Happy Whan That Aprille Day!

So, as every right-thinking person does, I follow LeVostreGC on Twitter, and have been a huge fan of the blog that he hath for years now. Plus, several weeks ago, I bought a bunch of badass 3D printed cookie cutters off of Etsy, including this one. I knew I wanted to do something with it for the festive day in question, but I didn’t have time to make cookies, so I decided to make a Grilled Chaucer instead. Just pressing it into the cheese didn’t work too well, but I had some blue food coloring powder left over from my Mario Bento, and that wound up giving me a tolerably serviceable image of the great man and his little woolen hat. (It’s better in person than in the photo.)

I filled out the box with a variety of spring foods that I thought Chaucer might enjoy. Though I wouldn’t attempt to claim 100% authenticity, I did consult A Chaucerian Cookery for inspiration, and came up with spiced honeyed walnuts, a lady apple, some fresh spring peas with Criseyde watercress, butter, salt, and nutmeg, some berries and edible flowers on a bed of sorrel, plus a honey cake with figs, almonds, cinnamon, anise, sesame, and muscatel, which I figured worked better for the obligatory Swich Licour element than my wife’s original suggestion, Red Vines soaked in Amaretto. (Ew.)

So join me in celebrating good ol’ Geoff and all his works. Lat us maken melodye!