#Hackle-lo and Scuttle Curry

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Hackle-lo and Scuttle Curry

One of the Telvanni Peninsula's most famous dishes, this simple, mild curry of hackle-lo and firm scuttle is delightfully rich and flavourful, yet simultaneously mild and balanced. Serve with wickwheat flatbread or steamed saltrice. Suitable for vegetarians! For a vegan version, replace paneer with tofu, and butter with coconut oil.

You will need:

225g paneer, cut into generous cubes (Indian cottage cheese CANNOT be substituted with regular cottage cheese! If you can't find paneer, use tofu or fresh mozzarella)

125g baby spinach

2 onions, finely diced

2 tbsp concentrated tomato purée

3 tbsp unsalted, unroasted cashews

1 tsp ginger paste

5 cloves garlic, minced

2-3 green chilis, sliced (like finger chilis or even fresh jalapeños), optional if you prefer it mild

1/2 tsp garam masala

2 cloves

2 cardamom pods, crushed lightly

1 tsp cumin

1 tbsp cinnamon

2 tbsp sugar

175ml water

2 tbsp butter

Coconut oil or vegetable oil

Salt and pepper, to taste

Cream, to serve (optional)

Method:

Combine the cloves, cardamom, cumin, and cinnamon in a pot, and gently cook on low heat with the butter and 1 tbsp coconut oil to release the aroma.

Toss in half the onions and fry until golden brown. Add the ginger paste and minced garlic, and continue to fry until they release their aroma. Add the tomato purée, salt and pepper, sugar, and garam masala. Continue stirring until well combined, then remove from heat, add the water, and purée until smooth with a blender or immersion blender. Set aside.

In a wok or large pot, fry the rest of the onions and chilis until glossy and aromatic. Add the spinach, and gently stir fry until the spinach has wilted and released most of its water. The spinach should still be green and not overcooked.

Transfer to a blender or use an immersion blender once again. Add the cashews. Purée until smooth and transfer to a bowl.

Put the tomato purée mix back on the heat and bring to a gentle bubble, then immediately remove from the heat and add the spinach purée. Stir until totally incorporated. Throw in your paneer and gently stir until well coated in curry.

Serve hot immediately, with either basmati rice or naan/roti on the side. Drizzle with cream to serve, if desired.

[fabeong]

Another @tastesoftamriel recipe, this time the Hackle-lo and Scuttle Curry! And yes, I couldn’t wait to get a picture before I tucked in 😂 I had to use tofu as I couldn’t find paneer anywhere, but this was absolutely delicious! Definitely one for the vegan friends <3

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Hey Tal! I was preparing stuffed jacket potatoes for my family and it made me wonder;

"If each race was given a baked potato (any veriety), what would they stuff it with? (Let's pretend the bosmer is non pact compliant but still likes honoring their roots.)"

Since you'll find potatoes in every other barrel across Tamriel, you can bet that stuffed baked potatoes are probably the most universal dish we know of. Whether you love them or were fed too many of them as a child, there's a baked potato out there for everyone in Tamriel.

Altmer

You know what, the High Elves really have to be fancy about everything. Instead of gutting and filling your regular jumbo jacket potato like literally everybody else, they make large hasselback potatoes and painstakingly insert ingredients between the slots before baking. These laborious (but admittedly delectable) potatoes are usually offered filled with either four cheeses; mozzarella, tomatoes, and pesto; roasted vegetables with tapenade, or pancetta, gruyere, and sausage.

Argonians

Baked potatoes are great for playing a heated game of teeba-hatsei with, much to the rage of many an Argonian parent who had painstakingly made dinner. When they're not being slapped around for a laugh, Argonians eat their baked potatoes by making a well in the centre and crack a hot quail egg in, before topping it with deep fried mealworms or crickets and a bit of lime sambal. Scramble it up and you're good to go!

Bosmer

To every Green Pact-abiding Wood Elf I'm about to sadden with this, I apologise in advance for what I'm about to propose. But imagine a lovely jacket potato stuffed with a good slathering of smoked timber mammoth cheese atop battered thunderbug eggs, smoked bristleback bacon, jalapeño mayo, and sweetgnat butter. I don't need to imagine it; I made one with my friend Berrilyn, and it was glorious. Definitely on the heavy side, but loaded with every good ingredient Valenwood has to offer!

