So I was doing worldbuilding again and um. Have ingredients to meals. And terms. Feel free to guess which meals I came up with or just combine some of these into your own meal lol. Fenrir hasn't given us ideas what they actually eat in that world so now you're getting my ideas lol
Rule of thumb: Edible flowers taste sweet, fruits taste spicy, and mushrooms are usually largely tasteless on their own but easily absorb the taste of their area. Don’t fuck with green things, they’re usually poisonous, and don’t try to hunt anything that looks like a mammal or even slightly familiar. Living things are toxic in at least one area or in one specific way. Think Australia but it’s the whole world.
Heart Honey = a heart shaped fruit with a slight spicy, juicy taste. It’s shaped like bleeding hearts from our world, though it has a more golden, yellow/orange coloring. The ‘drip‘ part of the Heart Honey is the only part that’s red, drops down when it’s ripe, and it contains the seed and the must nutrients.
Corsoom = A wheat-like plant with red to magenta coloring, though it is still pretty early in it’s domestication compared to wheat. It’s used to make red or magenta flour, for baking and cooking, just like regular flower. It has a stronger taste than regular flour or wheat.
Floyon eggs = the eggs of a feathery lizard called a Floyon. This species of feathery lizard is poisonous, and are able to snap off feathers and spines on their back to leave the poison in their predators. Floyon’s are green and black, their eggs black with green coloring. The green coloring increases as they develop. Entirely black eggs are able to be eaten, even if they are fertilized, because it’s not poisonous.
Cripon = a purple, citrus fruit. Commonly eaten for fertility and children’s health.
Sun Shuin = a lightly poisonous white plant, which only grows in the spring. It needs to be dried and treated before eating, to remove the poison. This treatment gives it a yellow golden color, and helps remove any and all pests. Children and the sick are not allowed to eat it, no matter what, but it is a staple winter food for the healthy.
Floming = a flat, somewhat long fish that usually swims in deep lakes. It’s a very common fish, and can be most easily fished about 2 months after breeding season. The best tasting meat comes from ones that are at least a year old, able to be recognized by their colors. The young have rock-like colors, dark and deep, while the adults are more sand and water colored. The females lay eggs in rocky terrain, always in an area that is not their birth place, and the males fertilize it within a week.
Mijsoshroom = a deep blue mushroom found mostly in caves near or in the water. It can be found in all seasons, and is quite delicious. It has a naturally salty taste, though it can turn quite spicy once fried and seasoned correctly. Frying it is the best way to prepare it is to fry it, because it helps remove all the water absorbed into the mushroom.
Oslaip = a blue, corn-like plant, which is used in a similar context to Corsoom. It’s green at first, and becomes blue as it matures. Just before it reaches maturity, it’s harvested to be turned into flour. Any other use tastes horrible, because of the bitterness of the stem underneath the lightly spicy kernels.
Druchel = a stew made of mostly fruit chunks and bone broth. What species the bone broth and the fruit chunks are from depends on the area where this is prepared, as the local animals and fruits are used.
Mimics = their taste depends on where they lived for at least a year before being eaten.
Mountain mimics = hard, rocky, salty and somewhat-iron like tasting. Usually boiled with spicy or sweet things. Can be turned into a candy if boiled with sweet things for long enough.
Sea mimic = highly salty, very watery. Tastes best when roasted and then placed into a stew.
Need to come up with more
Plakshroom = a sticky, fairly common mushroom. It’s found at the base of mountains, near rivers in forests, or above underground fresh water supplies. They grow easily, through a complex system if roots and reproduction. Their spores can be used as spicy seasoning, as they are lightly toxic, though it is recommended to be kept away from animals and mortals with weaker poison filters.
Drowsy Rye = a small herb that grows like a weed in forests. It’s seed can be ground up for sleeping drugs and, in higher quantities, for anesthetic. The leaves are often washed and used to serve medicine on, because their lightly spicy taste distracts from the usually bitter medicine. A combination of a small amount of ground up seeds and pulled apart leaves in soup usually leads to a great evening soup, and ground up seeds in cream is amazing for getting people to sleep.
