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Showing posts with label Game of Thrones Food Recipes. Show all posts

Friday

Sansa Stark's Favorite?: Dorne Lemon-Egg Soup- Game of Thrones Food Recipes

 

Try this comforting, aromatic and silky-smooth soup. Absolutely lovely even hot or cold. It is a delight with the crunch of a toast, flat bread or any other type of bread. The soup dish is a wonderful soup that would be well suited to Dorne.

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Sansa's delight for lemon-egg soup and lemon cakes is obvious in context: citrus fruits such as lemons don't grow in the North, and with medieval system of food transport and preservation being what they are, lemon cakes and lemon-egg soup are actually a relatively expensive delicacy for those living in the North. Dorne in the far south is the only region of the Seven Kingdoms where citrus fruits like lemon grow, distant away from Winterfell.

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Lemon Health Benefits

The health benefits of lemons are due to its many beneficial elements like vitamin C, vitamin B, phosphorous, proteins, and carbohydrates. Lemon is a fruit that contains flavonoids, which are composites that contain antioxidant and cancer fighting properties.

Lemons contain numerous phytochemicals, including polyphenols, terpenes, and tannins. As with other citrus fruits, they have significant concentrations of citric acid (about 47 g/l in the juices).

Egg Nutrition

Eggs are a very good source of cheap, high quality protein. Eggs are regarded a complete source of protein as they contain all eight essential amino acids; the ones we cannot synthesize in our bodies and must obtain from our diet.

More than half the protein of an egg is found in the egg white along with vitamin B2 and lower amounts of fat and cholesterol than the yolk. The whites are rich sources of selenium, vitamin D, B6, B12 and minerals such as zinc, iron and copper.

Don't worry about cholesterol. Organizations like the American Heart Association (AHA) allow for regular consumption of eggs in a meal plan. A United Kingdom (UK) scientific research shows that a medium egg contains about 100mg of cholesterol, a third of the 300mg recommended daily limit. Keep in mind that  it is saturated fat in the diet, not dietary cholesterol that influences blood cholesterol levels the most.

If you do decide to consider the addition of eggs to your meal plan, we encourage you to take a close look at your overall diet. Could it use more protein? If so, eggs might make sense.

How to Check If the Eggs You Bought is Still Fresh

1) Did you see the cloudiness of egg whites? The white of a fresh egg is naturally cloudy. you can generally use the cloudiness of the egg white to help verify freshness, with cloudy whites indicating fresh eggs.

2) The egg yolk or egg white may have red or brown fragments in it. These “blood spots” and “meat spots” are harmless bits of tissue and are allowed in commercial Grade B eggs. If they look unappealing, the spots can be removed with a spoon before cooking.

3) If you aren’t sure how old an egg is, you can submerge it in water. A fresh egg will sink in water, a stale one will float. Floaters should either be discarded immediately.

4) Did you observed pinkish egg whites? If the egg white has a pinkish color, it is usually a sign of bacterial contamination, and the bacterium most often involved is Pseudomonas. You should discard eggs if you find pinkish whites inside.

5) The yolk of a chicken egg may be any shade from pale yellow to orange, depending on what the chicken has eaten. The color is usually consistent if hens are fed only one type of feed, but free range chickens or foraging hens and those fed kitchen scraps will often produce a variety of yolk colors.

How to Prevent Eggs from Rotting for Weeks

1) When refrigerating eggs, do not wash them as this can remove their protective coating. Keep them in their original covered container or carton in a so that they do not absorb odors or lose any moisture.

2) Eggs are best stored in the refrigerator where they may remain for up to one month (check the best-before-date on the box).

3) Do not store them in the refrigerator door egg-rack since this exposes them to too much heat each time the refrigerator is opened and closed. Store them using their original container. Make sure to store them with their pointed end facing downward as this will help to prevent the air chamber, and the yolk, from being displaced.


Lemon-Egg Soup Recipe

The modern recipe is essentially a version of the traditional Greek avgolemono (you can get the recipe here click, Awesome Egg and Lemon Soup- Soupa Avgolemono- Greek Food Recipes). The egg is whisked into the soup, giving it a remarkably creamy texture, especially for something without a speck of dairy.


Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes quick
Serves: 3 to 4 awesome people


INGREDIENTS:

2 tablespoons olive oil
2 shallots, thinly sliced
1/2 cup finely chopped carrot
3 cups chicken broth
1/2 cup orzo
Grated zest from 1 lemon
Juice from 1/2 lemon
1 large egg
Chopped parsley for garnish
Ground sumac for garnish (optional)


COOKING PROCEDURE:

1) In a small saucepan, bring the olive oil up to medium heat.

2) Add the shallots and carrot, and cook until the carrot pieces are soft, about 5 minutes, keeping an eye on the shallots so they don’t burn. Set the pan aside.

3) In a medium pot, bring the broth to a boil, then reduce the heat slightly and add the orzo.

4) Let the broth and orzo simmer until the pasta is cooked through but not too soft, around 8 minutes.

5) In a separate bowl, whisk together the lemon zest, juice, and egg until smooth. While whisking furiously, slowly pour a ladle of the hot broth into the lemon and egg mixture; this will cook the egg without scrambling it.

6) Then pour the hot egg mixture into the pot with the broth and pasta, whisking for approximately 30 seconds to combine.

7) Remove the pot from the heat.

8) Ladle the soup into serving bowls, then heap the cooked carrots and shallots on top.

9) Sprinkle with a little parsley for color—and ground sumac for flavor, if desired—and enjoy!

Quick Tips:

You can top this soup with a bit of ground sumac, which is slightly lemony on its own, but with earthier undertones that meld well with the other, simpler flavors present.


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References:


Davidson, Alan, Jane Davidson, Helen Saberi and Tom Jaine (Editor). 2014. The Oxford Companion to Food (Oxford Companions). OUP Oxford; 3 edition. ASIN: B00OZUSPGM

Djousse L and Gaziano JM. Egg consumption in relation to cardiovascular disease and mortality: the Physicians' Health Study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008 Apr;87(4):964-9.

Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). April 2011. Shell eggs from farm to table. United States Department of Agriculture.

Longbotham, Lori. 2002. Lemon Zest: More Than 175 Recipes with a Twist. Broadway; 1 edition. ISBN-10: 0767906179

Monroe-Cassel, Chelsea. 2015. From the Sands of Dorne: A Feast of Ice & Fire Companion Cookbook. Bantam. ASIN: B00R04ME8K

Ruhlman, Michael. 2014. Egg: A Culinary Exploration of the World's Most Versatile Ingredient. Little, Brown and Company. ASIN: B00ECE9NCQ

Tuesday

Healthy Vegan Leek Soup Modern Recipe- Game of Thrones Food Recipes

 

Modern Leek Soup Recipe

Leek soup is a soup based on potatoes, leeks, broth (usually chicken), and heavy cream (optional). Other ingredients used may be salt and pepper, and various spices.

Generally the potatoes are diced and cooked in broth, while the leeks are chopped and sautéed. After this all ingredients are combined and stirred. Chives may be used for garnish.

The addition of potatoes to this relatively modern recipe results in a creamy, rich texture that shows off the leeks to their best advantage. Thick and hearty, this soup is an ideal cold-weather comfort food.

Leek soup is strongly associated with Wales, and is an important item of Welsh cuisine. In Romania, this soup is popular and known as Ciorbă de praz.


The wedding feast began with a thin leek soup, followed by a salad of green beans, onions, and beets.… 
—A STORM OF SWORDS

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Serves 4
Preparation: 5 minutes
Cooking: 45 minutes

Pairs well with Crusty White Bread, Almond Crusted Trout, Traditional-style Oatcakes

INGREDIENTS:

4 tablespoons (½ stick) unsalted butter
2 leeks (white and light green parts only), well washed and chopped into thin rings
1 small onion, peeled and finely chopped
2 large potatoes, peeled and chopped
4 cups chicken broth
Salt and ground black pepper to taste
Chopped fresh parsley for garnish


COOKING PROCEDURE:

1) Heat 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. 

2) Add the chopped leeks and onion and cook, stirring, for about 5 minutes, or until the vegetables are soft but not brown.

3) Add the potatoes and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes, then add the chicken broth. 

4) Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat, cover, and allow to simmer for 35 minutes.

5) Using either a potato masher or an immersion blender, puree the soup until all the chunks of potato break down. 

6) Add the remaining butter. Season with salt and pepper, and garnish with parsley.

7) To round out your meal, serve with a piece of hearty, whole-grain bread.


