Between October 2017 and October 2018, I posted one recipe based on something from pop-culture each month.
I have now decided to stop.
Retiring ‘SindrElf’s monthly Geeky Recipe’
The Acid Zombie
I decided to make a mixed drink for this month’s geeky recipe, and it is naturally Halloween themed.
It is a slight variation on a mojito, with extra lime and mint leaves, topped with a frozen “brain” containing water and blackcurrant juice.
Vegan Vampire Soup
We are quickly closing in on the month of Halloween, and I wanted to reflect that in this month’s geeky recipe.
The result is a beety bloodbath of a dish, a feast fit for any vegetarian vampire, werewolf or cannibal.
Quelaag Omelette
For this month’s geeky recipe I decided to make a quail-egg omelette, based on the Chaos Witch Quelaag, a Dark Souls boss.
NSP’s Ultimate Sandwich Recipe
This summer I have made a fair amount of posts featuring ‘Ninja Sex Party’ songs in anticipation of their new album ‘Cool Patrol’, so I decided that this months geeky recipe might just aswell be NSP themed.
Cthulhu Pasta
For this months geeky recipe I decided I would cook the cosmic horror known as Cthulhu.
That is not dish which can eternal lie, and after strange aeons even death may dine.
The Recipe
Serves three Innsmouthians.
1. Tenderise 300 grams of octopus, either by beating the crap out of it, or by freezing and thawing it.
Chop it in pieces and boil it until it is tender, for about 20 to 45 minutes.
Or just buy it tinned.
2. Make octopus ragù.
You can do this by using a normal bolognaise recipe, but exchange the meat with octopus.
3. Boil 250 grams of fresh tagliatelle pasta.
During the last few minutes of boiling, add 120 grams of chopped kale.
It is possible to replace the kale with seaweed.
4. Fry up 130 grams of diced smoked bacon.
5. Plate up, and add a few cherry tomato halves and a bit of grated parmigiano on top.
In his sauce of R’ag
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McDuck Breast
For this month’s geeky recipe, I decided to make a dish based on Disney’s Scrooge McDuck!
I have previously expressed my love for the Scottish trillionair duck’s comic books here, but what is even better than reading about Donald Duck’s uncle, is eating him!
For when the people have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.
And this is the richest tasting duck in the world!
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For two portions:
The Duck
1. Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F.
2. Cut a large carrot up in sticks, then dice a few cloves of garlic.
3. Cut small squares in the skin of approximately 400 gram of duck breast, while trying to avoid cutting in the meat.
4. Put salt and pepper on both sides of the duck breast, then fry the skin side in a bit of butter for three minutes, along with the garlic cloves.
5. Place a cooking thermometer in the middle of the breast.
6. Place the breast and the carrot sticks in the oven for about 25 minutes, until the thermometer shows 60°C/140°F.
7. Let the duck rest for ten minutes before you cut it into slices. The temperature should start to close in on 68°C/155°F before you cut it.
‘The Greens’
1. While waiting for the meat to finish, fry up two handfuls of kale. Once the kale has shrunken, add a handful of cashew nuts.
2. During the last ten minutes, while the meat is resting, bake two tomato halves and a few golden physalis berries in the oven at 150°C/300°F.
The Scotch Sauce
1. Add two deciliters of ox stock and a tablespoon of Scotch whiskey to the pan that was used for frying the duck. Bring it to a boil.
2. Stir in a tablespoon of flour, to let the sauce thicken.
3. Taste with salt, pepper and more Scotch.
And there you have it!
A perfect meal for a summer evening!
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Goomba Gumbo
Lately, I’ve been playing a lot of Super Mario Odyssey, and that has inspired me to make a dish based on Mario’s mushroom enemies, The Goombas, for this month’s geeky recipe.
Deconstructed Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars – Bar
As March is the month of the Roman god Mars, I decided that for this months geeky recipe, a deconstructed mars-bar would do nicely.
And what better geeky Mars-related property to choose, than Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars-trilogy of books; “Red Mars”, “Green Mars” and “Blue Mars”?
I deconstructed the mars-bar by making a red nougat ice cream, green caramel sauce and blue chocolate cookie crumbles.
Look,
I’m not gonna pretend this was an unmitigated success
The Cass Casserole with PBJ Sauce
For last month’s geeky recipe I made The Scully Burger, based on FBI-agent Dana Scully, from The X-Files.
I think it is only natural to move from The X-Files to Supernatural, just like many of the creative minds behind that show did.
In Supernatural, Castiel is an angel who sometimes helps the main characters, Sam and Dean Winchester, who sometimes call him “Cass” for short.
As an Angel he does not normally eat, but at different times during the show’s run he has gotten in particular situations where he could or has had to eat.
For this casserole recipe, I have tried to incorporate some of the things he has enjoyed eating in those situations.
It is, as a result, a mess.
The Casserole
1. Make a burger patty mix, with whatever ingredients you prefer.
I used 400 grams of ground beef, an egg, half an onion, garlic, salt, pepper and cumin.
2. Cover the bottom and sides of a greased up casserole with the burger patty.
3. Boil 200 grams of angel hair pasta, then remove the water.
If you can’t get angel hair pasta, use spaghetti.
4. Make a simple tomato sauce.
I just boiled up 400 grams of diced tomato, added a handful of parmesan, and some salt and pepper.
5. Mix the sauce and pasta, and pour it in the casserole.
6. Cover the casserole with a few handfuls of crushed pork rinds that will act as the crust.
7. Let it all bake in the middle of the oven, at 200°C/400°F for 30 minutes.
The PBJ Sauce
1. Put two spoons of peanut butter, and one spoons of red-currant jelly, in a pot.
2. As you start boiling it, add one deciliter of milk and a spoon of butter.
3. Boil, then spice it up!
Serve the Cass’erole with a salad and some PBJ sauce on the side.
The Scully-Burger
“Mulder, mushrooms aren’t medication.
They taste good on hamburgers, but they don’t raise the dead.”
– Dana Scully
Fans of the television show The X-Files may have noticed that
FBI-agent Dana Scully really likes mushroom.
Happy New Year! 2018, woooo!
2017 has been weird. But for myself it has been pretty great.
Me and my girlfriend bought and moved into our own apartment, as opposed to renting. It has resulted in some furniture shopping,but not more than I can handle 😉
I won Best New Designer for my card game in the yearly Print&Play-contest on Board Game Geek.
And due to that; I started this blog! As a result I have now started doing some other projects I have had on my mind for quite some time, like making (and featuring) recipes based on pop-culture.
So overall, pretty good year for me!
Better than for a lot of other people, judging by the news. Hopefully, next year will be better 🙂
Now I have some nyttårsbukk-candy leftovers to devour 😉
How did 2017 treat you?