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Not food technically, but what are some foodstuffs from around Tamriel that have other uses? Skincare/medicine/Recreational Use™ for example

Lots of ingredients around Tamriel have multiple uses beyond the kitchen, from medical poultices to paints! If you're a chef, chances are you're also using whatever's in the kitchen around the house too.

Seaweed strips, for example, are tasty when cooked in a Dunmeri-style miso soup with clams and tofu, but also make surprisingly good bandages! The seaweed contains naturally calming wounds and absorbing anything nasty. It's easily sourced, making seaweed beloved by cooks and healers alike.

Poppy seeds, favoured by both the Redguards and Bretons in their baking, also make good sedatives, some of which can be extremely potent and cause addiction. Everyone knows about how moon sugar is distilled into skooma, but it's only a matter of time before the Thalmor start cracking onto bakers...

Chilis are enjoyed all over Tamriel in food, but also have numerous other uses too! Not only is it good at keeping bugs off your vegetable garden, but boiling chilis and storing the liquid in a vial is a handy self-defence tool that's bound to cause some serious pain to any assailant.

Olive oil is an indispensable staple of the Imperial diet, but is also used in everything from oiling hinges to massages and moisturisers. This trusty sidekick is my best friend from the kitchen to the bedroom! Also great for polishing wooden furniture and giving hair a glossy, healthy sheen! ~Talviel

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Hey Tal! I was preparing stuffed jacket potatoes for my family and it made me wonder;

"If each race was given a baked potato (any veriety), what would they stuff it with? (Let's pretend the bosmer is non pact compliant but still likes honoring their roots.)"

Since you'll find potatoes in every other barrel across Tamriel, you can bet that stuffed baked potatoes are probably the most universal dish we know of. Whether you love them or were fed too many of them as a child, there's a baked potato out there for everyone in Tamriel.

Altmer

You know what, the High Elves really have to be fancy about everything. Instead of gutting and filling your regular jumbo jacket potato like literally everybody else, they make large hasselback potatoes and painstakingly insert ingredients between the slots before baking. These laborious (but admittedly delectable) potatoes are usually offered filled with either four cheeses; mozzarella, tomatoes, and pesto; roasted vegetables with tapenade, or pancetta, gruyere, and sausage.

Argonians

Baked potatoes are great for playing a heated game of teeba-hatsei with, much to the rage of many an Argonian parent who had painstakingly made dinner. When they're not being slapped around for a laugh, Argonians eat their baked potatoes by making a well in the centre and crack a hot quail egg in, before topping it with deep fried mealworms or crickets and a bit of lime sambal. Scramble it up and you're good to go!

Bosmer

To every Green Pact-abiding Wood Elf I'm about to sadden with this, I apologise in advance for what I'm about to propose. But imagine a lovely jacket potato stuffed with a good slathering of smoked timber mammoth cheese atop battered thunderbug eggs, smoked bristleback bacon, jalapeño mayo, and sweetgnat butter. I don't need to imagine it; I made one with my friend Berrilyn, and it was glorious. Definitely on the heavy side, but loaded with every good ingredient Valenwood has to offer!

Bretons

Cheap, filling, and delicious. That's all a baked potato needs to be in High Rock, making it one of the Province's most popular foods among the common folk. Just about every sauce-based dish you can think of can go onto a jacket potato, from melted roquefort, goose egg, and dry cured ham to the classic combination of tomato beans and candied bacon rashers, and even reusing yesterday's Tarragon Chicken! There aren't really any limits on what you can fill a jacket potato with in High Rock, as long as you have a good knob of butter in there!

Dunmer

While potatoes are a perfectly standard and valid ingredient in Morrowind, I know you all want to hear about jacket ash yams. Popularised by Ashlanders, who bake their potatoes on lava, jacket ash yams can be found at every tavern and cornerclub across the Province. Minced nix-ox in a spicy comberry ragout; scrambled kwama eggs with caramelised scathecraw; and even Hackle-lo and Scuttle Curry are at home on a big, piping lava-hot ash yam. Don't forget to get some crunchy deep-fried kwama scrib to go on top- well worth the gold, I promise!

If you get the hankering for a taste of Morrowind, try my Raven Rock Baked Ash Yams.

Imperials

There are two rules surrounding baked potatoes in Cyrodiil: the potatoes must always be Jumbo Potatoes, and you must always use olive oil instead of butter. With that flavour profile in mind, think simple, complementary toppings like sundried tomatoes with goat cheese and fresh basil; cheese curds and red wine gravy; bresaola, chili oil, and gorgonzola, and browned pine nut butter with a good smear of ricotta and creamed battaglir.

