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bloodyrosemccoySo, you know how food in video games looks so dang good, to the point where you spend the first several days when you're playing Breath of the Wild making yourself mushroom omelets because they're so appetizing in the game? No? Just me? Okay. Well, that got me to toss some money to the Kickstarter for The Legend's Cookbook* back in the day, and damn if it wasn't a great investment. They have an excellent Mushroom Risotto recipe, and I've been messing with the culinary experiments they invite me on ever since.
And lately I tried their recipe for Glitched Ice Cream and I am hooked. I'm having a blast assembling ice cream cones and root beer floats and milkshakes and so forth. It's also fun to whip the stuff as it's freezing; no ice cream maker necessary!
Cooking experiments always get me researching the subject matter--the recipes or the ingredients or something. As a hobbit at heart, I'm a huge sucker for food anthropology. I like food, the science and the sensory stuff that goes with it. I like learning how people go about feeding themselves. And food manages to unjam writer's block when I get it. Add food to a scene and I can usually get things going again! So I'm entertaining myself lately with Ice Cream Facts, and delicious actual ice cream.
FUN FACT: In Mexico, ice cream was known as nieve, which means "snow." Men traditionally did the churning, and the men who did this were called neveros, which, given that vaquero (from vaca, "cow) translates to "cowboy," I like to interpret as "snowboys."
*They have a Majora's Mask-themed book too if you want that. Also, there's a Luigi's Mansion-inspired one! And one for just soup!
And lately I tried their recipe for Glitched Ice Cream and I am hooked. I'm having a blast assembling ice cream cones and root beer floats and milkshakes and so forth. It's also fun to whip the stuff as it's freezing; no ice cream maker necessary!
Cooking experiments always get me researching the subject matter--the recipes or the ingredients or something. As a hobbit at heart, I'm a huge sucker for food anthropology. I like food, the science and the sensory stuff that goes with it. I like learning how people go about feeding themselves. And food manages to unjam writer's block when I get it. Add food to a scene and I can usually get things going again! So I'm entertaining myself lately with Ice Cream Facts, and delicious actual ice cream.
FUN FACT: In Mexico, ice cream was known as nieve, which means "snow." Men traditionally did the churning, and the men who did this were called neveros, which, given that vaquero (from vaca, "cow) translates to "cowboy," I like to interpret as "snowboys."
*They have a Majora's Mask-themed book too if you want that. Also, there's a Luigi's Mansion-inspired one! And one for just soup!
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Date: 2023-10-15 02:34 am (UTC)