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Princess Bride Week – Roasted R.O.U.S. Ribs
Fighting your way through a Fire Swamp is hungry work. If you didn’t pack enough rations to get you all the way to Florin, then follow in the steps of the Dread Pirate Roberts (versions III – IV, plus...
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Princess Bride Week: Iocaine Powder French Toast with Six Fingered Sausage
It doesn’t take a dizzying intellect to know a good breakfast when you see it. A traditional dish from the Guilder Frontier; these toasts are stuffed with an amazing blend of cream cheese, cinnamon,...
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Disney Week: Elsa’s Frozen Lemon Ginger Braid
If you’ve been resisting the temptation of delicious carbs for so long you feel like your heart is about to burst, just let it go and give in to the temptation of this double ginger challah shaped like...
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Disney Week: Jiminy Cricket’s Chocolate Chirp Cookies
Listen, Geppetto, it wasn’t personal. Since the Evil Queen burned down the forest, people are starving. We had to get…creative. We ran out of bread flour two weeks ago. Ariel won’t let us eat any...
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Geek Cake Friday: 9 Disney-Tastic Once Upon A Time Cakes
Much like the non-BBC Sherlock Homes cakes, Once Upon A Time fans literally want to eat their words. Or eat Henry’s words. Wait, who actually wrote the book of fairytales he carries around? Maybe...
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CARBS AGAINST HUMANITY
The Kitchen Overlord Illustrated Geek Cookbook Kickstarter reached its minimum funding goal in just five days! It’s time for a newer goal. A shinier goal. A bigger, blacker goal. That’s right. When we...
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True Blood Last Sips: Franklin Mott
We pay our last respects to True Blood’s final season with a week of drinks almost as delicious as Sookie’s Fairy Blood. Get ready for a tasty trip back in time as we explore drinks your favorite...
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Nanny Ogg’s Scumble
Summer time is here. As a geek, that means copious consumption of two things – books and alcohol. Our own Silvia Sellerio went on a quest to efficiently combine the two by recreating Nanny Ogg’s...
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NeverEnding Story Rock Biter Cookies
After bringing you down with her Artax Mud Pie, Minion Lil Jinni is back to cheer you up with a delicious looking vintage limestone rock with a dash of quartz from the best quarries in the north....
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Geek Cake Friday: NeverEnding Story
In honor of Minion Lil Jinni’s week of NeverEnding Story inspired recipes, your Kitchen Overlord presents the best (and drunkest) edible tributes to your most depressing beloved childhood movie. It...
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Happy Hobbit Day!
September 22 happens to be both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins birthdays! In honor of Hobbit Day, enjoy this selection of recipes from An Unexpected Cookbook: The Unofficial Book of Hobbit Cookery, available...
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Ichabod Crane’s Colonial Cider Cake with Bonus Heart Shaped Pan Review
Cake has not always been an overly sweet confection topped with a thick and offensive paste of tasteless fat and sugar. Nay, there was a time when civilized people sat down to tea and enjoyed a few...
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How to Eat Like a Hobbit in Seven Steps: Dinner
It’s no surprise potatoes are one of the only three new world crops Tolkien couldn’t bear to ban from the Shire. (He also let them keep coffee and tobacco.) Sure, parsnips and turnips were more...
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Double my money! Hobbit Cookbook author offers $600 matching grant for One...
As the author of the new Hobbit cookbook, I’m happy to support fellow epic level fan endeavors. The good folks at The One Ring have created an online community for Tolkien lovers for the last sixteen...
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Breakfast: 7 Hobbit Meals in 7 Days (SXSW Daily Video Challenge)
I’m fresh back from South by Southwest, where some of the fantastic folks I met at web video panels challenged me to make a video a day for a month. Whoa. A MONTH? That’s pretty intimidating. How...
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SECOND Breakfast: 7 Hobbit Meals in 7 Days (SXSW Daily Video Challenge)
I’m back for the second day of my SXSW Daily Video Challenge! Now that Breakfast grounded you in the reality of late Victorian food, it’s time to loosen up and enjoy the pure fantasy of Second...
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Elevenses: 7 Hobbit Meals in 7 Days (SXSW Daily Video Challenge)
After a hearty Breakfast and filling Second Breakfast, it’s finally time for Elevenses! My Second Breakfast was all about sneaking off for a small adventure on a sunny day. It was full of Victorian Pop...
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Luncheon: 7 Hobbit Meals in 7 Days (SXSW Video Challenge)
Never forget: vegetables hate you and want you dead. After watching this video about the dark side of Luncheon, you’ll have all the ammunition you need to never touch another vegetable again in your...
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Afternoon Tea: 7 Hobbit Meals in 7 Days (SXSW Video Challenge)
Tolkien started The Hobbit with a joke about High Tea versus Low Tea. If you ask me, no matter what it’s called, you can’t go wrong with a steaming mug of hot leaf water served alongside small, sugary...
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Supper: 7 Hobbit Meals in 7 Days (SXSW Video Challenge)
If you can’t decide whether your last hot meal of the day should be called supper or diner, eat like a Hobbit and have both! Today, we talk about the more modest evening meals working class families...
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