Bretons

Cheap, filling, and delicious. That's all a baked potato needs to be in High Rock, making it one of the Province's most popular foods among the common folk. Just about every sauce-based dish you can think of can go onto a jacket potato, from melted roquefort, goose egg, and dry cured ham to the classic combination of tomato beans and candied bacon rashers, and even reusing yesterday's Tarragon Chicken! There aren't really any limits on what you can fill a jacket potato with in High Rock, as long as you have a good knob of butter in there!

Dunmer

While potatoes are a perfectly standard and valid ingredient in Morrowind, I know you all want to hear about jacket ash yams. Popularised by Ashlanders, who bake their potatoes on lava, jacket ash yams can be found at every tavern and cornerclub across the Province. Minced nix-ox in a spicy comberry ragout; scrambled kwama eggs with caramelised scathecraw; and even Hackle-lo and Scuttle Curry are at home on a big, piping lava-hot ash yam. Don't forget to get some crunchy deep-fried kwama scrib to go on top- well worth the gold, I promise!

If you get the hankering for a taste of Morrowind, try my Raven Rock Baked Ash Yams.

Imperials

There are two rules surrounding baked potatoes in Cyrodiil: the potatoes must always be Jumbo Potatoes, and you must always use olive oil instead of butter. With that flavour profile in mind, think simple, complementary toppings like sundried tomatoes with goat cheese and fresh basil; cheese curds and red wine gravy; bresaola, chili oil, and gorgonzola, and browned pine nut butter with a good smear of ricotta and creamed battaglir.

Khajiit

Northern and Southern Elsweyr have a distinct difference in their baked potatoes: the North likes them rich and spicy, while the South prefers sweeter flavours that complement moon sugar. Northern Elsweyr is famous for its fiery curry-filled jacket potatoes, filled to the brim with rich, generally tomato-based curries featuring local ingredients like braised jerboa, pulled terror bird, and diced mutton. Meanwhile in Senchal, you'll find your average baked potato partially filled with things like chicken satay pieces in moon sugar peanut sauce, haloumi with moon sugar syrup, and sweet crispy shrimp and pork floss. But wait, 'partially filled?' Yep! In Southern Elsweyr, the insides of the potato are scooped out and rolled together with powdered moon sugar to make horrifically sweet potato 'candy' for dessert after you've finished your jacket potato. Who am I to judge?

Nords

Mammoth cheese? Horker bacon and smoked kippers? Pulled pheasant in brown ale gravy? All very valid and very traditional Skyrim options. However, I'm jumping up and down at the thought of a baked potato topped with freshly baked salmon or gravlaks with dill, lots of sour cream, and a bit of mustard! Simple, good, and I will shout at anyone who calls this combination bland. You can take the girl out of Riften, but never the Riften out of the girl.

Orcs

Where Wrothgarian Orsimer are concerned, there's a joke that every other meal is a baked potato (and that's sometimes the unfortunate case when a Hearth-Wife isn't very good at her job.) Gooey, mouthwatering echatere cheese raclette is the favoured topping in the region, melted atop of a bed of fillings like spicy wrathberry gravy with echatere or beef chunks; chopped mammoth bratwurst; grilled chub loon with frost mirriam barbecue sauce, and deep fried horker lard bits and sweet-and-spicy minced horker. Indulgent, and by Malacath, they're filling too.

Redguards

Where the Orcs have their echatere cheese on jacket potatoes, Hammerfell loves its goat cheese. Whether it's aged chèvre log slices or fresh and crumbly, you can bet it's going on a baked potato. It's paired with a range of moreish fillings, like harissa and apricot chicken; tender goat mince with a cumin-based curry; battered, fried snake with a tangy and sweet lemon drizzle, and shawarma meat with creamy garlic sauce and caramelised onions.

[tastesoftamriel]

Greetings from Finland! (Or I suppose it could be considered Eastern Skyrim) What are some of the spices or ingredients that could be used in food making from each race? I plan to make up a recipe of my own. And how about most famous meats for every race? (And possibly their real life counterparts for some of the meats?) Best wishes, thank you!

Hello! You can find a list of commonly used Tamrielic spices here. With regards to meats, there are a range of different meats preferred by the races based on geographic regions and subsequent availability.

Altmer

Summerset favours fish over most other meats, but the High Elves also farm a range of more common mainland Tamrielic livestock such as cows, chickens, sheep, and deer. However, indrik heart is the most prized of all meats, and is highly sought after due to the illegality and difficulty of killing these magnificent beasts. The preparation and consumption of indrik heart is purportedly painstaking, and is a closely guarded secret of Altmeri gourmets. It is my goal to one day try this coveted dish!

