What ESO Recipes Could/Should I Make in Real Life?

UrQuan · September 2015

OK, a side conversation about pumpkin rabbit pie in this thread brought this up.

For a while I've considered trying to make a Tamriel-themed feast including only dishes based on recipes found in ESO. Naturally, this would be to serve to my real life friends who play/have played ESO.

So I'm asking the forums community, what recipes do you think would be the best for me to try to make? I'm looking for ones that don't require ingredients that are unobtainable outside of Tamriel, and ones that actually sound like they could be kind of tasty, while still being a bit unusual.

So what are your suggestions?

BeatnikChef · September 2015

I'm a chef with over 20yrs experience and some of them catch my eye. I want to know if they hired a chef to consul them and are they hiring?

Nestor · September 2015

There are so many. I see recipes all the time and think, I should make that. Of course Mammoth Snout Pie might not be one. But, make it with Braised Oxtails (Oso Busco anyone) and that would just be yummy.

For this thread, use this list, it may have all the recipes, but there are enough to chew on. Get it? Chew on. I crack me up

http://tamrieljournal.com/eso-provisioning-recipe-master-list/

UrQuan · September 2015

BeatnikChef wrote: »

I'm a chef with over 20yrs experience and some of them catch my eye. I want to know if they hired a chef to consul them and are they hiring?

Some of them sound good for sure, but at the same time some of the ones that sound good also sound a little too ordinary. Like the Nibenese Garlic Carrots - I mean that just sounds like something I'd make as a side dish without even thinking of ESO. But then some of the more off-the-wall ones sound like they could be terrible... I mean I'm just not sure how I'd feel about the Chicken-and-Banana Fried Rice

Egonieser · September 2015

Rye in you Eye, obviously. Why should it be anything else?

Gidorick · September 2015

LOL. I have wondered the same thing about Alchemy potions. Finding the real-world equivalent plants and conjuring up a potion to see what it would do... probably just make me horribly ill.

I think you should make Telvanni Tea

ESO Ingredients:

Lotus
Acai Berry
Honey

Real world Ingredients:

Lotus
Elderberry
Honey

Sweetroll

Banana
Corn
Seasoning

So.. banana corn muffins?
http://www.food.com/recipe/banana-corn-muffins-133710

As geeky as it sounds, a ESOCon (complete with a feast) sounds terribly fun. lol.

BaldusMageezack · September 2015

Sweetrolls!

Gidorick · September 2015

Suddenly I want a series of cookbooks professionally printed and illustrated. One from each of the 10 cultures of ESO.

Rosveen · September 2015

Pumpin cheesecake. Because cheesecake. And baked bananas with cinnamon.

Wait, you wanted actual food, not a snack. How about grape-glazed bantam guar chicken? Or one of those grape leaves dishes. Tomato borsch, just because we never eat it with tomatoes here and I'm curious how it would taste. For drinks I'd love to try one of Talen-Jei's recipes, but I'm not sure if using nightshade would be wise...

Auricle · September 2015

Firstly, this is an awesome idea. These are the options I would think were most do-able/fun:

Appetizers

Savoury-Sweet Fried Kale
Mudcrab Corn Fritters (faux crab meat if you're on a budget)
Coldharbour Daedrat Snacks (obviously, use bacon instead of undead mice, because... taste reasons)
Alik'r Beets With Goats Cheese

Entrees

Mother Mara's Savoury Rabbit Stew with slices of Savoury Thorn Cornbread
House Hlaalu Pumpkin Risotto, topped with Caramelized Goat Nibblets
Stros M'Kai Grilled Seagull with a side of Pickled Carrot Slurry (chicken instead of seagull, perhaps)
The Skald King's Patty Melt with Necrom Beetle Cheese Poutine

Dessert

Fresh Apples and Eidar Cheese
Rimmen Raisin Cookies with Cinnamon Grape Jelly
Bananas In Moon-Sugar Syrup
Skyrim Jazbay Crostata

and, obviously,

Sweetrolls

... Wow. I'm suddenly starving. *runs off to the kitchen*

Xendyn · September 2015

Whiterun Cheese Baked Trout

because I've always been curious if that would even taste good lol

Elinhir Roast Antelope

because I want to see if you can find any Antelope to use

And you must send me a portion of everything.

RAGUNAnoOne · September 2015

apple baked fish. Melon radish salad and if you are brave, anything Argonian then again the stuff will taste horrible and make your guests sick.

UrQuan · September 2015

Hmm, OK so far here are the suggestions I like the sound of the most (in no particular order):
Sweetrolls (because of course)
Telvanni Tea (actually sounds quite refreshing)
Tomato Borscht (I'm picturing normal borscht, but with the liquid thick like tomato soup instead of thin like normal)
Savory-Sweet Fried Kale (lightly fried kale with a garlic-grape glaze I guess?)
Alik'r Beets with Goat Cheese (sounds a lot like a beet salad I had in Vegas actually)
House Hlaalu Pumpkin Risotto (a pumpkin risotto just sounds good)
Caramelized Goat Nibbles (assuming I can find fresh goat - I've only ever seen frozen goat in stores around here)
Bananas in Moon Sugar Syrup (maybe add a bunch of brandy to it to make normal sugar into moon sugar?)

Oh, and I forgot to mention, I won't be doing any seafood dishes because, frankly, I'm not a big fan of 95% of seafood (people make fun of me because I live in a city known for seafood and sushi, but I avoid it all).

Gidorick · September 2015

Auricle wrote: »

Coldharbour Daedrat Snacks (obviously, use bacon instead of undead mice, because... taste reasons)

you can't replace a rat with pig! How about Nutria? Keep it in the rodent line.

