#lobster pot

[pershing100]

Harbour, St Andrews, Fife

[postcardsfromwanderings]

The Lobster Pot , Lobster restaurant, Provincetown MA

[scottwmsimmons]

Lobster Pot - 11” x 12’ watercolor on paper.

[soprabito]

Cronache di un'America minore #11

[petfindersillies]

hope you're craving seafood, because here comes Lobster Pot! this beautiful rooster is found in Fallston, MD

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Kinnporsche x textposts pt. 20 [more]

[apocalypticvalraven]

Delicious in Dungeon in The Kitchen

So... I was struck by the thought that I kinda wish some food nerd would go through the Dungeon Meshi dishes and analyze them and sort of give a "this is the real world thing they're making" run down.

And then I realized I'm a food nerd that can do research.

So.

We're gonna try this out, starting with Volume 1. I don't promise that I know everything about cooking. I don't promise I'll always be able to make the thing I'm looking at (I am broke, and I don't have my own kitchen). But I can at least look at a dish and figure out what they're doing and how to replicate it, at least sorta.

Dungeon Meshi Volume 1-- Huge Scorpion and Walking Mushroom Hot Pot

The two main components of this dish are the Huge Scorpion and Walking Mushroom.

Walking Mushroom

Looking at the images in the manga, Walking Mushroom seems to just... be a mushroom that can walk around. There are no organs, the interior seems pretty uniform in substance...

Like, literally, that's exactly what sliced mushrooms look like. Senshi cuts the mushroom into ~4" strips (judging by their size next to the small cabbage-like vegetable, and comparing those plants to his hand in the image of him gathering them. I am assuming dwarf hands are roughly the same size as human hands).

There's a variety of edible mushroom that is probably as close as we're going to get to the size of a Walking Mushroom, growing a cap up to 3' wide, but it seems to only grow in termite mounds in a very specific part of the African continent (please forgive my USAmerican, White education leading me to not being able to identify the specific region), so... if you can get that at all, it's probably crazy expensive (as it should be, unless you're literally getting it from the mounds or local markets yourself). Portobello or similar large culinary mushrooms are probably just fine. The Mushroom Feet are literally just mushrooms, so no worries there.

Huge Scorpion

Ok, so... there is a difference between arachnids and crustaceans. As a start, arachnids have book lungs and crustaceans have gills. Arachnid guts are different from crustacean guts, just because of environment. Hell, crustacean limbs grow differently from arachnid limbs.

That said, everything I see in Dungeon Meshi implies that, from a culinary standpoint, Huge Scorpion is a crustacean-

So, really, it's just a big lobster. Take a lobster, cut off its legs, antennae, and the tail fluke, and you're going to see something that looks pretty similar to the huge scorpion in Dungeon Meshi.

Seaweed

Next is seaweed, which... is just a thing, but also kind of an imprecise term, I think. Basically, "seaweed" just refers to any marine algae that is multicellular and macroscopic (big enough to see). Arctic Moss seems to be a real thing which refers to a couple things- the aquatic moss Calliergon giganteum and the terrestrial lichen in the genus of Cladonia, which includes Reindeer Lichen.

Reindeer lichen is edible, in a number of ways, but it's also not seaweed. So we look at Calliergon giganteum. I cannot get an answer as to whether this particular variety of moss is edible. So... fuck it, say Senshi used Reindeer Lichen, at least we know that's edible.

"Star Jelly" is... I don't know. The main result I find when googling it is that it's the sort of general term for various slimes that show up on lawns and other vegetation, etc. Which means it could be anything from amphibian spawning jelly to who the fuck knows what.

However, one thing it could be is a cyanobacteria known as Fat Choy, a commonly used "vegetable" in Chinese Cuisine:

Looks like jelly? Yep. Looks weird enough that you might imagine it comes from a star? Yep. Edible? Yes!

(I mean, maybe don't eat a ton of it, or get it from irreputable sources. At least some Fat Choy contains a toxic amino acid which may or may not have negative health effects, but I'm not a doctor, so all I'm saying is "be aware of this." It's an expensive delicacy, which means that it is a particularly lucrative target for counterfeiters, and China does not have strong, or strongly enforced, food safety laws).

