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Catbik's been at my notes again trying to organize them. Poor fella lost even more hair and starting drinking and then everything made sense to him. Guess that secret's out now.
He asked about my cure and wondered why he could never find any hotsauce. I checked the publishing notes and discovered that the Gnomish editors had taste tested nearly every recipe to verify them and when they tasted the hot sauce they panicked!
They have no tasted.
It was a simple recipe of smoked peppers (4 peppers in spit) a jar of vinegar and some salt. Sure I had variations of hot sauces including red , green and the beard curling purple pepper sauce.
Finding these peppers was rough going for one who can't forage and only the goblins of fire enjoyed them as part of their diet with any regularity.
This is when I discovered that the purple peppers were simply red peppers that had grown in piles of Lord Nagafen's dung. This somehow magically enhanced the peppers potency. Similarly in nature to how spicy hot a dragon steak can be. Those are so delicious and hot that they pratically barbeque themselves.
I made notes to later delve and experiment with more dragon products exluding the dung of course. I'm no gardner nor dumb enough to go collecting fertilizer as a hobby. Leave that to the goblins.
Took some seeds to that halfling cleric lass in Rivervale, told her about the wonders of hotsauce and how it enhanced food and beans in addition to adding fire that tantalizes the palate. She just smiled and I can only guess of the prank ideas dancing behind those green eyes.
I told her of the dragon dung's effects on peppers.
Told her a druid might be best for finding that stuff (and how appropriate too) to bring to her for her garden. Perhaps it would enhance the entire garden. She looked interested. (small quest requires neutral rivervale faction. Gives positive faction with her and rivervale.)
She should sell peppers to those with positive faction and perhaps other rivervale products (that are so **** rare to find) at a good mark up.
If someone delivers dragon dung to her that week (either from goblin drops or farmed/foraged by druids- mayhap if a red (fire dragon or fire using dragon) is killed the lair might result in a spawn of this muck). She should have some purple peppers available soon after.
Maybe other special veggies if thats sold to her.
Or another gardening merchant-
Suggest naomi get her own hut in rivervale area where everyone farms wasps/bees and goblins.
The goblins who drop should be the ones in lavastorm since they have access to the caves and nagafen theoretically flies over the area (splat!)
(A shadow darkens the area for a moment and then you hear a loud splat nearby. (spawns a pile of dung) Lucky he missed you! Aren't you glad ogres don't fly?)
Gave her a few recipes on making hotsauce and she immediately suggested adding fruits to them for different flavors.
I told her about the Root Chips (roots + gnomish kitchen tool = sliced roots + tool) and Veggie chips (veggie + gnomish kitchen tool = sliced veggies + tool) that when deep fried went great with a sauce I saw an islander make to serve with lunch. (chopped veggies, chopped herbs, chopped peppers, orange/lemon juice, chopped onion, vinegar/hotsauce in a bowl makes 4 servings of chunky salsa).
Told her of the ale I invented to go with that snack.
Island Spiced Ale - Short beer, spices, rootbeer, yeast combined in a cask. Cask decanted 4 bottles later. Smooth creamy foam with a bite that was a good counterpoint to the hot islander food.
I was out of that but I promised her I'd get some too her soon.
Catbik discovered he indeed could fit into an empty crate of bottles, once he emptied the bottles and threw them in the fireplace. He's gonna need some of my Revenge with hotsauce if he's going to be able to work on his tinkering tomorrow.
Other recipes that need to be tested for palatability and effects.
Nagafen's Breath bottle hotsauce, flask superior gnomish spirits, flask of distilled fermented cactus juice (3 cactus pears/sections + yeast + flask water: to distill take 4 bottles fermented cactus juice and place in still. Makes one bottle of golden spirits that definitely is worth the effort to make it!), pack of spices, bottle of faydwer berry juice into a cask. Shake well and let steep for a week.
Cask decants into 4 bottles and each bottle provides 12 shots.
Serve a shot of Nagafen's breath with a nice dark stout or a good ale for maximu effect. Clears the sinuses effectively too!
Two shots of nagafen's breath mixed with a bottle of BBQ sauce kicks it up a notch! Imagine the possibilities!
I think I'm going to get real fat this summer testing out new recipes and work on my cooking skills too.
Catbik finally came up with a drink all of his own. The Sour Bomb.
It's fairly simple to make. Bottle of gnomish spirits, bottle of superior gnomish spirits, two bottles of lemon juice and a bottle of faydwer berry juice. It's a true lip puckerer. Probably cure scurvy with just a smell!
