Lany Freelove Cassandra Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Today we started talkimg about sharing recipes. At first I thought the subject was going to be about recreating the food from ASOIAF and was disappointed that it wasn't. I don't like to be disappointed, so I am going to do this. I actually have a lot of experience cooking medieval recipes, to include redacting and modernizing them (SCA cooks guild). What I don't have time for is searching the books trying to find the descriptions of the feasts. So if anyone knows the references I would appreciate you sharing them. I will post all the recipes I come up with. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_BlauerDragon Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 :bow: I'll start going through and looking for recipes tonight. I don't have my physical books unpacked, so I'll have to give you chapters and page numbers from my electronic versions. I'll come find this thread and post anything that I've located tomorrow. P.S. If you could PM me some generally good medieval recipes, I'd appreciate that! :drool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lany Freelove Cassandra Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 [quote name='the Blauer Dragon' post='1715683' date='Mar 10 2009, 21.16']:bow: I'll start going through and looking for recipes tonight. I don't have my physical books unpacked, so I'll have to give you chapters and page numbers from my electronic versions. I'll come find this thread and post anything that I've located tomorrow. P.S. If you could PM me some generally good medieval recipes, I'd appreciate that! :drool:[/quote] what do you like? Roast meats; veggies; stews? Any regional stuff? desserts? breads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean of Notions Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I recently made lemon cake that turned out pretty good. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
israfel070 Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Mmmm! Recreating George's food-porn will be quite a challenge. Here's the food descriptions from the feasts in book 1. Robert's welcoming feast: Honeyed chicken, summerwine, roasted onion dripping brown with gravy, spiced wine, wild boar Dany's wedding: Horseflesh roasted with honey and peppers, fermented mare’s milk, fine wines, steaming joints of meat and thick black sausages and Dothraki blood pies, fruits, sweetgrass stews, delicate pastries, honeyed wine Hand's Tourney: Six monstrous huge aurochs had been roasting for hours, turning slowly on wooden spits while kitchen boys basted them with butter and herbs until the meat crackled and spit. Tables and benches had been raised outside the pavilions, piled high with sweetgrass and strawberries and fresh-baked bread. iced summerwine, a thick soup of barley and venison, salads of sweetgrass and spinach and plums, sprinkled with crushed nuts. Snails in honey and garlic. trout fresh from the river baked in clay, sweetbreads, pigeon pie, baked apples fragrant with cinnamon, lemon cakes frosted in sugar NW "graduation" feast: rack of lamb baked in a crust of garlic and herbs garnished with sprigs of mint, mashed yellow turnips swimming in butter, salads of spinach and chickpeas and turnip greens, and bowls of iced blueberries and sweet cream. Drogo's Vaes Dothrak welcoming feast: meat and curdled, fermented mare’s milk, joints of meat, platters piled high with plums and dates and pomegranates, blood pie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentsister Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 yumm---gotta have my lemon cakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean of Notions Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Dornish food is a bit Mediterranean and Middle Eastern. They use hummus and plenty of spices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjfshaw Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 speaking of medieval foods, i brew mead, its a very interesting drink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-ahrairah Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Here's a list I came up with for Joffrey's wedding feast in the "small questions" thread. [quote]So what exactly is in a Seventy-Seven Course Feast? Is it gastronomically possible? This is what I've found so far... * "The first dish was a creamy soup of mushrooms and buttered snails, served in gilded bowls." * "...a pstry coffyn, filled with pork, pine nuts, and eggs." What? Is that a typo? * "Sweetcorn fritters and hot oatbread baked with bits of date, apple and orange...the rib of a wild boar." * "Trout cooked in a crust of crushed almonds." * "Roast herons and cheese-and-onion pies." * "crabs boiled in firey eastern spices, trenchers filled with chunks of chopped mutton stewed in almond milk with carrots, raisins, and onions, and fish tarts fresh from the ovens..." * "...honeyginger partridge..." * "Peacocks were served whole in their plumage, roasted whole and stuffed with dates..." * "...bowls of blandissory, a mixture of beef broth sweetened with honey and dotted with blanched almonds and chunks of capon." What is Westeros is that? * "...buttered pease, chopped nuts, and slivers of swan poached in a sauce of saffron and peaches." * "...skewers of blood sausage..." * "Roundels of elk stuffed with bright blue cheese..." * "Leche of brown, stuffed with cinnamon, cloves, and almond milk..." And that? * And finally, hot spiced pigeon pie with lemon cream, Joffrey's bane. Only fourteen listed here.