The Snowdragon Diet
Many humans say breakfast is the day’s most vital meal. To the Álukois—whether on adventure, at the Winter Gathering, or for Hospitality—every meal is that! Unlike humans, they can safely go 2-3 days without food (God forbid!). Despite living at high latitudes & altitudes, Álukois are vegetarians, enjoying all they can grow or trade—smoking, pickling, fermenting, freezing or drying items for later use. Myriad herbs, oils, spices, & alcohols are used generously in seasoning. The Álukois have always crafted their own beers and spirits, but must import wine, coffee, cocoa, tea, cheeses and spices from distant lands—a costly but high priority for gourmets with a “taste for the world.”
Like humans, the Álukois love to eat, but cook less when alone. Anticipating visitors, they will delay a meal for hours so all can enjoy it together. If friends arrive unexpectedly, even just an hour after a meal has ended, then it is already time for a nóshul (snack)! In fact, any time one wakes from a dream, finishes a project, chore, or game, sees a shooting star, thinks about food, or friends start talking, day or night, is always a perfect excuse for a right tasty góbo nóshul (fine, generous “snack,” or impromptu feast), washed down with a home-brewed, well-paired beer. Chónribas!
Breakfast
Buckwheat Pancakes with berries & Highland sauce, roasted nuts and tea
Royal Dunchesa omelet with Lendish sauce, muffins or scones, and hot chocolate
Hoplar’s cheese melt with sautéed onions, mushrooms & herbs on sourdough; honey-
mustard cole slaw; dark roast coffee with brandy, whipped cream & cinnamon!
{More likely for lunch or dinner, but if one is in the mood, why wait?}
Lunch (or góbo nóshul)
Roasted peppers & veggies “sauced” in herbed oil, garden cheese pie & ale, fruit in season
Potato boats (with everything on ’em), vegetables & spicy dip, roast nuts, ale, chocolate
Delfinian lunch pies with spinach & herbs, wine or beer, ice cream with liquor & berries
Grilled sandwiches with cheese, peppers, onions, estate mushrooms, etc., & stout beer!
Dinner
Harvest stew with oat bread & herbed butter, ale, rum cake with berries & whipped cream!
Wheat noodles with seasonal vegetables, estate mushrooms & cheese, beer, ice cream
Barley-bake with herbs & estate mushrooms, Salad Dolanzia, wine, & pieberry-cream
* for a FEAST, everything on this page & more may be on the menu yoih! *
Supper (or Vólping nóshul)
Salad Akromilot, sourdough bread, cheese, nuts, red wine, berries & dark chocolate
Potato plunkers with sour cream, vegetables & dip, any type of beer, long-apples
Smoked nuts, toasted bread with smoked cheese dip, radishes, Delfinian whiskey
Corn crispers or toast with spinach dip, wine or beer, fruit or Granshire nut pie