One note, though. Fereldan food is supposedly notorious for the "throw it in a pot and cook it until it's barely palatable" mentality. If you want fine dining, go Orlesian every time.
I think this rather missed the point of Ferelden cooking. The joke of Dragon Age is that Ferelden cooking is supposed to be notoriously bad - everything left in a pot until it turns to slop. The hour cook time was undoubtedly part of that joke and, in all honesty, there never should have been any expectation that this would taste good!
Couple of things. You used basic apples while the recipe calls for wind fall apples...short version, over ripe. Next time, use tinned applesauce. Don't try to brown off the bacon, just toss it in "raw", it won't hurt it. In this recipe, given the differences in American and Euro cooking, use a bit of butter or plain fat also...about 1/8th the amount of bacon. Your version didn't have enough fat in it, made all the difference.
I make this often sans pork. My variation also adds a pinch or two of coarse salt and pumpkin pie spice and a tablespoon of coconut oil. Would cook that long with steel cut oat. Rolled oats take half the time at most.
Yeah, as soon as I saw him using what looked like quick oats rather than steel cut, I knew the longer cook time would destroy them pretty thoroughly. Good comment on adding coconut oil, though!
If I were gonna do this, I'd go with barley as opposed to oats, up the amount of bacon, add in some onion, and use a full flavored ale, like a nut brown.
Here's one from the PS2 era- "Hanuda Noodles" from Siren Googled, copy/pasted info from the archive (credit to ign): 022 - Recipe For Hanuda Noodles Hanuda Noodles: a local specialty. Mention Hanuda, and these noodles instantly come to mind. The chewy strands are unsurpassed in firmness and texture. The broth, a delicate melange of sweetness and spiciness, acts as the perfect compliment to the noodles. How to prepare Hanuda Noodles: 1. Boil noodles for 3 minutes in a large pot of boiling water. 2. Drain water and rinse noodles well in cold water. 3. Place noodles in broth made of soup stock, chili, vinegar, sake, and sugar. Top with organic strawberry jam. Serve with seasonal fruits if desired.
Alternative idea: fry bacon into bits. Cook apples and cranberries together with cinnamon nutmeg and vanilla extract till soft. Cook up a pot of oatmeal and add a pay of butter. Add apples to the top, maple syrup, and the bacon bits. Voila!
I both apologize and thank you for this. So happy to see a Dragon Age recipes I'm too scared to try come to life. Hope you have a fantastic holiday season, Chef Chiodini and all the rest of the Eurogamer crew!
"whole oats takes about an hour to cook" I was going to say the same thing. Whole oats require a long time to cook. He used the wrong type of oats and shouldn't be surprised at the result.
Sorry to necro a two-year-old comment, but one interesting thing to note is that, in the game’s lore, Ferelden is actually infamous for having atrocious cuisine, which is literally described as being “unpalatable slop.” There’s a few mentions here and there of how their cooking basically does just consist of dumping everything in a pot and cooking it until it is mush. So this is very accurate.
I didnt add extra ingredients but i took less of one of the spices because in that concentration it would kill a person. Cant remember wich one it was but it was from the souflee.
whole oats tend to take an hour to cook. plus it may be different with an open flame vs. kitchen flame, pot choice, etc. we have a wood stove for heating but we cook with it too. 😋 I make oats on the fire sometimes.
yeah, ever since i saw this video i have made the dish, and its basicly just a mix up of hot oatmeal and a danish dish called " æble flæsk" . fry the bacon first then add onions and then apples, onces the apples are near done or mush then add the cranberries, once they have soaked some water then add the oats and some more water, and butter.
A number of years ago I used to make a porridge from barley and apples, which worked out really well (and it matched the cooking time of this recipe a lot better than anything with oat). It did _not_ contain any bacon, however. Or ale, for that matter, though that might have been an actual improvement to include. Also, love the cats.
It occurs to me that the barley I used was _not_ flaked, like your oats, but simply crushed. That's why it required the very extended cooking time. Does oats come in that shape, and would that then make any difference?