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Quick Cooking Tips:

Watch and observe Test kitchen director Ruth Cousineau demonstrates a foolproof method for trimming, chopping, and washing leeks; you should try it when you make this creamy leek soup.




Watch this video: Leek and potato soup recipe version of Chef Marco Pierre White as he stirs up a treat with his creamy soup. One of the youngest chef ever to have been awarded three Michelin stars.

This simple soup is an old favorite, and only uses a handful of ingredients to make, including chicken stock made from chicken stock, onions, leeks, potatoes and chives, and strained through a fine sieve to make it silky smooth. Best served with warm crusty bread for a real rustic experience. 





References:

Have you tried Tyrion Lannister's favorite lamprey pie, or Daenerys Targaryen mouth-watering honeyfingers? Then you are missing a lot! 

Taste the food at the King's Landing. Buy the A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook at Amazon.com using this link and you get a 10% discount and FREE shipping if you order the hardcover version.

Brewster, James L. 2008. Onions and other vegetable alliums (2nd ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI International. ISBN 978-1-84593-399-9.

Grigson, Jane. 1978. Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book. Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-046859-5.


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Excerpted from A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer. Copyright © 2012 by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer. Excerpted by permission of Bantam, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

Monday

Honeyed Chicken Medieval Recipe- Game of Thrones Food Recipes

 

A tasty and healthy favorite food that you can easily make right at home – and the homemade version tastes a hundred  times better!

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“Hungry again?” he asked. There was still half a honeyed chicken in the center of the table. Jon reached out to tear off a leg, then had a better idea. He knifed the bird whole and let the carcass slide to the floor between his legs. Ghost ripped into it in savage silence.
—A GAME OF THRONES

Serves 3 to 4   
Preparation: 15 minutes
Sauce: 30 minutes   
Cooking: 1 to 1½ hours

Pairs well with Crusty White Bread, Modern Turnips in Butter, mead

This dish has a Northern feel. The apples, vinegar, honey, and dried berries invoke the chill of frosty evenings spent in the warm feast hall of Winterfell. The sauce reduces down to a thick, syrupy consistency, which melts enticingly when drizzled over the hot chicken. The dried fruits soak up the sauce and are bursting with flavor by the time they grace your plate.


INGREDIENTS:

1 whole chicken for roasting, about 6 pounds
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
Salt
1 cup apple cider vinegar
¾ cup honey
1 to 2 teaspoons mint, dried or fresh, chopped
½ cup currants, raisins, dried cherries, dried cranberries, etc.
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
Preheat the oven to 450°F.

COOKING PROCEDURE:

1) Pat the chicken dry, then rub it down with melted butter and sprinkle with salt. This will make the skin crispy and delicious. 

2) Cook for approximately 1 hour, or until the juices run clear when you pierce the thigh meat with a sharp knife and the breast meat is no longer pink.

3) While your chicken is roasting, combine all the remaining ingredients in a saucepan and allow the sauce to simmer until the dried fruit plumps and the sauce reduces to half its original volume, about 30 minutes. 

4) When the chicken is done, spread half the sauce and currants over the bird and reserve the other half to serve as gravy.


CALORIE COUNTER: Honeyed Chicken

Nutritional Facts
1 serving (1 each) equals 351 calories, 16 g fat (8 g saturated fat), 121 mg cholesterol, 385 mg sodium, 19 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 34 g protein. 



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Reference:

Have you tried Tyrion Lannister's favorite lamprey pie, or Daenerys Targaryen mouth-watering honeyfingers? Then you are missing a lot! 

If you are a true fan of the critically-acclaimed Game of Thrones HBO TV series. You should taste some of the food if not all in the TV Series.

Taste the food at the King's Landing. Buy the A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook at Amazon.com using this link and you get a 10% discount and FREE shipping if you order the hardcover version. More than a hundred authentic recipes in the book for your enjoyment.


Watch cooking video: How to Make Honeyed Chicken




8 Surefire Tips for Buying Fresh Chicken



1) Check the "sell-by" date, if properly refrigerated, it should remain fresh 2-3 days after that date. A "use-by" date, indicates the meat should be cooked or frozen by that date.

2) When buying your chicken meat from the supermarket, make certain that you do all your other shopping first and that you select the chicken meat last, just before reaching the check-out, as this will reduce the amount of time the chicken meat is spent outside of the fridge or freezer. 

