You Wonāt Have Mush-room For Seconds - Minecraft: Gather, Cook, Eat! Official Cookbook
Tonightās 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 Leuciās Log:
[Begin recording.] Uh, hi. Itās Chef Aurum Leuci again, lateā¦ 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. Iām fine, and my gear is fine, and everything I make is fine, but Iām on an island full of giant pixelated-looking mushrooms, and pixelatedā¦ cowā¦ things? With mushrooms growing on them.
ā¦those could probably make a delicious meal, actually. Donāt worry about me, Iām 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, Iāll jump dimensions againā but hopefully Iāll at least have time to eat.
If itās good, Iāll 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. Itās a delicious swiss-and-mushroom burger thatās easily made completely plant-based using Impossible Beef and Daiya cheese- and it always turns out SO good! The reason this recipe isnāt 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. Itās 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 youāre not used to handling beets, theyāre 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. Itās a consistent hit with my family.
Tune in next Wednesday (6/12/24) for another fandom cookbook review!
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Are These Smuggled Goods? - Star Wars: The Ultimate Cookbook
Suddenly finding themself employed on a high-class spaceship, our intrepid multiverse-traveling chef Aurum Leuci prepares a traditional dish from the fungal forest planet of Narquiā along with some questionably-sourced side dishes.
Tonightās menu: sourced from the Star Wars Ultimate Cookbook
Appetizer: Cantonican Cactus Bites, pg 163
Main Course: Narquois Rolls, pg 45
Dessert: Kullgroon Drops, pg 95
Full review under the cut!
Aurum Leuciās Log:
[Begin recording.] Hey, uh, Chef Aurum here. Sorry Iām late. I think I must have miscalibrated my dimensional portal generator, because I absolutely did NOT intend to wind up on a Neimoidian ship orbiting some random colony worldā Narq, I think?ā much less in a kitchen full of apparently-smuggled Kullgroon fruit and Cantonican vegetation. Luckily, I can handle myself in a kitchenā so letās hope for my sake the politicians on this ship donāt know their kitchen staff by name. I can at least make some kind of fancy dinner for them before I find a safe place to reactivate the portal. And besidesā I want to try that smuggled produce.
Iāll check in with you after the next jump, once itās safe. Aurum Leuci out. [End log.]
The Feast Your Eyes Recipe Rating Scale
In this series, Iāll be rating each recipe based on five factors, each of which can receive up to five points. These reviews will be written out-of-character, detailing my (AJ) opinions and experiences with the recipes detailed in the post. I eat almost entirely plant-based, so any substitutions related to animal products will be denoted in the descriptions of dishes. The rating scale is as follows:
Difficulty: How easy or hard was this recipe to follow? Harder recipes will score lower in this category, while easier recipes will score higher.
Ingredients: How easy or hard were ingredients to source? This category will be scored similarly to Difficulty, and any substitutions made will be denoted in the recipeās section.
Immersion: How well does this recipe fit the universe or world that itās from? High scores in this category mean high immersion, while low scores mean that itās not particularly immersive.
Time: How much time did this take? Recipes that take less time will score higher in this category.
End Result: With the recipe followed as closely as possible (according to my dietary restrictions/ingredient sourcing capability), how did the final dish turn out? Higher scores in this category denote a better final dish.
Side Dish: Cantonican Cactus Bites
RATING:
Difficulty: 5/5
Ingredients: 5/5
Immersion: 3/5
Time: 3/5
End Result: 3/5
TOTAL RATING: 19/25
I came into this recipe REALLY wanting to give it a perfect rating. I love roasted brussels sprouts, and really, really wanted to like this recipe. It was straightforward to prepare, you could buy the ingredients at any grocery store, and it seemed like it would turn out really tasty. I was willing to put aside the fact that itās just roasted brussels sprouts (not a terribly Star Wars-y dish) and was really hoping the taste would blow me away. Unfortunately, these turned out somewhat underwhelming. Despite following the recipe exactly, as you can see in the photo, these sprouts (and all of the tasty vegetables cooked with them, including fresh shallots and garlic) burned a little in the oven. This recipe definitely has potential- but as written in the cookbook, itās somewhat middling.
Main Course: Narquois Rolls
RATING:
Difficulty: 5/5
Ingredients: 3/5
Immersion: 5/5
Time: 5/5
End Result: 5/5
TOTAL RATING: 23/25
This recipe was AWESOME, and a hit with my family. It only loses points on the sad fact that I wasnāt able to source enoki mushrooms (the main ingredient of the dish) and had to substitute in a mix of other mushrooms. Having done some research on the planet of Narq (also known as Narqui?), I donāt think this was terribly immersion breaking, since itās a foresty, swampy planet withā¦ large fungal forests! I would love to make it again with actual enoki mushrooms to see how those would have affected the taste and textureā these were delicious.
Dessert: Kullgroon Drops
RATING:
Difficulty: 5/5
Ingredients: 5/5
Immersion: 5/5
Time: 5/5
End Result: 5/5
TOTAL RATING: A perfect 25/25!
I was really skeptical about this recipeā itās literally just frozen grapes and Jell-O dust. Surprisingly, this is my highest-rated dish from this review! Super easy, super quick (the only time sink is letting them freeze) and they come out delicious, chilly, and beautifully alien! Theyād be a believable find in a snow-covered environment like Kullgroon, and they were absolutely delicious.
Tune in this Friday (6/7/24) for another fandom cookbook review!
iām 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, iām going to be working on a second issue of Feast Your Eyes!, my culinary fantasy zine, mainly focused on Minecraft (thatās what Iām most into right now) but iāll probably incorporate some other fandoms as well.
while i wonāt post everything from the second issue of Feast Your Eyes to the blog (youāll 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!
iāll also make an effort to post more fanart and other various neat stuff. but that starts next week!
this weekend iām crashing and taking a long-needed rest. hope youāre all doing well! stay hydrated :)
favorite fandom cookbook i own? (just curious what you guys think!)
yet another week where iām buried in work. but itās fun work (mostly). i actually have a drawing for you today! another challenge from my survey class, heh. you guys are getting to see most of the zine before i even finish it. fine with me, though :)
this weekās drawing challenge was to draw a diagram of people who might be reading the subgenre youāre writing about (mine being culinary fantasy). iām keeping that orange glowy look going! itās kind of become part of the theme of the zine, to be honest. itās a very fun background to work on.
as for other stuff iāve been up to, i made the āel chipās fully loaded tortillasā from the fnaf cookbook for my family on friday. despite the mildly dubious name, it does make some really good nachos. that cookbook is surprisingly really well written/designed- as you can probably tell, iām a big fan of gamer/fantasy cookbooks and some are certainly better than others.
i still have some homework that needs doing, so iām gonna get going. hope you all had a good weekend. :)