[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Time for Wolves Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 [quote name='Lany Cassandra' post='1715648' date='Mar 10 2009, 20.37']Today we started talkimg about sharing recipes. At first I thought the subject was going to be about recreating the food from ASOIAF and was disappointed that it wasn't. I don't like to be disappointed, so I am going to do this. I actually have a lot of experience cooking medieval recipes, to include redacting and modernizing them (SCA cooks guild). What I don't have time for is searching the books trying to find the descriptions of the feasts. So if anyone knows the references I would appreciate you sharing them. I will post all the recipes I come up with. :)[/quote] Lany, the Citadel has a [url="http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Concordance/Section/2.8./"]list[/url] of food in the books. You know, just recently my friend hosted a medieval party and we all dressed like knights, courtiers and ladies and brought medieval feast food. I was strongly reminded of all the gorgeous feast menus that GRRM writes, so I tried to recreate venison cooked with butter, apples and mushrooms...turned out to be an utter disaster! :P I really am not destined to be a cook. But luckily my neighbor's dog ate it and loved me, so at least I made someone happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_BlauerDragon Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 [quote name='Lany Cassandra' post='1715688' date='Mar 10 2009, 18.22']what do you like? Roast meats; veggies; stews? Any regional stuff? desserts? breads?[/quote] I like roast meats and stews. Veggies are not food, we eat them to honor our food --- by garnishing our food with things that our food might have enjoyed eating. I like regional foods that are exceptionally hot and spicy. The rest is a bit complicated, because I cannot eat anything that contains wheat (gluten). Any suggestions? Oh, and I would greatly enjoy knowing how to make mine own mead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
israfel070 Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 [quote name='Capoeirista13' post='1715797' date='Mar 10 2009, 20.38']speaking of medieval foods, i brew mead, its a very interesting drink[/quote] I found a microbrew that specialized in 6 kinds of mead once... I liked the honey sagebrush Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lany Freelove Cassandra Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 Thanks everyone. I actually think I could do a lot of the things described, including the whole NW graduation feast. ummm, armored turnips. (a pastry coffyn is a pie with a top crust) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lany Freelove Cassandra Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 [quote name='Brienne of Tarth' post='1715880' date='Mar 11 2009, 01.19']Lany, the Citadel has a [url="http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/Concordance/Section/2.8./"]list[/url] of food in the books. You know, just recently my friend hosted a medieval party and we all dressed like knights, courtiers and ladies and brought medieval feast food. I was strongly reminded of all the gorgeous feast menus that GRRM writes, so I tried to recreate venison cooked with butter, apples and mushrooms...turned out to be an utter disaster! :P I really am not destined to be a cook. But luckily my neighbor's dog ate it and loved me, so at least I made someone happy.[/quote] That actually sounds good. I wish I had enough local friends to do this. (The DC BwB should do it) I really miss cooking for the SCA. I loved all the different foods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jondegi Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Food-porn? :rofl: That is the best way to put it!! I love the way GRRM describes food in the book. It always makes me hungry when reading. Mmm. The honeyed chicken sounds especially tantalizing to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lany Freelove Cassandra Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 [quote name='jondegi' post='1716348' date='Mar 11 2009, 13.36']Food-porn? :rofl: That is the best way to put it!! I love the way GRRM describes food in the book. It always makes me hungry when reading. Mmm. The honeyed chicken sounds especially tantalizing to me.[/quote] I have an awesome honey chicken recipe...it is Saxon in origin...kind of what I think the north would eat...Saxon/Viking type food. I did a whole feast for 120 people once based on this type of food. There were some great dishes in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aplomb Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 The inherent danger in recreating ASOIAF food is that it might lead to the consumption of [i]lampreys. :sick: [/i] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solmyr Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Even though I am eating at that very moment, my mouth waters just by reading the descriptions ... damn, normal food is so tasteless and inexquisite. What makes it even worse is knowing that someone, somewhere can cook and eat those dishes ;/ ... but ye, at least someone's enjoying them :). Lany Cassandra if you cook any of those please take a few pictures of the dishes and post them here :]. Half the joy of the food comes from looking at it. P.S. Forgot to mention - I'd rather see roasted meat with as many different spices as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lany Freelove Cassandra Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 [quote name='Solmyr' post='1716589' date='Mar 11 2009, 17.41']Even though I am eating at that very moment, my mouth waters just by reading the descriptions ... damn, normal food is so tasteless and inexquisite. What makes it even worse is knowing that someone, somewhere can cook and eat those dishes ;/ ... but ye, at least someone's enjoying them :). Lany Cassandra if you cook any of those please take a few pictures of the dishes and post them here :]. Half the joy of the food comes from looking at it. P.S. Forgot to mention - I'd rather see roasted meat with as many different spices as possible.[/quote] I will post any pics. I have done quite a few of dishes that are similar. It is one of my favorite hobbies. I love the unusual spices on the meats and veggies (makes the veggies edible ;) ) Pop over to Forum games and see the ASOIAF Board Dinner Party. I have posted an Islamic chicken dish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jondegi Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 [quote name='Lany Cassandra' post='1716373' date='Mar 11 2009, 11.11']I have an awesome honey chicken recipe...it is Saxon in origin...kind of what I think the north would eat...Saxon/Viking type food. I did a whole feast for 120 people once based on this type of food. There were some great dishes in it.[/quote] Is it possible for me to get a copy of this recipe? I totally understand if you don't want share your secrets, though, so no pressure. ;) Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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