3) On choosing chicken from the meat department, look for packaging that does not contain any holes or tears and make sure that the chicken meat is cool to the touch, so that you are certain that it has been adequately stored.

4) Check the chicken meat color. Fresh chicken is pink. Veer away from any bird that has grayish meat or transparent looking skin, which is a sign that it's been sitting around in the supermarket freezer for a while. Be sure to peek in the crevices, like under the wings and thighs. It's also important to examine the chicken skin for any tears or signs of rough handling. Damaged  skin and chicken meat tend to deteriorates faster.

5) Choose plump-looking pieces, appearance is important. Look for skins that are not transparent or patchy in appearance

6) Press against the chicken. Fresh chicken meat has skin that springs back when you press against it. If the skin sinks, or feels hard, the meat has been sitting around for a long time. You also need to check if the chicken feels bloated, a sure sign that it's been injected with water to fool customers into thinking that it's heavier than it really is.

7) If you are buying a frozen bird from the supermarket, it should be extremely hard to touch and show no signs of freezer damage. If ice crystals are present on the surface of the packaging, it means that the poultry has been stored at temperatures that are much too cold.

8) Smell the chicken meat. Fresh chicken should have no smell. You'll know rotting chicken when you smell it, but since your nose can be desensitized from inhaling the odors of spices (or other things sold in the supermarket or farmer's market) buy your chicken first.



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Excerpted from A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer. Copyright © 2012 by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer. Excerpted by permission of Bantam, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

Friday

Tyroshi Honeyfingers Medieval Recipe- Game of Thrones Food Recipes

 

“[W]e seldom had enough coin to buy anything … well, except for a sausage now and again, or honeyfingers … do they have honeyfingers in the Seven Kingdoms, the kind they bake in Tyrosh?” 
—A GAME OF THRONES


Where is Tyrosh?

Tyrosh is one of the most powerful of the Free Cities ("Tyroshi" is pronounced "Ti-ROH-shee". "Tyrosh" is pronounced "Ti-ROHsh"). It is said to dwarf Sunspear in size. It is reported to be boisterous and loud, with a large harbor guarded by the Bleeding Tower. Tyrosh is one of the Free Cities located to the east of Westeros. It is situated on an island off the southwestern coast of Essos, in the Narrow Sea. It is located at the eastern end of the Stepstones, an island chain that extends from Essos to Westeros, which according to legend used to be a land-bridge linking the two continents. Therefore, Tyrosh is the closest of the Free Cities to Westeros, located not far from Dorne and the Stormlands (fairly close to the island of Tarth).

Due to its central location - between Westeros and the other Free Cities, at the middle latitude of the Free Cities between Braavos in the north and Volantis to the south, and its proximity to constant wars between Lys and Myr in the Disputed Lands - Tyrosh is often seen as a major world hub for hiring the services of various professional mercenary companies, to serve in the various conflicts of these different regions. Tyrosh is also well-known for its pear-brandy.

Notable Tyroshi

Daario Naharis, a Tyroshi mercenary. Daario Naharis, former lieutenant and now captain of the Second Sons, a sellsword company, now sworn to Daenerys Targaryen. The people of Tyrosh are called Tyroshi. They love loud and garish colors. They are known for their creation of ornate armor and elaborate torture devices. Pear brandy is an export of the city. Slaves and mercenaries are commonly hired there. Tyroshi have a reputation of being insatiably greedy. They speak a bastardized version of High Valyrian.


Roman Honeyfingers

piper, nucleos, mel, rutam et passum teres, cum lacte et tracta coques. coagulum coque cum modicis ovis … ita ut durissimam pultem facias, deinde in patellam expandis. cum refrixerit, concidis quasi dulcia et frigis in oleo optimo. levas, perfundis mel, piper aspargis et inferes. melius feceris, si lac pro aqua miseris.
—APICIUS, 4TH CENTURY

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Makes 30 to 40 honeyfingers
Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking: 20 minutes

Pairs well with Beet Soup, Rack of Lamb, Iced Milk with Honey

This recipe is a curiosity. The honeyfingers fry to a crispy crunch on the outside while remaining a bit chewy on the inside. The pieces are easy to cut into shapes, and could probably even be rolled into logs. The flavor is really all about the honey, but the pepper and cinnamon on top, as well as the pine nuts, add a slight complexity.


