Rhapsodies

to maintain some variety in my diet I’m trying to do more recipes. I’ve also been wanting to do a good meat pie for a while and I’d been shopping around for a descent recipe. Most of the suggestions I’d bee getting came from my favorite cooking blogs, Inn at the Crossroads which reverse engineers meals mentioned in A Song of Ice and Fire along with it’s accompanying cookbook, A Feast of Ice and Fire. Most of the more medieval recipes were sweeter than I was looking for but I finally found one I liked very loosely based on the pork pies Lord Manderly serves to the Boltons and the Freys in revenge against the Red Wedding. It is heavily implied in the book (and later confirmed by George R.R. Martin)  That the main ingredient was three murdered members of house Frey.

The blog’s version of the recipe substitutes Frey with Pork.

Beyond prep taking longer than I predicted, and a comedy of errors with some spilled gravy making a lot of smoke so I spent an hour trying not to break my apartment’s fire alarm, I think it came out pretty well. (though I might have rushed the roux a little too much so the gravy wasn’t quite as thick as it should have been.