Crottled Greeps, and other edible(?) things... Jeff Zeitlin (06 Jun 2023 22:27 UTC)
Re: [TML] Crottled Greeps, and other edible(?) things... Evyn MacDude (06 Jun 2023 22:48 UTC)
Re: [TML] Crottled Greeps, and other edible(?) things... Jeff Zeitlin (12 Jun 2023 14:25 UTC)
Re: [TML] Crottled Greeps, and other edible(?) things... Evyn MacDude (19 Jun 2023 22:10 UTC)
Re: [TML] Crottled Greeps, and other edible(?) things... Jeffrey Schwartz (07 Jun 2023 01:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] Crottled Greeps, and other edible(?) things... Jeff Zeitlin (12 Jun 2023 17:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] Crottled Greeps, and other edible(?) things... Jeffrey Schwartz (12 Jun 2023 19:22 UTC)
Re: Edible(?) things... Jonathan Clark (07 Jun 2023 02:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] Re: Edible(?) things... Jeff Zeitlin (12 Jun 2023 17:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] Re: Edible(?)things... Jonathan Clark (13 Jun 2023 01:47 UTC)

Re: [TML] Crottled Greeps, and other edible(?) things... Jeffrey Schwartz 07 Jun 2023 01:19 UTC

There is a thing I make when I'm tired and don't have the energy to
cook something complicated. My wife and i call it "Vargr"
It's based on  Z'zezishz : https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Z%27zezishz
but simplified

1lb ground beef, bison, or other meat
1 can cooked diced potatoes
1 small can mixed peas & carrots
various peppers, random depending on what's in the fridge
salt
Black pepper
cayenne pepper powder
crushed red pepper in shaker
Optional: garlic butter. The little tubs you get from Papa Johns are just right

Brown the meat and drain most of the grease
Chop up the fresh peppers and add them to the meat
Add seasonings
return to low heat and cook until the peppers are mostly done
Add potatoes, peas & carrots
Bring to medium/high heat, cook until everything is warm and tasty
Serve into bowls, add garlic butter to taste

IMTU, on Carmel (Deneb/Praetoria 0604) there's a fair population of
Vargr from just over the border, which leads to there being a few
genuine Vargr restaurants and a bunch more "ImpVar" places. The ImpVar
food is even less Var than TexMex is Mex.
The Carmel version of this dish is usually made with Bugalo (Bug
Bufalo) which are effectively 800kg or so land crabs
(See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qla9L50gw5xyK1QdBkkqm6DpmZ7lsUTqdOfZug6o76M/edit#
page 129 for a picture and game stats) (Jeff, if you get the urge to
put this in the cook book, feel free to copy that whole block on the
bugalo)

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In the Baronny, a town on the coast of the main continent on Carmel,
they have a seafood snack called "pseudosushi" .

One small can of tuna fish per person
Mayo
Golden mustard
Wasabi
Sweet relish
Cucumbers
Tomato
Onion
Nori paper

Mix up the tuna, mayo, mustard, sweet relish to make tuna salad.
Proportions to taste
Add wasabi until it's biting just a bit.
Lay out a sheet of Nori Paper, spoon the tuna salad across.
Add slices of cukes, tomato, onion
Roll the paper, then slice into bite size bits

The Carmel version of this is usually made with Plutofish ("like a
goldfish, but plutonium deadly") - picture a 200kg goldfish with shark
teeth at the front of the jaw, and a whale's strainer system to let it
consume mass quantities of plankton in between the good meals.  The
plankton tends to flavor the meat, and the wasabi is in this recipe
only to make the tuna taste more like plutofish.