#star trek recipes

[performing-personhood]

Ok so while I haven't made this precise recipe, my bestie and her Ma make something I would taxonomically classify as within the same genus. They call it "Hooch" and friends and enemies it is, in fact, the most dangerous alcohol I have ever encountered.

Let me tell you how they make it!

You'll need:

Stone fruit of your choice (I'm sure this works with other fruits, but I have no experience with that so ymmv)

An extremely, scrupulously clean 5 gallon bucket (or whatever your country's equivalent is)(I would use something like StarSan for this, which you can get at your local homebrewer's supply store, but you're going to be fermenting so just ensure that whatever you're using has been both completely sterilized and is also food safe.)

5lbs of white sugar

Like two handles of the cheapest, highest proof vodka you can get your hands on. (I'm talking "there is no way that's fully safe for human consumption" cheap. Like stuff you'd rather clean with than drink, but can still technically consume. Not everclear, don't fucking do that.)

Roughly six weeks

Gather up roughly idk, half a 5gal bucket of whatever stone fruit you fancy; My bestie and her Ma, they use wild plums because they grow on Ma's hobby ranch. Score each one all the way around with a knife and throw em in the - I'm gonna say it again because this is real important - painstakingly clean bucket.

Cover the entire pile with white sugar. Then add all that vodka, and give the entire affair a good stir.

Now cover the bucket. Loosely. You don't want anything to be able to get into it, but you also need it to not be airtight lest you make a very sticky bomb. If your bucket came with a lid, just rest that puppy on the top and that'll be sufficient.

Put your bucket into an accessible but out of the way dark place with a stable temperature - a mechanical room or big pantry works nicely but whatever you've got is fine.

Once a week, stir the whole business really really well.

After about six weeks, give it a taste. It should taste like fruit juice and not the eyewatering burn of cheap vodka, if it's still a little "hot" just keep on fermenting it for another couple of weeks and check back in.

Serve it in the smallest possible glasses you can find, I'm so not kidding about that. It does not taste alcoholic at all in a way that should frighten you to think about too hard.

The Official Star Trek Cooking Manual recipe for Saurian Brandy. Someone please make some and tell me how it turns out!

[icantspellthings]

From Official Star Trek Cooking Manual compiled by Mary Ann Piccard from the logbook of nurse Christine Chapel

All of Dr. McCoy's favourite recipes

Recipes under read more

[mango-meister]

Update on the great Star Trek Cooking Manual expedition:

Shumar

Another one of Spock’s recipes.

Again, I’m impressed with the amount of world building in this little cookbook. Recipe below.

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to almost double the butter. Do not do this. You’re supposed to bake it, that’s how the cheese melts in Au Gratin. I didn’t know this and ended up winging it after some google searches.

Overall it was ok. If I made it again I would add potatoes and maybe some different kinds of cheese. It was the first time I’d had fennel and it’s not bad.

Next up is Tabsheel.

[theshadowrealmitself]

My own lil hc for the replicators is that they can only hold a certain amount of recipes but you can have a separate device to download recipes on that you can plug into the replicator and it’ll work on all of them (like a usb thing)

Which is great if you have a ton of allergies, or you know that whichever replicator you’re gonna be around aren’t gonna have too many recipes for your species, or even just if you like having certain comfort recipes (like you know at some point you’re gonna crave salmon), or like a common dish in every replicator always has unsalted butter but you prefer salted butter or something like that, etc etc etc

But everyone always forgets they can do that, they’re like “aw man :( guess I just have to deal with what’s already pre-coded into the replicator :((“

[trekkie-polls]

These are all cannon foods, for federation species.

[misforgotten2]

A book you very likely don’t have on your shelf #574

1978

[info-hazard]

A year or so ago, I put my herbalist brain to use and created a recipe for Tarkalean tea. I've been drinking it ever since. Here's the recipe if anyone wants it.

One darjeeling tea bag (Or chamomile, if black tea isn't your thing!)

1/2 Teaspoon orange or lemon peel

1/4 Teaspoon lavender

1/8 Teaspoon turmeric

Whole or ground cloves (However much you want.)

One piece of star anise

Crystallized or ground ginger (Again, to taste.)

