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You are the host. You invite a character to dinner. Which character from the Deed or Oath, and what do you cook for him/her, and why? Try to fit the answer in just one or two sentences–this isn’t a demand for vast culinary expertise. Something like “I would invite A, and cook B (as simple as “bread” or as elaborate as you please), because (something about A that makes liking B plausible.) Needless to say, you don’t have to be able to cook the meal in real life. It’s a fantasy world. All valid entries (includes character name, menu, reason) will be assigned a number, and the number entered in the drawing for the ARC. I will co-opt my webmistress to pluck one from a hat.
Post entries to this topic as comments. Entries must be in by midnight November 2 (the night of our concert, so I may be able to do the drawing within a day or so.) When I do post the winner’s name, winner must contact me with a mailing address within a week, so we can avoid the holiday jam-up at the post office, which starts earlier every year.
I’m hoping you all have fun seeing who wants to invite whom for dinner, and what kinds of interesting menus are involved. (I know what to cook for some of my characters, but not all of them. If you’re actually dying to do menus for more than one, just for fun…sure, you can, but only the first one you send will be in the drawing.
Comment by beth — October 24, 2010 @ 5:49 pm
I’d invite Stammel, and serve him our family’s meatloaf (has cheese and veggies incorporated). First because it’s our favorite meal to share, and second because it would be simple for him to manage.
Comment by kyta — October 24, 2010 @ 5:54 pm
Master Oakhollow. I’d make a green salad with wild mushrooms because the mushrooms seem to suit him, and an apple tart with heirloom apples served with cheddar cheese. I loved the sweet-savory combination in Deed of cheese drizzled with honey, so I’d like to make him a twist, using apples that he’s familiar with.
Comment by Joanna — October 24, 2010 @ 7:03 pm
I think I’d choose Kolya and I’d make pineapple upside down cake. She’s got an orchard, so she knows fruit, and it just seems like she might enjoy it.
For fun, I asked my husband as well. He says that he’d choose Duke Phelan, and he’d serve “roast beast”.
Comment by Jenn — October 24, 2010 @ 7:04 pm
I would invite Arvid and I would serve him homemade pizza because then he could eat it with his fingers and not insult his host by pulling out his own cutlery.
Comment by june — October 24, 2010 @ 7:05 pm
Siger, and I would cook as much as I could ahead of time. Turkey, ham, pot roast along with every desert I could think of to temp him to stay so I could keep him around long enough to teach me to use a bow and arrow and fence. Deer season is coming up and I only use a rifle and no partner to go hunting with.
Comment by AR — October 24, 2010 @ 7:36 pm
I’d invite Master Oakhallow over for one of my uncle’s pizza dinners — cheddar and apple, arugula and cherry tomatoes, spinach . . .
Comment by Vikki — October 24, 2010 @ 7:54 pm
Paks, and I would cook fried mushrooms because they are my favorite dish also.
Comment by Skyehaven — October 24, 2010 @ 9:02 pm
I’d love to invite the Halveric to join my family in enjoying our favorite one-pot meal: green beans, potatoes, and smoked sausage. It’s a homey dinner that I think he’d enjoy, but I admit to an ulterior motive. I’d love to lift a tankard with him and hear more about Kieri’s childhood.
Comment by Adam M. — October 24, 2010 @ 9:56 pm
I would invite Devlin and his family. He is a dedicated man. His kids could play with mine after we ate roast chicken, seasoned potatos and whole green beans. For desert we would have cinnoman apple tarts.
Comment by Chrissy — October 24, 2010 @ 11:38 pm
Stammel… has to be. He’s not the only genuinely “good” character, of course, but he’s so solid and true, while remaining a real man. And honestly? He seems to quietly, without fanfare, always appear when Paks needs a father figure and friend.
I’d make him a hearty stew with barley and beef, fresh rolls with honey butter, and serve him an ice cold ale. What more could any soldier want?
Comment by Jaimison Karp — October 25, 2010 @ 12:42 am
I would invite Sergeant Stammel for dinner and my wife and I would make her Shepherds Pie. Shepherds Pie is simple enough you could make it in a camp but when done at home you can make it a rich and hearty meal before you kick back with a brandy around a hearth or fireplace. I can see Stammel enjoying it.
