#English Cooking

[pagan-stitches]

We did Autumn Equinox dinner tonight as I was busy last night. I made the Cumberland sausage, apple and cider casserole and colcannon from the Michaelmas and Halloween chapters of Porters Seasonal Celebrations Cookbook.

Our oven isn’t working properly right now so I adapted the recipe for the sausage for the stove top. I doubled the liquid ingredients and at the end thickened it with cornstarch and it made a nice gravy.

[musingsofabooklover]

btw here's the actual seasonings that traditional english meat dishes tend to use: - butter (lots) - salt - black pepper - 1 to 2 herbs that match whatever the meat or fish is - gravy if you add these to your meat + veg / shepherd's pie / whatever it'll instantly taste british plus depending on the dish there might be vinegar, mustard, or some other kind of sauce

if a white english person makes you plain unseasoned meat that somehow doesn't include any of these or have them available it means they're on a diet (looking at my mum here) and if i went to their house i would add salt and butter at minimum to the finished dish before i started eating

[cynthiabertelsen]

"The White (Wo)Man's Burden": Household Management in the Colonies (With Bibliography)

European women who lived in nineteenth- and twentieth-century foreign outposts sought authoritative voices to guide them through the challenges of living far from the familiar. Although local labor bore the brunt of  daily domestic work, wives of the colonialists need information on how to direct their servants. And as the list below amply illustrates, plenty of authors and authoresses took up…

[toyastales]

Hangover Helper Breakfast Sandwich

[boypussysam]

dean reading some smut fics about him and sammy out of curiosity and then becoming super aware of the sexual scenarios they get into.

so he starts avoiding being alone with sam for weeks, calling castiel or simply escaping from the room. he can't even look at his little brother in the eyes because he keeps imagining the faces he would do if he fucked him just like in the fanfics.

at one point it gets ridiculous, so sam gets into dean's computer hoping he wrote something about what's going on with him.

but only finding dozens of open tabs with fics that fans wrote about them. some were pretty soft and cute, but the others kinda bordered on illegality. the only thing they had in common was that they were all liked by the same person: impala67. it was dean's account.

sam couldn't help but read some of them.

now he understood why his brother was avoiding him.

maybe he should confront him about this...

but wait, isn't that how one of the fanfics starts?

[zolanort]

so i had a stressful time with fire today

[daily-deliciousness]

Classic eggs benedict

[gomzdrawfr]

Fish talk.

Price likes rainbow trout that he cooked himself in garlic and butter in a ration tin over an open fire. Nothin better than trout you caught, gutted and cooked yourself on the river bank. Bonus points for a bottle of something cold and hoppy to go along with it while he eats it on the river bank, still wearing his wellies and waders.

For Nik, it's calamari and grilled sea bass with a glass of white wine, maybe a sauvignon blanc from France, in some swanky hotel on the Adriatic coast. Just sitting there in beige chinos, an open shirt and bare feet, skin still warm from where he was basking in the sun all day, not even checking the bill before he pays for it.

Fish recipes by the one and only, now visualised (somewhat) hehe

bonus of my reaction:

[myokk]

💘

[ryllen]

together let's go to the mountain ⛰️

[kusogitsune]

Would you accept an already drunk elf's invitation to go bar hopping in the notoriously rowdy Adventurer's district?

Sherry Lilet was born to a wealthy family that fell on hard times after the sudden death of her father when she was just a girl. Her mother raised her and two other sisters on vineyard. There she learnt all the skills needed for being useful on a farm while also being educated for her eventual return to high society. She grew up unafraid to break a sweat and with a taste for drink and tolerance that would put the most boastful Adventurer to shame. Known as infectiously enthusiastic about her passions, she's notorious for roping people into hijinks and misadventures.

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Robin landed on the roof next to him and Bruce could already feel the headache building. They were looking down on a young blond man with pointed ears and a large halberd on his backriding on a white horse. The guy looked like he had come straight out of a fairytale. He knew that if this was a new rogue Damian would argue about keeping the horse. Actually he would probably want to keep the horse even if he wasn't a rogue.

Deciding the guy had gotten close enough they swooped down to confront him. The man, startled, stopped his horse and pulled the large halberd off his back. He held it in front of him, as if in warning. The man looked wary of them but not afraid. They stared at eachother for a moment before the man spoke in a language neither Batman not his Robin knew.

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Link was having a wierd day. He had literally just saved Princess Zelda a week ago (and for the second time) when he encountered some kind of demon in black and white. The Master Sword glowed in the demons presence which was all Link needed to know before chasing after the being. The thing, looking like a teen in odd clothing that reminded him of links own rubber suit, bolted into a green portal it had created.

Not hesitating he had his horse leap into it. And now he was in a strange place with no sign of the demon. After getting attacked by a man yelling in a language he didn't recognize, he switched out his sword for a halberd for that extra reach on horseback and continued on his way, leaving the unconscious man on the road side behind him.

This place was odd. Parts of some walls would light up, showing images of people and places he didn't know along with a written language he didn't recognize. He came across many people who looked at him oddly...or at least he thought they were people. They looked like Hylians but most of them were taller than the average Hylian and to Links horror they had short rounded ears. How could they hear thier gods with such tiny ears?

He was scared, but he carried on anyway. Eventually he gets confronted by someone dressed as a monster and a child. They manage to settle thier...dispute?...without violence so that was nice. He pulled a few apples and swift carrots out of his tablet-to the curiosity of the duo- and hands them to the child. The kid caught on quickly and raced off to feed his horse her favorite snacks.

Link will have to figure out how to overcome this language barrier

Bruce however, has discovered this was not a man, but a teenager lost in a foreign world and is set on adopting him.

[namtanlovesfilm]

"This is Super My Boyfriend Chef."

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[cynthiabertelsen]

Cooks of the British Raj: In the Shadows of the Cantonments

Moonlight, shadows, and frangipani fluttering  in air rich with the smell of curry — many people today might harbor such images of India trending toward those seen David Lean’s film, “A Passage to India,” based on E. M. Forster’s novel of the same name. And yet, to anyone who’s spent time on the ground in certain countries around the globe, an untold backstory surges against the gorgeous scenery,…

[autumncottageattic]

rememberingtheoldways

[pagan-stitches]

An adaption of Porter’s Seasonal Celebrations Cookbook’s pickled plums (in the Michaelmas chapter) using foraged American Persimmons.

Visit @portersposse to view the explorations of the cookbook @msgraveyarddirt and I had with friends for a year or two awhile back.