Argonians

Guar, bantam guar, and chickens are the main meats favoured by Black Marsh Argonians, primarily due to their ability to cope with swampy conditions. Grilling, baking, and frying are the most common ways of preparing these meats, whether they're served on their own, with noodles or saltrice, or salads.

Bosmer

If it's meat, the Bosmer will eat it. Whether it's wild boar, deer, timber mammoth, or even monkey, all game is fair game in Valenwood! Timber mammoth steak with blue timber mammoth cheese sauce is one of my favourite foods in Tamriel.

Bretons

If there's one race who's mad about mutton, it's the Bretons. While High Rock is also known for its pork dishes, today I'm focusing on all things mutton. Mutton stew, mutton chops, mutton casserole, and even Orcish-inspired mutton curry are favourites both at home and in taverns. One of the more popular ways of consuming the meat is a mutton and rosemary sausage, that is served fried with eggs, goat cheese, and roasted artichoke hearts.

Dunmer

Aside from guar, the Dark Elves love nix-hound and nix-ox in equal amounts, with the former being more akin to crocodile or turkey in texture, while nix-ox is named such due to its uncanny similarity to beef in flavour (though not in texture). As they are bugs, however, you're not going to get thick steaks or drumsticks as you would from other animals. Instead, nix-ox and -hound are best served minced or stewed. A staple dish in Dunmeri households is nix-hound casserole, made with finely minced and baked nix-hound with saltrice, hackle-lo or ash yams, and scuttle.

Imperials

Imperials love beef the same way that Bretons love mutton. However, the most unique and exciting beef you can find in Tamriel is Cyrodiilic wagyu, a special kind of fatty, marbled beef that is exquisite as it simply melts in the mouth with a rich, meaty flavour. Whether it's served as tender filet mignon or thinly sliced as carpaccio, Cyrodiilic wagyu beef is an expensive but absolutely divine treat.

Khajiit

There are many exotic meats that are native to Elsweyr, and jerboa is probably the most popular. These small (and unfortunately very cute) rodents are delicious when deep fried or roasted in moon sugar sauce, though their small size means you'll have to eat a few to fill up. If you don't mind picking bones from your teeth, jerboa is a must-try for adventurous foodies.

Nords

Beef, chicken, elk, goat, horker, rabbit...in Skyrim, if it moves, we're probably eating it. However, the consumption of specific types of meat, and whether it's processed or fresh, really depends on where you are in the Province. Major towns and cities are more likely to eat fresh farmed meats like poultry, mutton, and beef, while rural areas rely more on wild game. Whether it's Markarth barbequed goat skewers or Dawnstar horker casserole, there's a whole new world of regional dishes out there for meat lovers visiting Skyrim.

Orcs

Echatere, chub loon, horker, and mammoth are the cornerstones of Orcish cuisine, and they're enjoyed in abundance. Wrothgarian Orcs in particular love their echatere, which are lovingly hand-reared or hunted in the wild. Either way, it's delicious, albeit with a rather acquired taste and gamey aroma. Echatere meatballs topped with crispy chub loon bits and an echatere cheese and frost mirriam gravy are a timeless classic hailing from the region.

Redguards

If goats were ever to become an endangered species, the last place they would disappear would be Hammerfell. Anyone who's visited the Alik'r will know that despite the sandy, Oblivion-hot depths of the desert, these hardy creatures will survive just about anything. As a result, goat meat plays a central part in Redguard cooking. Goat koftas, kebabs, shawarma, curries...no matter what form it's in, you're bound to have a tasty, meaty meal no matter where you are in Hammerfell.

[tastesoftamriel]

Curry! Creamy curries with rice! What do the nations make when it comes to curry?

Ooh, I do love me some curries! Not all the races are fans of them, or don't have an equivalent- namely, Bosmer, Bretons, Nords, and Altmer are not fans of strong or spicy dishes in general. However, the following is a fairly comprehensive list of curries that you can find across Tamriel- I hope you enjoy them!

Argonians

Black Marsh curries pack a lot of heat and a lot of flavour, featuring local vegetables and meats that impart unusual flavours unlike others in Tamriel. Curry trees grow exceptionally well in the damp, warm climate, and are the base of Argonian curries, along with ingredients like swamp tomatoes, lime leaves, and coconut milk. Served with pandan or coconut steamed rice, a traditional and much-loved Argonian dish is a hot green fish curry, with chunks of white fish and taro leaves.