Certain apples aren't used for pies because they cook down into a mush. Might want to check what types of apples you're using in the future. Also, keep it covered. The idea here is to make the "mash" into one homogeneous mixture. Seems like it would be light on flavor though, but perhaps your "handfulls" of bacon were a tad too sparing, especially given just how salty traditional salt pork is.
This is basically Pemmican - an energy food porridge used by polar explorers. The original version contains a lot of fat and everyone who's recreated it says it's a bit gross, but it's a survival ration rather than a gourmet meal.
Ive never really paid any attention to recipes in video games. Makes me think how many are thought through and how many are just made by writers without any research.
Just found your video from looking for more info on the next dragon age 4 release. It was the feast day fish video. Before I became a stay at home mom I was a professional chef so watching you make food found from recipes in games is very entertaining for me. Love them and I am not binge watching your videos! Cant wait to see what you come up with next! On a side note... I am thinking that the recipe actually meant for whole oats not quick or old fashioned oats that it looks like you used as the 1 hour cooking would make more sense if using whole oats as they take 30 min to 1 hour to cook all the way through
This actually looks like a genuine 18th-century recipe. I'd recommend using softer apples, the kind you'd use for applesauce and not apple pie, and maybe throw in some spices like nutmeg and ginger. And to not change the cooking time so much, it's not the oats you're cooking, it's the apples.
In Witcher 3, main game, there is a recipe for a spicy chicken and pumpkin stew. (A Mysterious Note in a cave with some witcher gear, in a room with a puzzle and some drowners.) Could be weird/interesting?
I LOVE THEIS SERIES you are such a funny chef and I really like how you seem to know what you are doing I would also like to recommend recipe, skyrim-juniper-berry-crostata it's a dessert with berries and I really think you could make it amazing. Thanks from a loyal fan!
Maybe a different type of beer/ale; one with flavor not alcohol % by volume. Also the hour is to make sure there's no bad things in the food and cooking-out the alcohol. If indeed this was to be made out in the woods, something like this would be perfect.
Honestly, to me, as someone who enjoys their oatmeal in the glue-like consistency, this sounds pretty good. Although I would probably leave out the ale, myself. I actually have the book this recipe is from, so maybe I’ll make it someday.
being a cook myself, I'd suspect that if you used Irish oatmeal, or Scottish Steel Cut oats.which do take a good 45 minutes to an hour to cook without soaking.....you'd have a very different result.. I'd also dry toast the oats.. .OR fry up the bacon and add the oats after the bacon fat has rendered..cook them til they have browned a bit, then put in the chopped apples...again allow to brown and soften.. THEN add the water and seasoning. You'll get more like a hearty stew with chewy oats and savory bits of bacon, and likely looking much more appealing.. Hope that's helpful, My husband and I watched this and these were my comments as we watched :)
chop the apples into small pieces and fry them with bacon. Add fluids and simmer the whole thing until the apple dissolves. Add then Oates and turn it into a mash.
Just found out about this series, and channel. Great Stuff! You should make the Crayfish Chowder from The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine. You can find the recipe in game, on the counter at the bar you visit at the beginning of the expansion, directly in front of the barkeep.
Tips from a cook: Cut your apples in half, then in half again, then cut the core off. No sense in stabbing anything with a knife unless you want to kill something. Oats can be processed in different ways. Modern quick oats like we use for oatmeal are not what was historically available, and take very little time to cook. Oats can be rolled or cut, and there are differences in thickness and water absorption that can require drastically longer cooking times then what we would normally use with modern oats. Weak ale or "small beer" was consumed as a replacement for water by everyone, including children. Lack of water sanitation and quality meant that brewed but very weak beer was much safer to drink then water. It's inclusion in most recipes is for this reason and not for taste. So a modern version can skip the beer and just use water.