Comment by Ed — October 25, 2010 @ 2:51 am
I think it would have to be Arvid, and I’d be looking to prepare something seafood oriented – perhaps a starter of mussels, followed by a fish pie.
I get the impression that he’s very much the kind of person who’s most at home in a city, and has strong connections within the Thieves guild. I’m therefore thinking he’s probably quite well travelled, but might well not have spent much time near the coast, and so seafood would be a special treat.
Comment by Comrade_Cat — October 25, 2010 @ 3:35 am
I’d invite Master Oakhallow because he’s cool and healing, and I’d cook spinach quiche with maitake mushrooms in it because that’s my favorite vegetarian dish and maitake mushrooms can only improve things.
Comment by susanna eve — October 25, 2010 @ 4:36 am
I’ll be boring and say that I would invite Paks to dinner, while I find all the characters fascinating, she is the one I would the most like to meet. I know that somebody already mentioned mushrooms but my dd isn’t keen on having strangers in our home but she will eat mushrooms any way I make them, Currently her favorite is oven roasted portabellas so that is what I would make along with mashed potatoes and vegetarian gravy because my dd also loves that.
Comment by APJ — October 25, 2010 @ 6:40 am
I’d invite Paks Family. I’d roast a whole pig, with cooked red roots, potatoes, mushrooms, thick stew, flat bread and cheese. Along with plenty of Ale, to celebrate the accomplishments of their daughter, sister…
Comment by Caristiona — October 25, 2010 @ 8:13 am
I’d invite Gird. I’d create for him a salad of farm fresh vegetables, followed by a hearty beef stew and fresh bread, and finishing with rum cream pie (you can get drunk off this pie if eaten on an empty stomach). I would love to sit down with him and pick his brains about farming and livestock care as well as congratulate him on such a fine paladin as Paks.
Comment by Rob — October 25, 2010 @ 9:16 am
I would invite Paks and make a meal of Sheppard’s Pie. It is a simple meal that no matter where you are it reminds you of home and simpler times.
Comment by Tanith — October 25, 2010 @ 11:17 am
I would invite Paks and make roasted vegetable towers (roasted portobello caps sliced horizontally and layered with eggplant rounds, potato, tomato and goat cheese with some fresh herbs) and a good hearty mutton stew with rosemary, winter squash and dark ale. Being a sheepfarmer’s daughter, mutton might remind her of home, and we already know she likes mushrooms.
Comment by Chris — October 25, 2010 @ 12:07 pm
I too would invite Paks. I’d bake very good fresh bread (perhaps challah) and search out some excellent cheese and my very favorite apples (early macintosh). And baked or fried mushrooms and onions, of course, perhaps portobellos (thanks for the idea, susanna), which have a rich meaty flavor all by themselves. Simple but delicious would be the keywords.
I’d want to hear her talk about Gird, and if she can and wants to, about the gods and her experience serving them as a paladin. I’m also curious to see what (if anything) she knows about parrions (sp? Are they still around?).
Comment by Gerd — October 25, 2010 @ 12:41 pm
I’d invite Ardhiel to one of the indian menus my mother sometimes made for precious guests: preparing them takes nearly as long as an elf needs to grow a harp from a tree and trying to rush it ruins it all. Maybe an elf could value that.
Comment by PocketGoddess — October 25, 2010 @ 12:43 pm
Definitely Paks, and definitely stuffed mushrooms because we both love them so much!
If I could round out the party, I would have to include Stammel and Dorrin, my other favorite characters from the books.
There would have to be a huge table of food though–with the huge appetites that soldiers are sure to have, it just wouldn’t be a feast without turkey and dressing and green beans and redroots–oops, red mashed potatoes, and at least two kinds of pie and. . . .