Dunmer

The Dunmer adore their curries, and serve theirs with steamed or fried saltrice. Guar, nix-hound, and bantam guar are the most common meats used, while hackle-lo and ash yam also works well in vegetarian versions. Typically, curries are thicker and almost stew-like, and are supplemented with local Morrowind flavours like pulled trama root, dried comberry, and even scuttle for creamier consistencies.

Imperials

While it may come as some surprise, southern Cyrodiil, particularly towards the Blackwood region, consumes a lot of curry. Although they're generally milder and more umami in flavour, and meat stock-based with a pinch of curry powder, cumin, and paprika. You'll find chicken and lamb to be the most common, stewed with vegetables like onions, peppers, carrots, and potatoes.

Khajiit

In my opinion, Elsweyr is the true home of the curry as we know it, and the South is also perfect for growing curry trees and exotic spices. Unlike other races, the Khajiit also serve their curries over noodles, especially thick egg noodles, making for a hearty and delectable dish. My personal favourite is a hot and sweet tomato-based goat curry with moon sugar, cinnamon, star anise, and three types of chilis. The goat is first flame-grilled and cut into chunks, tossed over noodles, and a good amount of curry is poured over the top, along with a pinch of moon sugar. You can also try a taste of Southern Elsweyr with my recipe for Senchal curry fish and rice!

Orcs

While Orcish curry is more relegated to the Wood Orcs, it is still a traditional dish due to the prevalence of wild curry plants that grow in abundance in Valenwood. They generally contain wild game like rabbit and boar, as well as root vegetables including carrots, radishes, potatoes, and turnips. Orcish curries are distinct due to their use of frost mirriam, giving them a tingly flavour almost akin to Reach peppercorns. Instead of rice, Wood Orcs prefer beans and grains to serve their curries with.

Redguards

The most standard curries you'll find in northern Tamriel are based on Redguard variants, which are known for being rich, creamy, and either goat meat or vegetable based. Paneer, a type of firm cottage cheese, is also featured in many vegetarian curries in Hammerfell. While other races tend to have a fairly uniform curry base made from curry powder, leaves, and stock, Redguards have a wider variation, ranging from lentil-based to spinach, tomato, and cream-based curries. My personal favourite is a mild curry of paneer with creamy spiced spinach, served with bulgur or cous-cous.

[tastesoftamriel]

Go jul!

Hmm... åssen "julemat" trur du de har i Tamriel?

[Translation: Merry Yule! What Christmas foods do you think they have in Tamriel?]

New Life Festival is the big end-of-year holiday celebrated by every race across Tamriel, and they all have their own unique meals and foods to mark the occasion.

Altmer

The High Elves enjoy a special nutty tart for dessert during New Life Festival, a bit like a fancy pecan pie. The tart calls for a blend of smoked and candied pecans, hazelnuts, and almonds, baked into a wonderfully creamy salted, burned caramel custard set into a crisp butter pastry. It's drizzled with caramel sauce, and served with coffee or tea (and, if you still have room, vanilla ice cream).

Argonians

In Black Marsh, fish dishes of all sorts are the sign of the season of Xulomaht, and New Life Festival. While the dishes in question vary between tribes and regions, it is customary to serve a medley of different types of fish and seafood, cooked in every way from curries to soups, be that grilled, fried, baked, and boiled. For example, Black Marsh cucumber, braised with oyster sauce, is a seasonal favourite in the Stormhold region, while the Bright-Throat tribe of Murkmire specialise in a rich seafood soup with grilled lobster tails.

Bosmer

Nothing screams 'festive' quite like timber mammoth raclette in Valenwood, and it's eagerly awaited for by Bosmer old and young every year. Generous amounts of creamy, aged timber mammoth cheese is melted under a grill and scraped over meat to serve. It's paired with rotmeth, and is one of the heartiest, most satisfying meals no matter the season in all of Tamriel.

Bretons

While it seems a bit weird to some (and especially heretical to Wood Elves), a big cake in the shape of a log is the favoured New Life dessert in High Rock. It is simply a rolled chocolate cake filled with cream, fashioned in the shape of a log that signifies the burning wood that lights the way for the year to come. My favourite variant involves soaking the sponge cake in brandy or frangelico before rolling it- brilliantly boozy!