Steep this in boiling hot water and sweeten to taste. This isn't really based off of any evidence in the Star Trek universe, I just came up with it based off of what I thought it'd taste like, as well as whatever medicinal properties I wanted it to have.

[commandermeg]

Hey #StarTrekProdigy fans! Here's a fun, sweet treat I crafted when the show was first premiering - Murf Jellies! And here's EXACTLY how to make them!

First, you'll want to select your Jello. Blue and Purple are the best colors, but the flavor is up to you. Personally, I like berry flavors! So I chose those. (I ended up not using Grape) You'll also need a small muffin mold, metal or silicone works best.

You'll want to start by making the purple color of your choice, heat 1 cup of water until it's at a rolling boil before adding the powder. Whisk this quickly for two minutes (don't let it burn!) before adding 1 cup of cold water.

While it's still hot, pour small amounts of it into the tops of the molds, being careful not to go above the halfway point. However the ratio of purple-to-blue can be personalized. Also don't spill it on the counter like I did because it left a stain.

Set the trays into your fridge for about an hour. Because the amount of jello is small in the molds, it should solidify quite quickly. Here you can see it balanced upon the mountain of tortillas we have in our fridge

Once the jellies are solid enough, start making the blue color. Use the exact same ratio of boiling+cold water. I went with 1 cup so it stays nice and firm

Now this part is where especially young cadets will want a captain's help - you'll want to use a spoon over the already-solid purple layer, and pour the blue *over* the spoon. This is so the blue doesn't completely dissolve the purple, but the colors will still mix.

Here's a before-after of adding the blue layer. Be careful with the hot gelatin not to burn yourself, and wear an apron because it can get messy!

Set this layer in the fridge exactly as you did the first one. However I recommend leaving it for an extra half hour to make sure it's nice and solid. Finally, once the Murfs are ready to be removed, fill a sink or baking tray with warm (NOT HOT) water. Gently set the murf tray in the water. This allows the edges of the gelatin to come free from the mold

At this point, you can turn the tin over onto a pan or plate, or remove the jellies with a careful spoon or hand.

So there you have it, Murf Jellies and how to make them! I hope you folks have fun with this! Now if anyone needs me, I'll be snacking.

[dearemma]

i have the answer to the doctor vs nurse discourse: it's time for us to recognize the best profession christine ever had.

cookbook author:

[leonardcohenofficial]

the only thing chatgpt should be used for is creating themed cocktails based on your favorite characters

[pixiedane]

She remembered the smell of the coconut oil in the black cast-iron skillet. The sound of it catching fire. The sparks like fireflies in the backyard. 

She remembered the feel of the fork as she mashed the banana. The best ones had black spots, just overripe but not too wet, not too sweet. It was her job to press the fruit into a paste. The first ingredient to go in the bowl. 'The foundation of the recipe', that’s what her grandmother called it. "Breakfast is built on this banana. Today is built on breakfast. Your life, B’Elanna, is built on today."

They added the other ingredients on top of the mashed banana paste. She pretended it was the weather. A maple syrup flood. Flour snow. Mixed all together in a baking tornado. Then added to the pan, three at a time. More than once she was too impatient and when the pancakes flipped they fell apart in a banana mash-flour snow-oat milk ribbon mess.

But even the ugly ones tasted like home.

She handed the fork to Miral. Carefully showed her how to mash the fruit. Grinned when the child decided to do it her own way. Just like Tom. Just like her.

They created weather together. They made sparks like fireflies. They measured out three pancakes at a time. And they flipped them too soon. But even the ugly ones tasted like home.

"Breakfast is built on a banana," she told her daughter. "Today is built on breakfast. And your life, Miral, your whole beautiful life, is built on today."

Miral touched her fat, wet, banana-mush-covered hand to B’Elanna’s cheek.

Today was perfect.

written for @startrekpotluck 2023, day 7

[thunderbirdxart]

[magpieandpossum]

I'm Making a Star Trek Cookbook, and I'd Like to Hear Your Recipes!

