WAT War Cooking: A belated trip report from the cooks' playdate

As those who follow my journal know, one of my goals for the playdate was to try out my new spit setup. In addition to the spit, I had a new dripping pan, courtesy of Mercy the Potter to try out. To add in to the mix, I wanted to reprise the Pisam farsilem that I'd done for A&S, and I'd offered to do drop-in "intro to open fire cooking" for which I figured I'd recycle my handout and recipes from the culinary symposium. So with all that put together, I figured I'd split my time between the 15th century on Thursday and the Roman empire on Saturday, meeting in the middle with seafood dishes and overflow on Friday. ( This got long. )