This project for me was all about my relationship with food. As I bought the items in which I needed in order to make some soup and cornbread, I thought about how I make my living from food. As I was shopping at my grocery store which is also my place of employment. I bought some of the things that I needed on clearance, but there wasn't a price on these items; so I needed to get a price for the items from the grocery manager. The manager had given me the items for 25 cents each. This made me begin to appreciate the people that I work with and the ease in which I am able to obtain the food that I need for the winter season. My next thought was the contrast of the former line of thinking. I began thinking about the amount of time and preparation that it would take in order to feed myself thought the winter. I imagined having to work my land in order to grow, process, and then store the food and seeds for the winter months. I began thinking about my relationship with food in other ways, such as how I go through cycles of eating that range from being mindful about the way and things in which I chose to eat, to emotionally eating and not caring about what I am eating.
I made some cornbread and cabbage soup and harvested some mint in which I put up later for some special tea. I began thinking of how the experience reminded me of playing Skyrim, specifically cooking with the recipes in the game. Doing this assignment and preparing for and thinking about the winter makes me feel like my life in Alaska will be like a real-life Skyrim adventure. And this lead me to looking up Real-Life Skyrim recipes and wanting to assemble them all and create a Skyrim cookbook for myself. This is a scientific method and so I will continue to add and improve upon this as I come across new recipes. I would like to make and eat them all! Well, maybe not all of them.
Skyrim Food Recipes
Venison Chop
Salt Pile
Venison
Venison Stew
Leek
Potato
Salt Pile
Venison
Horker Stew
Garlic
Horker meat
Lavender
Tomato
Tomato Soup
Leek
Salt Pile
Tomato
Tomato Soup *1
2 large Leeks (3 small)
1 TB Butter
2 cups Broth of Vegetables
1 pound Tomatoes (pureed)
1 TB Garlic
1/4 tsp from Salt Pile
1 tsp Basil
1 tsp Black Pepper
- Melt the butter in a large stock pot. Add the diced leeks and saute for 15 minutes. Add in the basil and garlic and continue to cook for 5 more minutes.
- Add in the vegetable stock and tomato puree. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Simmer over medium heat for 20 minutes.
Vegetable Soup
Cabbage
Leek
Potato
Tomato
Cabbage Potato Soup
Cabbage
Potato
Leek
Salt Pile
Beef Stew
Carrot
Raw Beef
Garlic,
Salt pile
Cooked Beef
Salt Pile
Raw Beef
Grilled Chicken Breast
Chicken Breast
Salt Pile
Horker Loaf
Horker meat
Salt Pile
Horse Haunch
Horse meat
Salt Pile
Leg of Goat Roast
Leg of Goat
Salt Pile
Mammoth Steak
Mammoth Snout
Salt Pile
Pheasant Roast
Pheasant breast
Salt Pile
Rabbit Haunch
Rabbit leg,
Salt Pile
Salmon Steak
Salmon meat,
Salt Pile
Elsweyr Fondue
Ale
Eidar Cheese Wheel
One Moon Sugar
Elsweyr Fondue*1
What you will need: A fondue pot/a heavy pot and a grater.
Ingredients:
200ml / 1 Cup Ale
110g / 1 Cup Mature Gruyère (Grated)
110g / 1 Cup Emmental (Grated)
1 Tablespoon Flour
¼ Teaspoon Nutmeg
1 Teaspoon Sugar
If you have a fondue pot with a heater than use that. If not – you can also use a heavy pot to melt your ingredients.
In the pot heat the Ale on a medium heat – do NOT allow it to boil.
Mix the grated cheeses with the flour until it is lightly coated. Add the cheese a little at a time to the ale, stirring gently. Reduce heat to low.
Once the cheese has melted, add the nutmeg and sugar and mix gently. Grate over a little more fresh nutmeg and serve.
Apple Cabbage Stew
Salt Pile,
Red Apple
Cabbage
Apple Cabbage Stew *3
3 or 4 Sweet Apples, like Honeycrisp or Red Delicious
2 lb Salt-Cured Sauerkraut, Canned sauerkraut won't do. Get the naturally cured stuff in the refrigerator section at the store made with Cabbage and Salt.
4 Cups Apple Juice or Apple Cider, The sweeter, the better; you're not going to add any sugar.
Salt to taste
Empty the sauerkraut into a strainer, rinse and drain well. Squeeze out extra moisture with your hands.
Dice all but one of the apples
Add the drained sauerkraut, apple juice and diced apples to a large pot and simmer over low heat for 3.5 hours
Dice the final apple and add it to the stew
Simmer another 30 minutes or until the stew is a nice dark golden color.
