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Fri, Jan 18, 2008

Knife Skills

Posted at 11:06 am MST to Technology

I have signed up for a one-day Knife Skills workshop at the Culinary School of the Rockies at 10:00am Saturday March 29. I'm glad they have added this to their schedule. Last year the Knife workshops were 2 days (10 to 2 an Saturday and Sunday, which pretty well wrecks the weekend), and conflicted with Farmer's Market besides.

I attended an evening workshop on Mediterranean cooking at the School with Nanette several years ago that was a lot of fun. I spent a my lot of time chopping nuts: I think 3/4 of the recipes we did had chopped nuts in them. Including the baklava, of course. Yum. I need to reorganize my cookbooks, anyway. Maybe I'll find the recipe booklet from that workshop.

I first encountered baklava at the "Feast of Simple Fare" (whhich wasn't particularly simple) put on once or twice a year by the Society for Creative Anachronism in Connecticut, when I was living in Connecticut and in the SCA. I once had a mild allergic reaction to the baklava at one of the feasts, though, which was disconcerting. I suspect the honey contained some pollen from something I'm allergic to. Fortunately, that's the only time I've ever had a reaction to baklava or honey, and I'm usually okay with tree nuts. I doubt there were any peanuts in the SCA baklava: not authentically period enough.

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