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Part 9 of Sare Liz's Celebratory July , Part 3 of Clan Kenobi, House Mereel , Part 2 of Dear Vokara , Part 3 of The Old Fashioned Way
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Interlude: Recipes

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When in doubt, create recipes for your characters. And then cook them and feel warmed. (Cook the recipes. Not the characters. That would not be ideal.)

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Jaster Mereel’s Hyperspace Stew Recipe

A serving for one hungry verd or three spacers, multiply by number of mouths, decrease tubers if you’ve been in hyperspace for more than two days, double salt and vinegar if dehydrated; comes out different every time, and that’s the point. Add everything to pressure pot, stir, cook at high pressure for 12 minutes, or 17 if protein is frozen, or 35 if the protein or grain is hard dried, natural pressure release for 10 minutes, serve with fresh bread if available, boiling water refreshed instant nutrient bread if not.

1 cup protein of any sort meat or vegetable, diced; if dried, ⅓ cup protein and additional 1 cup nutrient water
1 cup grain of any sort
1 cup tuber of any sort, diced in 1cm cubes; if dried, ⅓ cup and additional 1 cup nutrient water
1 cup freeze dried vegetal mix
1 cube freeze dried stock, broken up
2 spoons any standard seasoning mix
½ spoon salt
½ spoon various peppers, or more
½ spoon any standard vinegar
1 spoon any oil, if protein doesn’t include fat, or more if malnourished
3 cups nutrient water, add additional if grain is particularly thirsty
1 cup yogurt; if dried milk/yogurt, add additional 1 cup nutrient water
½ cup nutrient paste, if regular water is used, or if malnourished, or if today is that day

[ Milky Way Galaxy note: Yes, I made up this recipe, and all these recipes, from my gunship galley to yours. Enjoy. I made this first with lentils and quinoa, fresh cubed white potato, frozen mixed vegetables, dried chicken stock double cube, regular water, 1 T tandoori masala, ½ T dried onion, ½ T dried garlic, chili powder, rice wine vinegar, light olive oil, regular water, yogurt, and as a substitution for nutrient paste: 1/3 c mixed nut butter and 1 T nutritional yeast before cooking, and after cooked, 1 T miso. Put it all into a cold instant pot, stirred thoroughly, and turned it on for 12 minutes on high. It turned out a little salty, but truly amazing. Then I tried it with ground beef and rice, no nutritional yeast and no stock cube, but adding 1 T red curry paste, cooking the ground beef first in the pot, then dumping everything else and stirring. It was good. Then I tried it with ground beef and rolled oats, no NY or SC but with 1 T red curry paste, and with cajun seasoning and red wine vinegar instead of tandoori masala and rice wine, then also served it with shredded cheddar and homemade yogurt on top and it was great. BUT PLEASE NOTE: Rice is so thirsty, y’all, like a verd watching their favorite jetii. You may need more liquid and more cook time (like 30 min), and if you have leftovers, it will soak it all up overnight, so add more liquid unless you want to slap it in a tortilla or naan and eat it like that.]

[ Portion sizes: a hungry verd is a normal person after running a half-marathon, or doing martial arts for five hours with breaks for sprinting or climbing or jetpacking (you know that requires unbelievable core strength). This creates two large portions for active spacers who train in a cargo bay, or three to four normal size portions for spacers who are more sedentary. 

[ Nutrient water could also be considered diced tomatoes, bone broth, excellent homemade stock, V8, or any vegetable juice without non vegetable/fruit additives. 

[ Nutrient paste could be considered a mix of a daily multivitamin, nut butter, nutritional yeast, and/or miso, chili paste, or tomato paste.]

 

Jaster Mereel’s Anytime Porridge Recipe

A serving for one hungry verd or two spacers, multiply by number of mouths. To make base recipe, put ingredients in pressure pot and cook for 4 minutes, quick release. Have each verd make up their bowl with the sweet or savory version ready in the bottom, with water soaking as necessary. Ladle base recipe over, stir and eat. When possible, serve with fresh milk, fresh fruit, fried nuna eggs, and fried gundark bacon.

Base Recipe:

½ cup any grain
1 cup nutrient water (adjust if necessary for specific grain)
½ spoon salt
½ spoon any oil
¼ cup nutrient paste

For sweet version:

1 spoon honey or local equivalent
½ cup fresh or freeze dried fruit, diced, if freeze dried, soak in 2 spoons nutrient water
1 spoon preserved fruit gel

For savory version:

½ cup freeze dried vegetal mix, soaked in 2 spoons nutrient water
1 spoon nutrient powder
1 spoon dried dairy powder, with 1 spoon nutrient water
½ spoon any seasoning mix

 

Vokara Che’s Favorite Post Battle Hot Grains

This is not something Vokara knows how to create from scratch, you understand. This is something she can put together from the buffet line in the dining hall. Some cooking directions for your convenience, if you don’t have a buffet line in a castle dining hall to call upon: To get one cup of cooked oatmeal, take ⅓ cup rolled oats and ⅔ cup water, combine, microwave for 1 minute or so. If no oats, no problem! Use any grain (ground corn is a good one!), cook completely with water with that grain’s appropriate water ratio.

Mix well, eat post battle or for breakfast, and fall in love all over again.

1 cup cooked oatmeal 
salt to taste
pepper to taste
butter to taste
half a handful (¼ cup) shredded hard aged cheese number one 
handful (½ cup) shredded hard aged cheese number two 

 

 

Jango Fett’s Quick & Dirty Hyperspace Curry

This is quick and dirty, indeed, made in a small rice cooker. If everything isn’t defrosted, somethings burn, but Jango doesn’t care. If everything is defrosted, it usually turns out alright. One portion fits into a small rice cooker and serves one hungry verd or two sedentary spacers. The spoons here are equivalent to tablespoons, but you know, it’s Jango. It’s a rough estimate.

Put all into small rice cooker, stir well before cooking, go take a sonic and clean the blood off your armor, then stir well after cooking and serve with yogurt or cheese or whatever you’ve got left in your gunship’s pantry.

1 portion of rice
1 ½ portions of (nutrient) water
2 spoons tomato paste
2 spoons nut butter
2 spoons butter or oil
2 spoons soy sauce
½ spoons each: curry, tumeric, garlic bits, and onion bits
¼ spoons each: salt, pepper
1 diced mushroom
1 ½ cup defrosted from frozen mixed veg
1 cup defrosted from frozen shrimp, or 2 links of sausage diced, or other skinned, boned, diced protein (can use mynocks in a pinch)

 

Sare Liz’s Celebratory July Mocktail: Sand Gets Everywhere

Add ingredients to a quart canning jar, backfill with water, shake vigorously, and refrigerate. Shake vigorously before putting into fancy serving jug for serving to friends and loved ones.

Can include rum, if alcohol is your thing. Please drink to celebrate, and never alone.

If drink remains alcohol free, can double as Gatorade or other electrolyte drink in hot and sweaty weather, or on the off chance you happen to get stranded in a civil war and need to rehydrate hundreds of children. In style. As always, if the world is getting you down, feel free to say the name of the drink as Anakin would, or even better, as Obi-Wan would.

Makes 1 quart

1/2 cup lime juice
3/8 cup honey (or, you know, just under 1/2 cup, but depends on your preference for sweetness)
2 t coconut extract (or more. or less. As your taste buds dictate.)