Dunmer

Guar roast is the standard New Life dish for Dunmer regardless of social status. Served with an array of roasted vegetables like ash yams and hackle-lo, saltrice, and wickwheat bread rolls, the roast is tender and flavourful, and served with a rich scuttle-based gravy and comberry jam. Since the guar is hardly a small animal, be prepared to loosen your belt by the end of the meal, or you won't be able to fit dessert...

Imperials

Cyrodiil celebrates New Life with plenty of food, drink, and entertainment, and veal is the favoured meat of the festival. Whether it's served as schnitzel a la Bruma or escalopes with creamy herbed mushrooms, everyone loves delightfully tender veal across the Province. And of course, don't forget the prosecco to go with!

Khajiit

They're a pain in the ass to eat, but deep fried jerboas in moon sugar chili sauce are a classic Khajiiti New Life dish. These tiny rodents are tender and juicy when you get past the annoying mouthful of bones, and are doused in a good amount of sweet chili sauce, and served with steamed pandan rice or fried black bean noodles. Just try not to think about how cute jerboas are when you eat them...

Nords

Aside from mead and lots of roast meats, we in Skyrim also love a type of thin, crepe-like biscuit that's cooked on a griddle and rolled around a piece of wood to make a cone shape. While it's standard to eat these 'krumkaker' plain, it's also common practice to fill them with a thick whipped cream flavoured with snowberries, or vanilla custard.

Orcs

Honeyed wolf pie (yes, made with wolf meat, though beef is usually preferred) served with goat cheese is a traditional New Life dish which originated among the Orsimer of Betnikh many centuries ago. The meat is stewed with herbs and spices in a good amount of wild honey, and baked into a flaky buttery pie crust. It's chased with a few bites of aged, slightly bitter goat's cheese, and washed down with a festive ale brewed specifically for New Life Festival.

Redguards

While tagines are a dish you'll find year-round in Hammerfell, a special spiced lamb tagine with dried figs and apricots is a New Life special due to the pricey ingredients. Fluffy cous-cous is flavoured with a good amount of rare saffron, turning it wonderfully fragrant and surprisingly yellow in colour. It's served with tender spiced lamb, stewed with exotic ingredients like cinnamon and star anise, and tossed with fresh and dried figs and apricots in a sweet-and-savoury gravy.

[tastesoftamriel]

What's the first dish from each of the races of Tamriel that you would recommend to an outsider?

For newbies to dining outside your Province, there are plenty of "beginner" dishes that aren't too weird, exotic, or otherwise alarming. These are some of my favourite dishes that are both satisfying and great introductions to Tamrielic cuisine.

Altmer

Food in the Summerset Isles is famed for being perfectly balanced, and as such is bound to have something to please a beginner's palate. I would definitely recommend a seafood bowl with brown rice, seaweed salad, spicy wasabi root paste, pickled plums, and an assortment of raw fish and caviar. Now, I know that raw fish is a bit of a stretch for the less adventurous eaters, but I insist that the only way forward is by pushing yourself. Besides, you've got to start somewhere!

Argonians

I'm going to be a little kinder with Argonian cuisine because there is a lot of weird stuff in Black Marsh that makes even I rather squeamish. A bowl of cold buckwheat noodles with fish sauce, roast chicken, and watercress is a delicious entryway to Argonian cooking, and is wonderfully refreshing too!

Bosmer

If you like meat and you like cheese, you're halfway set for dining in Valenwood. Why not try a timber mammoth steak with a fragrant local blue cheese sauce, spiced up with smoked bone marrow and fresh cream? It's very Green Pact compliant, and an easy way to get started on your Bosmeri culinary adventure.

Bretons

Yes, the Bretons are known for eating some slightly bizarre foods like snails and force-fed goose livers, but today's recommended dish is a little less over-the-top. I really love a traditional charcuterie board with an assortment of High Rock's best, from aged parmesan with water crackers to cured ham, sausages, roasted vegetables with garden herbs, and little quiches. It's a great way to taste the Province and prepare you for more!

Dunmer

I'll be blunt: you cannot experience true Dunmeri culinary greatness if you refuse to eat bugs. Now, assuming that you assent to that, let me tell you all about the goodness of nix-hound gratin. Tasty nix-hound meat, which is somewhat akin to a cross between pigeon and turkey, is marinated overnight in a blend of herbs and spices, and baked under a blanket of combwort breadcrumbs, scuttle, and crispy hackle-lo bits. There, that doesn't sound too bad does it?

