Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #5: Shroom Broth

 Shroom broth is made with SMELLY HERB and SHROOM SHAKE. What would a smelly herb be, you ask? 

How about garlic and rosemary? And we can mix it up a bit from all the fresh mushrooms and try using dried porcini mushrooms to make a mushroom stock/soup.

Looks like its going well already.

Since it's not a very standalone meal, I'm gonna have it on some japanese rice for 1 meal, and keep the rest as stock to use in some future recipes.

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I should have added salt for one thing. I'm not a heavy salt user but even I thought this was crying out for it. Wasn't really getting much rosemary from it either. But it smells quite nice. Hopefully itll add a nice rich "brown" flavour to some future gravies or pasta sauces. 

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #4: Fruity Shroom

Fruity shroom is made with PEACHY PEACH and SHROOM SHAKE, but since the finished picture looks more like an orange i'm going to take peach as shorthand for fruit and run with the orange theme. Mainly because it sounds like a better pairing.

I'm going to fry some mushrooms with more of that coconut vinegar mix (fruity!), plenty of orange juice and some ORANGE PEPPER seasoning.  I forgot to take a photo of them frying tbh it was really fast so use ur imagination.

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Yeah plate of fried mushrooms still seems like a punishment to me. Seasoning was nice though. Well it was super sour and vinegary but thats better than mushroom flavour. Would make a better rice/salad topping than a whole meal.

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #3: Honey Super

Whats more mario than a SUPERSIZED mushroom? Nothing thats what!!!

Honey super is made with SUPER SHROOM SHAKE and HONEY JAR so our main components will be these brilliantly chunky KING OYSTER MUSHROOMS and some more HONEY

I wanted to mix it up a bit from the honey shroom marinade, so I was originally going to do a honey and chinese spice marinade, but I apparantly was out of 5-spice (or i lost it?) so im just winging it. I've got a big helping of honey, a dash of soy sauce, olive oil, pinakurat(spiced coconut vinegar), mild chili powder, nutmeg, paprika and salt.

These are so big LETS GRILL EM

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Very nice! Im loving the marinade, so sweet and tangy its a bit like teriyaki sauce. The mushrooms feel so forbidden to eat... they're just like a big ol' chunk of rubber, like a cross between fish cakes and tofu. I don't dislike it, but I can see why people tend to slice them up into strips so that you get more flavour coating and a drier bite. Fantastic easy novelty dish.

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #2: Honey Shroom

 A honey covered mushroom made with SHROOM SHAKE and HONEY JAR. Just shoving honey on a raw mushroom seems a bit grim though, and we're all about taking liberties to make something resembling a real dinner for me to sustain my wretched self on!!!

I've chosen oyster mushrooms, because they are less gross, and I'm going to make a marinade with mostly honey, some olive oil, a clove of crushed garlic, thyme lemon and bay salt, and black pepper.

 

I wish I had let them dry longer but I forgot.

While it fries I'm going to make a little salad garnish because I kind of want something resembling a meal and not just a handful of mushrooms for dinnar. There's a drizzle of balsamic dressing that I think will go well with the marinade.

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These are so tasty! Sweet and tangy. But also very slimy. Doesn't look much like the game sprite but I think its for the best.

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show #1: Sweet Cookie Snack

 First recipe is a selection of chocolate and vanilla cookies made with simply a CAKE MIX. But i have plenty of simple baking ingredients so ill just follow a regular cookie recipe, and just aim to do 1 cookie design because I aint wanna be here all day. I'm going to do the checkerboard looking one because that seems iconic!

So we've got 3 cups flour, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1tsp baking powder, 1tsp vanilla. And some cocoa for half of the dough.

Hello stand mixer! I expect we'll be seeing more of you in this challenge. When its mixed enough, we split these in half and add 1/3 cup of cocoa powder to the half and mix it some more. I guess it will be drier, but... eh, probably fine?

ooh look at how cocoa-y that looks! Using the aid of a tupperware box and some slapping we've managed to get two roughly matching rectangles, you want them looking 1h:2w ratio so theyll be square when cut. BUT FIRST you can refridgerate them for about an hour so that they're much less floppy, then you can adjust them as much as you like. Then you slice the rectangles and arrange them all... yknow.. checkerboard-y.

oh man these are kinda big already, they're gonna come out pretty chunky lets hope they dont fuse together. Baked for about 7-10mins at 190c

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Stylish AND delicious! These are a simple buttery cookie recipe, so nothing that adventurous but who can say no to a fresh homemade cookie?

Super Paper Mario: Saffron & Dyllis Super Show - Let's-a go!

 So our next game, as chosen in a limited poll on twitter is... Super Paper Mario! Wahoo!

Why not start with the first Paper Mario? Well, the recipes have significant overlap across the games and at a glance, Super Paper Mario had a lot of the classics across the series and a lot of pretty wild ones as well. Will I regret choosing this game? Maybe. I don't even like mushrooms very much.

Cooking Mama's Cooking Challenge: Complete!

 We've done it! All 75 recipes. Using the in-game instructions. Some good, some a little embarrassing. I had a great time.

Things I learned:

- How to make a mean hamburger/meatball sauce

- That I needed a mini deep fryer in my life!

- When in doubt, always pre-cook your bacon!!

- Mama doesn't like garlic

- Mama LOVES ketchup

- Mama just assumes you always have some cooked rice and dashi stock to hand.

- You need a special rice and even specialer equipment for making mochi, and its not worth the hassle.

- How to dice onions... over and over.. and over again...

Total Ratings:

*            x 1

**          x 9

***        x 19

****      x 32

*****    x 14

Average score: 3.65

Favourite Recipe:

#24 Meatballs
The best of cooking mama's skill set, this has got mince, flour coating, deep frying, and dashi based sauce! It ended up a little less complicated than it seemed, and a delicious unique variant of meatball I've never had before that I'd definitely do again.

Least Favourite Recipe:

#51 Shrimp Gyoza

This one was really on me, I think I used the wrong type of gyoza wrappers, steamed them too long... but mamas not about giving me that sort of information. Also even in its melted state, it just wasn't all that flavour-wise.

Special thanks:

Special thanks to the following resources:

Fandom Cooking Mama Wiki
Aromie Youtube Channel
Tobi who has volunteered to compute the scores in spreadsheet forever.

My lovely family who helped with several recipes!

And that about wraps it up I suppose! I'm enjoying this so I've already lined up the next game challenge. Look forward to that reeeal sooon.