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AND THE WINNER IS....

The Sonic the Hedgehog cookbook! Very exciting! This one is a really good one.

I am obviously tempted to make Sonic's chili (and chili dogs) but I had some difficulty sourcing the various peppers but I'll probably give it a try lol. I did make the Hydrocity drink friday and it was pretty cool but there are some adjustements I wanna make to it for my personal tastes. ANYWAY I'll try to use it this week!

#Phex cooking adventures #completely forgot to add an image at first lmao

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HELLO! Supposedly/allegedly, I should be able to again mainly work from home for the next TWO WEEKS which is very exciting (and im trying to not think about being forced in office 4 days a week permanently right after) So since I should have a little bit of time, and might even have the time for a grocery run friday, I figured I'd put up a poll to do some cooking!!!

It's getting spicy as we go through the list and remove options!

#last reblog before tomorrowww #Phex cooking adventures

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HELLO! Supposedly/allegedly, I should be able to again mainly work from home for the next TWO WEEKS which is very exciting (and im trying to not think about being forced in office 4 days a week permanently right after) So since I should have a little bit of time, and might even have the time for a grocery run friday, I figured I'd put up a poll to do some cooking!!!

It's getting spicy as we go through the list and remove options!

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HELLO! Supposedly/allegedly, I should be able to again mainly work from home for the next TWO WEEKS which is very exciting (and im trying to not think about being forced in office 4 days a week permanently right after) So since I should have a little bit of time, and might even have the time for a grocery run friday, I figured I'd put up a poll to do some cooking!!!

It's getting spicy as we go through the list and remove options!

#Phex cooking adventures #i miss cooking properly man ive been doing bulk mealprep for lunches bc im dead when i get home from the office #also sometime soon i would like to do a dessert-focused poll maybe....spice things up a lil... #that said once the weather gets warmer its time for my ICE CREAM EXPERIMENTS maybe ill post them here #im gonna fuck around with lavender flavor and i also wanna fuck around with mocktails

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I am alive! After a long delay (forced to work in office for 2 weeks killed me), here's my post on the chosen dnd cookbook recipe!!! lmao

I chose to make the Vedbread! They're mushroom rolls with cheese. Not exactly a meal by themselves, but I just really wanted to try them so bad lmao

The recipe calls for a different kind of mushroom but they say you can use shiitake, so that's what I went for. I had to buy a lot of shiitake sdfsg

Anyway, let us begin!

First thing to do is to dice the mushroom. I unfortunately don't have a food processor yet so I had to do it by hand. It...took a while.You cook the mushroom with salt and butter until the moisture is gone and they're all nice and grilled. You also dice some shallots and cook them with! And finally when this is all cooked you remove from the heat and add parmesan and fresh thyme. I'll admit I didn't feel like spending the extra money for fresh parmesan so I just used the cheap stuff I had in my fridge, which I admit probably changed the flavor but it was still tasty so wtv!

While this is cooking and smelling delicious you prep the dough. Shred some gruyère and all that.

The shredded cheese goes directly into the dough! It's a chunky dough. You have to knead it just enough thats its smooth and incorporated. Then you have to spread it in a rectangle, which was somewhat challenging due to my lack of tools and preparation lmao. Ignore the ball of saran wrap I dont wanna talk about it

Then you spread the mushroom mixture all over this nice rectangle!

Struggle number 2, rolling it up in an even tube! Mine was not even at all but it was a tube! Then you have to try and cut it into equal pieces. Mine were....not equal pieces but the show much go on! They tell you to trim off and discard the ends but since there's no eggs in the dough I just ate it. Which legally I can't recommend bc raw flour can also be bad for you (more likely to, iirc) so do as I say, not as I do!

FINALLY you place them side-up on a baking sheet and brush them with an egg wash! And then you pop them in the oven!!! And then you take them out and be in awe and the delicious rolls you have just created!!

These were super good! And I'm saying as someone who generally doesn't like cooked mushrooms, but I've been making an effort with shiitake lol. If you like the general flavor of shiitake but don't really like the texture of cooked mushrooms, I really liked these bc the mushrooms are minced really small! The cheese is also really good. They kept SUPER well at room temp in an airtight container and they reheat in the oven really quickly and for the entire week that I've eaten them they tasted always fresh after a little trip in the oven. This was definitely a nat20 on recipe choice!

