Delicious in Dungeon #50: Stewed Dullahan's Horse Head

This friggin horseman he got no head (just trust me bro)

I got his horses head definitely real definitely happened.

This ones a weird theoretical recipe, they don't end up cooking it in the manga but I'm going to cook it for them! Well, I can't get real horse head meat... but I have managed to get ox cheek, which comes from the face so I thought that could be a pretty good substitute.

First im gonna sear it with a bit of leftover lard (animal fat) and, again there's no guidelines so ive decided to season it with salt, pepper, a clove and a bit of juniper berries for when we stew it in a sauce.

I should hurry up and add a crushed clove of garlic too before its done searing.

Once its ready to turn the heat way down and go into stew mode, I'm adding red wine, tomato concentrate and worcestershire sauce. 

It's coming along, it smells super garlicky... Now we can just cover it with a lid and leave it for a bit and play some zelda.. right?

Ah no! I checked in on it after like 15min and it had already burned! I guess my smallest hob on the lowest setting was still not low enough. I tried adding more hot water to try and recover some of whats on there... but i don't know, I might have just ruined it. Oh also I was gonna serve it on a bed of mashed potato, ill do that still.

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Oof I know it looks nuked but actually the meat tasted fine, it was nice and tender and it didnt all taste too burnt. But... in rehydrating it what i managed to do was just burn all the flavourings and wash it off so it ended up just tasting like plain unseasoned beef. I feel like if I had done it right, maybe it would have been 5 stars. Shame.