Followup note- from his look when I drank it, I have to assume he was looking to invent a new explosive, not a drink. Silly gnome.
Have a new whiskey aging as I write this down. Faydwer whiskey I named it as it used brews from around Faydwer proper in the wort before distilling.
4 Minotaur Hero brews, 2 DBDSDA's, 2 short beers (for my gnomish friends), pixie dust, and honey mead (or honeycomb + bottle mead) - this makes the premix.
Take the premix and add it to a 2 bottles of brewer's kick starter (yeast + fruit juice (any kind) + flask of water).
Mix the premix the two bottles of BKS and 4 casks to get 4 casks of Faydwer stage one mix.
Once that's aged (it's ready when it starts to leak foam between the wood) you then can distill each cask alone or in a batch.
Each cask should provide 2 bottles of Faydwer whiskey.
It has a sparkle that catches the eye, and each sip warms you through and through. Even the snooty elves seem to like the gentleness of this whiskey.
Gonna have to see how this sells. I may be able to retire soon if it's a good seller.
Eureka! I found a way to make Catbik's Sour Bomb into a better drink!
Divide a bottle of Sour Bomb into shots (result 8 + bottle) and a bottle of Faydwer Whiskey into shots (result 8 + bottle).
Take one shot of Sour Bomb and one shot of Faydwer whiskey. Put into a gnomish shaker and well shake. Pour out a nice suprise of a beverage and enjoy.
ANother discovery.
Simmer two bottles of milk, spices, and a rootbeer down till it's thick and syrupy. Add one bottle of faydwer Whiskey to the results and stir. Age in two bottles- cork tightly. I call this Faydwer Cream. Alone it's too sweet for me, but the tree elves were wild about it!
Shot of Faydwer cream, shot of superior gnomish spirits and a shot of Coffee Liquor (coffee syrup + superior gnomish spirits) served over crushed ice (Got to get Catbik working on his portable ice machine, you can't believe the delays on getting ice delivered to Kaladim. tired of getting kegs of chilled water instead of ice I need for my drinks!)
(suggested ice machine recipe- 2 sprockets, ice cube form, Ice of Velious, 2 scraps of metal, power source = portable ice maker. Opens and you add water and press combine. Makes ice cubes which can substitute in any recipe that calls for ice)
That's it for today- enjoy- make comments. Etc
He asked about my cure and wondered why he could never find any hotsauce. I checked the publishing notes and discovered that the Gnomish editors had taste tested nearly every recipe to verify them and when they tasted the hot sauce they panicked!
They have no tasted.
It was a simple recipe of smoked peppers (4 peppers in spit) a jar of vinegar and some salt. Sure I had variations of hot sauces including red , green and the beard curling purple pepper sauce.
Finding these peppers was rough going for one who can't forage and only the goblins of fire enjoyed them as part of their diet with any regularity.
This is when I discovered that the purple peppers were simply red peppers that had grown in piles of Lord Nagafen's dung. This somehow magically enhanced the peppers potency. Similarly in nature to how spicy hot a dragon steak can be. Those are so delicious and hot that they pratically barbeque themselves.
I made notes to later delve and experiment with more dragon products exluding the dung of course. I'm no gardner nor dumb enough to go collecting fertilizer as a hobby. Leave that to the goblins.
Took some seeds to that halfling cleric lass in Rivervale, told her about the wonders of hotsauce and how it enhanced food and beans in addition to adding fire that tantalizes the palate. She just smiled and I can only guess of the prank ideas dancing behind those green eyes.
I told her of the dragon dung's effects on peppers.
Told her a druid might be best for finding that stuff (and how appropriate too) to bring to her for her garden. Perhaps it would enhance the entire garden. She looked interested. (small quest requires neutral rivervale faction. Gives positive faction with her and rivervale.)
She should sell peppers to those with positive faction and perhaps other rivervale products (that are so **** rare to find) at a good mark up.
If someone delivers dragon dung to her that week (either from goblin drops or farmed/foraged by druids- mayhap if a red (fire dragon or fire using dragon) is killed the lair might result in a spawn of this muck). She should have some purple peppers available soon after.
Maybe other special veggies if thats sold to her.
Or another gardening merchant-
Suggest naomi get her own hut in rivervale area where everyone farms wasps/bees and goblins.
The goblins who drop should be the ones in lavastorm since they have access to the caves and nagafen theoretically flies over the area (splat!)
(A shadow darkens the area for a moment and then you hear a loud splat nearby. (spawns a pile of dung) Lucky he missed you! Aren't you glad ogres don't fly?)
