A pair of proud-looking kimeti beckon you toward them. Well, the buck beckons -
"Hello - I'm Westward Bound, and this is Time to Go. We're representatives from Westfen. In the spirit of...winter," he begins, looking rather awkward about the whole thing. "In the spirit of winter, we decided we might foster some cultural exchange so that we might all survive better through the most difficult season. Share with us a winter meal of yours and we'll - well, Time to Go will give you some tokens." He pauses, as though he's waiting for Time to Go to chime in. She does not chime in.
It's Westward Bound's job to finish off, then. "Ah - what's important is that it's a meal, and we'll give you tokens as long as it fulfills that criteria. But...there might be some prizes in it for you if you perform especially well."
Prizes
All participants will receive a number of tokens based on the dice roll - check the mechanics post below. You may only collect tokens if your post contains a valid entry - an in-character recipe with optional image. One grand prize winner will receive a phoenix kiss fancy box, and a second prize winner will receive a Baneful bag.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 8:32 pm
Each kin will create a dish and describe the recipe to the two judges - Westward Bound and Time to Go.
Time to Go is in charge of giving each participant consolation tokens. Unfortunately, her tastes are a little eclectic, and she absolutely refuses to talk - so she drops the tokens in front of you with absolutely no explanation.
To participate, first roll 3d6 in one post and compare your results to the tables below. The recipe your kin creates will need to match the prompts you've rolled (but you are free to add whatever sorts of other details you'd like - exact herbs/vegetables/meats used, et cetera). The amount of tokens you receive is based purely on your results - add the amounts for all three rolls to see how many tokens you get.
FIRST D6
Serving Size Your recipe is delightful, but even though it can serve a lot of kin, all of the ingredients are either hard to acquire in the winter or hard to acquire in the swamp, which makes it less than ideal. +1 token Your recipe isn't that huge, but it's easy to mass-produce. +2 tokens Your dish serves a large amount of kin but requires a bit more skill at hunting or gathering to make, which makes it less accessible to most kin. +2 tokens Your recipe doesn't make as much food as some of the others do, but it wastes nothing, which makes it great for when food is scarce. +2 tokens Your recipe is sufficient to serve a family. +2 tokens Whatever you've made is extremely filling, and could easily be stretched for an entire tribe of kin. +3 tokens
SECOND D6
Taste and Nutritional Quality Your clever use of herbs rescues this dish, in Time to Go's opinion. +4 tokens Time to Go refuses to eat any of your dish - because it's poisonous (whether this is intentional or otherwise). She finds this either amusing or useful enough that she still awards you +3 tokens, though. Time to Go appreciates that your recipe is completely vegetarian. +2 tokens Your recipe is not only delicious, but also extremely nutritious. +2 tokens The majority of your recipe is liquid - whether it's a hearty soup or an appetizing accompaniment to a meal, Time to Go is just not interested. +1 tokens Your recipe consists only of meat products. Appetizing as this is to some kin, Time to Go hates it. +0 tokens
THIRD D6
Presentation For whatever reason you've decided to garnish the dish with a narcissus - or whiteflower - among whatever else you're using. Time to Go appreciates this very much. +2 tokens It might not be pretty, but your dish is surprisingly portable, and Time to Go appreciates the practicality. +1 token Your meal is organized and neat. +1 token If someone else were judging, you'd probably take the top prize for aesthetics. Unfortunately, Time to Go has rather unusual standards. +1 tokens While you make an attractive and otherwise delicious dish, the garnishes you choose are not at all edible, so Time to Go disapproves. +0 tokens You point out that taste is far more important than presentation - so who cares if your recipe is extremely messy? To your surprise, Time to Go agrees. +1 tokens
When you're done reading the prompts, edit your roll post with your completed recipe and an optional image of the dish your kin presents to the judges. Concept matters more than execution, and the recipe doesn't need to include a lot of what humans would consider cooking - remember, kin don't even have stoves!
Once your post contains an entry with a recipe in it, you may post in the Token Claim thread to claim your tokens.
Please note that the box/bag recipients will be judged OOC on your roleplay and recipe only - the dice rolls are just for tokens and generating a prompt. Someone who receives only one token for their entry has as much chance to win as someone who receives nine.