Imperials

Aside from the odd weird dish like drunken dormice, Imperial food is, like the Altmer, well-balanced and generally pleasant. I would suggest ravioli stuffed with chevre, spinach and pine nuts, and cooked in a brown butter sauce. Oh so simple yet so good, and a great introduction to the versatile types of pasta found in Cyrodiil!

Khajiit

If you're not quite ready for moon sugar, that's alright! A traditional Elsweyr-style griddle bread is a great way to get to know Khajiiti cuisine without the side effects. Griddle bread is a flat cornbread cooked on a griddle, and stuffed with fillings of your choice, both sweet and savoury. I enjoy mine with spicy barbecued pork, rhubarb salsa, and roast corn, but other fillings include mushrooms, ham or chicken, sardines, fried egg, and pickled vegetables.

Nords

If you hear a Nord gushing over rabbit meatballs, it's probably for good reason (unless they make them too dry). The best part is that there isn't really a right or wrong way to enjoy them! We love our meatballs with creamy gravy, snowberry jam and potatoes, or in stews, or shoved into pies...you get the idea. In other words, try the rabbit meatballs and a tankard of mead if you want to try Nord cuisine. You'll not find anything more authentic or inoffensive.

Orcs

Orcish food is generally quite mild on the palate, and has a few staple ingredients that every race uses, like potatoes, leeks, radishes, and a lot of meat. A traditional venison stew with juniper and wrathberries is usually loaded with radishes and other root vegetables, and is served with fresh bread and fried offal patties. Simple, hearty, and delicious!

Redguards

Not everybody is enthusiastic enough to try camel for their first Redguard meal, so I'm going to go with a mild pulled goat curry. When I say curry, I don't mean "scorch your eyebrows off and feel sick for days" spicy (although that's definitely an option if you're game). The goat meat is first roasted over a charcoal grill, then stewed in a creamy tomato-based sauce with lentils, herbs, and exotic spices. Finished with chopped dates and almonds, this dish features all the flavours of the Alik'r without being too overwhelming.

[tastesoftamriel]

what are the best/most popular cheese-dominated dishes for each race? this one loves all kinds of cheeses.

I answered a similar question in the past, but since it's cheese we're talking about here, I'm going to make another list because I can!

Altmer

Aside from rare and expensive indrik cheese, the High Elves also adore sheep milk cheeses, which are especially creamy and rich in grassy flavour. A type of fresh cheese known as burrata is famed for its mozzarella-like exterior and rich, creamy liquid centre. It's eaten with sundried and heirloom tomatoes and fresh herbs, and pairs perfectly with white wine. Be sure to ask for a napkin though, burrata can get messy!

Argonians

As mentioned previously, Argonians aren't really cheese eaters, but this doesn't apply to many city-dwellers. Enterprising natives of Leyawiin, for example, have teamed up with Argonian chefs to develop classic Cyrodiilic cheeses with Black Marsh flair. I personally adore a type of hard, crumbly cheese called Wamasu Wallop, which is made with fresh peppercorns and wrapped in wild garlic leaves.

Bosmer

Valenwood cheeses are severely underrated, and I plan to change that! My favourite this month is a fantastic semi-hard timber mammoth cheese that is great in a simple grubs-and-cheese grilled sandwich. Yes, baked witchetty grubs are excellent, and you don't even need to think about them as grubs when they're hidden under a glorious blanket of melted, stretchy cheese and sandwiched between cured sausage "bread", with crispy bacon and a tasty fried egg. Doesn't sound good? More for me!

Bretons

I say with utmost certainty that the Bretons are masters of the omelette, specifically of the cheese variety. My favourite is a Shornhelm tavern special: fluffy omelette with chives, smoked brie, gorgonzola, and topped with crispy pancetta. It's a melt-in-your-mouth, Aetherial experience.

Dunmer

A Dark Elf cheese specialty that isn't scuttle is rare, but many Dunmer enjoy paneer, a type of chewy, mild cheese that's cut into blocks and cooked with rich curries or baked in a lava-stone oven with spices. My favourite way to enjoy paneer is in a mild, creamy bittergreen and hackle-lo leaf curry, and served with wickwheat flatbread.

Imperials

It would take me years to chronicle all the cheeses of Cyrodiil and how they're eaten, but I'm going to go with a classic cheese and caramelised onion tart today, made with fresh chevre, mature cheddar, and a dollop of creamy gorgonzola for some oomph. It's perfect for any meal at any time of day!