I believe there's a recipe (definitely an item of sorts for it) in Witcher 3 Blood and Wine in the first inn you go into. Can't remember what it was, but googling it reveals there were actually three recipes in total.
I think with 1/3 the liquid, low heat and no stirring, the oat might cook into a dense and grainy slab in the pot, rather then into glue. That glass looks like 1 1/2 cups and too much liquid.
I woulda kept the lid on for the majority of it, to trap the heat and moisture and taken it off for the last 10 min of reduction. and thrown in some salt, heh
*Skyrim spoilers?* I'd love to see the dish made for the emperor in Skyrim during the Dark Brotherhood quest where you act as the famous chef. My memory is blanking on all of the specifics regarding it, but it's a bit late for me.
You've definitely gotta go for some Skyrim recipes next! I'd say either simple vegetable soup, given availability of ingredients, or crank it up a notch and try baking a sweetroll.
I think "boil for an hour" etc is probably not written from the perspective of a person with a modern stove. It might be appropriate to reduce the cook times in medieval-ish recipes with that in mind.
One note, though. Fereldan food is supposedly notorious for the "throw it in a pot and cook it until it's barely palatable" mentality. If you want fine dining, go Orlesian every time.
Don't forget the" uniform grey color"!! lol
You mean "stick it in a pot and cook it until it begs for mercy"
I laughed so hard at this my neighbor came by and checked to see if I was alright. Thought I'd gone nuts.
pig oat mash is actually an original of the hanged man in kirkwall! good old free marchers.
Soo... in-universe, it's supposedly barely palatable?
I think this rather missed the point of Ferelden cooking. The joke of Dragon Age is that Ferelden cooking is supposed to be notoriously bad - everything left in a pot until it turns to slop. The hour cook time was undoubtedly part of that joke and, in all honesty, there never should have been any expectation that this would taste good!
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Couple of things. You used basic apples while the recipe calls for wind fall apples...short version, over ripe. Next time, use tinned applesauce. Don't try to brown off the bacon, just toss it in "raw", it won't hurt it. In this recipe, given the differences in American and Euro cooking, use a bit of butter or plain fat also...about 1/8th the amount of bacon. Your version didn't have enough fat in it, made all the difference.
The apple thing was especially bothering me! Thanks for pointing that stuff out
Good ol Alister said that they just put things in a pot and cook it tell its brown, so i'm not surprised that it ended up like that.
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I make this often sans pork. My variation also adds a pinch or two of coarse salt and pumpkin pie spice and a tablespoon of coconut oil. Would cook that long with steel cut oat. Rolled oats take half the time at most.
Yeah, as soon as I saw him using what looked like quick oats rather than steel cut, I knew the longer cook time would destroy them pretty thoroughly. Good comment on adding coconut oil, though!
You should make the Sunrise Souflee from Skyrim using the original recipe. I'm talking an entire cup of nutmeg. Hahaha
Or charus egg pie
I actually made this. It works well if you use lobster and chicken, instead of you know, a poisonous bug.
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MeinCouch123 same.
If I were gonna do this, I'd go with barley as opposed to oats, up the amount of bacon, add in some onion, and use a full flavored ale, like a nut brown.
I'd cook that bacon slightly more crispy as well.
I'm I'm late lads but nutmeg and cinnamon wouldn't kill anyone
Here's one from the PS2 era- "Hanuda Noodles" from Siren
Googled, copy/pasted info from the archive (credit to ign):
022 - Recipe For Hanuda Noodles
Hanuda Noodles: a local specialty. Mention Hanuda, and these noodles
instantly come to mind. The chewy strands are unsurpassed in firmness
and texture. The broth, a delicate melange of sweetness and spiciness,
acts as the perfect compliment to the noodles. How to prepare Hanuda
Noodles:
1. Boil noodles for 3 minutes in a large pot of boiling water.
2. Drain water and rinse noodles well in cold water.
3. Place noodles in broth made of soup stock, chili, vinegar, sake,
and sugar. Top with organic strawberry jam. Serve with
seasonal fruits if desired.