Salt to taste
Cabbage Potato Soup
Potato
Salt Pile
Leek
Cabbage
Cabbage Soup
Salt Pile,
Cabbage
Clam Chowder
Clam Meat,
Potato,
Jug of Milk
Butter
Leg of Goat Roast
Salt Pile
Leg of Goat
Potato Soup
Salt Pile
Potato
Grilled Leeks*1
What you will need: A pot, a bowl, and a griddle pan.
Ingredients:
Leeks
Olive Oil
Salt & Pepper
1 Clove Garlic
Slice the leeks vertically in half and wash thoroughly in cool water. Pop the halved leeks in a large pot of water and bring to the boil. Cook for 4 minutes or until cooked about half way through, then drain and instantly submerge the leeks in a bowl of ice cold water to stop them from cooking any further.
Dry the leeks in some paper towels then season with a little olive oil, salt and pepper and garlic. Warm a griddle pan on a medium heat.
Lay a few leeks at a time, open side down on the pan. Try to keep them intact so they still have their shape. Turn them gently every few minutes to prevent from burning. Once cooked, lay on a plate or tray to serve.
Skyrim:Baking Recipes
Apple Dumpling
Sack of Flour
Green Apple
Red Apple
Salt Pile
Apple Pie
Sack of Flour
Butter
Chicken's Egg
Green Apple
Red Apple
Salt Pile
Braided Bread
Sack of Flour
Salt Pile
Bread
Jug of Milk
Sack of Flour
Chicken's Egg
Chicken Dumpling
Chicken Breast
Garlic
Leek
Garlic Bread
Garlic
Butter
Bread
Jazbay Crostata
Jazbay Grapes
Sack of Flour
Juniper Berry Crostata
Juniper Berries
Sack of Flour
Moon Sugar
Lavender Dumpling
Sack of Flour
Snowberries
Lavender
Salt Pile
Potato Bread
Jug of Milk
Sack of Flour
Potato
Chicken's Egg
Snowberry Crostata
Snowberries
Sack of Flour
Salt Pile
Sweet Roll *2
Ingredients:
For the cake:
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 egg
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 tsp. baking powder
pinch of salt
2 tbs. cinnamon
1/4 cup butter, melted
For the filling:
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 Tbsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped pecans
For the icing:
1/4 cup cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons milk
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Directions:
This recipe makes two sweet rolls. Depending on how many oven-safe measuring cups you have, you can either make one at a time or both at once. Preheat oven to 350. Mix dry cake ingredients together. Separately, mix wet cake ingredients together. Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Spray your oven-safe glass measuring cup with non-stick cooking spray. Add your batter to the measuring cup to the 1 cup or the 1 1/2 cup line, depending on how tall you want it. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 30 minutes or until your can stick in a knife and it comes out clean. Remove measuring cup from the oven. Let the cake cool. Once cake is cool, remove it from the measuring cup carefully so it does not break. The cake is going to be upside down (so the wider part is at the bottom) and may be awkwardly rounded on the bottom side. To fix this, simply cut off the rounded bottom with a knife to make it level. Set the cake down with the wider leveled side on the bottom. Use a spoon or fork to carve a hole at the top of the cake, this is where you will put the filling. To make the filling mix together the butter, pecans, cinnamon and brown sugar. Stuff the mixture into the hole you created. For the icing, whisk together the softened cream cheese, powdered sugar and milk until smooth and thick. Gently pour the icing on top of the cake. Serve or have it all to yourself! Remember, in Skyrim, stealing a sweetroll is punishable by a night in jail.
Moon Sugar *3
1 cup vanilla, vanilla-cardamom, or lavender sugar (use standard white sugar only)
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1 Tbsp sumac (for the Secunda version only)
Vegetable oil (a flavorless oil like canola) or vegetable shortening
1-2 Tbsp powdered sugar
Oil or grease a jelly roll pan. Mix the flavored sugar and corn syrup in a microwave-safe bowl.
Cover tightly with plastic wrap and microwave for 3 minutes. Remove from microwave and stir. Cover again and microwave for another 2 minutes. Add the sumac at this point, if you're making the Secunda version.
WARNING: SUGAR WILL BE EXTREMELY HOT!!! Remove from microwave, remove plastic wrap, and pour mixture onto oiled/greased jelly roll pan.
Let cool until hard. Break into large chunks. Put the large chunks into a heavy-duty freezer bag, seal, and break them by tapping firmly with the side of a wooden spoon. Add powdered sugar to the bag and shake to coat pieces.
Store in an airtight container.
Work Cited
https://segmentnext.com/2011/11/25/skyrim-cooking-guide-food-recipes/
http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Cooking
https://headbugz.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/real-life-skyrim-recipes/ *1
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Baking
http://www.geekychef.com/2012/01/sweetroll.html *2
http://feastygeeks.blogspot.de/2012/07/skyrim-food-apple-cabbage-stew.html *3