INGREDIENTS:

⅛ cup plus ¾ cup flour
1 cup whole milk (goat or cow)
Olive oil
2 tablespoons cooking sherry or sweet wine
1 egg, beaten
⅓ cup pine nuts, finely chopped
Cinnamon to taste
Ground black pepper to taste
1 cup honey, or more if needed
Chopped pine nuts for garnish


PROCEDURE:

1) In a medium saucepan, whisk the ⅔ cup flour a little at a time into the cold milk so that there are no lumps

2) Add 1 tablespoon of the oil and the sherry, and cook on medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until a thick porridge forms. 

3) Remove the pan from the heat and continue to stir briskly to cool the mixture.

4) When the porridge is lukewarm, add the egg and stir briskly until it is blended. Stir in the pine nuts and a dash of cinnamon and pepper. 

5) Stir in the remaining ¾ cup flour to make a dough that is sticky but can still be handled.

6) On a floured board with floured hands, press the dough out to a ½-inch-thick rectangle; cut it into finger-size strips.

7) Cover the bottom of a frying pan with a layer of olive oil about ½ inch deep. Heat the oil and fry the strips of dough until they are golden brown and crispy. 

8) Remove the fried strips to a plate covered with paper towels to drain. 

9) Dip them in honey and sprinkle them with cinnamon and pine nuts.


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CALORIE COUNTER: Tyroshi Honeyfingers

Nutrition Information, per serving (4 servings) 
Calories
857
Carbohydrates
110 g (37%)
Fat
45 g (69%)
Protein
10 g (20%)
Saturated Fat
7 g (34%)
Sodium
50 mg (2%)
Polyunsaturated Fat
8 g
Fiber
2 g (9%)
Monounsaturated Fat
27 g
Cholesterol
53 mg (18%)



Reference:

Have you tried Tyrion Lannister's favorite lamprey pie, or Daenerys Targaryen mouth-watering honeyfingers? Then you are missing a lot! 

If you are a true fan of the critically-acclaimed Game of Thrones HBO TV series. You should taste some of the food if not all in the TV Series.

Taste the food at the King's Landing. Buy the A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook at Amazon.com using this link and you get a 10% discount and FREE shipping if you order the hardcover version.



Have you tasted the Pulled Pork Parfait Original Recipe at Miller Park?

Are you interested in Culinary Physics? Watch the FREE video tutorials at Culinary Physics Lecture Series.


Excerpted from A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer. Copyright © 2012 by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer. Excerpted by permission of Bantam, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

Thursday

Sansa Lemon Cakes Medieval Recipe- Game of Thrones Food Recipes

 

Olenna Tyrell: "Shall we have some lemon cakes?"

Sansa Stark: "Lemon cakes are my favorite."

Olenna Tyrell: "So we've been told."
— Olenna Tyrell and Sansa Stark during their first meeting.


Later came sweetbreads and pigeon pie and baked apples fragrant with cinnamon and lemon cakes frosted in sugar, but by then Sansa was so stuffed that she could not manage more than two little lemon cakes, as much as she loved them.
—A GAME OF THRONES


Lemon cakes are a kind of sweet baked dessert, made using lemons. They are typically served as small cakes, held and eaten with one hand (as opposed to a larger cake requiring utensils). Lemon cakes are relatively expensive treats enjoyed by upper-class noblewomen of the Seven Kingdoms, where they are a mainstay at the refined social gatherings of noble courts.

Lemon cakes are Sansa Stark's favorite food. Lord Robert Arryn loves lemon cakes too, perhaps because Alayne Stone does.

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, a running joke is that Sansa Stark is obsessed with lemon cakes. They are a delicacy enjoyed by refined "proper" ladies at court, and Sansa can think of nothing better in the world than the paragon of "lady-like" pursuits: a social gathering with major noblewoman wearing extravagant dresses, reclining on feather pillows, sipping tea and gossiping while eating lemon cakes.

Thus in many ways lemon cakes come to symbolize Sansa's concepts of what normal, glamorous court-life is like: she wanted nothing more than to have lemon cakes and tea with Queen Cersei while chatting about her proposed marriage to her son Joffrey.

Sansa's obsession with lemon cakes is also more understandable in context: citrus fruits such as lemons don't grow in the North, and with medieval methods of food transport and preservation being what they are, lemon cakes are actually a relatively expensive treat for those living in the North. Dorne in the far south is the only region of the Seven Kingdoms where citrus fruits grow, far away from Winterfell.