FORM:
[b]Kin Name:[/b] Name of the kin entering [b]Image:[/b] An image is completely optional, but it must be either a photo that you take yourself or your own drawing. [b]Recipe:[/b] Put your in-character recipe here! [b]Tokens Collected:[/b] Put your total from adding the results on the table here - NOT the total of the dice values.
This booth closes on Saturday, December 24th at 11:59PM PST. You may edit your post until then, but can only claim tokens for a complete entry.
Kin Name: Name of the kin entering Image: (Did not make.) Recipe: A large amount of greens or vegetables of any sort A holding container, like a large tortoise shell Salt and water or brine
1. Gather all ingredients; a variety of vegetables is preferred for maximum filling value and nutrition.
2. Rip or crush them into small pieces, preferably bite-sized.
3. Put everything into the container, then cover thickly with salt and fill with water to make a brine (or, if desired, simply use brine directly!).
4. Allow to sit for at least seven days, though longer can be better.
5. Enjoy a salty treat! Note: feel free to rinse off the brine for personal taste. Results can stay good for an extended period of time if evaporated water is replenished.
Tokens Collected: 1 + 2 + 1 = 4
Swallows tilted his head, long tongue slipping out from too many teeth to clean a bit of wilted leaf from his snout. While the epitome of 'chef' he certainly might not have been, his wandering and proclivity to try anything that remotely smelled edible had served him well enough to present something ... unusual, if rather tasty - in his opinion - to the gathering of sorts. He leaned down, nudging the large shell and causing it to rock; after, he dipped his mouth forward to snag a bite of the strangely soft pile of winter roots and leaves he'd prepared for the event.
"They're ... shalt-foodsh," he explained, ears flicking up as he snuffed, testing to make sure he still had an audience. He hadn't heard the viewer leave - but it would be silly to sit and talk to no one, wouldn't it?
"I dropped shome shootsh into sh-shalt water once, closhe to the sh-shea," he continued, lips curling into an eerie grin. "When I returned, many daysh later, I sh-shmelled shomething good. I never passh up shomething tashty! Sh-sho, I shniffed it out and tried it. It washn't quite like theshe, um, it wash much shaltier... The water dried up all around it! But it was sho good - I love shalt! Sho I thought I would try again. A lot of it has been failuresh, and it takes time to make a batch and find a good place for it to sh-shettle as closhe to the shea as I can manage ... But they shtay good for a long, long time, and they make my shtomach feel great when I eat them!"
The odd buck positively beamed, though his ears drooped shortly after.
"It'sh great for shtoring food, which ish good for me ... It'sh hard to find the shalt shometimesh, though. I've ushed shalt-water from the shwamp, but it'sh besht to find the dried shtuff. Shtill, you can't beat the tashte!"
Kin Name:Corrosive Image: Recipe: Gift for your enemy Two small plump fish Two bunches of red bane berries (Toxic) a bunch of swamp milk weed for garnish (possibly toxic, but pretty) side salad of green dragon tongue (do not touch, use a stick, causes burning) little bit of water or snow melted
a flat clean piece of bark to display a sharp edge shiver of stone to cut with a turtle shell to smash things with a easy to hold stone or solid stick to pound berries with if you don't want to use your hooves more bark to keep ingredients on
Take 1 bunch of red bane berries, smash in turtle shell add water to make sauce. Pour over fish.
Arrange dragon tongue carefully, using sharp edge rock to slice and stick to move, add second bunch of red bane berries to leaves.
Garnish with sprigs of Swamp milk weed flowers, for a touch of pretty pink
And done! A dish your enemies will die for... what do you mean that isn't the point?
Tokens Collected: 2 + 3 = 5
Cooking hmm? Corrosive did not really prepare dishes for kin to actually eat. She made medicines and poisons and well, on that idea...why not? She trotted off, gathering a clean length of bark to use as a dish, and her favorite turtle shell to grind plants in.
She captured two plump small white fish, set them down on the bark before fetching her best sharp edge stone knife. The stone sliver was sharp on one side, and she used it to saw off the red bane berries onto a piece of bark and brought them back, and then again to get the green dragon tongue, and the swamp milk weed blooms.
Okay, ingredients are gathered, fish are dying. Now to get her favorite prodding stick. She trotted and retrieved the strong forked stick and got down to business.