The Hard Stuff

So that leaves "Invertatoes" and "Dried Slime."

Neither of which seem to have a good direct analogue to the real world. Well... sorta.

Invertatoes seems to refer to the plants. The name calls to mind potatoes, and potatoes do indeed grow in the ground and are starchy. It's probably fair to just use any kind of starchy tuber as the "invertatoes." Maybe cassava, since those are large enough that it's at least somewhat believable that "Fantasy Land Cassava" could look like that (although that doesn't fit the "these are normal plants that grow upside down" unless we're being really generous).

The problem is that it's sort of implied that the cabbage-like vegetable seen in the hot pot comes from the same plant, and everything from a potato plant other than the potato itself is toxic. They also don't look like that.

I literally don't know what those cabbage/lettuce-like leafy vegetables are. They're not seaweed, because the two varieties called out definitely don't look like that. They're not, so far as I can tell, the greens of any kind of starchy tuber--

EXCEPT.

So, I was taking one last look at tubers to see if I could find something that seemed to match, and I think Invertatoes could be likened to something similar to chicory. Particularly endives. I never knew endives were related to chicory (ie, "that thing that I'm aware is popular as a coffee substitute in the South, but I don't have much desire to try it, and I wonder if it even has caffeine..."), but, apparently, yeah. Endives are a member of the chicory genus.

So, yeah, lets say that Invertatoes are a sort of fantasy plant similar to the various members of the chicory genus. The trunk can be replicated with chicory root, and the leaves with endives.

That leaves Dried Slime. Dried Slime makes up the noodles in the hot pot, which implies that the noodles are gelatinous, and probably low in gluten. Senshi's explanation of the slime makes me want to think of it as a macro-unicellular lifeform, but... I'm not sure that's accurate.

While it's definitely not an accurate way to describe a jellyfish, I could definitely see a non-biologist describing jellyfish in a way similar to the way Senshi describes the slime. I could also see some fantasy terrestrial jellyfish thing hunting in a similar manner to the slime. Moreover, there are edible varieties of jellyfish, and they're processed in a manner very similar to what Senshi describes for processing slimes. And one way of preparing edible jellyfish is to thinly slice it into noodles.

Hot Pots

I... think this is using a very specifically Japanese sense of "hot pot" (which makes sense), because in Japan, hot pot can refer to a dish called nabemono, while in general, hot pot refers to a particular kind of dining in China where you get a pot full of boiling stock/broth and a bunch of raw ingredients, and you put the stuff you want into the broth at the table. Nabemono is more of "put a bunch of stuff in a pot, and cook it. Serve it boiling." Which is to say, it's soup.

Senshi puts the scorpion meat and mushroom into a pot on its own, and lets it start boiling-

Then, while it's boiling, he goes and finds other ingredients, coming back with the invertatoes and the slime. The two are prepared simply-

Seasoning isn't included in the ingredients, but I can understand this as a choice for presentation. We do see Senshi add something to the broth after tasting it, and I think it's fair to assume it's one of soy sauce, mirin, fish sauce, or similar. I think it's actually really interesting that we see Senshi add seasoning, but we're not told what it is-

Because... that's cooking. You can follow a recipe, but ultimately, you need to taste your cooking and make your own decisions. Senshi lets the soup cook, tastes the broth, decides it needs something, and gives it a bit of time to let the flavors meld before serving it up.

Dungeon Meshi Lobster and Mushroom Hot Pot

So, we're looking at something like this for the "Huge Scorpion and Walking Mushroom Hot Pot"--

Lobster- ~5 lbs or more (a 1 lb lobster yields about 4 oz of actual meat, which is a single serving), cut into large slices

Portobello- 2 mushrooms large diced, 2 left whole with the caps scored

Reindeer Lichen and Fat Choy- to taste

Chicory Roots- ~1 cup, diced

Endive greens- ~2 cups

Jellyfish, thin sliced- as much as you like

Add lobster and mushrooms to water, and allow to boil. While it comes to a boil, prepare the other ingredients, then add to the water. Let the soup come to a full boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes to an hour (can simmer longer, but this will affect the texture of the ingredients. Longer simmering will result in more melding of flavors, but also degraded solid parts).

