Culinary Delights

Beverages

• Yarran beer (CS, K, CL) cool, with a good mouth and a pleasant aftertaste: satisfying without filling
• Bellemere beer (K 48)
• Fuertan beer (K 48)
• Pilsner beer (K 48)
• Bascum beer (K 79), a mild brown brew. Created by one of Optheria's Founding Fathers who originated on Yarra.
• Kegs of Beer (K 128)

• Off world wine (off world meaning: not from Fuerte) (CS 10)
• Light wine (CS 64) eaten with a "hearty casserole of assorted legumes"
• Dry white wine (CS 237)
• Fortified wine (K 86)
• Red and White Optherian Wines (K 77) produced on the western continent.
• Wine (K 145)
• Polly wine (K 225)

• Hot caffeine rich drink (CL 56)
• Coffee (CL 109)

• Sarvonian brandy (CS 34)
• Polly tree brandy (K 79)
• Polly liqueur (K 79)
• Harmat (CL 162) Armagh’s liquor made of fermented fruit; tart, cool and with a pleasant aftertaste
• Jugs of Fermented polly fruit (K 128) more subtle than over ripe polly fruit

• Lemon liquid (CA 110, 117) muscle relaxant
• Fruit beverage (CL 54)
• Juice (CL 57)
• Juice, likely polly juice (K 120)

• Carbohydrate drink to boost blood sugar level (CS 183)
• Colored liquids in beakers at Conservatory reception (K 71)
• Optherian Beverage “nutritious liquid carefully combined to supply the adult daily requirements of vitamins and minerals (K 77)

Soups

• Smacker served as chowder (K 227)
• Hot Clear broth (CS 108) restorative after unloading sleds
• Hearty, nourishing soup of assorted legumes (CS 156)
• Soup (CS 168, K 183)
• Hot soup (being served by Keralaw) (K 166)
• Basic stew (K 183)
• Clear soup (CL)
• Chicken soup (CL 290) Brendan had an old family recipe

Meats and Protein

• Off-world fish casserole (off world being not from Fuerte)
• Shellfish dinner (CS 22)
• Spicefish (CS 238) which has a pungent spicy odor
• Panfried fish, sweet and delicate in flavor and flesh caught in Ballybran’s seas (CL 221)
• Yellowbacks (sweetest of fish in Killa’s polly island cove) (K 107)
• Fresh Fish (K 119)
• Smacker: chowder, boiled, broiled, and fried in a delicious light batter with a rich piquant sauce (K 227)
• Large Yellowbacks lightly broiled with silver nuts (K 227)
• Succulent mollusk grilled with a dollop of some flavor enhancer (K 227)
• Smacker (K 123) (massive fish) black flesh. Succulent, highly unusual taste. Nothing oily or fishy about it.
• Grey (K 121)
• Breaded fried fish bits (K 133)
• Tasty bivalves on Nihal 3 (mentioned CL 57)
• Flavorful dried fish (K 145)
• Yellowbacks fried (likely with oil and seasonings on a frying sheet) (K 145)
• Bivalves dug from the sand (CL 185)
• Baked shellfish (CL 185)
• Fish Oil (export from Armagh) (CL 158)
• Lunk (oil fish) ( CL 161)
• Hot pies (CL 161)
• Spiderfish (CL 167)
• Crackerjaw, (caught on Spindrift) (CL 167)
• Skater (caught on Mandalay) (CL 167)
• Welladay Whale (CL 167)
• Territ and flatfish for fine eating (CL 169)
• Crustaceans and bivalves for high livers (CL 169)
• Bluefin (CL 167)

• Long Beef (K 123) (has a long animal carcass)
• Slices of roasted meat (juicy, thin) (K 133)

• Protein bars (CS 218)
• Grilled protein (CL 35) referred to as Lars' "usual"

Vegetable based

• Hearty casserole of assorted legumes (CS 64)
• Tasty legume (steakbean?) (CS 235)
• Steakbean (CS 235)
• Fried Malva Beans (crisp and white) (K 17)
• Steaming whiteroots (K 133)
• Chopped raw vegetable (K 133)
• Large yellow tubers that had been baked in polly leaves and exuded a pungent spiciness (K 133)
• Refried steak beans (CL 35)
• Orange-and-green milsi stalks (CL 35)
• moulded salads of some jellied vegetable (K 227)
• Salads of greens (K 227)
• Greens (K 119)
• Whiteroot (to make a good fry) (K 119)
• Orange and green milsi stalks “excellent for trace minerals” (CS 235)
• Milsi stalks (CS 235,248; CL 35, 36, 84, 154) orange and green in color. Served stewed on CS 235
• Seaweed (CL 171)
• Bright green vegetable spheres (CL 36)
• Steamed roots (CL 185)

Fruits and Fruit Based

• Sweet Yellow Melons: Fuertan fruit (mentioned CS 139)
• Red Melon (large, dark, seeds in the middle, inedible rind, dripping with juice at every slice. Sweet, tasted like velvet) (K 134)
• Fresh fruits (K 145)
• Sea fruit: grape and plum (CL 170)
• Polly: fruit, pulp and heart (basis for 9 dishes) (K 227)
• Polly tree: tender heart or soft pith (K 108)
• Fruit chips steeped in wine (CL 185)
• Red Fruit (CS 277)
• Pepper fruit (CS 236, 268) tangy scent, long, thin furry fingers

Breads and Cereals

• High-protein and glucouse cereal (CS 232)
• Hot Cereal and nutmeat compound (CS 277) (high in trace minerals, potassium, calcium?)
• Cereal (CL 57)

• Bread (K 145)
• Soft, savory cheese (K 145)
• Sandwiches (K 180)
• High-protein biscuits (K 183)
• Yeast bread (Brendan’s specialty) (CL 36)
• Forellan biscuits and Aldebaran paste (CS 12)
• Lemon-yellow cubes (sharpish cheese) that complements steakbean (CS 235)
• Cheese with holes in it [expression “what a cheese hole” used (CL-23), so the real thing must have existed, too]

Other foods

• Steaming, seeded, appetizer (CS 234)
• Tidbits, Nuts, small wafers (K 80)
• Nut meats (CS 269)
• Nut covered cubes (CS 248)
• Hot tidbits (K 180)
• Canapés at Conservatory reception (K 72)
• Ices to clear the palate (vericolor sherbert) (CS 236)
• Nut meat compound, in hot cereal (CS 277)

• Casserole of off world fish (off world meaning: not from Fuerte) (CS 9)
• Seafood casserole on Shankill that Killa had on Fuerte (CS 51)
• Hearty casserole of assorted legumes and a light wine (CS 64)
• Nicely browned casserole (K 26)

• Morsels of food in a rich, spicy sauce (enough sauce that one can search for the morsels) (CS 195)
• Small fried crispy squares (CS 269)
• Nicco spikes (CL 211) Killashandra hates and Lars likes
• Small brilliant green spheres (CS 234)
• Stodge (CS 274) served on board the Trundimoux cruiser

• Shellperson food (CL 36)

• Aldebaran paste, eaten with Forellan biscuits (CS 12)

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