Khajiit

Northern and Southern Elsweyr have a distinct difference in their baked potatoes: the North likes them rich and spicy, while the South prefers sweeter flavours that complement moon sugar. Northern Elsweyr is famous for its fiery curry-filled jacket potatoes, filled to the brim with rich, generally tomato-based curries featuring local ingredients like braised jerboa, pulled terror bird, and diced mutton. Meanwhile in Senchal, you'll find your average baked potato partially filled with things like chicken satay pieces in moon sugar peanut sauce, haloumi with moon sugar syrup, and sweet crispy shrimp and pork floss. But wait, 'partially filled?' Yep! In Southern Elsweyr, the insides of the potato are scooped out and rolled together with powdered moon sugar to make horrifically sweet potato 'candy' for dessert after you've finished your jacket potato. Who am I to judge?

Nords

Mammoth cheese? Horker bacon and smoked kippers? Pulled pheasant in brown ale gravy? All very valid and very traditional Skyrim options. However, I'm jumping up and down at the thought of a baked potato topped with freshly baked salmon or gravlaks with dill, lots of sour cream, and a bit of mustard! Simple, good, and I will shout at anyone who calls this combination bland. You can take the girl out of Riften, but never the Riften out of the girl.

Orcs

Where Wrothgarian Orsimer are concerned, there's a joke that every other meal is a baked potato (and that's sometimes the unfortunate case when a Hearth-Wife isn't very good at her job.) Gooey, mouthwatering echatere cheese raclette is the favoured topping in the region, melted atop of a bed of fillings like spicy wrathberry gravy with echatere or beef chunks; chopped mammoth bratwurst; grilled chub loon with frost mirriam barbecue sauce, and deep fried horker lard bits and sweet-and-spicy minced horker. Indulgent, and by Malacath, they're filling too.

Redguards

Where the Orcs have their echatere cheese on jacket potatoes, Hammerfell loves its goat cheese. Whether it's aged chèvre log slices or fresh and crumbly, you can bet it's going on a baked potato. It's paired with a range of moreish fillings, like harissa and apricot chicken; tender goat mince with a cumin-based curry; battered, fried snake with a tangy and sweet lemon drizzle, and shawarma meat with creamy garlic sauce and caramelised onions.

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The Shrewd Brew

Lillandril seasonal menu. Summerset wine pairings available with all food.

Starters

Barbecued bamboo clams, wrapped in Russafeld grape leaves with a spicy white wine sauce

Gryphon egg scramble, with Summerset sheep's cheese, wild mushrooms, and smoked mackerel

Shrewd salad, with local salad greens, seasonal fruit, Auridon feta, and garlic croutons. Finished with Russafeld red wine vinegar

Mains

Roast fellrunner, with herbed rice cooked in fellrunner fat

Lillandril swordfish steak, with a sweet mirin glaze and sour plum nori rice

Garlic and Summerset sheep's cheese gnocchi, with pine nuts and brown garlic butter sauce

Dessert

Summerset Rainbow Pie, with tonka bean ice cream

Smoked oolong and dark chocolate mousse, with jalapeño caramel sauce

Lillandril apple fritters, with whipped maple-apple butter

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The Drunken Dragon Inn

Our special menu featuring the finest tipples from across Tamriel!

Starters

Argonian Ale battered slaughterfish bites, with garlicky tartar sauce

Gin-flambéed crawfish, with homemade herb butter

Molten camembert, with comberry and Russafeld Heights prosecco chutney and sourdough grissini

Blackwood chicken skewers, with Colovian brandy and moon sugar glaze

Mains

Orange flin-glazed duck, with fruit and nut stuffing

Eidar cheese, jagga, and wild mushroom tart, with rucola and West Weald parmesan salad

30 day aged Gweden Farm wagyu steak, with Surilie Brothers red wine gravy

Venison steak tartare, with pine thrush egg and sujamma flambé

Dessert

Cheese board with homemade sourdough crackers: Perry-washed soft cheese, port cheddar, cherry brandy gouda, orange liqueur cream cheese

Limoncello and mint sherbet, with candied lemon zest

75% dark chocolate and chili lava cake, with chocolate-absinthe frosting

Amaretto soufflé, with drunken cherry compote

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My cursed toastie post has more notes than the menu I spent half an hour writing 😭

#Give the people what they want #Cursed food

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Happy 420 I couldn't decide if I wanted a grilled cheese or French toast with syrup and cinnamon so I mashed them together. Then I soaked them in more golden syrup and cinnamon. IT'S REALLY FUCKING GOOD. Cheese is extra mature cheddar.

THIS MONSTROSITY IS TALVIEL APPROVED

#Gods I'm high #420 #It's legit really good though

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The Shrewd Brew

Lillandril seasonal menu. Summerset wine pairings available with all food.