Those of you who were looking forward to this I apologize for the time it took but I changed projects at work and it's been a nightmare lmao. I'll probably be stuck in office for a week and a half soon again so I probably won't do the next poll within that time, but hopefully soon. I might do a noodle recipe from one of the star wars cookbooks tho just cuz i feel like it. I haven't actually cooked a whole lot lately bc of work :'D So I kinda miss it. Anyway I hope that was mildly entertaining, and get out there and make yerself any kind of bread rolls bc everybody deserves breadrolls. (Cough cough check out misohungrie's video if you want the precise recipe cough cough)

#Phex cooking adventures

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#you will look at my roegadyn #ffxiv #Phex OCs

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Once in a while I just really gotta give my guys a good spin yknow

#look at my spinning guy boy #this is how my brain has been going the last 2 weeks #video #swtor #Phex OCs #if u whisper Hi to me in game i will probably not respond im not being mean i have social anxiety #i also do it to my bg3 guys they spin REAL fast if you slide into a second screen #im so fuckin tired lmao

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The full eclipse was one of the coolest shit I've ever seen

#got to watch it from the roof of my workplace it was so frickin cool #also btw hi im alive i did cook the dnd recipe and I have the photos ive just been completely dead from work but ill write the post!!!

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#I'M UNDER ATTACK!!!!!

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well my exercise lately has mostly been. walking. because I had to go to the office everyday and it sucked lmao

maybe i would also count being stressed out by my desk neighbor being sick as a dog and still coming in twice as exercise because I was ON EDGE

#im not even lying that the memories of sonic symphony are what kept me going this week lmao #Phex worked out today #i really hope he hasnt given me whatever he had i havent been sick since 2019 lmao

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I just got home from Sonic Symphony and it was incredible😭 I keep thinking I wish I could go back in time and just experience it again. Felt like I'd been waiting my whole life for this

And we got moved to some REALLY good seats it was so fuckin great. The entire crowd was mostly ppl our age and everybody was so hype. Wearing Sonic shirts, cosplays, having their plushies around.

We sang every crush 40 song they played at the top of our lungs. incredible energy and I might lose my voice tomorrow but it was so fuickin worth it man. He might just be a silly blue hedgehog but this franchise is so, so important to me.

#like idk singing sonic themes with a huge crowd of ppl makes u feel not alone lmao #but like i likely wouldnt have the friends I have now without Sonic so...its a lot

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am afraid i wont be making the dnd recipe this week as I am cursed with going into the office all 4 days but I have a long weekend after so hoping I'll have some juice to do it then

#i did some meal prep so i wouldnt have to cook at all this week lmao

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After days of travel, you finally arrive at the small town of Royal Mount, so named after the sacred hill resting at its center. Your contact asked you to meet them at the local inn, where they would impart delicious culinary secrets upon you.

You quickly notice a sign advertising a place called Tym Hort's inn. This must be the place. As you enter, a hooded figure wearing a strange billed hat waves at you. They lower their hood as you approach, looking up through shining glasses. "Greetings my friend! You may call me Phex. I believe you are here to discuss a most delicious topic, are you not?"

You find nothing odd about them, save for your inability to settle on any pronoun to refer to them. They regard you with an amused look despite their clear sleep deprivation and as they invite you to sit, they open a large grimoire, surely full of secrets each more delicious than the last...

The first dnd cookbook! Winner of the last poll!

This is a book I hadn't planned on getting initially. I watched misohungrie's review, and it seemed like a really nice book, but despite the fact that I've played in a few campaigns using dnd, I've never actually played in the Forgotten Realms settings (or any other of their settings) and always in homebrews. So I wasn't that yet interested in the lore or references.

And then I played Baldur's Gate 3.

So I now have this book, and it's one of my favorites of my collection lmao. I haven't gotten the second book yet but I intend to eventually!

The book separates its recipes by "cultures", basically most of the basic playable races in dnd. Uncommon has a mix of stuff, from dragonborn, gnomes, tieflings. And then drinks have their own chapter. Between each chapter there's also a nice menu reproduction for various inns, which I love.

I'm only really familiar with forgotten realms now that I've consumed the entire wiki for Baldur's Gate purposes and finetuning my oc's backstories lmao but there are references to many others, like Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Ravenloft and a few more. My good friends, who are much more powerful nerds than I am, gave me a brief summary of all of them so that was also pretty cool. There's also at least one obligatory Drizzt reference, which I have to mention bc I'm about to get into that shit to indulge in the drow obsession I could never have in high school.

ANYWAY.

The recipes are varied, and there are a LOT in there that interest me ngl. I've already cooked two! I've made Dwarven Flatbread (easy and delicious!) and Halfling Chili which I believe I've posted about before. It is also very delicious (I remade this week! I didn't post about it bc I'm supposed to be cooking something new lmao). It uses cocoa powder and cinnamon amongst others in the spices. And delicious bacon.

Human recipes have variety, are pretty hearthy and generally go for a "comforting" vibe, I would say. They go from hand pies to seafood bouillabaisse or ribs to candied apples! Very fun chapter.

The Elven chapter unsurprisingly has a lot of light recipes, a ton of veggies, with some seafood! But for the most part it's a lotta veggies and fruits, and the one drow recipe, mushroom steak!