Khajiit

Fried cheese. On sticks. Dipped in moon sugar syrup. I could elaborate more on this delightful street snack, but I won't. You'll just have to visit Elsweyr. Consider this my unofficial tourism promotion for the Province: just think of all the fried cheese on sticks, dipped in moon sugar syrup.

Nords

Cheese is a staple part of the Nord diet, and while I do love a good Elsweyr Fondue, nothing quite bests the traditional Skyrim fondue. Eidar cheese is just one of four to six cheeses (generally a blend of mozzarella, soft and hard goat cheese, gruyere, and provolone). They're melted until smooth in a cauldron with brandy, and served with cured meats and sausages, sourdough, and roasted leeks to dip.

Orcs

Coming back to the topic of echatere cheese, it is also amazing when baked into a jacket potato with horker bacon, horseradish, and radish chips! The creamy consistency is ideal for baking, especially as it also crisps well under a grill. Simple, filling, and the best way to consume a whole wheel of cheese in one sitting.

Redguards

Hammerfell is home to one of my favourite desserts in the entire world: kanafeh. Made from delicate layers of crisp filo pastry and loads of salty cheese and mild ricotta, kanafeh is usually drizzled with nuts and dried fruit, and soaked in a rosewater and lemon syrup. The end result is a religious experience, to put it mildly. Did I mention I like cheese?

[tastesoftamriel]

I was asked about what dishes you should never offer to Daedric Princes by a follower who's probably a little too curious for their own good. Here's an interesting question I certainly have not thought of, because I generally try not to invoke the wrath of Daedric Princes! However, if you really want to potentially bring the punishment of Oblivion down upon yourself, please feel free to try the following...

Mehrunes Dagon

Instead of fiery destruction, I propose something...cute. A classic chilled custard tart topped with warm berry compote and some Hammerfell-style rose-and-vanilla pashmak is bound to melt hearts, just not in the way one of his Dremora would.

Peryite

I love making healthy foods just as much as indulgent dishes, and as the popular adage goes, an apple a day keeps Peryite away! A classic rucola and feta salad with a balsamic and Cyrodiilic olive oil can be made even better with an extra handful of spinach, a sprinkle of fresh pomegranate, halved walnuts, avocado and cucumber slices, and a few diced apple pieces! Simply delectable, and sure to keep scurvy and pestilence at bay.

Molag Bal

What should you not offer the Daedric Prince of domination and creator of vampires? Probably a soft, delicate vegetarian dish. A Breton vegetable quiche with an all-butter crust, goose eggs, sun-dried tomatoes, delicate baby spinach, fresh chanterelle mushrooms, squash, lots of garlic, and a spot of chevre. Mouth-wateringly good, this little beauty makes for an excellent meal at any time of day, and is bound to make Molag Bal sneer.

Namira

I'm going to be a little cheeky here and turn something gross and creepy into something delicious that even the fussiest nobles I've served love: garlic butter snails. Namira's followers are known to chow down on live, raw snails, shells and all, but I prefer mine with a garlicky gratin and a sprinkle of cave-aged West Weald parmesan. Oh, and don't forget to eat them with a fancy silver snail fork like a proper diva!

Boethiah

Plots? Destruction? Snakes? Not with this dish! What you see is what you get with a traditional Nord bread-and-butter pudding! It's a great way to use up your leftover bread scraps and stale butter, and is one of Tamriel's most satisfying desserts in my humble opinion. Served with hot custard and dried snowberries, this pudding is the perfect, least deceptive dish I can imagine.

Hircine

You were spot on with a salad, but let me raise the bar a little. Not just any salad will do, but you'll want all your ingredients to be gently cultivated by hand and farmed, as opposed to wild foraged. Iceberg lettuce and pink pear salad with some crumbled goat cheese and honey hits the spot, but how about topped with some marbled fatty beef? The historic Gweden Farm near Anvil has won countless awards for its pampered cows who are given a daily massage and the best fresh grass and Cyrodiilic grain. Domesticated, happy, and wonderful...unless you're a hunter, that is.