Gave her a few recipes on making hotsauce and she immediately suggested adding fruits to them for different flavors.
I told her about the Root Chips (roots + gnomish kitchen tool = sliced roots + tool) and Veggie chips (veggie + gnomish kitchen tool = sliced veggies + tool) that when deep fried went great with a sauce I saw an islander make to serve with lunch. (chopped veggies, chopped herbs, chopped peppers, orange/lemon juice, chopped onion, vinegar/hotsauce in a bowl makes 4 servings of chunky salsa).
Told her of the ale I invented to go with that snack.
Island Spiced Ale - Short beer, spices, rootbeer, yeast combined in a cask. Cask decanted 4 bottles later. Smooth creamy foam with a bite that was a good counterpoint to the hot islander food.
I was out of that but I promised her I'd get some too her soon.
Catbik discovered he indeed could fit into an empty crate of bottles, once he emptied the bottles and threw them in the fireplace. He's gonna need some of my Revenge with hotsauce if he's going to be able to work on his tinkering tomorrow.
Other recipes that need to be tested for palatability and effects.
Nagafen's Breath bottle hotsauce, flask superior gnomish spirits, flask of distilled fermented cactus juice (3 cactus pears/sections + yeast + flask water: to distill take 4 bottles fermented cactus juice and place in still. Makes one bottle of golden spirits that definitely is worth the effort to make it!), pack of spices, bottle of faydwer berry juice into a cask. Shake well and let steep for a week.
Cask decants into 4 bottles and each bottle provides 12 shots.
Serve a shot of Nagafen's breath with a nice dark stout or a good ale for maximu effect. Clears the sinuses effectively too!
Two shots of nagafen's breath mixed with a bottle of BBQ sauce kicks it up a notch! Imagine the possibilities!
I think I'm going to get real fat this summer testing out new recipes and work on my cooking skills too.
Catbik finally came up with a drink all of his own. The Sour Bomb.
It's fairly simple to make. Bottle of gnomish spirits, bottle of superior gnomish spirits, two bottles of lemon juice and a bottle of faydwer berry juice. It's a true lip puckerer. Probably cure scurvy with just a smell!
Followup note- from his look when I drank it, I have to assume he was looking to invent a new explosive, not a drink. Silly gnome.
Have a new whiskey aging as I write this down. Faydwer whiskey I named it as it used brews from around Faydwer proper in the wort before distilling.
4 Minotaur Hero brews, 2 DBDSDA's, 2 short beers (for my gnomish friends), pixie dust, and honey mead (or honeycomb + bottle mead) - this makes the premix.
Take the premix and add it to a 2 bottles of brewer's kick starter (yeast + fruit juice (any kind) + flask of water).
Mix the premix the two bottles of BKS and 4 casks to get 4 casks of Faydwer stage one mix.
Once that's aged (it's ready when it starts to leak foam between the wood) you then can distill each cask alone or in a batch.
Each cask should provide 2 bottles of Faydwer whiskey.
It has a sparkle that catches the eye, and each sip warms you through and through. Even the snooty elves seem to like the gentleness of this whiskey.
Gonna have to see how this sells. I may be able to retire soon if it's a good seller.
Eureka! I found a way to make Catbik's Sour Bomb into a better drink!
Divide a bottle of Sour Bomb into shots (result 8 + bottle) and a bottle of Faydwer Whiskey into shots (result 8 + bottle).
Take one shot of Sour Bomb and one shot of Faydwer whiskey. Put into a gnomish shaker and well shake. Pour out a nice suprise of a beverage and enjoy.
ANother discovery.
Simmer two bottles of milk, spices, and a rootbeer down till it's thick and syrupy. Add one bottle of faydwer Whiskey to the results and stir. Age in two bottles- cork tightly. I call this Faydwer Cream. Alone it's too sweet for me, but the tree elves were wild about it!
Shot of Faydwer cream, shot of superior gnomish spirits and a shot of Coffee Liquor (coffee syrup + superior gnomish spirits) served over crushed ice (Got to get Catbik working on his portable ice machine, you can't believe the delays on getting ice delivered to Kaladim. tired of getting kegs of chilled water instead of ice I need for my drinks!)
(suggested ice machine recipe- 2 sprockets, ice cube form, Ice of Velious, 2 scraps of metal, power source = portable ice maker. Opens and you add water and press combine. Makes ice cubes which can substitute in any recipe that calls for ice)
That's it for today- enjoy- make comments. Etc
Ngreth Thergn
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