Comment by Beth Cato — October 25, 2010 @ 12:47 pm
I have to join the chorus and say I would invite Paks. I would do slow-cooked roast beef, and serve it along with my signature bread rolls. My husband doesn’t like mushrooms so I never get to make them, so I’d use this as an excuse to do sauteed mushrooms and onions to go with the meat. I have a hunch Paks would like a hearty dessert rather than outright sweet, so I would have gingerbread bars for dessert. (I’m willing to provide recipes for the roast beef, rolls, and gingerbread.) I would offer her earthly drinks to try out.
I would love to talk to Paks about her experiences as a paladin, on her relationship with Gird. If it feels too personal, I would switch and discuss horses instead. Oh goodness, would I love to meet her horse. I would have apples to offer as a treat, too.
Comment by Pete — October 25, 2010 @ 2:29 pm
Well, Paksennarion herself has been one of my major Role Models for years now, and we share a fondness for mushrooms, so I guess I’m in that camp, too.
I’ll take it a little farther to differentiate: I had a really good mushrooms and onions in cream sauce dish recently. Some of that, over good home-made bread, with roast ham and potatoes.
Comment by Rachel — October 25, 2010 @ 2:32 pm
Actually, the person I would really like to invite to dinner is the legendary Torre. I REALLY want the whole story of her ride and not the bits and pieces we get dribbled in the books. Yeah, it’s be nice to hear the whole tale about Camwyn or some of the others, but for reason Torre has snagged my imagination and in every book I hope to get the full tale.
To tempt out Torre’s version of her extraordinary tale, I would serve her quiche and a spinach and strawberry salad, then my famous Raspberry Hazelnut Torte. I’ve told my torte is heavenly, so I thought it an appropriate choice
Comment by Kelly — October 25, 2010 @ 2:46 pm
If I could, I’d snatch Saben, Canna and Paks out of Sheepfarmer’s Daughter at the hungriest part of their trip south from Dwarfwatch to Rotengre and take them to Hardee’s and buy them each a Thickburger with bacon, a large order of fries and a large chocolate milkshake because when I read that part the first time it made me so hungry that I went out and got that very same meal.
Comment by Adam Baker — October 25, 2010 @ 3:56 pm
I think I’d invite Dorrin, and have a thick beef stew b/c I think it would be kind of a comfort food for her. They talk about the stew that the soldiers have in Kieri Phelans stronghold, and in Oath, she seems to miss her old life, so I was thinking this would be something that would be a comfort to her.
Comment by Sashi — October 25, 2010 @ 6:07 pm
I would have to say Dorrin, since I think at the end of Oath she’s feeling pretty isolated between her old life with the Duke and her new life as the Duke. I’d invite her for a big family dinner (buffet style) with mine: my mom’s dips for start: cheese and onion, hummas, baba ghanouj all with good breads and crackers; then my aunt Karen’s beef tenderloin with horseradish and jus, my Aunt Kris’ spiced chicken and cheese rolls, and my grandmother’s roast vegetables. Then for dessert, my big dessert buffet: fruit salad; double chocolate cheesecake brownies; a great cheese plate with Stilton, a nice smoked Gouda and a ported Cheddar with my dad’s homemade jellies on the side; bannoffi pie; snickerdoodle blondies and perhaps a flourless chocolate cake. Dorran doesn’t have a great history with family but one of our family dinners would a perfect re-introduction to how family is SUPPOSED to work!
Comment by Daniel Glover — October 25, 2010 @ 6:11 pm
I’m going with Ardhiel. Get all the stories from the long lived elf. Some good cherry wine with a sharp venison sausage, some chocolate and cheese. Enough to nibble on for some good story time.
Comment by Lindsay — October 25, 2010 @ 7:32 pm
I also would invite Dorrin since she is good at interacting with solders and nobles as a solder but not good at all with just sitting down with her farmers and letting them see she is a human they can tell about their problems. Dinner could be anything since she is not fussy but dessert would be my strawberry-rhubarb crisp since it is very good, easy to make and a new treat to most people.
