@the-lady-general and @tamilhobbit my eye has landed on you both because i liked various things from each recipe.
Hobbit-Style Bloody Orc Stew
Ingredients:
500g mushrooms (my thralls brought back chestnut, portobello, and brown shimeji. don't bother chopping them just tear them with your hands. it's cathartic)
4 beetroot (cooked, or peel and stick them in the oven for 40 mins at 150 c)
30g butter (or substitue like i used, have you tried flora buttery? its so good?)
1 red onion, diced
6 baby potatoes, or chop up 3 bigger ones
½ bulb garlic
pepper 1/2 tsp
ground cumin 3 tbsp
cream Red wine
Thyme
Rosemary
Parsley
Instruction
First, and most importantly, pour yourself a generous glass of wine. You deserve it.
Put a chunk of butter on your potatoes, cover with cling film, stab a few holes and put in the microwave for 7 mins until fluffy and falling apart.
meanwhile,
Sweat your onions in the butter on medium-high heat.
Add the mushrooms, salt and pepper to taste, garlic, cumin, thyme, twig of rosemary, then stir it all together.
Cover and let simmer - the mushrooms are going to lose a lot of water when cooking
chop your beetroot into chunks. stick it in the stew
add red wine to your own taste
add potatoes and mush them in or let it simmer until they fall apart. if you're patient like that.
garnish with parsley
serve with bread or MEGA IRON tomato spinach puff pasty (i may be willing to share this recipe, if you all grovel enough) AND enough wine to make your lieutenant forget he's mad at you.
P.S the drunker you are by the time its done the better it tastes @tolkien-food-week
3 cups all purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup granulated sugar brown sugar (the darkest you can find)
3/4 cup butter or margarine (12 tablespoons or 1 1/2 sticks)
3/4 cup raisins or currants a big slab of your favourite chocolate
1 cup buttermilk 1/2 cup soya milk
2 punnets of blackberries/ cherries (i used both)
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 400° F
Combine dry ingredients; cut in butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
With a big cleaver, viciously hack your chocolate up into uneven chunks and stir in to the mix.
In an appropriate vessel (like a skeleton mug with a handblender or a an actual blender if you're boring) blend fruits and soya milk together into a gorgeously red smoothie then strain to get rid of seeds
Add milk slowly while stirring until a dough forms and clings together (you may not need the full amount of milk; buttermilk is thicker and you may need a little more.) Dough should hold together as a mass. It should be soft but not super sticky or wet (as long as it holds a shape it's fine)
Turn out onto a well-floured board. Pat or roll out to 1/2" thick.
Cut into rounds with a floured biscuit cutter or the rim of a glass.
Nevermind all that work. Pick up an amount that feels right and splat it down in a nice spikey blob until you're out of dough.
Place on greased baking tray or cake pan with sides almost touching.
Bake for 15-20 minutes until they're a little crisp on the peaks
Serve warm with butter and jam frozen rasberries/cherries/redberries for that real mountain chill. Makes 16-18. what it makes.
Enjoy this decadent treat and bask in your own glory.