The berries were first, she used her stick to transfer them into the bowl and then used her hoof to smash them up. Smashed as well as she wanted them, she went to the river and got a mouthful of water and dribbled it in before stirring it. There good. She put the fish back where she wanted them and pour the sauce over them.
The green dragon leaves were transferred over with the stick and the second batch of berries settled on top. So pretty!
She used the sharp edge of her knife to separate the blossoms setting them down on the plate. So pretty. So likely to kill.
1. Gather your ingredients. If you can't hunt your own fresh caiman, market-bought is fine. 2. Skin the body so you can prepare the meat. But keep the head because it looks cool and your friends might assume it's chicken otherwise. 3. Smash some peppers up and slather them all over that meat. You can use a lot or a little depending how much heat you can take. 4. Put an apple in that bad boy's mouth. You can eat it at the end of the meal to cleanse your palette and get extra energy! 5. Dig in!
Kin Name: Release Me Image: An image is completely optional, but it must be either a photo that you take yourself or your own drawing. Recipe:
Held in a Turtle Shell: ---Watercress ---Cattail (shoots, leaves, and roots) ---Clover ---Dandelion (petals, stems, and leaves) ---American elder (black elderberry) ---Mushrooms ---Narcissus/Whiteflower (Garnish)
Tokens Collected: 6 tokens
2. Your recipe isn't that huge, but it's easy to mass-produce. +2 tokens 3. Time to Go appreciates that your recipe is completely vegetarian. +2 tokens 1. For whatever reason you've decided to garnish the dish with a narcissus - or whiteflower - among whatever else you're using. Time to Go appreciates this very much. +2 tokens
Release Me nudged the "bowl" she was using for her salad forward. It had taken her quite a few days to seek out ingredients that were just right for her dish, but, she was quite pleased with the result. A crunchy but easy-to-come-by salad rested within the confines of the bowl.
She looked up and gave a soft smile. "I wanted to use common ingredients that you can find anywhere. It's a crisp salad, with sweet notes with the clover and the dandelions and elderberries, but...I find the contrast is nice, with the earthiness of the mushrooms. Thank you, this was quite fun."
She took a deep breath and began!
"The base for the salad is cattails and watercress; both are very common and so it's easy to gather a lot. So many avoid cattails but they're surprisingly delicious! And then I gather a fair amount of clover to balance it out, and add dandelion petals, stems, and leaves; get some help to remove the petals, they add a nice punch of colour. Then I crush some of the elderberries, with some whole, and drop them in, followed by some small button mushrooms. Uhm...I also liked the look of the whiteflower, so I used it as garnish. It really pops against the colours in the salad."
Kin Name: Roses in Bloom Image: Recipe: An acorn squash Any wild meat Beets (gold or red) Apples Seasoning of choosing A willing salamander
"It's... a bit of work," Roses in Bloom began, presenting the roasted array, "but I enjoy it for a splurge here and there. Especially if the young ones are visiting. Even if they aren't that young anymore," Rose mused, the hint of a smile playing at her lips.
"So what you do is you dig up any big squash. This one's an acorn, since it looks like a giant acorn! Then, split it with your hooves, as best as you can. Fill it with beets, and apples, and meat- anything good you can get your hooves on!" She nodded to the filled squash.
"After that, um. You take the stuffed squash, and set it over a salamander. I've a friend who lent me hers, and it tends to work pretty well in a turtle or tortoise shell."
She offered a little bow, and stepped back.
"And there you are! I hope you all enjoy." Tokens Collected: 5 Tokens
1. Your dish serves a large amount of kin but requires a bit more skill at hunting or gathering to make, which makes it less accessible to most kin. +2 tokens 2. Your recipe is not only delicious, but also extremely nutritious. +2 tokens 3. If someone else were judging, you'd probably take the top prize for aesthetics. Unfortunately, Time to Go has rather unusual standards. +1 tokens
Bushels of the following berries: Belladonna, Daphne, moonseed, mistletoe, elderberries Piles of the following leaves: Rhubarb and oleander A turtle shell to show the combined ingredients off in
Stinging Nettle nudged the turtle shell forward and stopped just shy of the booth with a huff. He'd spent all day digging around and dragging this thing around and he was tired, but it was all for the sake of education! If kin were going to make food and share recipes, they needed to know what not to eat!
