it is!

Medieval Cookbook

[papoose.livejournal.com]

Sounds fascinating to me. I'll be interested in seeing what's there.

[minemouse.livejournal.com]

Silly kitties. :)

[texasts.livejournal.com]

Medieval cookbook sounds like a cool project!

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'd love to have the time to work on something like that.

[onecrowesorrow.livejournal.com]

Your kitty could be cold. Has the temp. dropped lately? I know you are in Texas, but ya never know. Old cats get cold very quickly. I know.....I am momofmanycatsoverthepasttwentyfiveyears.

Are you going to upload the entire book to your page, or give us the like to it. It sounds very interesting.

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

They haven't done the project yet (maybe it's in the works), but once it's finished I will post links.

Yes, it could be the change of weather. It is getting a little chillier now - but dang, she has one heck of a thick fur coat! :)

[k2rider78.livejournal.com]

It makes you a Medieval Foodie :)

Link to text of Form of Cury from Gutenberg.org

[eats-veggies.livejournal.com]

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8cury10.txt

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

I second that Cyber might be cold. How nice that she is getting closer to you in her later years :)