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The Sew & Eat Historical Retreat 2019: More Food

I have a confession to make. I used up all my parent’s high speed internet 🙁 It took me less than two weeks! They have another two to go before next month’s allotment starts. I’m not even a very big internet user. It’s not that we watched movies or TV shows. I just uploaded photos… But they really aren’t big internet users, so didn’t have much of an allotment, and one enthusiastic daughter showing them new websites and fun things ran through it all… So, my next few posts are brought to you by “what images do I already have uploaded to my blog?” And what I do have is SEHR2019 food photos… So please enjoy the food! Friday Night: Medieval Cabbage & Barley Pottage A simple, hearty meal to fortify us after a long drive and unpacking and preparation. Saturday: An Edwardian Afternoon Tea (in Regency costume! We’re ok with mixing things up!) The cake is a Victorian rice flour cake from Great British Bakes. Perfect with strawberries, and gluten free! Cucumber salad: And …

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Recipe: Vegetarian (and easily Vegan) Kate Sheppard’s Pie

Published by The Dreamstress

Lots of you (and absolutely everyone who attended the dinner) asked for the vegetarian shepherd’s pie recipe I used to make Kate Sheppard’s Pie for A Feminist Thanksgiving. Here it is! To be honest, the first time I tried this I was a bit surprised it worked. First, I looked at a bunch of vegetarian shepherd’s pie recipes, and then didn’t follow any of them and just winged it with what I had in the fridge. Second, my track record making anything casserole-y, or traditionally British comfort-food based is pretty poor. I just didn’t grow up eating or making those kind of foods! So I expected a repeat of my fish pie/cheesy potatoes/macaroni & cheese experiments (basically inedible). Instead, I got amazing! And it’s not a fluke. Every time I make it its delicious. This recipe makes a rich, filling, pie. Most vegetarian shepherd’s pie recipes use celery, but I use parsnips instead. Their warm, sweet, earthy flavour adds an unexpected element to the pie, and keep it from getting watery and bland, as …

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I don’t talk about it much on the blog, but I’m a huge foodie. It’s no surprise, my parents grow food (really, really good food), and my sister is a chef. It’s in the blood. We’re all foodies. My trip to Hawaii was kind of one huge food party. Most of it was healthy stuff from the farm. But not all of it. For one thing, there was the malasadas. Malasadas are Portuguese doughnuts. And sometimes they come stuffed with haupia, which is coconut pudding. And then there were all the desserts my sister (the chef) and I cooked. Mango kuchen: And passionfruit cheesecake: There were also slightly healthier things, like passionfruit pancakes: And poke. Poke is raw fish. And raw octopus. And wonderful. This is my poke tasting extravaganza: There was also the hamburger of wonderfulness, made of local (like 5 miles down the road), organic, grass fed beef, with tomato and avocado from my parents farm, and buns baked by the chef sister. And then there was the real healthy stuff, like this …