As some may have noticed, there are a couple new blogs in the "Random Blogs" List. One is the Medieval Cookery blog, the fantastic companion blog the medieval cooking website. There's lots of interesting information there.
Speaking of cooking, I recently came into possession of a bunch of home-grown pears (thanks Tif!) and I'm debating between using them for a pear tart (which is about what you'd expect - spicy, sweet, and in a pie shell) or Peeres in Confyt (which is poached pears in a sweet wine and ginger syrup--I've also seen it include juniper berries, which sounds kind of fascinating, though I have none to use). I'm leaning toward the second, partly since I'm abyssmal at making pie and tart shells.
Another blog--only one that deals with the wretched failures of cuisine, rather than triumphs--is the Cake Wrecks blog, which cleverly displays the most awful and ridiculous of cakes. Hilarity ensues.