Starters

Barbecued bamboo clams, wrapped in Russafeld grape leaves with a spicy white wine sauce

Gryphon egg scramble, with Summerset sheep's cheese, wild mushrooms, and smoked mackerel

Shrewd salad, with local salad greens, seasonal fruit, Auridon feta, and garlic croutons. Finished with Russafeld red wine vinegar

Mains

Roast fellrunner, with herbed rice cooked in fellrunner fat

Lillandril swordfish steak, with a sweet mirin glaze and sour plum nori rice

Garlic and Summerset sheep's cheese gnocchi, with pine nuts and brown garlic butter sauce

Dessert

Summerset Rainbow Pie, with tonka bean ice cream

Smoked oolong and dark chocolate mousse, with jalapeño caramel sauce

Lillandril apple fritters, with whipped maple-apple butter

#the elder scrolls #tes #food #Menu #Fantasy menu #Summerset #high elves #Lillandril #ESO #elder scrolls online #Elder Scrolls #cooking

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Thank you to everyone who contributed, I can now play Gold Road 🖤😭 Yall are legends ilysm ~Tal

Hello frens, I wish to play ESO Gold Road, but I am once more a poor and mostly unemployed student. You can help me out by tossing me a cuppa here (everyone wins for potential new food lore and taverns though)

Stay safe, eat well, be kind. ~Tal

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What's the oldest (and I don't mean when the recipe was invented, I mean when the food was MADE) food you've ever eaten and enjoyed? I've heard that honey can be stored for literal millennia and still be edible.

What kind of chef would I be if I didn't challenge myself by eating literally everything there is to eat, no matter how old? The following list is of varying palatability, but these foods are definitely worth a try for anyone daring enough.

Altmer

While High Elf cuisine is very focused on freshness, the race's natural lifespan is extremely long, and sometimes bottles of wine will be in families for generations. My greatest privilege was trying a glass of 265 year old Russafeld Heights pinot noir, which I was initially expecting to be rancid vinegar. Instead, I was met with a mind-blowing palate of red berries, oak, leather, and notes of chocolate and rum. Definitely not your average bottle of wine, and only available to the well-connected in Summerset!

Argonians

The climate of Black Marsh makes storing food and drink for prolonged periods difficult, but some ancient stone xanmeers have been reappropriated by intrepid Argonians as cool and dry storage areas for their provisions. A most fascinating find was a 30 year old fish paste, which had turned into a hard substance that needed to be rehydrated before eating with flatbread. While I was initially convinced that I would be poisoned and die, the large amount of salt in the fish paste ensured that it was quite safe to eat.

Bosmer

Rotmeth is known across Tamriel as being notoriously difficult to brew, especially as it takes many years to get the perfect blend. The oldest cup I've had to date is a 120 year old vintage from Elden Root, with a rich earthy, creamy flavour and an unmistakable but delightful meatiness that doesn't quite come through in younger blends. It's particularly strong and not recommended to those new to Wood Elf drinks, but is absolutely a must-try for rotmeth aficionados.

Bretons

Ham is a High Rock staple, but old ham is best! Somewhat akin to Imperial prosciutto, Breton ham is less fatty and more meaty, and is basted in spiced honey after salting. It's then smoked and left in dark cellars to dry, generally for a few months. The oldest sample I tried was about seven years old, and was actually forgotten about in a sizable noble's pantry near Alcaire Castle. Nonetheless, we tried it, and it was dry and slightly sweet, but rather good with horseradish mayonnaise and a bit of raspberry jam!

Dunmer

Dunmeri food is known for keeping for ages, thanks to the arid climate of Morrowind. In particular, kwama eggs buried under mounds of ash and lye are a delicacy that's served with pickled comberry and saltrice congee. These eggs remain buried anywhere between 12 weeks to a year, but the oldest sample I tried was almost two years old. It had a firm, jelly-like texture with a creamy yolk, and was black as night. Don't let the appearance fool you though, they're delicious!

Imperials

I'm not sure who decided that thirty year old wheels of cheese should be eaten, but ancient wheels of parmesan are worth their weight in gold, and once you taste it, you'll know why. Rich, nutty, grassy, and with an inimitable crumbly texture, no words can accurately describe the flavour of a really good old cheese. More suited for nibbling on than for cooking, thirty year old parmesan is a must-try for any cheese lover.

Khajiit

Fermented spicy cabbage and radishes are a staple in the Khajiiti diet, and ideal fermentation times last between a few days to three weeks. However, a regional variant unique to the Anequina region has this spicy pickle fermenting for up to three months. The final result is tangy and soft, and is ideal for cooking with. Compared to other foods in this article, fermented cabbage is distinctly younger than most of them, but you can definitely smell and taste the aging process!

Nords

Mean people across Tamriel pick on Nords for eating rotten fish, and to this I say...fine, you're right. Rotten is a bit of a misnomer, because trout, herring or salmon are treated with lots of salt and fermentation in large barrels for about six months to two years. The end result is a stinking, slimy mess that's eaten with bread, beetroot salad, and sour cream to disguise the rancid odour. I'm not even going to pretend that this delicacy is edible to most people. Pairs well with some ancient bog butter buried in the marshes of Morthal.