Feevillar = a dark water snake, usually a deep blue or purple color. It’s found in forest lakes, and not toxic. Instead, it kills it’s prey by waiting until the prey tries to drink, ambushing the prey and then suffocating said prey. It is a fairly small snake, and rarely a danger to anything taller than 4 feet. It is descaled and fried before eating, to avoid the annoying scales, though the scales can be ground up and used in soups or stews as seasoning.
Seoboomo = a type of large bug. It is often used as a meat in many meals, as most mammals and birds in this world are much more dangerous. It’s shell plates can be used as plates or serving platers, depending on the size and age of the creature. The meat itself is quite chewy, so it is often used mostly in stews.
It’s a herbivore, though it may sometimes kill to defend itself. It’s shell is quite hard and it will roll up and play dead as it’s first defense mechanism, often freezing. Some time ago, hunters figured out that you can wiggle a thin, long spear between it’s plater and kill it that way, or it may uncurl and try to kill you if you do that. It’s recommended that, if you want to kill it, you tie a rope around it to keep it from curling up. If you can’t do that, shove a thin, sharp stick between the plates of it’s armor to get it to uncurl and then shoot it with an arrow or stab it with a spear.
The Seoboomo has been partially domesticated in some areas of the continent. It is now a livestock animal, commonly having a small amount of it’s ‘blood‘ harvested for a drink or as a base for a broth. This blood is a gold color and quite sticky. It’s also butchered at the end of it’s comfortable life (just before it gets too big for it’s living space, while it doesn’t have any children to care for) for it’s meat and plates.
Refined Thorineik = the bark and sap of a Thorineik tree, usually used to create a sticky and somewhat fiery taste. It takes about 2 hours of slowly working out bugs, dirt and general unsafe things from the bark and sap, then another hour of boiling to create this result.
Ghost Heart = a fully white, human-like heart shaped flower. It looks complicated, but many of it’s parts open up where a human heart doesn’t. It’s quite strange, and it’s main reproduction technique is being a place for bugs/creatures to rest, and having said bugs/creatures take it’s pollen with them onto their next resting spot. Some of these bugs and creatures seem to have long-distance (for their body size) traveling networks set up between/through these flowers. They have been shown to crossbreed with certain plants to create differently colored, much less complicated flowers.
Common terms (often used in food names to describe the meal in more detail):
Fold = the main ingredient is laid on a disc of dough and that dough is folded closed over the half.
Smoked = placed in a bricked up stove, higher up in the shaft, while wood chips, herbs and seasonings are burned at the bottom. There are only a few of these stoves in a village, because it takes a lot of resources for very little return.
Bounty = colorful food, can be any type of food.
Spun = scrambled, mixed up, and generally not in tact or in it’s natural shape.
Roll = the main ingredient is rolled in leaves or dough, and these leaves are often spices and add a spicy flavor, while the dough is often salted and seasoned.
Bowl = there is some form of dough or shell bowl as a part of the food. Usually it’s formatted like this: [what the bowl is made from] Bowl [main ingredient(s) in the bowl]
Bun = baked similarly to bread, usually a round dish with a cross cut lightly into the top to allow more air in, so that the dish can rise, more moisture out and more warmth to the inside. Often a softer, fluffy dish with most of the flavor from seasoning or things you can put on (or in) it.
Cream = it’s whipped into a fluffy, usually sweet cream, with some variations being heavier or spicier. Often eaten as a dessert.
Dried = has been placed over a very low fire with very little smoke to drain out the liquid and make sure it can be kept away from rot for longer. Commonly used in stews and soups as things that can be eaten during all seasons.
Actual meals will be given in my lore fic on AO3 ;3 (I'm a bitch lol)
