You Won’t Have Mush-room For Seconds - Minecraft: Gather, Cook, Eat! Official Cookbook
Tonight’s menu: sourced from the Official Minecraft Cookbook
Main Course: Mooshroom Burger, pg 55
Side Dish: Roasted Crops, pg 26
Full review under the cut!
Aurum Leuci’s Log:
[Begin recording.] Uh, hi. It’s Chef Aurum Leuci again, late… still. Are you sure you fixed the portal coordinates? Because this is NOT the culinary facility. Everything is cubes. I think I might actually be in a computer, because, uh.. when I say everything is cubes, I mean everything is cubes. I’m fine, and my gear is fine, and everything I make is fine, but I’m on an island full of giant pixelated-looking mushrooms, and pixelated… cow… things? With mushrooms growing on them.
…those could probably make a delicious meal, actually. Don’t worry about me, I’m going to see what I can cook up for some quick dinner. This weird new dimension might be a place worth exploring. As always, no need to worry. If I get into a sticky situation, I’ll jump dimensions again— but hopefully I’ll at least have time to eat.
If it’s good, I’ll be sure to bring some back to the lab for you. Aurum Leuci out. [End log.]
Please see this post for my full review scale!
Main Dish: Mooshroom Burger
RATING:
Difficulty: 5/5
Ingredients: 5/5
Immersion: 4/5
Time: 5/5
End Result: 4/5
TOTAL RATING: 23/25
I love this recipe, and so does my entire family. It’s a delicious swiss-and-mushroom burger that’s easily made completely plant-based using Impossible Beef and Daiya cheese- and it always turns out SO good! The reason this recipe isn’t quite perfect is twofold, so let me start with the somewhat sillier reason first: I WANT THIS BURGER IN MY GAME!!! Please!! We have the technology (bread, mushrooms, cooked beef). Give me the mooshroom burger, Mojang. Or at least a sandwich of some kind. The second point off is a matter of personal preference; the original recipe makes four absolutely MASSIVE burgers. Like, big enough that my family (all four of us) could barely finish them the first time I made this. I highly recommend cutting the recipe (and the resulting two, still massive, burgers) in half. Aside from that, this recipe was perfect (and delicious!) and very satisfying.
Side Dish: Roasted Crops
RATING:
Difficulty: 5/5
Ingredients: 5/5
Immersion: 5/5
Time: 4/5
End Result: 5/5
TOTAL RATING: 24/25
This recipe is another one I wish I could rate absolutely perfect. It’s easy, the ingredients are easy to get but relatively uncommon in most dishes, and the end result tastes incredible! This recipe made me love carrots, and it resulted in me even agreeing to TRY beets, which is a huge feat. The only point it loses is that the cookbook drastically underestimates prep time for cutting and peeling the vegetables. Especially if you’re not used to handling beets, they’re messy and will definitely freak you out at least once when the juice gets on your hands. Honestly, though, this cookbook was worth buying JUST for this recipe. It’s a consistent hit with my family.
Tune in next Wednesday (6/12/24) for another fandom cookbook review!
I love Minecraft, I love cooking, and I love talking about things, so here was my first adventure into my new cookbook! These pies are salmon on a bed of spinach all wrapped in puff pastry and labeled with a difficulty level of hard. I'd understand that difficulty being attributed to the assembly alone, but I am notoriously bad at pinching dough pouches together in any form from any culture. My pelmeni....I have to shudder.
Here's my experience:
First is combining the spinach, garlic, cream cheese, parmesan, and breadcrumbs over heat. This had me continuously asking "is this too much spinach? That's a lot of spinach," as the recipe calls for 6 cups of spinach. This is a lot of spinach. Leafy greens wilt down, yes, but it would later have to be wrapped up in pastry. Spoiler: it was a lot of spinach.
This probably would have been fine, but my pastry was bought frozen and folded, and those folds never really go away, damaging the integrity of the dough! This made wrapping hard, as the dough wanted to split wherever it had been folded. There was a lot of spinach to enclose but it worked out!
Portion wise, this recipe as written makes 4 pies. It would also depend on the size of your salmon filet, but for me, these were large. They looked much smaller in the book. (You gotta fit all that spinach in there, see.) I ended up with half a pie as a more comfortable portion size. It kind of falls apart, but I'm not picky about my food being really pretty. Besides, the X cut into the top was a really cute touch for the buried treasure theme. But how did it taste is the question...
