Delicious in Dungeon #18: Tentacle and Kelpie Stew, Prepared with Undine

Typical... I go to get some water and there's an undine in the basin instead...

It's not much on its own, but we've built up a good amount of resources to combine with this.

We've got some leftover kelpie meat, tentacles, and the bottled undine... and then some stew regulars: onion, carrot and potato. And some "brown sauce" I wanted to add a bit of a caribbean twist to go with the plantains because the meat won't make for much of a gravy, so i got some reggae reggae (jerk bbq) sauce.

Chopping up the tentacles, i'll cook them with the meat first. I think a crispy outer layer will help when they get stewed.

Chopping all the vegetables and putting them to one side for now..

The meats a bit of a pain... theres odd shaped bones in it with bits of meat firmly attached, so ive split it into chunks but then im going to stew the bone bits in as well... i must remember to take them out at the end..

Once the meat (which i've seasoned with seaweed salt- because its kelpie!) and plantains have started to seal we should probably brown the onions too...

Oh, and it says to sautee the carrots as well. At this rate everythings gonna be all mushy except the potatoes... as you can see the meat is dry as hell, theres no jus to make gravy, so good thing we had....

Our flavourful bbq sauce! 

And some added salt & pepper since its on the recipe.

Finally, we can add the potatoes and the undine - it tastes subtly different from my tap water... I guess it's got more mana?

And we can leave it to STEW DOWN for like 40 mins until the potatoes are tender. Oh, and I won't forget to take out those bones!

*****

It's amazing. Autumn is really setting in so a stew like this really hits the spot. The flavour of the bbq sauce, the meaty kelpie and the fruity sweet tentacles go together so well. Jerk is quite cinnamon-y so it might not be to everyones stew tastes... but if you like one thats a bit different.. its fruity and sweet but not excessively, its sour and got a very warming kick to it. This will recover your mana and your mood.