The Dwarven chapter, by contrast, has a lot of meaty recipes. You've got potatoes, sausages, beer, bread, rich desserts. (kinda my favorite chapter I think lmao)

The Halfling chapter is all about hearthy, homely(?) recipes that can be shared with many people, and many soups. This one is also very good.

Uncommon cuisine has a wide range of recipes. This is the chapter that has the halfling chili. Because normally it's made of...well you know. But you can make it with turkey, if you're not a dragonborn of very specific taste.

And finally the drinks are about half and half alcoholic and not, which I think is nice as someone who doesn't drink. It also has the second drow "recipe" which is like a mushroom "tea" (or like a stew?).

Now, there is one major problem with this book.

So many recipe photos missing!! So many!!

And it's particularely frustrating for this book because sometimes a page will have an environmental photo of like trees or whatever. But why not put food photo there instead?? Bummer.

This is a pretty village and all but do I really need it? I don't think so lmao.

Now after agonising over the meal choice (and over my mental health) for the last 10 weeks, I finally decided to make the Vedbread, a cheesy, mushroomy bread roll that sounds delicious. I just gotta go out and buy some shiitake mushrooms soon. Misohungrie happens to have made that one too (kinda the reason I chose it lmao it looks delicious) so you should check out his video too if you're interested in the book! He's also kinda the reason I bought the book in the first place, and he brings up the weird photo issue too.

Overall I really like this book, because I like ordinary daily life lore and you get a pretty good amount in that one, on top of having delicious recipes to try out. The recipes aren't super crazy in terms of trying to make them weird or unique, but they all seem pretty solid. They all have a little flavor/lore blurb before every recipe, and it's fun to get some tidbits like "tieflings love spicy food" or whatever yknow lol.

My tab crashed and I can't remember what I was following up with, but I wish y'all success in your culinary adventures and campaigns! I'll make a post for the vedbread when I get around to making it!

#Phex cooking adventures #yes i did roll these dice and yes i stg i rolled a crit fail for that second one thank you #anyway part of the reason this is so delayed is because I couldn't decide what I wanted to make lmao but enjoy! #ppl outside are constantly rolling 1s on perceiving me but I'm kind of doing it on purpose too

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The people have spoken!!

Next cooking activity is from Heroes' Feast, the first dnd cookbook!!!

Very varied votings this time! Very fun to see!

"Hopefully it's not a meal of fish heads and stale bread?..."

This is a very exciting result, ngl, because the dnd cookbook has a TON of delicious sounding recipes. Actually it's gonna be hard to choose lmao. I've already cooked two from it, so alas as much as I would love to make halfling chili again, I must cook something new!

Also I gotta say, thanks to everybody who has voted on all of these so far, it's been a lot of fun to do! It's given me extra motivation to cook in the first place and to withstand the battleground that is grocery stores. I hope my posts about the books and their recipes have been at least a little bit interesting!

#i have a new shopping cart im looking forward to test out on my next grocery trip #just gotta figure out when im going >_> #also its funny but i might be getting the second dnd cookbook very soon but i probably wont add it to the rotation immediatly lol #also theyre making a drinks book? i might get it bc i wanna get into mocktails more #also im hoping it has lore lmao sdfsfsg #listen the lore im the most interested in is mundane daily stuff and cookbooks is where you get this #Phex cooking adventures

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Cookbook funtimes part 3!

Cookbook doesn't even look like a real word anymore.

New poll! Whichever book has the most votes I will cook a new recipe from! (and also talk about the book! Because I love these!) Hopefully next week but I don't have a hard schedule for this lmao. I changed projects at work and still adjusting to the new weekly routine.

I'm also getting real close to ordering the second dnd cookbook ngl

#Last morning reblog! #Phex cooking adventures

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Cookbook funtimes part 3!

Cookbook doesn't even look like a real word anymore.

New poll! Whichever book has the most votes I will cook a new recipe from! (and also talk about the book! Because I love these!) Hopefully next week but I don't have a hard schedule for this lmao. I changed projects at work and still adjusting to the new weekly routine.

I'm also getting real close to ordering the second dnd cookbook ngl

#eventually I might switch it around and do dessert-specific polls and stuff to keep it fun #i would kill for a kirby café cookbook u-u tho it would probably be more about arranging food than anything funky lol #Phex cooking adventures

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my brain hasnt been working for 2 weeks but i lifted weights today!!

#i lifted weights some other day too but i forgot when but yknow #phex worked out today #also i have to go in office twice a week rn so extra walking i guess #i think ill post a cookbook poll tomorrow? i was maybe gonna today but then i didnt lmao #i have a new cart for groceries so im almost looking forward to havin to do groceries to test it (almost. $$$ ouch)