This was delicious.
No really, it was amazing. The spinach was really flavorful and a show all on its own, which it should be because there was so much of it. I don't even mind all the spinach! The salmon was of course tasty and tender, and the pastry was crisp. The book says to fold the dough like a present, and the part where it folds in was a delightful little treat. All the components worked together fantastically, even if the spinach ended up being dominant in most bites. The flavor was a definite 10/10 from me.
Next up, I'll be talking about my experience making the Packed Mud Brownies!
More minecraft cookbook!!! On today's agenda; Suspicious Stew!!!
Honestly, super easy to make. I had a lot of fun with it and it turned out pretty good!!!! Although I think i added too many lentils.
I started absolutely sobbing multiple times when cutting the onions, to the point where I had to keep running and rinsing my eyes out because it was getting dangerous to hold the knife lmao. I give this a 7/10, just because I realized I'm not a big fan of lentils....
Feast Your Eyes: Fandom Cookbook Recipe Review #12
Suspiciously Good - Minecraft: Gather, Cook, Eat! Official Cookbook
Tonight’s menu: sourced from the Official Minecraft Cookbook
Main Course: Suspicious Stew
Drink: Slimeball Tea
Full review under the cut!
Please see this post for an in-depth explanation of my review criteria!
Main Dish: Suspicious Stew
RATING:
Difficulty: 5/5
Ingredients: 5/5
Immersion: 5/5
Time: 5/5
End Result: 5/5
TOTAL RATING: 25/25
This recipe was the reason I originally bought this book— I saw a review on YouTube and it looked so good that I impulse-bought the book that night. And it’s also my favorite recipe from this book so far. Because it absolutely, without fail, impresses. And it’s delicious. It’s a somewhat simple vegetable stew— the hardest part is just chopping all the vegetables. After that, it’s all just simmering for a long time. All the vegetables get tender, and it’s the kind of stew that fills you right up. There’s never any leftovers. :)
Drink: Slimeball Tea
RATING:
Difficulty: 5/5
Ingredients: 3/5
Immersion: 5/5
Time: 5/5
End Result: 2/5
TOTAL RATING: 20/25
This recipe… is really good in theory. You can’t really tell from the photo, since it kind of failed, but it’s SUPPOSED to be a matcha milk tea with boba at the bottom. The matcha was really pleasant (even if I consistently fail to froth matcha no matter what method I use) and would’ve made a nice boba tea. However, my tapioca/boba pearls didn’t become gel… which may have been my fault? The recipe said to follow the instructions on the package… and there were no instructions on the package… so I did my best to follow the instructions the recipe gave me. I intend to give it another shot later on down the line, and hopefully get it right. For now, the score will stay like this, though.
Tune in this Friday (8/9) for something new to this blog!
i’m going to be busy this summer, but mostly with trying to bring you guys some cool content and post more regularly.
over the entire summer, i’m going to be working on a second issue of Feast Your Eyes!, my culinary fantasy zine, mainly focused on Minecraft (that’s what I’m most into right now) but i’ll probably incorporate some other fandoms as well.
while i won’t post everything from the second issue of Feast Your Eyes to the blog (you’ll have to read the finished zine if you want recipes and articles), I will also be doing a series of fandom cookbook recipe reviews, which I plan to release twice a week!
i’ll also make an effort to post more fanart and other various neat stuff. but that starts next week!
this weekend i’m crashing and taking a long-needed rest. hope you’re all doing well! stay hydrated :)
favorite fandom cookbook i own? (just curious what you guys think!)
I finally got around to posting my new sweets!!! Going to try to start doing this weekly or whenever I try making something new!!!! Still very much learning through experience.
last week I made these cookies n cream fudge blocks from the minecraft cookbook lmao. it was supposed to look like this but it.. didnt? it still tasted good!!!! I would sub white chocolate for actual chocolate but whatever. the recipe is free online for some reason but i got it from the actual book.
This is how mine actually looked. Kinda fucked up, right? WRONG! It was delish and when it was cut up it was fine. Idk why it looks like the surface of the moon but hey. I liked it!! I'd give myself an 8/10!