Elizabethan Lemon Cakes

To Make Lemon Cakes. ½ lb flour, ½ lb fine sugar, the peel of two lemons, or one large one; 3 oz. butter; 3 eggs; ½ the whites.

Break the butter into the flour and stir them with a knife. Make them the bigness of a gingerbread button. Grate the lemon peel with a piece of the sugar. Butter the tins. Take them of the tins whilst warm. Place them upon the tins about 2 inches distance because they spread in the oven. Two minutes will bake them.
—LUCAYOS COOKBOOK, 1690

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Makes 36 small cakes
Preparation: 5 minutes
Baking: 15 minutes

Pairs well with Roasted Boar, Leek Soup, Iced Green Minty Drink

Falling somewhere between cakes and cookies, these chewy lemon delights are both addictive and easy to make. They have an elegant simplicity and a delicate sweetness that renders them the ideal companions for afternoon tea, whether in London or King’s Landing.


INGREDIENTS:

2½ cups flour, plus more as needed
2 cups granulated sugar
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
Grated zest from 2 lemons
1 egg
2 egg yolks
⅓ cup confectioners’ sugar
1½ teaspoons milk


BAKING PROCEDURE:

1) Preheat the oven to 350°F and grease a large baking sheet.

2) In a large bowl, combine the flour and granulated sugar.

3) Cut in the butter, then add the zest and the whole egg and yolks.

4) Mix thoroughly, adding more flour as needed, until the dough is no longer sticky and can be easily shaped by hand.

5) Roll the dough into balls about 1 inch across and place them on the prepared baking sheet at least 2 inches apart, giving them room to spread as they bake.

6) Bake for 15 minutes, until the tops are just slightly golden. Allow the cakes to cool for a minute before moving them to a cooling rack.

7) Mix the confectioners’ sugar and milk to a smooth consistency.

8) Once the cakes have cooled, use a spoon to drizzle the icing over the cookies.


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Reference:

Have you tried Tyrion Lannister's favorite lamprey pie, or Daenerys Targaryen mouth-watering honeyfingers? Then you are missing a lot!

If you are a true fan of the critically-acclaimed Game of Thrones HBO TV series. You should taste some of the food if not all in the TV Series.

Taste the food at the King's Landing. Buy the A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook at Amazon.com using this link and you get a 10% discount and FREE shipping if you order the hardcover version. More than a hundred authentic recipes in the book for your enjoyment.


Watch cooking video: How-To Make Lemon Cake: Game of Thrones Special
Sexy FoodtoEat chef, Jane Poretsky, teaches us how to make lemon cakes, inspired by the Game of Thrones series.



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Excerpted from A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer. Copyright © 2012 by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer. Excerpted by permission of Bantam, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

Wednesday

Healthy Leek Soup Recipe- Game of Thrones Food Recipes

 

The wedding feast began with a thin leek soup, followed by a salad of green beans, onions, and beets.…
—A STORM OF SWORDS


Medieval Leek Soup

Take funges and pare hem clere and dyce hem. Take leke and shrede hym small and do hym to seeþ in gode broth. Colour it with safron and do þer inne powdour fort.
—FORME OF CURY, 14TH CENTURY

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Serves 2 to 3
Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking: 5 minutes

Pairs well with White Beans and Bacon, Medieval Cheese-and-Onion Pie, dry white wine or cider


This recipe is quick to prepare, and the resulting broth has a bit of kick from the pepper and ginger. It’s wonderfully fresh-tasting; paired with a chunk of sourdough bread, it’s perfect for a spring evening’s dinner.


INGREDIENTS:

2 cups beef or chicken broth
6 threads saffron, or a pinch of ground saffron
1 leek (white and light green parts only), well washed and thinly sliced
1½ cups mushrooms, diced
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
¼ teaspoon salt
Pinch of Poudre Forte


COOKING PROCEDURE:

1) Place the broth in a medium saucepan.

2) Add the saffron and bring the liquid to a boil.

3) Add the leek, mushrooms, ginger, pepper, salt, and poudre forte to the broth, simmer for 3 to 4 minutes, then remove from the heat and serve.


What is Leek?

