Breath of the Wild #6: Seafood Skewer

Ingredients: Any Snail or Crab

Description: ""A skewer of delicious roasted fish and shellfish."

Curiously, the ingredients don't say a fish has to be included, but we've got plenty of those sardines so, another round of those. I wanted to get some other seafood resembling the crab and snail, but uhhh.. i dont think i can get any that fit easily on a skewer for one thing. I did how ever get some crab sticks and small squids, so im defrosting some of that. It's seafood!

I've gutted the sardines, i'll also be doing the "copious fish skewers" recipe at the same time as this one so i'll throw more fish chunks on top.

For the seasoning, I dunno, there's only so much that goes with fish and seafood so i'm just gonna do a remix of some of the stuff I already have. More of that horseradish root, lots of garlic, a bit of lemongrass paste, chilli flakes, salt, olive oil, and plenty of fresh lemon juice.

Grated, sprinkled, splashed and tumbled it together. I also got in there and stuffed extra garlic and seasonings into the fish cavities.

Grill ready! Think it looks enough like the reference?

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Crab sticks work surprisingly well on the grill, they look even more like real food this way. The seasoning was very strong and spicy and a little woody. Not bad for surviving the wilderness I guess, but for home cooking eh... it sure is some edible creatures on a stick.

Breath of the Wild #5: Fish Skewer

Ingredients: Any Fish

Description: ""A simple dish made by cooking chunks of fresh fish on a skewer."

This is just a continuation of the fish and mushroom skewer recipe, so I gutted the fish and added the seasonings i mentioned there: paprika, salt, oregano, lemon juice, horseradish and olive oil.

Stuck them through and grilled until crispy!

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Going out of your way to use whole fish instead of fish fillets for the look, not worth it. Am I bourgeoise? Am I spoiled? Spoiled in the head maybe because I just know, like I already know im going to do it again the next time a recipe has a whole unfilleted fish. Hey look I did it though, that's pretty cool.

Breath of the Wild #4: Meat Skewer

Ingredients: Any Meat

Description: "A juicy, filling snack made by grilling small chunks of meat on a skewer."

I thought I could get away with combining this recipe with the meat and mushroom skewer, using the same marinade, which was of course my pepper and red wine type... thing.

Assembled an all-beef skewer and put it in the grill with the others.

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Without the mushrooms its even tougher and less juicy. I guess at least its appropriate for the most basic level foraged meat dish. Next time i'll try to cook it better though. So much chewing, im living proof that all that tiktok mewing stuff doesnt work.

Breath of the Wild #3: Fish and Mushroom Skewer

Ingredients: Any Fish, Any Mushroom

Description: "A simple dish made by cooking skewered fresh fish alongside fragrant mushrooms."

I managed to get a nice bunch of whole sardines so i can really sell that rustic fish-on-a-stick look! and some big chestnut mushrooms.

It turns out I have to gut them myself... ok... um ive never done this before, im sparing you the gruesome blood and guts but i think ive succeeded, and rinsed the cavity. All that effort for extra horrible bone texture and mostly skin type of fish.

But here's the fun part! Coming up with a nice seasoning that might go well with these. I've picked paprika, salt and oregano, and then a big squeeze of lemon juice, making sure not to miss the insides of the fish too.

And then something a bit weird! No it's not a demon boner, its a massive horseradish root I found at the local farm shop. It's fairly potent so im just going to grate a bit onto everything. If you don't know horseradish, it's hot in a mustard sort of way. European wasabi.

And then some olive oil to help it crisp up on the grill.

It's assembled and ready! The other 2 sardines will become the fish skewer recipe.

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You might be starting to get the idea why im combining some of these recipes, well apart from it being very resource efficient. It's also because these are pretty plain ways to cook ingredients that nobody even really likes that much. I expected the worst with these nasty little whole fish and shrooms, but you know what, it could have been worse. The seasoning was zippy and worked well, the fish... well i hate that texture where even though you take out the main spine, theres tons of micro thin bones in there that are small enough to eat so its sort of like eating a shoe brush, but the flavour was alright and you get a satisfying amount of fish meat. It was probably very healthy.

Breath of the Wild #2: Meat and Mushroom Skewer

Ingredients: Any Mushroom, Any Meat

Description: "A filling dish made by grilling various mountain ingredients with meat."

I thought beef and chestnut mushrooms would be a good pairing for this. Like a french stew on a stick. Yeah.(???)

And i'll do a different marinade to the last one, with olive oil, red wine, red wine vinegar, dijon mustard, salt, and plenty of pepper. Like french stew on a stick! (why am i like this)

Just whack that in there and mix it around. Looks like that pepper mix also has plenty of coriander seed. Is that a way to cheap out on the peppercorns? Sounds fine though.

Now I can leave this for 2 hours while I finish work. I was on a tea break honest!

I also thought I could do the all-meat skewer for an upcoming recipe while I was at it. Ended up getting a few portions out of this! Frugal! And fungal.

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The meat is SO TOUGH. I thought the marinade would soften it a lot more. Skill issue though? i think i overcooked it. The marinade was just ok, it was peppery but its not exactly bourguignon. Filling, sure I guess, mostly a workout for the jaw.

Breath of the Wild #1: Mushroom Skewer

Ingredients: Any Mushroom

Description: "This simple mushroom-packed skewer has its colorful presentation to thank for its appeal."

Ah, mushrooms. You enduring menace. I went on a proper mission to find a good range of mushrooms to use for these recipes, and for this skewer ive settled upon shiitake. It's a very mushroomy looking mushroom, and its one of the least bland ones out there. I don't think this is going to qualify as a "colorful presentation" though.

But we don't have to go on this adventure alone, do we? I don't care if link has the palette of a paleo diet influencer or not, im going to make these with a nice marinade. I chose something I feel is a general classic. Olive oil, soy sauce, vinegar, salt, pepper, chilli flakes, sugar and garlic.

Splatting the mushrooms in there.

Oops! I accidentally dropped in some more mushrooms for a future recipe. But this box of mixed mushrooms has the most gigantic shiitake i've ever seen, so its going on this shiitake-only skewer. Oh, and i left these to marinate for a few hours.

Look at that beast! It's so hulking its threatening to break the wooden skewer. 

Now it can go in the grill pan, never you mind about those other ones they'll come up later.

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Meaty and chewy. I definitely think shiitake was a good choice for grilling. The marinade did a lot, it was a very punchy flavour thanks to the garlic and chilli. Almost as good as a chicken skewer, but not quite.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Triforce of Forage

 One guy. One pot. An indeterminable amount of fire.

I realise there is a second game in this series, I've played it even, but since thats around 200 recipes, I thought it would make sense to split it into 2 challenges, and do recipes in BOTW first, and then add in TOTK's unique recipes as a sequel challenge later.

I will be using TOTK's recipe book as a loose guide though, since BOTW didn't have one and recipes didn't seem to have a canonical order back then.
I'm also just going to do combined food recipes and not the individual cooked/frozen ingredients, elixirs and inedible garbage. Well, probably. Mostly. Maybe a little garbage, we'll see.

Alright, let's recover some hearts.