Keep doing these pls I really think your on to something with this series
Dylan Thompson it reminds me of the cinemasins recipes, and also the "you suck at cooking" channel
I love this cooking series and I can't really explain why. Probably just Johnny's winning personality...
Alternative idea: fry bacon into bits. Cook apples and cranberries together with cinnamon nutmeg and vanilla extract till soft. Cook up a pot of oatmeal and add a pay of butter. Add apples to the top, maple syrup, and the bacon bits. Voila!
I both apologize and thank you for this. So happy to see a Dragon Age recipes I'm too scared to try come to life. Hope you have a fantastic holiday season, Chef Chiodini and all the rest of the Eurogamer crew!
I really love these cooking videos and they are why I subscribed to this channel
What if you make the Potage le Magnifique from the Gourmet's cookbook in Skyrim
Dude, great idea~!
Don't forget the special ingredients; a septim, sweet roll, giants toe, vampire dust and the murderous killy root, the Jarrin.
You know what would make these videos even better? If you invited other people from Eurogamer for dinner, and cooked them food from video games.
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As a northern British person I think it looks delicious, though that may say something about my local cuisine...
AN HOUR?!
+Andrew Fullam right?
+Eurogamer whole oats takes about an hour to cook
an hour is perfectly normal. you want to reduce it pretty much to achive that porage stickiness and to get the apples soft and mushy
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"whole oats takes about an hour to cook"
I was going to say the same thing. Whole oats require a long time to cook. He used the wrong type of oats and shouldn't be surprised at the result.
This apple porridge has been BACONATED for your pleasure.
Don't think they were going after texture back in the days that Dragon age was taking place. Just flavor and nutrition.
Sorry to necro a two-year-old comment, but one interesting thing to note is that, in the game’s lore, Ferelden is actually infamous for having atrocious cuisine, which is literally described as being “unpalatable slop.”
There’s a few mentions here and there of how their cooking basically does just consist of dumping everything in a pot and cooking it until it is mush.
So this is very accurate.
Think you were supposed to use overripe apples, since they'd turn to mush better.
Next make some old blood, and fear it.
1 whole hour! WOW! These videos are the best... just so much fun. Something to look forward every week
Bianca Oliveira whole oats would take About a hour
That makes all sense
make some of the gormet's recipies from Skyrim
@frank Da Tank we need Potage le Magnifique!
kane willows I cooked the Potage like a year ago. And it was pretty good. Made it together with the souflees.
Nerdification !
what extra ingredient did you add?
I didnt add extra ingredients but i took less of one of the spices because in that concentration it would kill a person. Cant remember wich one it was but it was from the souflee.
+Nerdification ! ohhh, wasn't it the nutmeg? yep, a cup of it is definitely dangerous
whole oats tend to take an hour to cook. plus it may be different with an open flame vs. kitchen flame, pot choice, etc. we have a wood stove for heating but we cook with it too. 😋 I make oats on the fire sometimes.
I still stay you should do an estus flask-style cocktail.
you mean Sunny D right....:P
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which ones more lethal, i'm gonna take a wild guess and say sunny D
Evidence from Dark Souls 3 indicates that Estus is in fact delicious soup.
I approve of your T-shirt so much
yeah, ever since i saw this video i have made the dish, and its basicly just a mix up of hot oatmeal and a danish dish called " æble flæsk" . fry the bacon first then add onions and then apples, onces the apples are near done or mush then add the cranberries, once they have soaked some water then add the oats and some more water, and butter.
needs more bacon and more beer............this tends to solve a lot of problems.
or just Beer, and drop the bacon.. infact just take the beer.
I used to be a cook like you, then I started to watch your videogame cooking videos.
Could you please start putting the used receipe in the description?
A number of years ago I used to make a porridge from barley and apples, which worked out really well (and it matched the cooking time of this recipe a lot better than anything with oat). It did _not_ contain any bacon, however. Or ale, for that matter, though that might have been an actual improvement to include.
