Delicious in Dungeon #38: Vegetables in Slime Aspic & Blade Fish Loaf

The golden country! A slice of immortal farm paradise. I will illustrate this with some proof that I do get outside sometimes.

This large meal has 3 fairly big dishes, so I decided I wanted to split them up. There's not much guidelines to making them so I'll just go for it, yknow.

I've chosen to start with the weirdest one. Blog-willing this is the closest I ever get to those cursed looking 1970s gelatine salad dishes. We've got bladefish, vegetables, gelling slime, and a bit of stuff to flavour it all with.

First i'm just going to thaw/part-cook the fish in my steamer, I think this way itll break down into flakes and we can mash it into a meatloafy thing. A terrine?

Then i'm adding an egg, some breadcrumbs, crushes garlic, salt&pepper, and also I found some sauce in my fridge that I think will be perfect. A swedish condiment that's like mustard, mayo and dill.

We can pop that all in there and just mash it up like we're making a hamburger patty.

Now we can't just chill this yet, its got raw egg in it... so im going to bake it in the oven for a while and put the jelly part on top. The foil lining will make the shape a bit rougher, but... hopefully it'll come out easily at the end, I dunno.

That's baked into a firm patty terrine loaf thing! Perfect! And it smells kinda nice.

Chopped the carrots up into small chunks and portioned out the frozen peas and corn. We'll bring them to a boil to hopefully cook the carrots a little bit, then put in the other ingredients as its cooling.

Once it's off the boil i'm adding lime juice, chopped parsley, 2 sachets of gelatine, and a little bit of salt & pepper. The manga recipe remarks about how unseasoned and flavourless it is... but I have a policy not to try and make things bad on purpose. I will just try and keep it simple.

That's so much vegetable jelly... I hope its not horrible. It's ready to go in the fridge overnight!

It's set! We have a loaf! I'm going to plate it up on my brand new leaf plate I got for christmas... i friggin love it, look forward to seeing it plenty in the future...

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I dunno I think it might actually be pretty good. Would I make this on purpose? I don't know... but the parsley and lime was a great choice, it tastes fresh and gardeny, like a spring vegetable soup. The fish loaf tasted very... well, swedish-y, like somewhere between gravlax and herring salad. Making a good flavour profile together for a cold and slimy meal. I think I made the best of it.