Hi, all! As the title says, I'm in the process of designing a star trek cookbook for a graphic design final. I am aware there are at least two official ones, but I'm trying my darndest to stay away from those and make one my very own. The hardest part of making the cookbook has been coming up with an adequate amount of recipes from the show (though I'm not opposed to hearing about foods from books, comics, or other "official" media). Any help would be appreciated, especially if you can give me a picture or a description of what you think the dish would be like! I can use anything and everything <3

[carrotsofthepirabbean]

WIP Tag Game

Rules: Share a snippet from whatever you’re currently working on, and then tag 5 people.

tagged by @philtstone

Genuinely don't know 5 people I can tag so here's one and if anyone else wants to, go for it! @treacherous-vigilante A very unserious snippet from the Psych Star Trek AU, in which Shawn attends an interrogation pretending to be half-Vulcan. He's kind of terrible at it.

Captain Silva is a skinny, tall woman of about his dad’s age, with the sickest scar Shawn’s ever seen in his life stretching across the bridge of her nose and up through her right eye. Her limbs, all apparently as skinny and tall and she already is, are folded up in her seat at the table. There’s not really any way that a bundle of pipe-cleaners should rightly be able to look quite so impressive and hard-core, but she manages it.

It's unreasonable that a (suspected) tribble smuggler should seem this cool. Especially not when the (suspected) tribble smuggler's (suspected) smuggling ship in question has a lame-ass loser name like the Ostrich.

The air of uncooperativeness billowing off Captain Silva is a lesser matter. Shawn, after all, is an expert at intimidation.

“Is he gonna stop starin’ at me?”

Silva turns back to Lassiter, and Shawn takes the opportunity to blink as many times as physically possible in the microsecond period before her eyes are back on him.

“Unlikely,” Lassie says, refusing to look in Shawn’s direction.

“And does he have to be here?”

“No.”

“Yes,” drones Shawn. “I am employed by SB805’s security team as a consultant, and I must be present at this interrogation in order to effectively perform my duties.”

“Can ya at least blink? It’s freakin’ me out.”

“Vulcans have an additional internal eyelid,” Gus interjects, “and so my colleague’s eyeballs are always moist. He would consider it illogical to expend the extra energy to unnecessarily blink.”

Shawn widens his eyes, whose accompanying eyeballs are definitely no longer fucking moist.

“You’re Vulcan?” Silva’s left eyebrow shoots upwards.

Shawn ignores Lassiter’s audible scoff. “That is incorrect. I am half-Vulcan, half-Human.”

Silva gives him the once over. When her gaze returns to his face, she looks even more skeptical than before. “Ya don’t look Vulcan.”

Shawn flicks his eyes over to the window, frosted and opaque, and behind which he knows, he just knows Jules is watching. She always stands in the same place: about a metre to the right of centre, ostensibly because it’s closest to the door so she can rush in and help if so required.

(He may be privy to the information that it is actually because she can climb up onto the fixed desk so she’s at a height where the cell lights don’t reflect directly into her eyes.)

“And you do not look like a judgmental, dribbling primate and yet—”

“Spencer.”

To her credit, Silva doesn’t react to the devastating insult. Instead she settles back into her seat, arms crossed. After another moment, she kicks her feet up on the corner of the table. Her exuded coolness increases by at least a factor of three.

“Never seen a Vulcan eatin’ Cheetos. Especially not—” she squints at the packet, “—‘Mountain Dew flavour’.”

“Vulcans also have nutritional needs.”

“There’s nothin’ nutritious in that bag. It’s empty calories.”

“Actually,” Shawn argues, “it is full of calories, which therefore give me energy, which I need to stay alive. This particular variety, due to the additional caffeine, possesses six point four times the average energy in a standard Cheeto, per Cheeto.”

(He really, really hopes that Starfish the tribble(s) hasn't found the loose Cheeto he dropped outside the interrogation room and didn't have time to pick up and eat, or the Chief should, must, and will kill him.)

"Spencer,” Lassiter says feelingly, "you disgust me."

[universalcaffination]

Available now - star trek themed cook book and "bartender's guide," from fans in the 80s!

[45780]

People say that discovery is bad because "ThEy'rE UsiNG SPocKs FaMilY and NoSTalgIa OThErwIse noOne WoUld EveR liKE MiCHaeL"

Oi, stupid! That is what star trek is basically.

McCoy, Spock, Scotty and Sarek in Next Generation

References to Kirk in Entiprise.

O'Brian and Worf in DS9.

So many others that I can't even remember them all.

Just face it my dear, the only reason why you don't like Michael is either because you're Racist or Sexist. And if you are, have you ever watched star trek before???????