$30 for 16 oz... ships to your door... what do you say?

http://www.exoticmeatmarkets.com/nutriameat.html

UrQuan · September 2015

Gidorick wrote: »

Auricle wrote: »

Coldharbour Daedrat Snacks (obviously, use bacon instead of undead mice, because... taste reasons)

you can't replace a rat with pig! How about Nutria? Keep it in the rodent line.

$30 for 16 oz... ships to your door... what do you say?

http://www.exoticmeatmarkets.com/nutriameat.html

Holy shamoley, they actually deliver to Canada! Well dang, I might actually do that... I was just talking with someone the other day about how I'd like to try nutria...

Gidorick · September 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

Auricle wrote: »

Coldharbour Daedrat Snacks (obviously, use bacon instead of undead mice, because... taste reasons)

you can't replace a rat with pig! How about Nutria? Keep it in the rodent line.

$30 for 16 oz... ships to your door... what do you say?

http://www.exoticmeatmarkets.com/nutriameat.html

Holy shamoley, they actually deliver to Canada! Well dang, I might actually do that... I was just talking with someone the other day about how I'd like to try nutria...

Cool deal... So it looks like maybe that should be some sort of meat-pie:

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Maybe you could make little mini muffin meat pies... stretch that meat out!

Recipe is

Small Game (daedrat)
Apples
Garlic

So, pretty much Garlic apple sausage rolls. Just replace the sausage with Nutria!
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/6821/garlic-and-apple-sausage-rolls.aspx

Asherons_Call · September 2015

Roast pig - BACON!

Auricle · September 2015

Gidorick wrote: »

Auricle wrote: »

Coldharbour Daedrat Snacks (obviously, use bacon instead of undead mice, because... taste reasons)

you can't replace a rat with pig! How about Nutria? Keep it in the rodent line.

$30 for 16 oz... ships to your door... what do you say?

http://www.exoticmeatmarkets.com/nutriameat.html

I love this idea! You could totally use beaver meat as well. I know it sounds weird, but beaver is pretty tasty.

@UrQuan , you're going to post the results of this experiment, right?

Valrien · September 2015

Khajitti Sweet-Stuffed Duck?

btw, you should take a pic of the feast and post it here so we can all see what you made

Osteos · September 2015

aww no wiggles-in-gut

jackiemanuel · September 2015

Great thread!

UrQuan · September 2015

Auricle wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

Auricle wrote: »

Coldharbour Daedrat Snacks (obviously, use bacon instead of undead mice, because... taste reasons)

you can't replace a rat with pig! How about Nutria? Keep it in the rodent line.

$30 for 16 oz... ships to your door... what do you say?

http://www.exoticmeatmarkets.com/nutriameat.html

I love this idea! You could totally use beaver meat as well. I know it sounds weird, but beaver is pretty tasty.

But... but... the beaver is an official emblem of my country... I can't cook beaver meat! That would be like an American cooking bald eagle!

Auricle wrote: »

@UrQuan , you're going to post the results of this experiment, right?

If and when I do this (and I'm pretty sure it's when I do this, not if I do this) I'll be sure to post pics

UrQuan · September 2015

paleobonesb14_ESO wrote: »

aww no wiggles-in-gut

Blech, no. I had a teacher in high school who used to eat worms and maggots though...

Osteos · September 2015

I'm trying to remember all the disgusting ones we used to have. Rodent muffins, worm-tarts, maggot haggis..

Shimmer · September 2015

Fishy Sticks!

Rosveen · September 2015

My dad used to breed nutria. The meat is allegedly pretty tasty, but I have no clue how it compares to rat meat - and I don't care to find out.

It's a shame there aren't any pigeon recipes.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · September 2015

I'm partial to venison so I'm going to recommend doing some of those recipes, if you have access to it. (I will note if you're not used to cooking it to practice a little; it doesn't have the fat content of beef so be careful not to overcook it.)

Rosveen wrote: »

Pumpin cheesecake. Because cheesecake.

Cheesecake Factory makes that around US Thanksgiving; it's really good!

Egonieser wrote: »

Rye in you Eye, obviously. Why should it be anything else?

*shameless plug* I'm still looking for a Moon Sugar substitute for the Two-Moon Cordial if you have suggestions (brown sugar failed miserably).

Gidorick · September 2015

paleobonesb14_ESO wrote: »

I'm trying to remember all the disgusting ones we used to have. Rodent muffins, worm-tarts, maggot haggis..

Maggot Haggis:

Plump Maggots
Milled Flour
Red Wheat

Real world counterpart? Mealworm stuffing!
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/13586/sausage-stuffing/
Just replace the sausage with Mealworms.

Maybe Mealworm Haggis?
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2015/jan/22/how-to-cook-perfect-vegetarian-haggis
Just add mealworms to this Vegetarian Haggis.

UrQuan · September 2015

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

I'm partial to venison so I'm going to recommend doing some of those recipes, if you have access to it. (I will note if you're not used to cooking it to practice a little; it doesn't have the fat content of beef so be careful not to overcook it.)

I can get venison in my neck of the woods, so I was thinking about some of those recipes myself... I've never cooked with it before, but I've seen enough people screw it up on cooking shows that I know I need to be careful not to overcook it

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

*shameless plug* I'm still looking for a Moon Sugar substitute for the Two-Moon Cordial if you have suggestions (brown sugar failed miserably).

I was thinking of trying to simulate moon sugar by combining brown sugar and brandy...

Auricle · September 2015

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

*shameless plug* I'm still looking for a Moon Sugar substitute for the Two-Moon Cordial if you have suggestions (brown sugar failed miserably).

Feasty Geeks has an answer for you, sir.

Asherons_Call · September 2015

Moon sugar substitute? That would be cocaine son. I'm Rick James b****!!!