#Strawberry Rivaini Dip

[andrastesknickerweasel]

With the blight dragging on and no Grey Wardens to be found, forcing us to social distance, I’ve little choice but to sample the rich and varied cuisine of Thedas from my own kitchen.  Each week I will aspire to prepare a recipe from the fan made Dragon Age Cookbook “In Pursuit of Porridge” (available here).  The recipe will be chosen at random to keep things interesting.  Please feel free to join me and post any recipes you make.  If you use the tags #Dragon Age Cooking Club or #DA Cooking Club and/or tag me I’ll add your culinary creation to the Master Post!

For the first week we have a recipe from the Free Marches: Strawberry Rivaini Dip!  

That’s right, it’s inexplicably guacamole with strawberries!  Don’t ask me why.  Those Marchers are a crazy bunch.

Difficulty: 1/5.  We couldn’t have started with anything easier, just chopping and mixing up a few things.

Ingredient cost/accessibility: 1/5. Nothing too crazy here, just produce and tortilla chips, of which I got the off brand.

Taste: 2/5.  It’s not terrible, but it’s not... good?  To be fair I’m no guacamole connoisseur.  I’m still occasionally eating a chip, so it’s definitely more edible than I was expecting.  The strawberries make a surprisingly competent replacement for tomato.  Still would have rather just had tomato though.

Suggested pairing: something light and summery, preferably alcoholic so you can forget that it isn’t the greatest tasting.  Light ale or a margarita maybe?

Suggested pairing: Varric/Bianca or Sera/Inquisitor.  It’s definitely pub appetizer food, so someone who lives in a pub would probably be down with it.

[andrastesknickerweasel]

Dragon Age Cooking Club Master Post

Join us in the noble endeavor to try Thedas’ rich and varied cuisine from our very own kitchens while we shelter in place from the Blight!  We are cooking our way through the fan made cook book “In Pursuit of Porridge” (available here), so simply pick a recipe you like, or a random one for extra adventure, and get cooking!  It doesn’t matter if someone has made it already or not, just make anything you want.  Please tag me and/or #Dragon Age cooking club or #DA cooking club with your finished dish and I will add it to the master post.  Feel free you use my header, make you own, not use one, whatever!  Same for the formatting/rating system, feel free to use mine or create your own.  This is all about having fun :)

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