My gob was smacked.

mad_duchess gave me the Princess' Order of Grace yesterday.
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I never thought I'd receive this; I never thought I'd deserve it. It was a total shock and surprise - in an incredibly honoring way. This was the most gobsmacking award I've gotten since I was surprise-Laurelled.

Now I have to live up to it.

What I'm reading: Kristine Smith, Endgame

Jingles yesterday

The feast went extremely well. ldyanna got a well-deserved standing ovation. Good chattage with her and ysabella_dolfin in the kitchen. It was ysabella's first kitchen experience; I think she had a good time and I'd certainly cook with her again.

There was too much food, but not so much that it was ridiculous - too much in the "good feast" sense. Everything I tried was yummy, the rice balls and millet polenta combined with the pork especially, and the 13th century Spanish monastery gingerbread ldyanna did was beautiful.

I spent much longer than I expected making flatbreads - partly because I made a 12x batch instead of an 8x one, partly because I divided the dough into 12 instead of 8. I made (literally) a gross of them. People kept asking for more; we went through most of them. I will post the recipe tomorrow, probably.