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!