"Alright, this is absolutely not for consumption!" He announced, nosing at the turtle shell. "All of these berries are highly toxic and will kill you. The leaves will do the same. Take a good look at them and try to remember what they look like next time you go foraging, my friends!"
He hoped that he could prevent at least one accidental death by doing this. It would be well worth the effort!
Kin Name: Fragile Bones Image: N/A Recipe: 3 Roses, petals torn off and scattered into a circle shape 2 Hibiscus', petals torn off and mixed into the rose petals Blue Iris, petals torn off and mixed into the rose petals Handful of Aronia Berries, smashed into a sauce Various leaves collected during travel to find other items
The dish was a simple salad, made from petals of flowers and various leaves and placed within a hollow turtle shell. 3 Roses, 2 Hibiscus', and 1 Blue Iris was enough to create the color for the dish, and various leaves grabbed are mixed into the petals, adding both body and freshness to the aromatic dish. Aronia berries are smashed (using either rocks or anything else hard, hooves work!) and mixed with some water. The sauce is then drizzled daintily over the dish for consumption.
Kin Name: Strong Swimmer Image: N/A ; i can't draw to save anyone right now DX Recipe:
Strong Swimmer had been with Rise and Shine for a long time now. She had learned short cuts to 'creating' something great to eat for herself and her tribe members. This entire time, though, all she had been hoarding and eating were fish. Every day she would go out hunting for them in the waters and never does she stop unless she gets to go back with a massive haul.
When asked to create something to eat by Westfen members, the tribe she heard so many stories about, she could not help but try and show off her self taught skills.
What she had decided to make was quite a boring meal to her but maybe it will enlighten some other kin in the vicinity. The totoma girl wandered around the creations area looking for something that she needed the most. She walked past the others trying to impress Westfen too, but in the end, not too far from where Westward was standing, she found a nice smooth and slightly slanted rock. Threading closer, she sniffed it, and licked it. It stung her tongue, just what she needed, a hot slab of stone warmed by the sunlight.
Smiling, she started to make her meal. First she placed a flat broad piece of banana leaf beside the rock. "You'll see why I need this later," she replied with laughter in her voice. Shortly after, she took out two fish and inspected them carefully. They looked clean and didn't smell like rot. Since they passed, she threw them onto the hot rock and they off to getting slow cooked.
In the mean time she took tiny salt blocks, she found just last winter near a lake, and placed them near the fish. Carefully, she took her cleanest hoof and pushed the blocks of salt against the fish. It started to sizzle a bit and that was her cue to add in wild acorns (she found in the mountains), some bits of wild Goosetongue and wild mustard. Again, she mixed the ingredients together with the same hoof she used earlier, and listened to it as everything started to sizzle. Her eyes was momentarily fixed on the leaf on the ground and she placed a branch full of wild grapes she had broken off of a vine as edible decoration. She left the ingredients to cook a bit longer on the slab of stone and took out a ripe juicy orange and placed it beside the rock. Using her super rock hard skull, she headbutted the orange to break it apart. It was in bits and pieces. She was pleased and picked up the chunky bits to add to the two fish being cooked, for more flavour, and took out the salt rocks. The left over bits of oranges, well she secretly ate it while no one was looking.
When quite some time had passed and any kin could notice that the fish skin had started to char, it was then that Strong Swimmer shoved the entire meal off of the rock in one quick sweep with one of her horns and it landed onto the banana leaf on the ground with the wild grapes. It was only a matter of time before the Westfen duo would come and taste it. The leaf should hold all its warmth, she thought to herself.
And she was done with her creation and started to lick juice and whatever remains of the meal off of the hot rock. She did not believe in wasting food.
Tokens Collected: 3 + 4 + 1 = 8 tokens.
Serving Size : 6. Whatever you've made is extremely filling, and could easily be stretched for an entire tribe of kin. +3 tokens Taste and Nutritional Quality : 1.Your clever use of herbs rescues this dish, in Time to Go's opinion. +4 tokens Presentation : 3. Your meal is organized and neat. +1 token
Kin Name: Silent Secrets Image: (I'm horrid at drawing so no pic today!) Recipe: Meat in a hole
1 pound of squab 1 pound of boar 1 pound of lamb 1 pound of bear
Garnished with stones and twigs
Silent Secrets decided to feed an army of kin, sadly all she had that was edible was a bunch of different types of meat. She decided to cook it all and serve it mixed together. Her plate was decorated to look like a hill with a hole in it where the meat goes. The garnish sadly was not edible, as all it contained as a bunch of twigs and some stones.