Orcs

Another fan of fermented meats are the Orsimer, who make delicious dried, fermented sausages that range between several weeks to over a year when stored properly. The oldest salami I've eaten was made from mammoth, tundra truffles and juniper, and was about three years old. It was preserved in wax, and had a gamey, rich flavour that was a little on the fatty side. Great with sliced gherkins and chutney on coarse rye bread!

Redguards

It's said that the dry heat of the Alik'r will preserve just about anything for generations, right down to food itself. Both meat and root vegetables keep well when buried in sand, and the desert is home to many a drying cellar! The oldest meal I've had in Hammerfell was found in a forgotten cellar (estimated to be about sixty years old), and consisted of some extremely dried goat and camel meat, potatoes, carrots, and onions. While the ingredients were bordering inedible as straw, a few hours in a pot of boiling water with some spices made for a surprisingly appetising stew!

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Melon-chevre salad

On a hot and lazy day, spending hours over the kitchen fire is not the most appealing idea. Take a note from the Imperial kitchens and make this light and zesty salad for your banquet instead, combining a range of flavours in a delicious dish fit for royalty.

You will need: 1 small ripe honeydew melon, sliced into chunks 2 large handfuls of baby spinach 1 tbsp olive oil 1 ½ tbsp lemon juice 1 tbsp cracked black pepper 1 round of fresh chevre or other goat cheese ¼ cup chopped walnuts 2 sprigs mint leaves

Method: Roughly chop the chevre into bite size chunks, and place over the spinach and melon.

Mix the lemon juice, pepper, and olive oil in a small dish and drizzle over. Toss well, and top with walnuts and mint leaves.

Best served cold or at room temperature.

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Eight Plates

Morrowind's finest dining establishment

Flavours of Balmora set menu

Warm wickwheat sourdough and fresh scuttle butter

Small bites

Smoked spotted sea trout with trout caviar and wasabi on hackle-lo crisp; scuttle crackers with hot fire petal jam and homemade scrib jerky

Nix-hound

Popped saltrice, Surilie Brothers Grand Cru 4E 195 sauce, scrib cabbage coleslaw

Bittergreen Tartlet

Whipped scuttle, creamed bittergreen, sweet comberry pickle, nix-hound bacon

Guar

Urshilaku-raised guar, comberry jelly, smoked kwama egg yolk, guar fat reduction

Resdaynian Sailfin

Blackened Resdaynian Sailfin, lemon pepper, saltrice cakes, smoked Hoaga Oto roe creme

Soufflé

Kwama egg soufflé, gold kanet, scrib jelly, House Hlaalu Reserve greef flambé

Petit four

Marshmerrow mochi; comberry gel bites

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The Rift. ~Talviel

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Hello frens, I wish to play ESO Gold Road, but I am once more a poor and mostly unemployed student. You can help me out by tossing me a cuppa here (everyone wins for potential new food lore and taverns though)

Stay safe, eat well, be kind. ~Tal

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Hello from Windhelm, sera. I'm a refugee from Morrowind living in the Grey Quarter, as I've done for the last 40 years. I had resigned myself to my bitter fate, but then one day I finally managed to get a date. With a Nord lady so beautiful, clever and witty she makes me smile so much you wouldn't think I was Dunmer. Now, living in Windhelm, we don't have many options on where to go to eat, and she wants to get to know my culture. Any advice for me to introduce her to my people's food?

Greetings, friend!

Entering the world of Dunmeri gastronomy is indeed a daunting task sometimes, but never fear, I'm here to help! Firstly, you can start her off gently with some of the weekly specials at Candlehearth Hall! With more of a focus on Dunmer-Nord fusion cuisine, it's a good starting point for trying key ingredients like saltrice and ash yams.

If she's anything like most Nords, she probably has a taste for horker, or is at least used to it. Have a go at my classic Horker and Ash Yam Stew for a taste of Solstheim!

Lastly, skip the booze for the time being. Even comberry greef is just too overwhelming for a beginner to Dunmeri cuisine due to the strong flavours and very acquired tastes required to enjoy it. I know that I certainly threw up after first trying Sujamma, so maybe skip the liqueur for the first date or two?

Other than that, you're going to be fine! Don't overthink it, and have fun! Windhelm Dunmeri cuisine makes up one of Tamriel's most promising food scenes in years, so go forth and share your culture- you have so much to be proud of. ~Talviel

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Against all odds, I made it to YouTube! Well, my voice did anyway. Enormous thanks to Quench Quest for braving my very intense sujamma recipe and letting me yap a bit! 🍻🥂 My segment starts at 7:53! ~Tal

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