Taste the broth. It will likely need salt and acid, which could come in a variety of forms, such as kosher salt and lemon juice, soy sauce and mirin/rice vinegar, oyster/fish sauce, or something else. Go with your gut and your taste buds..

[jacksoldsideblog]

do yall have favorite soups?

[grungeouttakesabstracts]

Lobster Pot #3

Provincetown, Massachusetts -- 7/1/14

[johnny1note]

Should I be insane and make a five-course dinner for my birthday this year, and should I be extra insane and have the entrée course be Lobster Newburg in puff pastry shells?

[pershing100]

Harbour, St. Andrews, Fife

[pegglefan69]

planning on dyeing a bunch of white yarn in my stash with the onion skins I saved from the local farm last year, then knitting a vest out of it...planning even further ahead to try & dye yarn with some of their beets & marigolds too later this year... I think it'd be really cute to have an ongoing 'farm vest' project >:^)

[ancestorsalive]

Edmund de la Mare making lobster pots in Le Couteur’s yard in 1935, Guernsey, Channel Islands.

Photo colourised by Rod Ferbrache.

[jade-gemstone]

I've decided to start a new stardew valley farm and I'm trying to marry Elliot but this man has such UNGODLY EXPENSIVE TASTES.

You're great Elliot, but please can you just like normal things so that I can romance you quickly.

[radiocrypt-id]

No but you don't understand... ElQuackity is the warning siren, he could have saved them all...

I think it's entirely possible that ElQuackity was a test.

I think it's entirely plausible that ElQuackity is a very good liar, so good the Federation doesn't know what he feels or what he's up to.

I think it's entirely pointless to discredit the concept of ElQuackity being more than what he appears.

I think it's a possibility that ElQuackity had every intention of being a roadblock for the Federation as President.

hear me out.

He has no attachments, no responsibility to anyone, no one trusts him or believes he's the real quackity and I don't believe he's doing a bad job of pretending to be quackity, i think he's doing a Very Good Job of showing he Isn't Quackity to the people that needed to know that. He was the least easy to manipulate. The one that actually knew the most about the federation and its employees and its scope of power. He was the most unknown and I believe that's On Purpose. He doesn't ever explain himself and I believe that's On Purpose. The Federation has shown that they are always listening, always around. They take pictures from right Next To You and you can't see them. They take pictures from Your Perspective even. We just watched Cellbit be dragged along with a carrot like a pig, digging around for truffles at their silent, hidden request. No one but ElQuackity could know the reach and will of the Federation. He is from them, of them, their puppet; and the perfect Wall. Who could they have threatened to make him behave? He has no child. no family. and as Maxo said, no friends either. He has nothing, so he has nothing to be used against him. He's unshackled by the very things the federation repeatedly uses to manipulate the island residents.

I really do think it's reasonable to believe that Bad made a mistake. ElQuackity was set up to be the federations choice for president? Maybe. they sure didn't try to protect him though, did they? His ominous behaviour in the chat is always taken as a threat, but they could be veiled warnings. "Have fun at the dinner :)" "Good luck candidates on the election" "You have no idea what you've done"

He's not wrong, he's never been wrong. Every message has instilled an unnerving worry, like clouds building on the horizon suddenly, moving steadily closer. His cryptic messages encourage everyone to be careful, to question, to prepare and be safe. As President, he could have been a wall. A steadfast, constant warning sign to anyone outside. A caution symbol. A warning siren.

What's more, no one would have thought twice to leave ElQuackity behind id they found a way out, but BBH? Forever? Mike, Felps Etoiles? Any of the disqualified candidates had they survived? How much hesitation would the islance residents hold for them? for leaving them behind? "We'll all get out, together, all of our friends that want to come we'll all escape!" but if the President can't leave? If federation entities and employees can't leave? How long would they wait? Not a second, for ElQuackity. But anyone else?

We really have no idea what we've done.