I swear, every time I see Russian-inspired foods in a book, I go out of my way to try to make it. I managed to do this same thing when reading Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale trilogy (although I think it's called the Winternight trilogy). So it's no surprise that when reading Crooked [...]
It's all about the Grishaverse this weekend, and as a commemoration of having absolutely binged the TV show of Shadow and Bone within a day, I figured I'd post about this lovely food I picked up from Matthias' wistful thinking! tl;dr (click on the semla recipe here) This was something different. If the demon Brekker [...]
I've been greatly neglecting many things, including this poor blog, but here I am, coming from the woodwork on this chilly--but lovely--Easter morn to talk about food that I ended up making out of the fiction I've been reading! So I finished Lore by Alexandra Bracken some days ago, and I would be remiss if [...]
Talk about taking a bake I normally do as a full pie and improvising upon it... tl;dr (click for the apple pie recipe) (click for the pie crust recipe) They had laid on a feast more befitting a festival than a midday meeting. There was stewed mutton with onions and ginger, stuffed eels in spiced [...]
So I realized that by attempting to make this dish, I've also inadvertently started my goal in trying to learn the five French sauces! Starting with bechamel, of course. tl;dr (click for the Lamb Moussaka recipe)* *Note: I've made drastic alterations with the filling as I've detailed below. "I cannot believe," Violet said, one hand [...]