Hermaeus Mora

You'd have to be downright stupid to try a traditional Argonian worm bowl unless you're Saxhleel, and even then, most of them don't want to touch this nasty, wriggling dish. Fresh, live mealworms and kotu gava eggs are drowned in a fermented blood worm sauce, with shredded catapult cabbage and flame-grilled, toxic haj mota flesh. I once commented that it looked a little like Hermaeus Mora himself, before taking a tentative nibble and spending the rest of the day throwing up in the swamp. Please don't try this. It's the dumbest dish in Tamriel, and a pox on whichever Argonian invented it.

Sheogorath

No cheese or strawberry torte here! In fact, the least madness-inducing food I can think of is a nice, mild pistachio ice cream profiterole, dipped in sweet milk chocolate and topped with fresh nuts is the perfect Breton summer treat, yet far too boring for the Prince of Madness to bother with. Which leads us to...

Sanguine

I really dislike coming up with bland, mundane dishes for the occasional fussy eater I come across during my travels. Sanguine, Prince of hedonistic pleasures, probably lurks over my shoulder at the average feast I throw, so I admit I was a bit stumped here...until I remembered my Granny Matilda's chicken noodle soup. As basic as soups come, this simple broth is made by boiling leftover chicken carcasses for a night and a day, and served with plain egg noodles. The perfect food for when you're feeling under the weather, or have the palate of a small Nord child.

Malacath

Altmer cuisine seems like a good way to get Malacath really mad, because it's basically the antithesis of what he stands for. Delicate Quicksilver Lingwe cerviche with a yuzu drizzle and Crystal Hannia caviar, with a light avocado mousse flavoured with apple blossom? A sensory delight, and bound to make any Malacath-respecting Orc gag.

Jyggalag

Fried, hand-pulled buckwheat noodles with a spicy Pellitine-style curry sauce is a good way to make this Prince quite cross with you. Not only is it messy to eat, but your furniture will likely suffer bright orange and yellow stains from the turmeric and tomatoes, and your bowels will also be as tangled as the noodles after consuming a fiery Khajiiti curry.

Vaermina

So mundane and boring, you're definitely not bound to have any dreams or nightmares about a bowl of saltrice porridge with comberry preserves and scrib jerky. The staple food of the common Dunmer, it's tasty enough to eat on a daily basis, but hardly the stuff dreams are made of.

Mephala

This spidery Prince enjoys interfering with us mortals, so it's time to fight back with a dish that'll probably make most other Daedric Princes frown too. Imperial food is famous for its balanced flavours, textures, and fresh ingredients, and a Gold Coat seafood stew is a vibrant dish bursting with the best fresh fish, mussels, lobster, and crabmeat the region has to offer. Mild but but with a tangy punch from the sun-dried tomato based soup and a dash of crisp white wine, this is a dish that both young and old enjoy across Cyrodiil.

Meridia

Charred jerk wild boar stuffed with timber mammoth cheese and a delicious bloody jus-and-honey sauce is sure to make any Bosmer's mouth water! It's definitely dead, it's definitely cooked, and it's definitely bound to disappoint Meridia. Just a warning- try this for a laugh and you'll never be able to get rid of her beacon.

Azura

By Azura, please don't offer this to the Lady of Dawn and Dusk unless you want to irreparably have your race changed! Love and devotion is what this Prince craves, so why not damage yourself with a fiery Dunmeri Vvardenfell fondue, made from scuttle, crab meat, and extremely spicy fire petal blossoms? Enjoyed by the most pain-seeking of Dunmer, my version comes with fried hackle-lo leaf and saltrice-and-wickwheat bread for dipping. It'll have your guts in a twist for days, which is the price to pay for this deliciously hot "cheese" dish. Oh, and did I mention that it's best washed down with a nice cup of Vivec's Gingergreen Chai?

Nocturnal

There's absolutely nothing dark about a Redguard sun-jelly, made with fresh fruits from coastal Hammerfell. Coconut, palm fruit, watermelon, and bananas are the stars of the show in this dessert, set in a chilled agar jelly that keeps the heat at bay. The fanciest Redguards love mixing edible gold flakes into the jelly itself, giving it a delightful luster that is sure to put a smile on your face and chase the shadows away.

Clavicus Vile

You're not going to want to strike any bargain to give up a delicious baked chub loon gratin with echatere cheese, over hasselback potatoes and crispy radish chips. This Orcish delicacy is surprisingly so good it's even tickled the fancy of the fussiest eaters in Tamriel! The chub loon meat is juicy and melts in the mouth, and the echatere cheese melted into the cracks of a hasselback potato are wonderful with radish chips for dipping. Admit it, you're drooling aren't you?