This month we’re recreating some meals from Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Last time, we put together some of the food that filled our heroes’ plates at the beginning of their adventure.
Today’s spread is mostly inspired by the dishes served at the Emerald Enclave, where Edgin and company plan out the castle-infiltrating, corpse-questioning, dragon-hoard-pilfering middle part of their adventure.
To round out the somewhat eclectic snacking choices of the Enclave, we’ve added tea and some berry crumb pie from Holga’s reunion with her ex, Marlamin. Here we munch our way through the middle part of our heroes’ story.
The menu
- Cucumber slices
- Nuts
- Passionfruit, apricots, and grapes
- Asparagus spears
- Puff pastry knots
- Tea
- Blueberry crumb pie
Most of today’s food was inspired by the odd assortment of edibles on offer on the table in the Emerald Enclave in the scene when Edgin, Holga, and Simon are making their pitch to recruit Doric to the team.
It was a bit tricky to work out exactly what foods the scene was dressed with. With a little experimentation we worked out that the golden-brown sticks Holga tries and rejects (for not being potato-based, no doubt) are strips of puff pastry tied into knots and baked.
Another dish on the table holds sliced cucumbers (or possibly zucchini, but we went with cucumbers). A third has a mix of various fruits; we ended up picking apricots, passionfruit, and dark grapes to make a pleasing assortment, along with some nuts and asparagus spears. (We really wonder just what the Emerald Enclave cooks think they are doing with some of this stuff!)
The table our adventurers gather at has some sort of a ceramic chafing dish in the center: steam is gently rising, and there seem to be ashes both at the bottom and upper levels of the device. Lacking custom pottery, our cucumber bowl with its similar glazing will have to do. Two round leaves—you can just see the veins—function as underlays of sorts, one dark green and the other dark red(ish).
Later we can just see two shapely glass bottles, one clear and the other dark green. Fortuitously, our iced tea pitcher has vaguely similar lines as the clear one.
Marlamin’s homey snack of tea and pie was a little easier to figure out.
A blueberry crumb pie makes a nice approximation of his tea cakes, which we topped with apricot halves and clusters of grapes.
Like the humble beginnings photoshoot, we’ve taken liberties in details but attempted to follow the spirit of the scenes.
Images: Photos by Eppu Jensen. Screencaps from the movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
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