So this might be the best thing that you’ve ever eaten. It’s certainly the best way you’ve ever had blueberries. Trust me. I’m not really a big blueberry fan, but this was amazing. It’s possible it’s a texture thing, because I enjoyed blueberries frozen. You know how kids like frozen peas? It’s like that. The flavor and sweetness intensifies. Only better because blueberries are a fruit and peas are a vegetable. Add the sweat cream and you have something divine. There are two versions in the cookbook. One only uses egg whites and the more time consuming recipe uses egg yolks too. Both are good, the one with egg yolks is better.
I’m only a somewhat adventures eater. I’ll try things I haven’t eaten before, but generally not something too exotic. Enter A Feast of Ice and Fire, the companion cookbook to George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire (popularized as A Game of Thrones by the HBO television series). When considering different things to blog about, I thought “I like George R. R. Martin’s books; I like food; the TV show is really popular—what could be better than blogging about my experience making some of the food in the cookbook?”
I happened to have mushrooms and green onion from Friends & Farms (they are like a CSA, but more formal), so I started with Cream of Mushroom and Snail Soup. It turned out pretty good. Mushrooms really aren’t my favorite thing to eat, mainly because of a psychological prejudice against fungus. Apparently I have a similar prejudice against eating things that I think of as slimy. Still, the soup was good, very earthy flavored. I think there were a couple things I would change during my execution of the recipe that might make it even better.
Enjoy the gallery of photos I took while preparing this earthy meal worthy of a medieval table. I’m not here to give away well-researched recipes for free, but if you read the captions carefully, you can probably recreate. I recommend buying the cookbook. There are a lot of great recipes in it. Have a themed feast while you watch this season’s finale!