Comment by patrick — October 25, 2010 @ 9:32 pm
I would like to offer to share dinner to the Marshal who stood vigil and offered comfort to the boy Selis from Oath of Gold/Those Who Walk in Darkness. His name might be Doryan (one of the examiner marshals in Chapter 26 of Oath of Gold), but I’m not sure since Selis only called him Marshal. I’d offer a meal of sharp cheese and tomatoes minced over baked potatoes, perhaps with pecan pie to follow. I’m interested in learning more how to lead troubled ones into the light as he did to two in one night.
Comment by patrick — October 25, 2010 @ 9:34 pm
Forgot to say why I picked potatoes, cheese, tomatoes. It’s a tasty mix and I believe good and simple fare would appeal to a Marshal of Gird. The pecan pie is a treat from my native land that I’d like to share.
Comment by Alia D. — October 25, 2010 @ 11:21 pm
I’d invite Marshal-General Arianya and I’d serve her enchiladas because that would probably be new to her and I’d want to get her talking about the wider world. And for desert I’d serve pomegranates be they just beg to be lingered over and I’d want to tempt her to stay and keep talking.
Comment by Zunni — October 26, 2010 @ 6:57 am
Master Oakhallow, I think. I make the most marvelous lentil and silverbeet soup/stew, everybody praises it, and I can see him enjoying that with some of my mother’s fresh-baked bread (if we’re lucky enough to receive a loaf, as she must be in the mood to bake it). Perhaps some baked apples to follow if it is autumn, so that I can use apples from the tree in my back garden.
Comment by Kristen B. — October 26, 2010 @ 9:07 am
Paks and the Lyonya Ranger group she worked with to have dinner with our BSA troop, to trade stories and discuss LNT. I bet they’ve got a great perspective on Leave No Trace.
Given we’d be out of doors, I’d break out some of the dutch oven dessert recipes and try to cook seasonally. This time of year: stuffed squash and baked potatoes are always good.
KB
Comment by OtterB — October 26, 2010 @ 1:01 pm
I was originally thinking I’d invite Dorrin over to a quiet, simple supper where she wouldn’t need to worry that the furniture was booby-trapped or the food was poisoned. But since a couple of people have invited her already, I think I’ll invite Mikeli and his same-age friends and let them relax from their new responsibilities with an introduction to classic teenage food like pizza and chocolate chip cookies.
Comment by Leo — October 26, 2010 @ 3:29 pm
I would invite Paksennarion, Duke Phelan also and Stammel as additional guests. I would cook a nice 4 course meal for them. It wouldn’t be ornate – it would be good and filling and filled with good conversation and entertainment.
Meal: Soup (French Onion Soup) – Salad – Fresh Mixed Greens and tomato’s with Cheese – Rib Eye Roast with Roasted Vegetables (Potatoes, Onions, Carrots, herbs and spices)with Gravy and Roll’s – Lemon Poppy Seed Bread for dessert. Drinks: Pint of Dwarven Ale for appetizer/Dinner – Elven Wine with Dessert.
Comment by Jean — October 26, 2010 @ 4:21 pm
I’d invite Paks for dinner and serve lamb curry (I think it’s mentioned that she likes spicy foods), bread, mounds of sauteed mushrooms, apple cider, and for dessert cream with honey comb. Everything freshly made and we’d eat at the beach and look out over the ocean, which I think she’d like. Also, I’d make a special mash for her red horse.
Comment by Jean — October 26, 2010 @ 4:33 pm
Forgot the why … because Paksenarrion’s good of course, and fun, and because it’s a joy to feed someone who so enjoys good food and simple pleasures. Also, though I love the beach where I live in Santa Barbara I might want to take her to the coast at Olympic National Park, especially Second Beach, which is mystical and invigorating. http://www.nps.gov/olym/planyourvisit/second-beach-trail.htm
Comment by Robin McKinley — October 26, 2010 @ 5:18 pm
I’ve always just wanted to invite Paks out for a beer–reading her when she was first out, a long ago so old as to be lost in the mists of time, when Elizabeth Moon was the author of only these particular books–Paks has always had that effect on me. I’m kind of afraid of her–she’s so *capable*–but maybe if I offered to buy her a beer–? And excellent pub food to go with. Sausages. Enormous loaves of really great bread, hacked up and toasted over the fire. This would definitely be the sort of pub that had a huge open hearth. And of course I’d ask her to tell me some of the stories that didn’t get into the books.
