I forgot to photograph this damn!
We had a Roman Feast for 11 on Thursday. It was pretty successful. The Romans ate 3 course meals with a variety of dishes at each course. This is what we had.
Olives, onion relish, cheese relish (a dip), Apicius' pork morsels, fish dumplings, barley bread, spelt bread
Ferculae:(roasts) pork with cumin sauce, chicken with ginger, lentils and chestnuts, green beans with coriander sauce, a salad (which consisted of mozarella, nuts, cucumber, capers, chicken livers with a thick dressing containing mint and egg yolks.
Apples, soft cheese, honey cakes, olives, Alexandrine dates
I think the third course was the least successful - probably because I didn't serve snails - a common feature of the last course.
Roman food is unusual, but quite good. People really liked the fish dumplings, the onion and the cheese relish, and the roasts. I loved the salad - it was great. I think the dates were a bit over cooked, the honey had got like toffee so they were crisper than they should have been. Robert suggested we should do another Roman meal, but I need to think about whether I want to broaden this - get more people to join the mailing list and do this a bit more often.
We had a Roman Feast for 11 on Thursday. It was pretty successful. The Romans ate 3 course meals with a variety of dishes at each course. This is what we had.
Olives, onion relish, cheese relish (a dip), Apicius' pork morsels, fish dumplings, barley bread, spelt bread
Ferculae:(roasts) pork with cumin sauce, chicken with ginger, lentils and chestnuts, green beans with coriander sauce, a salad (which consisted of mozarella, nuts, cucumber, capers, chicken livers with a thick dressing containing mint and egg yolks.
Apples, soft cheese, honey cakes, olives, Alexandrine dates
I think the third course was the least successful - probably because I didn't serve snails - a common feature of the last course.
Roman food is unusual, but quite good. People really liked the fish dumplings, the onion and the cheese relish, and the roasts. I loved the salad - it was great. I think the dates were a bit over cooked, the honey had got like toffee so they were crisper than they should have been. Robert suggested we should do another Roman meal, but I need to think about whether I want to broaden this - get more people to join the mailing list and do this a bit more often.
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