#culinarian

[koijikido]

"I've got a space pan now! Lets cook you something out of this world!"🔆💙

[yzeltia]

Lemon Muffins

[askganon]

Pardon this request, my lord, but could you make monsters a little more . . . Culinaraly appetizing? Aside from monster extract and dark clumps, they're not very appetizing.

It would be very much appreciated!

They are an acquired taste. If you cannot acquire it, perhaps your palate is not as refined as you would claim.

[lazodiac]

FINAL FANTASY XIV CULINARY CLEAR PARTY: Papanashi

Papanashi, aka Papanași, aka Stormblood era healer food. Marked as medium difficulty, though given the use of boiling oil in the cooking I can see this one being intimidating. It also involves ricotta cheese, and optionally rum, which are fairly acquired tastes.

That said, as a lover of fried baked goods (and because the sweet sauce and the jam was a nice red/white combo for Christmas) I decided to make this the first thing I cooked from the book. With that said, lets begin!

First things first, a confession- I didn't make the jam myself. I used a jar of jam because, as said above, I was making this as a Christmas dinner dessert with my family, was misinformed of the date people would be coming over, and I needed to get it done while everyone was eating dinner so, no time to really make the jam. I also didn't use rum.

That said! A very easy recipe to prepare. The sour cream sauce came together perfectly, and tasted deliciously sweet with just a zap of lemon to it that really tied it all together. The dough itself was initially fairly chunky, and did not seem to come together right, in a way that can intimidate newer culinarians or those with high anxiety (me). Diligence and trusting the strat helps here, it'll come together, it just takes a bit.

I did successfully make 8 of them, as the yield said I would, though I believe I maaay have made them a bit too big. I'd probably have been able to make more if I'd reduced the size, or made the hole in the middle bigger, but ultimately I think this was the best.

Then, came the deep-frying. So, some word of advice for you culinarians out there; make sure you have metal tongs to use in deep frying BEFORE you have a pot of boiling oil with doughnuts frying in them. I could have swore we did but OOPS, only plastic, so I had to end up flipping these bad-boys with a fork. Not ideal.

I also... probably almost caused myself severe injury because I used the pot we use for vegetable steaming to hold the oil. A pot that is thinner than regular pots. It's unlikely it would have broken the pot and poured boiling oil all over the oven and me, but it was a concern in the aftermath of things! Additionally, to avoid allergies for my aunt I used vegetable oil instead of peanut oil- this gives the resulting doughnut a darker crust, but does not overly impact the cooking.

All these completely normal mistakes aside, stay careful and cautious. Deep-frying is a scary thing, and while it is dangerous it's easier than you think. Stay cool and calm, and keep some water nearby (for you, not the oil if it starts catching on fire!). They'll flip easy, especially with the correct tool, and will form quite well in the oil, though note they will puff up a bit so only fry two at a time.

Finally, the serving. Due to the size I made mine, they were... quite a bit rounder than the recipe anticipated. This did provide some level of difficulty with the plating, and eating, but is not detrimental to the dish/

This meal had the most tasters I'm likely to have, since it was a Christmas party. All involved were not told what it was beyond "a deep-fried desert" because I felt the sour cream sauce might initially put them off of it.

The end result? Extreme success from all eaters- my mother and sister are not one for eating for various reasons, and both quickly ate it and wished they could have more. My aunt's son, who is the pickiest eater on the planet (and a wildly refined palette, he prefers shrimp to hot-dogs) loved it. My dad, who hates lemon, enjoyed it despite the lemony zing to the sauce.

I would strongly recommend this dish, though will note that it's likely a little expensive. You basically use an entire container of ricotta cheese for this, and that stuff isn't necessarily cheap. That said, everything else is fairly cheap, and if you're willing to tango with the liquid that hates you, give it a shot. You won't regret it, until you realize you want more and have to make more yourself.

[finalfartasy]

Madclaw and Iskra, me and my beloved’s shared ocs! (@khajiitclaws )

Madclaw is a pirate, she was once a prisoner of the Garlean Empire after they invaded Bozja, after escaping with other prisoners she began her journey of sinking as many Garlean ships as she could and using the scraps to improve her own vessel. After the events of endwalker, however, she essentially lost her purpose in life. Her crew disbanded, and she was left alone with the ship and wealth she accumulated with no ambition.

Soon after she meets Iskra.

Iskra is a culinarian from Limsa Lominsa. Her family fled shortly before the Bozja crisis, and so she led a fairly normal life in Eorzea.

Upon Iskra meeting the aimless depressed Captain, she offered to be her personal chef in exchange for Madclaw taking her on a culinary trip across the world with her ship.

They very quickly fell in love…

[burgeaux]

Would you trust him to make you a good meal...

[shionxion]

Look at these outfits! I need them! 👀💦

Is it bad that I'm much more excited to get my hands on the crafters and gatherers level 100 gear sets than I am with the DoM and DoW gear sets? Can't wait for next month.

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[siblings-of-light]

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There's no length we wouldn't go to, no risk we wouldn't take, no line we wouldn't cross . . . as long as it means Dora's cooking.

--Chalcedony