Comment by ConnyNordling — October 26, 2010 @ 6:28 pm
Paksenarrion, and I would serve her some pancakes with strawberry jam! Simply because pancakes is the only thing that makes me feel like a master chef while doing them.
Comment by Abigail Miller — October 26, 2010 @ 6:35 pm
I’d invite Arcolin. I think he needs a nice no-stress friendly dinner after suddenly finding himself alone in authority for the company and domain, and down among the Byzantine plots of Aarennis with only one cohort when he needs more.
For dinner, I think maybe chicken pie, with light rolls and fruit salad. Something straightforward and non-exotic, but not what you would produce in camp on campaign. Pound cake for dessert, because it’s my best dish.
Comment by Larry Lennhoff — October 27, 2010 @ 10:52 am
I would invite Master Oakhollow, because I love long talks about religion and morality. I would cook him a Thai dish called 5 mushrooms and cauliflower (which also has bits of wheat gluten) because I’m not sure he would ever have had cauliflower and it is one of my favorite vegetarian dishes.
Comment by Kathie G — October 27, 2010 @ 1:09 pm
I’d invite Paks, just because she’s been a part of my life for more than 20 years. And, because today is the third day of cold, wet, and *really* windy weather here, I’d cook up my Cabbage Soup with White Beans & Noodles. It’s super easy (I hate to cook) and quick. And the slug of vinegar you add at the end gives it a lovely bite. Accompany it with a loaf of fresh Italian bread and Honeycrisp apples for desert.
Comment by Barb M — October 28, 2010 @ 10:41 am
Dorrin, I’d invite her and her cousin to give them a chance to get to know each other away from the palace or the bad atmosphere of Dorrin’s townhome. They’d get Chili and cornbread w a fresh green salad and for dessert …apple pie.
Comment by Janet Martin — October 28, 2010 @ 11:44 am
Paks, of course, and anyone else she might want to bring. Just in case she hasn’t had enough beef stew to last a lifetime already, it would by Beef Burgundy–got to get mushrooms on the menu, with a salad of baby greens and fresh shaved Parmesan, crusty French bread (from my fave bakery) a good hearty Zinfandel, and poached pears for desert
Comment by Caryn — October 28, 2010 @ 1:37 pm
I’d invite Paks, because my son aspires to Palladin-ness and I think her sense of humor would inspire him (he tends to be too serious). And because I’ve always liked her as a person. I’d make homemade bread (Red River cereal added to white bread), beef stew with extra beef, and dumplings sitting on top of the carrots and potatoes and turnip and parsnip and celery and onion. For dessert I’d make apple pie, which made a professional chef take a second bite in the middle of a contest for Best Apple Pie, so I know it’s good and I think she’d like it. I’d get some local microbrew in, and some Okanagan Peach Cider which she might like, too.
Comment by Zainab Ahmed — October 29, 2010 @ 12:53 pm
I would invite Tamarrion because we hear so little of her since she has died when the stories opened, but she was so influential in the Duke’s life from what we do hear that I think it would be very interesting to talk with her.
I would serve Cream of Mushroom Soup to start, Lamb Pilaf and Cheesy Corn Puff for dinner with fresh baked butter rolls. Dessert would be Coffee and Pecan Cinnamon Rolls, haven’t found a person yet who doesn’t love them.
Comment by Kerry (aka Trouble) — October 29, 2010 @ 6:47 pm
I would invite Kieri’s grandmother because I want to learn more about his early life and what his mother was like.
I would serve the sauteed garlic mushrooms like I get at the RenFaire with a Greek peasant salad (tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion, olives, feta and dressing) and crusty whole-grain bread twists. This is a meal I think she would enjoy since it’s all grown instead of killed.
Comment by Margaret — October 30, 2010 @ 6:09 am
I’d invite Duke Verrakai. I’d serve him steak and kidney pie with false morel mushrooms. We could discuss the merits of food poisoning as a means of causing suffering and death.
