Taters! Po-ta-toes! Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew! Or, in this case, fry them up into cheap, filling potato cakes! These tasty, pan-fried bites of potato goodness are perfect for soaking up gravy from your Steak and Ale Pie or Stewed Hare with Root Vegetables. The key […]
Month: September 2022
Rings of Power Menu Week 6: Traveling Food with a Trio of Hobbit Hand Pies
Welcome back to this week’s custom menu for the Fellowship of Fans weekly Rings of Power After Party! Every Thursday you can join the Discord at 10 pm EST/7 pm PST for a two hour long live-chat before the next episode! Then visit the Fellowship of Fans YouTube to join […]
How to Eat Like a Hobbit: Pork Hand Pies
There are dozens of different techniques for making classic rural English pork pies. They range from an involved, two-day long process rife with opportunities to injure yourself with hot, liquid fat to this fairly simple hand pie recipe for people who want to make up three batches of different pies […]
How to Eat Like a Hobbit: Roasted Apples
Roasted Apples are a great autumn period dessert on their own, but they’re even better as leftovers. You can use them as an ingredient in bread for tomorrow’s Elevenses, diced up to top tomorrow’s oatmeal porridge at First Breakfast, or even as a sauce for a nice pork chop. Don’t […]
Rings of Power Menu Week 5: One (Cheap) Meal to Rule Them All
One of my favorite bits of Tolkien Trivia is that he wrote so many lush descriptions of lavish meals while living under wartime rationing. This is no coincidence! Like all hungry men, he wrote a lot about food. Tolkien joked that it would be more realistic for dragons to appear […]
3 Weeks of Special Tolkien Themed Menus for Fellowship of Fans Watch Party
Crawl out of your cozy Hobbit Hole and join the Fellowship of Fans community for their weekly Rings of Power Watch Party! Your hosts Michael and Jennifer have put together an amazing fan experience with live guests, fan art, custom cocktails, and, of course FOOD! I’m delighted to be providing […]