Also, love the cats.
It occurs to me that the barley I used was _not_ flaked, like your oats, but simply crushed. That's why it required the very extended cooking time. Does oats come in that shape, and would that then make any difference?
luna's like: dude u know i aint about that life i tell u this every time
Riper apples I think would have probably helped, I've also done some campfire cooking and the time for this makes more sense there.
Certain apples aren't used for pies because they cook down into a mush. Might want to check what types of apples you're using in the future. Also, keep it covered. The idea here is to make the "mash" into one homogeneous mixture. Seems like it would be light on flavor though, but perhaps your "handfulls" of bacon were a tad too sparing, especially given just how salty traditional salt pork is.
1:00 In the US customary system, a pint is exactly two cups. The imperial pint is larger than the US pint, not smaller.
apple and pork do fit. there are a tone of reciepes with that combo
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This is basically Pemmican - an energy food porridge used by polar explorers.
The original version contains a lot of fat and everyone who's recreated it says it's a bit gross, but it's a survival ration rather than a gourmet meal.
Ive never really paid any attention to recipes in video games. Makes me think how many are thought through and how many are just made by writers without any research.
Just found your video from looking for more info on the next dragon age 4 release. It was the feast day fish video. Before I became a stay at home mom I was a professional chef so watching you make food found from recipes in games is very entertaining for me. Love them and I am not binge watching your videos! Cant wait to see what you come up with next!
On a side note... I am thinking that the recipe actually meant for whole oats not quick or old fashioned oats that it looks like you used as the 1 hour cooking would make more sense if using whole oats as they take 30 min to 1 hour to cook all the way through
What do you do with the leftovers? Do you have friends that you are subjecting to these recipes?
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Windfall apples mean bruised and almost over-ripe. A man says two+ years later.
This actually looks like a genuine 18th-century recipe. I'd recommend using softer apples, the kind you'd use for applesauce and not apple pie, and maybe throw in some spices like nutmeg and ginger. And to not change the cooking time so much, it's not the oats you're cooking, it's the apples.
If you had left the lid on, less moisture would have escaped.
My brain can't comprehend what that would taste like.
fantastic series, so much fun! Would love to see a sweet dessert recipe next (preferably not including bacon!)
In Witcher 3, main game, there is a recipe for a spicy chicken and pumpkin stew. (A Mysterious Note in a cave with some witcher gear, in a room with a puzzle and some drowners.) Could be weird/interesting?
You should do these medieval recipes with a pot over a campfire in the woods
I LOVE THEIS SERIES you are such a funny chef and I really like how you seem to know what you are doing I would also like to recommend recipe, skyrim-juniper-berry-crostata it's a dessert with berries and I really think you could make it amazing. Thanks from a loyal fan!
Luna is a savage.
Maybe a different type of beer/ale; one with flavor not alcohol % by volume. Also the hour is to make sure there's no bad things in the food and cooking-out the alcohol. If indeed this was to be made out in the woods, something like this would be perfect.
Honestly, to me, as someone who enjoys their oatmeal in the glue-like consistency, this sounds pretty good. Although I would probably leave out the ale, myself.
I actually have the book this recipe is from, so maybe I’ll make it someday.
being a cook myself, I'd suspect that if you used Irish oatmeal, or Scottish Steel Cut oats.which do take a good 45 minutes to an hour to cook without soaking.....you'd have a very different result.. I'd also dry toast the oats.. .OR fry up the bacon and add the oats after the bacon fat has rendered..cook them til they have browned a bit, then put in the chopped apples...again allow to brown and soften.. THEN add the water and seasoning. You'll get more like a hearty stew with chewy oats and savory bits of bacon, and likely looking much more appealing.. Hope that's helpful, My husband and I watched this and these were my comments as we watched :)
As long as you guys keep doing these videos, ill stay a sub.
same here
I subscribed for these cooking videos alone. Awesome!!, thank you
chop the apples into small pieces and fry them with bacon. Add fluids and simmer the whole thing until the apple dissolves. Add then Oates and turn it into a mash.