Comment by Kathleen — October 30, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
I too would like to havve dinner Master Oakhollow becuase I’d like to discuss history and religion. I’d serve mushrooms and brown bread with honey.
Comment by Kathleen — October 30, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
I too would like to havve dinner Master Oakhollow becuase I’d like to discuss history and religion. I’d serve mushrooms and brown bread with honey.
Comment by Karen B. — October 31, 2010 @ 9:44 am
I would invite Stammel to a dinner party at my house, with the goal of introducing him to highly competent and independent individuals who are blind. I want to inspire him with possibilities, since there aren’t rehabilitation specialists available to him. In particular, I would make sure that there was an expert in echolocation present, one of those individuals who have learned to use their hearing to identify what is around them (shrubs, brick walls) and can ride a bicycle by sound alone. Stammel would also learn about the skills of orientation and mobility; these skills would allow him to travel freely without needing a human guide. I would also introduce him to the concept of “assistive magicologies” magical devices which aid in independence in reading, writing, and communication with others, with the goal of identifying if such devices are available to him in his world. At this meal, I would introduce him to some of the most scrumptious foods I have ever tasted, e.g., perfectly cooked rare Beef Wellington, Green Bean Almandine, garlic mashed potatoes, salad, and a dessert of Chocolate Turtle Cake from Cafe Latte in St. Paul, MN.
Comment by Kristin — October 31, 2010 @ 7:15 pm
I’d invite Arcolin. He’d have a lot of interesting things to say about what it was like to serve as a captain under Kieri, and stories to tell about Stammel and Paks. And I’m really curious about his past. I’d serve bread (with salt) just to make sure the dinner was peaceful, then follow it up with a good simple stew and some fresh fruit. Good basic food for a career soldier, and fruit would be a treat. And I might invite Aesil M’diera for dessert, just to see what happened….
Comment by Jonathan Schor — November 1, 2010 @ 2:13 pm
I hope no one invites a Hoool as they tend to eat anyone they can catch.
Comment by Heather — November 1, 2010 @ 9:37 pm
I suppose I’d invite Sevri and her family to dinner. And I’d serve a nice turkey dinner with the fixings. Might be nice for them to have somebody else do the cooking for a change!
Comment by Leanna — November 2, 2010 @ 4:13 am
Rahael(sp) as she has a parrion for herbs and cooking. I’d serve her spaghetti with the meat sauce recipe taught by an Italian chef to my Mother. As it is not sweet and uses several herbs, I believe she would enjoy it. Of course fresh salad with feta cheese with olive oil/vinegar dressing and garlic bread would be included. For dessert, my apple pie. I hope to trade recipes and tales of life as a woman in a mainly male job.
Comment by Leanna — November 2, 2010 @ 4:33 am
I would invite Rahiel(sp) as she has a parrion for herbs and cooking. I would serve spaghetti with a meat sauce taught to my mother by an Italian chef. Of course garlic bread and a green salad with feta cheese and an olive oil/red wine vinegar dressing would be served. For dessert I would serve my apple pie. I’d like to trade recipes and tales of working in a mainly male occupation.
Comment by Skyehaven — November 2, 2010 @ 7:29 am
Wow, all these dinner sound wonderful! I can haz cookbook?
Comment by Rand Race — November 2, 2010 @ 11:30 am
I would invite Kolya Ministiera because I’m fascinated by her mysterious back-story. And I’d make darn sure not have any apples on the menu. I’m thinking pork involtini with a tartiflette and some snap peas. I’d pair it with a good fruity beer like Sam Adams Cherry Wheat.
Comment by Jill Crunkleton — November 2, 2010 @ 11:50 am
Ha ha! I would invite both Paks and Gird for a big fat southern breakfast – home-made buttermilk biscuits, eggs, bacon and homemade sausage, gravy and big pot of cheese grits! I would just like to see the two “legends” just sitting around being real people. I can imagine them swapping stories of most embarrassing moments from their younger days or arm wrestling for the last piece of bacon.
