Paksworld

Adapting recipes for Paks’s world–which doesn’t have the same plants–requires some thought.   Bread is easy–Paks’s world grows several varieties of wheat and has mills for turning grain into flour.   They grow barley and rye and emmer and oats as well.   I can have any bread I want (well, not cornbread.)   Roasted and baked meats are easy.  Some vegetables are easy–they agreed to be part of that world.  Others…no.   I really, really wish I’d been able to import potatoes.  I eat a lot of potatoes.  But potatoes refused to fit in.  So did tomatoes.

So here’s the innkeeper, knowing that a caravan’s due in today, and they will want food.  And here am I, with a really good new lamb stew recipe…with potatoes and tomatoes  in it.   I’d really like someone in Paks’s world to have this dish–in many ways it fits in nicely except for those two ingredients.

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