Beef stew

Douring the book beef stew is served alot, mostly as a breakfast meal with hot grain.

Ingredients:
1/4 cup flour
2 pounds beef
2 tbsp oli
1 can ripped tomato
1 cup water
1 cube of beef bouilion
1 tsp timian
1 tsp estrgon
1 tsp oregano
2 tsp basil
2 tsp paprika
2 tsp cinnamon
1-2 bayleaves
Pepper
1-2 onion
3 clove garlic
4 carrots
1 bell pepper


Cut the beef in bit size and cover in flour. Brown the meat in oli in a pot.
Chop the carrots, bell pepper, onion and garlic. Put them in the pot with the meat and the rest of the ingredients.
Let the dish simmer for 3-4 hours and serve with hot grain like in the book or with rice.

District 4 bread

The bread from District 4 is descriped as beeing fish shaped tinted with seawead.

Ingredients:
4,5 cup siftings
1 cup temed water
1,5 tbsp oli
1 tsp salt
half a pacet of yeast
1/2 cup of souerdough (se how to make it here)
4 tbsp Nori seaweed
1/2 tsp sugar
1 egg

Blend the seaweed I used 2 sheets seaweed.
Dissolve the yeast in the water and add oli, salt, sugar, seaweed and the egg. Gradually add the flour.
Leav the dough to raise until it raises to dobble size.
Shape the dough into fish shapes cut details into the dough.

Bake the fish breads in the oven at 400 degrees Farenheit for 20-25 min.

District 11 bread

This is my idea of the bread from District 11.
District 11 is like District 12 a poor District so there for I choose the sourdough as well.
The bread is described as crescent shaped and sprinkled with seed.

 

Sourdough:
Rye flour
Water

The first day you mix together 1 cup flour and 1 cup water and leave it on the kitchen table.
The next day you mix in and equal amount of rye and water in the sourdough. This part you continue with for 4-5 day or until the sourdough starts bobbles and has a sent of vinegar or beer.

Bread:
2,5 cups sourdough
3 cups temped water
9 1/3 cup rye flour
Sesame seeds

Dissolve the sourdough in the water.
Gradually add the flour.
Leave the dough a warm place to raise for 4-6 hours. Shape the dough into crescent shapes rolls brush with water and sprinkle with sesame seed.
Bake the bread in the oven at 437 degrees Fahrenheit for 20-25 min.

Carrot soup

One of the courses Katniss and Peeta gets on the train on the way to the Capitol, to enter the Hunger Games.

The carrot soup is much more orange than the picture shows.

Ingredients:
9 carrots
1 onion
4 cloves garlic
1 red chili
2 teaspoon ginger
4 teaspoon coriander
Oil
3 cups vegetable bouillon
Salt and pepper

Peel the carrots. Chop the carrots, onion, garlic and chili. Put it in a pot with oil, ginger and coriander and saute.
Pour in the bouillon and let simmer for 30 min. or until the carrots are tender. Blend the soup until smooth. Taste with salt and pepper.
The soup has a consistency as puree, but if you wan it to be thinner you can add more bouillon and spices.

Drink me

This is the drink that Alice drinks in order to get small enough to get through the small door to Wonderland.

The drink is described as tasting like cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffee and hot buttered toast. I only got some of the taste variety so maybe that's why one doesn't shrinks after drinking it :)

Ingredients:
10 cups water
1 teabag cherry tea
1 teabag pineapple tea
2 teaspoon caramel tea
Possible 1-2 teaspoon of sugar

Combine all the ingredients. Leave the drink in the refrigerator to the next day.

Milky Way Cake

This is one of the cakes that Julia bakes in The Girl Who Chased the Moon.

Cake:
8 regular size Milky Way candy bar
2 sticks butter
2 cup sugar
4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2,5 cup flour
1,25 cup buttermilk
1 cup chopped pecans

Cream sugar and one stick of butter together. Addeggs, baking soda, flour and buttermilk.
Melt candy bars in the other stick of butter.
Add the melted candy mixture and pecans to the batter.
Pour the batter in a greased pan. Bake the cake at 325 degrees Farenheit for 30-40 minutes.
Cool for 5 minutes and remove form the pan, and cool on racks.


Icing:
2,5 cup sugar
1 cup evaporated milk
1 stick butter
1 6 oz bag of chocolate chips
1 cup marshmallow creme

Mix over low heat. Combine sugar and milk. Cook until it reaches a soft ball stage. Add other ingredients. Stir until chocolate chips melt, then remove from heat. Beat until cool.