Cauldrons & Casseroles

Stellagama Publishing is proud to present:

Cauldrons & Casseroles

The gamers' cookbook!

82 recipes for hungry role-players - from snacks to drinks to pies to poultry and fish! All ready for eating by hand, while playing.

As role-playing games are becoming an increasingly popular pastime and hobby for many in our current culture for quite a while, a tradition of gaming food and drinks should evolve accordingly. Cocktail parties or sport events, for instance, have evolve their own food traditions. There is no reason role-playing games shouldn't either.

Cauldrons & Casseroles presents 82 recipes for varied foodstuffs perfect for the gaming table, from snacks to pies to poultry and fish.

The dishes themselves are practically suited to the game as an activity. By being typically food items of the hand-held variety, they do not require any utensils or any other fiddly equipment and therefore function as appropriate, casual snacks.

The recipes included in this book do not follow the order of courses within a meal nor are classified according to culinary genre or ingredients. Instead, they rather follow the course of a typical fantasy role-playing adventure, with the dishes being inspired by the plot and taking place as an integral part of it. The dishes themselves are also practically suited to the game as an activity. By being typically food items of the hand-held variety, they do not require any utensils or any other fiddly equipment and therefore function as appropriate, casual snacks.

Measurements are given both in the Imperial and the Metric systems.

We hope this book will inspire all of you to sharpen your kitchen wizardry skills and make some gastronomic magic happen!

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Cauldrons & Casseroles gamers' cookbook preview - Aboleth Bites!

We at Stellagama Publishing are, as you may know, hard at work on a gamers' cookbook called Cauldrons & Casseroles. As a preview for that book, we present you with one recipe from the book: Aboleth Bites!

Aboleth bites (6 servings)

Kitchen sorcery level: 2

Another delicacy made from your enemy's dead body!

Ingredients:

1 kg/ 2 lb haddock, cod, whitebait, or any other white fish fillet meat

2 cups of breadcrumbs

1 tsp cumin

1 tsp salt

1 tsp smoked paprika

freshly ground black pepper

2 eggs, beaten

½ cup of milk

1 litre/ 2 pints of vegetable oil, for deep frying

Preparation:

1. Cut the fish fillets into 5*10 cm/ 2*4-inch pieces.
2. Place the breadcrumbs, spices and salt in a bowl and mix well. In another bowl, mix the eggs and milk. Coat the fish pieces with the egg mixture, then roll in the breadcrumbs.
3. Place the oil in a deep-frying pan, heat over a medium fire until the oil starts to bubble and fry the fish bites until golden brown. Remove the fish bites to a dish covered in kitchen paper and serve with the following dip.

Onion, honey and mustard dip

Kitchen sorcery level: 2

Ingredients:

1 onion or 4 shallots, finely chopped

1 tbsp butter

1 tbsp honey

1 tbsp smooth Dijon mustard

1/2 cup of milk

½ cup beer

1 tbsp plain flour

½ tsp salt

Preparation:

1. Place the butter in a small saucepan and heat over a medium fire until it melts. Add the onion and fry while stirring until the onion is golden in colour.
2. Add the flour and mix well. Then, very gradually add the milk while stirring constantly, to prevent lumps. Then, pour in the beer and bring the mixture to a boil.
3. Add the honey, mustard and salt, lower the heat and simmer for 5-7 minutes, or until the dip is thick enough to cover the back of a spoon.
4. Transfer to a serving dish and serve hot or cold.

In the works: Cauldrons & Casseroles: a gamer's cookbook!

Art by Hannah Saunders

We at Stellagama Publishing are now hard a work on... A gamer's cookbook! The writer is the very talented Hannah Saunders, an RPGer and superb cook, who brings to the table a wealth of recipes ready for easy consumption while gaming. From pies to spring rolls, it aims to put home-made refreshments on the gaming table

From Hannah's introduction to the book:

"For quite a while, I have believed, as a Dungeons & Dragons enthusiast and a role-playing gamer in general, that our community deserves way better refreshment than the mere Mountain Dew or coke and cheese puffs while playing our beloved games.

Me myself being both an aficionada of role-playing games and a fantasy and science-fiction fan, I have decided to dedicate a whole book to recipes inspired by those universes (or, rather, multiverses): Cauldrons and Casseroles...

Aboleth Bites

The dishes themselves are also practically suited to the game as an activity, by being typically food items of the hand-held type and do not require any utensils or any other fiddly equipment, and therefore function as appropriate, casual snacks.

In addition, the dishes have been given highly-imaginative, playful and picturesque names in order to immerse the cook even more within the experience, and to complement the course of the adventure story taking place.

As role-playing games are becoming an increasingly popular pastime and hobby for many in our current culture for quite a while, I reckon that a tradition of gaming food and drinks should evolve accordingly. Since cocktail parties or sport events, for instance, have evolve their own food traditions, there is no reason role-playing games shouldn't either...

I hope this book will inspire all of you to sharpen your kitchen wizardry skills and make some gastronomic magic happen!"

Phoenix Breast Wraps

Stay tuned!