Supper! Strawberries and whipped cream!

We did what we set out to do. 3 movies, 7 meals, there and back again.

Dinner! Pork pie with chips!

Afternoon Tea! Seed cake and tea!

Luncheon! Cold chicken, pickles, salad, salt pork

Elevensies! Blackberry galette with whipped cream and farm cheese with honey and walnuts

Second Breakfast! Tomatoes, sausages and nice crispy bacon with eggs and mushrooms.

First Breakfast! Currant scones with raspberry jam and butter

Po-Ta-Toes

Obviously potatoes had to be on the menu. But just how they should be is crucial.

Boiled? Mashed? Stewed?

How about boiled and fried ... twice?

There was an Irish pub in my home town that had some of the most delicious chips. Proper chips. Big chunks of potatoes, basically just quartered. They were thick, and perfectly crispy and brown outside and fluffy inside.

For my fish n chips, I wanted something like those. My potatoes were small, so when I cut them into sixths, they're more steak-fry sized than chipped. But that'll do.

I always par-boil my potatoes to help soften the insides before frying. And these chips I want to be extra crispy. So I'm starting the night before and giving them a light fry before they go back in the oil to heat and crisp just before serving.

Furthermore, I had to issue an adjustment to my previous menu. The grocers were out of leeks, so I can't make potato leek soup. As such, quiche is moving to supper and bagels with lox is taking second breakfast's place. What could be better than putting more fish on the menu?

My first draft menu

This menu is going to look a lot like the Graybuck menu. One, I already planned to keep things pretty light. And two, I looked at theirs before making mine.

Previous experience taught me that it is important to pace these meals especially when I’m not used to eating as often as this. I also wanted to pick a menu that I can do substantial prep the night before to make the day a little easier.

First Breakfast: Coffee, Irish Soda Bread with jams

Second Breakfast: Mini Quiche

Elevensies: Fresh Fruits and cheese

Luncheon: Candied walnut and dried fruit salad

Afternoon Tea: Tea, Chocolate Stout Cookies

Dinner: Fish-n-Chips

Supper: Potato Leek Soup

Some recipes from the last time we did this

In September 2011, some friends got together and watched all three Lord of the Rings movies while eating seven meals inspired by The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. We decided to document our feast here: http://hobbitdayftw.blogspot.com/
Some of the recipes will be making appearances again this time around, but so will plenty of new things. I look forward to seeing what my counterparts in quarantine come up with.

Food of the Rings: an incomplete list of foods found in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit

Some of these foods are only found in the books, some are only in the movies, they are in no particular order and compiled mostly from memory, I will update when I think of more.

Seed Cake

Buttered scone

Raspberry jam

Apple tart

Mice pies

Cheese

Eggs (poached)

Cold chicken

Pickles

Pork pie

Fruit cake

Breads

Biscuits

Salad

Ham

Coffee

Tea

Ale

Porter

Wine

Hot soup

Cold meat

Blackberry tart

Ripe cheese

Tomato

Sausage

Nice crispy bacon

Mushrooms

Carrots

Dried Fruit

Dried meat

Salted pork

Honey

Cream

Maggoty bread

Pumpkin

Rabbit

Potato

Disgusting fish soup

Strawberries

Sashimi

  

Elven, dwarven, etc. food/drink

Mirovir

Lembas

Dwarvish Cram bread

Twice baked cakes of the Beornings

Orc drink

Ent draft

Menu Planning in the Graybuck household

Here's our first draft of a menu for our Hobbit feast:

First Breakfast:

Scones with butter and raspberry jam

Second Breakfast:

Full English breakfast: bacon, eggs, sausage, tomatoes, mushrooms

Elevensies:

Blackberry tart with cream, brie

Luncheon:

Cold chicken with salad and pickles, cheese

Afternoon Tea:

Seed cake, fruit cake, tea

Dinner:
Pork Pie, fried potatoes

Supper:

Cold meat and cheese, fruits and cream for dessert

Food of the Rings: Sashimi?

We're going to get into all of the foods of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, but first we need to answer an important question: is sashimi the ultimate Lord of the Rings food? I know it's not the first thing to come to mind, but lets be real, for all the long years Gollum spent deep down near the roots of the Misty Mountains, his diet consisted of two things, raw goblin and raw fish. Gollum's love of fish is well established, from fishing on the Anduin when he and Deagol found the Ring, to diving into the forbidden pool for a late night snack. Maybe it's too much to expect that some rice, ginger, maybe a little soy sauce tumbled down the goblin caverns to Gollum's pool, but he's still eating the absolute freshest raw fish he can get his filthy hands on, the foundation of top quality sushi and sashimi, and I say that makes Gollum Middle Earth's first sushiya.

I wish it need not have happened in my time...

A Hobbit Party in Quarantine

Welcome!
We're all locked down, but we won't let that get us down. We're having an all day, online Hobbit Party on April 25th, watching all 3 LotR movies in their extended editions while eating 7 meals inspired by the Lord of the Rings.
This blog is a space for us to share recipes, ideas and support, so we can still come together online, and see an end to these dark days.