The leek is a vegetable that belongs, along with onion and garlic, to the genus Allium, currently placed in family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Allioideae. Historically many scientific names were used for leeks, which are now treated as cultivars of Allium ampeloprasum. Two related vegetables, elephant garlic and Kurrat, are also cultivars of A. ampeloprasum, although different in their uses as food.

The edible part of the leek plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a stem or stalk.

Leeks have a mild onion-like taste. In its raw state, the vegetable is crunchy and firm. The edible portions of the leek are the white base of the leaves (above the roots and stem base), the light green parts, and to a lesser extent the dark green parts of the leaves. One of the most popular uses is for adding flavor to stock. The dark green portion is usually discarded because it has a tough texture, but it can be sauteed or added to stock. A few leaves are sometimes tied with twine and other herbs to form a bouquet garni.

Leeks are typically chopped into slices 5–10 mm thick. The slices have a tendency to fall apart, due to the layered structure of the leek. The different ways of preparing the vegetable are:

1) Boiled, which turns it soft and mild in taste. (Care should be taken to chop the vegetable, or else the intact fibers that run the length of the vegetable will tangle into a ball while chewing.)

2) Fried, which leaves it crunchier and preserves the taste.

3) Raw, which can be used in salads, doing especially well when they are the prime ingredient.

In Turkish cuisine, leeks are chopped into thick slices, then boiled and separated into leaves and finally filled with a filling usually containing rice, herbs (generally parsley and dill), onion and black pepper. For sarma with olive oil, currants, pine nuts and cinnamon are added and for sarma with meat, minced meat is added to the filling. In Turkey, especially "Zeytinyağlı pırasa" (leek with olive oil), "Ekşili pırasa (sour leek), "Etli pırasa" (leek with meat), "Pırasa Musakka"(leek musakka), "Pırasalı börek (börek with leek) and "Pırasa köftesi" leek meatball are also cooked.

Leeks are an ingredient of cock-a-leekie soup, leek and potato soup, and vichyssoise, as well as plain leek soup.

Because of their symbolism in Wales, they have come to be used extensively in that country’s cuisine. Elsewhere in Britain, leeks have come back into favor only in the last 50 years or so, having been overlooked for several centuries.


Historical Consumption of Leek as Vegetable

Bible commentators attribute the חציר specimen - acclaimed by the Israelites to be of abundance in Egypt - as the leek.(Glantz, Animal and plant life in the Torah, חי וצומח בתורה .) Dried specimens from archaeological sites in ancient Egypt, as well as wall carvings and drawings, led Zohary and Hopf to conclude the leek was a part of the Egyptian diet from at least the second millennium BCE onwards. They also allude to surviving texts that show it had been also grown in Mesopotamia from the beginning of the second millennium BCE. The leek was the favorite vegetable of the Emperor Nero, who consumed it in soup or in oil, believing it beneficial to the quality of his voice.


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References:

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Brewster, James L. 2008. Onions and other vegetable alliums (2nd ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI International. ISBN 978-1-84593-399-9.

Grigson, Jane. 1978. Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book. Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-046859-5.

Librarie Larousse, ed. 1984. Larousse Gastronomique: The World's Greatest Cooking Encyclopedia. The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited.

Zohary,  Daniel and Maria Hopf. 2000. Domestication of plants in the Old World, third edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.



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CALORIE COUNTER: Leek Soup
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Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy
255 kJ (61 kcal)
Carbohydrates
14.15 g
Sugars
3.9 g
Dietary fiber
1.8 g
Fat
0.3 g
Protein
1.5 g
Vitamins

Vitamin A equiv.
beta-carotene
lutein zeaxanthin
(10%) 83 μg (9%) 1000 μg 1900 μg
Thiamine (B1)
(5%) 0.06 mg
Riboflavin (B2)
(3%) 0.03 mg
Niacin (B3)
(3%) 0.4 mg
Pantothenic acid (B5)
(3%) 0.14 mg
Vitamin B6
(18%) 0.233 mg
Folate (B9)
(16%) 64 μg
Vitamin C
(14%) 12 mg
Vitamin E
(6%) 0.92 mg
Vitamin K
(45%) 47 μg
Trace metals

Calcium
(6%) 59 mg
Iron
(16%) 2.1 mg
Magnesium
(8%) 28 mg
Manganese
(23%) 0.481 mg
Phosphorus
(5%) 35 mg
Potassium
(4%) 180 mg
Other constituents

Water
83 g

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