Recipe: six Cattails, half a bushel of Elderberries, lots of Watercress leaves, six Arrowhead Watapo Tokens Collected: 5
One Of Us has made a salad for the two judges, made of abundant plants that can be found all over so that it can easily be made in large or small quantities. She decided to use only plants because not everyone eats meat and she was feeling thoughtful, as well as putting the two salads for the judges on some nice broad leaves that she'd found nearby giving it an overall neatness.
PetalBug was estatic to hear of this challenge an of course she had the bestest of best recipies to make for the judges, why good ole grandma's mashed berry soup with maple sap drizzling would completely blow them away!
"Alright so first you have to collect the berries and really you need a pretty good assortment so it can take some time to find enough of each variety, you need some cherries and raspberries and wild strawberries and blueberries and of course if its the off season dried berries work too but its not quite as tasty. I try to collect a whole turtle shell of each so I have enough to feed say an entire family during the festivities."
PetalBug paused for a moment to make sure that the judges were keeping up before going on.
"So then you take the berries your've collected and you mash them up in the shells..but you don't use your hooves because that would get dirt in it, no you use a flat piece of maple bark and a stick like so."
Petal Bug demonstrated the mashing technique until the berries were fairly juicy looking.
"And once they are mashed so that the jucie is seeping out nicely you add them to this bigger shell over here thats been filled will water and some mint leaves and then you stir it all up together and let it sit for a little bit to absorb the minty flavour and make sure the berries have all broken down properly, if its a snny day its best to let it sit in the shell on a hot rock or something, the heat really helps break things down quicker. But while your soup is absorbing flavours you have to go and get the last bit, the Maple sap..it can be hard to collect because its terrible sticky and you have to whack the tree pretty well with your hooves to get the sap to flowing, sometimes breaking off a big branch works pretty well...anyways you collect your sap on a big leaf until you have a nice sized gob of it and then you take it back to your soup, fold the leaf up like so, so the pointed end is still open and then you drizzle it over the top of your soup and tada! The most amazing soup ever..and I know it might look a little weird but once you taste it the looks really won't matter." PetalBug assured them as she pushed the turtle shell close.
Tokens Collected: 5
3 -Your dish serves a large amount of kin but requires a bit more skill at hunting or gathering to make, which makes it less accessible to most kin. +2 tokens 3 - Time to Go appreciates that your recipe is completely vegetarian. +2 tokens 6 - You point out that taste is far more important than presentation - so who cares if your recipe is extremely messy? To your surprise, Time to Go agrees. +1 tokens
Kin Name: Playing At War Image: n/a Recipe: "This isn't really my kind of thing," said Playing At War, pushing her dish forward. "But you asked, right?" She pushed forward an extremely large slab of meat. "Here's some dry-aged pork," she said in satisfaction. It was certainly aged, all right. "With candied buttercups, for color and - and sweetness, and decorated with an elegant crown of twigs."
Ingredients: Wild boar, a tortoise shell full of buttercups, peppercorns, salt, and dill to taste, and a whole beehive's worth of honey. Large palm leaf for serving and twigs to garnish. Requires a month of preparation.
First, create a spice mixture - Playing at War uses hoof-crushed peppercorns in ocean water, and shaved dill, but if you prefer different herbs, she's not picky. Cut boar into large chunks - enough that perhaps the center will still be edible afterwards. Rub boar with spice mixture and bury underground in a cool location - mark the location with webcaps and skullcaps. Return a month later - during winter - to collect your meat.
Of course, only the center will be edible at this point - but if it's someone else you're serving, who cares? Cut pork into smaller chunks if desired, but it's all right otherwise. Pour honey over buttercups until evenly coated, and toss with pork. Serve atop large palm leaf, and garnish with a pretty crown of twigs.
Yes, the recipe was poisonous. Most of the meat wasn't even edible - it was rank, and the honey only helped a little bit. And ranunculus was awful for kin. She'd hoped to catch the judge unawares, but it looked like Time to Go was only laughing. At least Playing at War got her five tokens out of it. Tokens Collected: 5 (2+3+0)
[note: i can claim tickets since they're rolled but am ineligible for the box/bag prizes!]