The recipe would make sense if you added the oats 10 minutes before the end since most of the hour is probably just to get the apples to become mushy
recipe said "rolled oats" but it should've been steel cut oats considering the cooking time.. also probably should've left the lid on
Just found out about this series, and channel. Great Stuff! You should make the Crayfish Chowder from The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine. You can find the recipe in game, on the counter at the bar you visit at the beginning of the expansion, directly in front of the barkeep.
loving the 'Ghost' t shirt!!! keep up the great work
Tips from a cook:
Cut your apples in half, then in half again, then cut the core off. No sense in stabbing anything with a knife unless you want to kill something.
Oats can be processed in different ways. Modern quick oats like we use for oatmeal are not what was historically available, and take very little time to cook. Oats can be rolled or cut, and there are differences in thickness and water absorption that can require drastically longer cooking times then what we would normally use with modern oats.
Weak ale or "small beer" was consumed as a replacement for water by everyone, including children. Lack of water sanitation and quality meant that brewed but very weak beer was much safer to drink then water. It's inclusion in most recipes is for this reason and not for taste. So a modern version can skip the beer and just use water.
Kickass Ghost shirt. This series is also fantastic.
gaming cooking video would be incomplete without sweetrolls
Arul thats a really common real world food.
Love these videos! The mash color looked like doodoo butter :/ you're brave for trying it
Luna just stared into his soul until she got the treat
don't worry about the burnt bits in the pan.. that's flavour.
'Good girl' - Is she though?
The best part of this video was definitely Luna looking very unimpressed
CHIODINI LISTENS TO GHOST OMFG I LOVE HIM EVEN MORE
I believe there's a recipe (definitely an item of sorts for it) in Witcher 3 Blood and Wine in the first inn you go into. Can't remember what it was, but googling it reveals there were actually three recipes in total.
lid on water will not evaporate
you could have used steel cut oats to compensate for the long cook time.
I think with 1/3 the liquid, low heat and no stirring, the oat might cook into a dense and grainy slab in the pot, rather then into glue. That glass looks like 1 1/2 cups and too much liquid.
I woulda kept the lid on for the majority of it, to trap the heat and moisture and taken it off for the last 10 min of reduction. and thrown in some salt, heh
Well, it does look like something a pig would enjoy at least.
i think it said to use a weak ale so something yellow that may have been the problem.
Make skooma. or estus.....or blood vials. That would be cool and awesome of you.
Trevor Storm just get some sugar (expired ones are the best)
That ghost shirt tho :o you my man, are into some great music
Please make Slocum's Buzzbites from Fallout 4
make rock sirloin from the legend of zelda ocarina of time
Skyrim's sweet roll
do you think it would be..... juicier if you had fresh black/blue berries?
Miss this series..
After you've amassed enough videos, you should make a cookbook.
Love your cooking videos hopefully you get a kitchen upgrade
im suprise the recipe doenst mention to cook it until it truns itno a grey mush.
*Skyrim spoilers?*
I'd love to see the dish made for the emperor in Skyrim during the Dark Brotherhood quest where you act as the famous chef. My memory is blanking on all of the specifics regarding it, but it's a bit late for me.
You should try making the Potage le Magnifique from Skyrim, the instructions are in the Gourmet's book
This content should be a channel on its own lol fun to watch.
Did you make it with quick oats ? The old time oats took a lot longer to cook then now. thus the long cook time.
You've definitely gotta go for some Skyrim recipes next! I'd say either simple vegetable soup, given availability of ingredients, or crank it up a notch and try baking a sweetroll.
Could you try to make sweet roll from skyrim
Hole otes takes about an hour to cook
I think "boil for an hour" etc is probably not written from the perspective of a person with a modern stove. It might be appropriate to reduce the cook times in medieval-ish recipes with that in mind.
love the Ghost B.C tee-shirt.