Comment by Justin — November 2, 2010 @ 3:06 pm
I’d invite the veteran who told Paks that oilberry oil makes the best lampfuel and I’d make him a good white clam sauce cause anyone who thinks olive oil should be used for lamp fuel needs an eduction about the finer uses of the stuff.
Comment by Rob Baila — November 2, 2010 @ 3:13 pm
I’ve been mulling this over for a while and think that this would be the most interesting and challenging group of dinner companions to sit down with for me.
I’d like to make a simple dinner of almond breaded chicken with angel hair carbonara and a side of steamed broccoli with Grandma’s huckleberry cobbler for desert. For guests I’d invite the Lady of the Lady’s Forest and Master Oakhollow over. Who know’s maybe I can create some harmony between the two.
At least with my family’s best recipes to eat they could concentrate on eating if they wouldn’t talk to each other.
Comment by Darryl — November 2, 2010 @ 3:40 pm
I would invite Paks to dinner. She’s the one I’d most love to have a conversation with. Between words, I’d offer my grandmother’s meatloaf with healthy portions of potato bread. My grandmother’s rhubarb pie would be first up for dessert; always a family favorite! I’d mostly like to share good food with her in exchange for a little wisdom and a few good stories.
Comment by Victoria — November 2, 2010 @ 6:05 pm
I’d invite Dorrin over for steak, twice baked potatoes, fresh bread, broccoli with cheddar cheese sauce, and a pineapple upside down cake for dessert. She could probably use a nice meal with no danger of assassination, and the menu should have some familiar foods and some new flavors.
Comment by boballab — November 2, 2010 @ 10:30 pm
I would invite Fersin Amboisson (Paks Fiancee)where I would serve up an old family recipe of baked Pork Chops with baked beans with Brown Sugar mixed into the bake bean juice. You mix the Brown sugar into the Baked beans, pour them into a large baking dish, place your Pork Chops into the baking dish and smother them with the juice. Bake at 350°F until done.
The reason for Fersin is so that I could explain to him how lucky he is that Paks ran off and not married him. Just take a look at what has happened to all those people that are close to her: Stammel blind, Canna and Saben dead, Dorrin out looking for hidden evil Verraki and dodging booby trapped chairs. Just imagine what would have happened to him.
Comment by Jenn — November 3, 2010 @ 7:24 am
It is past time and this is a second entry so it doesn’t count but…(in the spirit of Margaret above)
I will invite Barra and serve sour grapes and crow because I am in a wicked mood right now.
Comment by elizabeth — November 3, 2010 @ 9:50 am
Wow. This is incredible–thanks y’all. After double-checking, I found some additions, non-entry comments, and duplicates, so there were 59 qualifying entries. I phoned my webmistress (yay her!) and she’s in the process of figuring out how to randomize the picking of a winner.
I expected the entries to cover a range of major characters, but some of you really surprised and delighted me by picking people like Paks’s former fiance Fersin (who is already delighted Paks ran off!), Sevri from the inn, the Marshal who helped the little boy, etc.
Thanks again for your interest and your entries.
Comment by Sara — November 16, 2010 @ 10:13 pm
I know this is after the contest but I really wanted to add my two cents.
I would invite Jori, the trader’s guard, and the old widow and her daughter that Paks stayed with at the end of Divided Allegiance. They were some of the few people that were kind to her while she had all that trouble and I think they deserve a Thank You Dinner.
I would make Clams in a white wine sauce, french bread, a ceasar salad and orange chocolate mousse. Since they are my favorite foods everyone else must love them.
Comment by Fred Zebruk — June 23, 2012 @ 8:24 pm
Elizabeth, now that the contest is over, I would re-initiate something I did when I captained a ship for the RCN. Whenever we sailed into Seattle I would invite my Wardroom (Ship’s officers)and the trainees to a Sourdough Pizza restaurant. I would but the meal, they bought their own refreshments.
In the scenario of the contest I would invite Paks’ file to a supper of; clam chowder, smoked salmon appetizers, roast pork with cherry almond glaze, herb and garlic mashed potatoes, buttered carrots and peas, followed by my wifes cherry cheesecake. All served with a selection of sherry, white wine, red wine and port then coffee.