Monday, October 10, 2011

YOU KNOW NOTHING, THOMAS KELLER: What do we like around here? Fannish devotion. Culinary challenges. And, of late anyway, George R. R. Martin. So I point you to The Inn at the Crossroads an ongoing effort to cook the way through the many dishes mentioned in a Song of Ice and Fire. A few of these recipes look pretty good, but most impressive is the list of stuff they can't -- or won't -- make:

- Roast swan stuffed with mushrooms and oysters
- Roast herons
- A great wedding pie with a hundred live doves baked within to fly out when the crust is broken
- Unborn puppies and honeyed dormice

I once ate horse proscuitto, which was pretty good. So I was disappointed to see no recipe for horse jerky or, you know, the still-beating heart of a stallion.

9 comments:

  1. Jordan7:13 AM

    I've only seen the TV show, so maybe it's missing something, but I believe the still-beating heart of a stallion is to be eaten raw.

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  2. J. Bowman8:18 AM

    Which should make the recipe all the easier to share.

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  3. Eric J.9:36 AM

    Cooking it such that it remains beating would be quite a challenge.

    This week on Top Chef: Vaes Dothrak.

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  4. Jordan9:48 AM

    Though then again, we have seen a beating heart cooked before.  Just not that of a stallion.  See: Doom, Temple of.

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  5. On Top Chef: Vaes Dothrak, you win the Quickfire Challenge, or you die!

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  6. isaac_spaceman1:45 PM

    Jesus Christ, somebody has got to tell these people what happens to EVERYBODY who takes possession of the Inn at the Crossroads.  It's the poor man's Harrenhall. 

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  7. Eric J.1:50 PM

    They take the Quick Fire very literally. You burn a small village to the ground, and make a meal of whatever you've looted.

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  8. Benner2:01 PM

    Couldn't you just use a goose for the swan/heron dishes? 

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  9. isaac_spaceman11:28 PM

    Incidentally, the recipe for the still-beating heart of a stallion is this: 

    Ingredients:
    One still-beating heart of stallion.

    Instructions:
    Remove still-beating heart of stallion from stallion.  Add salt to taste.  Eat without stopping. 

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