#tastesoftamriel

Barbed Hook Tavern

Our humble tavern offers delightful weekly specials for you to enjoy alongside our prime view of the Skywatch Docks!

Morndas

Blue Monkfish pie

Our signature Morndas special! Chunks of fresh, salted, and smoked Blue Monkfish in a white wine and herby tomato gravy. Served in a crisp, buttery pie crust.

Tirdas

Three-seaweed and lobster salad

A zesty and refreshing blend of three types of seaweed marinated in yuzu ponzu, topped with delicate grilled lobster slices and creamy sesame dressing.

Middas

Mudcrab fritters

Battered mudcrab meat and smoked roe blended with our secret house spice blend. Served atop fresh salad, with an airy cottage cheese and dill dip.

Turdas

Seafood noodle soup

Mixed fish, squid, and shellfish with seasonal vegetables, cooked til tender in a beautiful creamy prawn stock atop hearty handmade egg noodles.

Fredas

Smoked Thrassian Eel spring rolls

Thrassian Eel straight from the docks, smoked in-house over maple wood. Wrapped in rice paper rolls and lightly fried, and served on a bed of crisp salad with sriracha mayo dip.

Loredas

Cheese-stuffed mudcrab

Whole mudcrab baked with our Altmeri four-cheese blend, topped with garlic breadcrumbs and served in the shell with salsa verde.

Sundas

Barbed Hook surf and turf

Last week's @tastesoftamriel inspired recipe - with some delay in getting it posted, I was pretty knocked out on Sunday - was a bit more of a project! It's supposed to be leek, potato and Eidar cheese pasties with apple chutney, from the menu of the Four Shields. The crust is pie crust with sourdough discard , the apple chutney is taken from this (Danish) recipe with less chili and some peppercorns because it seemed more Skyrim adjacent, and the filling is just sauteed leeks with salt and pepper, cooked potatoes with a dollop of butter roughly mashed with a fork, and... well, shredded mozzarella because that was on hand. Finally remembered to add an egg wash too, because I had an egg white left from the dough. Baked it all at 180⁰C (convection) for... I want to say 25-30 minutes. Definitely one to repeat!

Hey everyone! In case you haven't checked it out yet, my Ko-Fi shop is live! I have removed my itch.io first edition recipe book, and you can get the second (way better and nicer) version here.

If you're not after anything in the shop but would like to help me out with a wee bit of mutual aid, you can help here. I have to take Skooma to the vet next month, pay for my medication, and now it looks like I will have to visit an endocrinologist too because my body clearly has it out for me 🙃 I only have enough left in my checking account to pay for my monthly bills next month before I have to dip into my moving fund, which I really don't want to have to do, so every penny helps.

I'm also open for fantasy menu commissions, so if you're after a snazzy little tavern menu for your own worldbuilding, I am available! And yes, I can even add irl ingredient substitutes if you'd like to make anything yourself! If you're interested, just shoot me a DM and let's bounce ideas, whether you're after something based on The Elder Scrolls or any other franchise I'd love to help yall out with your culinary worldbuilding 🖤

Anyway, have a great week everyone! Stay safe, eat well, be kind. ~Tal

Edit: for the new followers, this is Skooma, she says hi

I'd like to take a moment to thank all 12.2k+ of you who have made this blog an absolute joy to run over the years! Time really does fly when you're having fun!

Some exciting news for this year is that Talviel's Kitchen Volume 2 will be coming to PDF format very soon, with cover art by @moogaiashe 🖤 It will be available for download at my Ko-Fi and I'll be sure to let you all know when it's up and ready to go!

Also, that sick design you see above? That was designed by my good friend Lab13 Media, and will be coming in shirt form very soon. I'm currently in talks with getting these printed in Europe by a friend, as it will work out much cheaper with shipping out from Belgium than it is from Bali unfortunately. Better quality too! I'll let you all know when these are up for sale too :)

Anyway, thanks everyone for sticking around for all these years, it means the world (Mundus?) to me! Big love and thank you for nine bloody years of support!

Sizes range from XXS to 5XL, to be as inclusive as possible! All shirts are unisex and printed on black (sorry, no other colour options available)!

Each unisex shirt is printed to order on high quality black cotton in Belgium, and ships to over 200 countries. Please check the size chart before purchase to ensure that you have the right size; as shirts are printed on demand, we are unable to accept returns.

Get yours now here! All proceeds go towards my move to Germany fund!

GREAT NEWS! Test print was a success!

My mate says he'll probably enlarge the design a bit since the image is super high res. This is printed on a unisex size Large.