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Dumpling Stew

morvidra:

(The original recipe was given to Bilbo Baggins by Bombur son of Bomfur. This version has been modified slightly for Shire tastes and ingredients.)

4-6 cloves garlic – halved
1 brown onion – sliced
2 carrots – roughly chopped
2 potatoes – diced
400g mushrooms – sliced
½ cauliflower – chopped
400-500g beef – diced
3 sticks celery – roughly chopped
Small bunch asparagus – sliced in short lengths
A quantity of homemade beef stock – enough to fill one medium casserole dish
3 bay leaves, small bunch sage, 2 sprigs rosemary

For dumplings:
140g wholemeal plain flour
Small bunch parsley, chopped
2 teaspoons baking powder
Salt and black pepper to taste
About 110g cold butter
Cold water

Prepare stew ingredients and layer in slow cooker in order listed from garlic at the bottom to asparagus on top. Pour stock over all and tuck herbs in randomly.
Cook on Low setting for 4-5 hours.

About 1 hour before you want to eat, turn slow cooker up to High.
Make dumplings:
Mix together flour, baking powder, parsley and seasonings.
Chop butter finely and rub into dry mix using fingertips until mixture is crumbly. Then add small amounts of cold water until it forms a sticky dough.
Break dough into about 8 pieces and place these on top of the stew, replacing the lid swiftly.
Leave to cook for 30-40 minutes.
Just before serving, remove dumplings from stew with a slotted spoon and place in serving bowls or a separate bowl.

omg Fili!!!! Ahhh, thank you! I AM SO TRYING THIS, OH I AM GONNA MAKE THIS AS WELL. And it’s such perfect wintery sort of food! Huzzah! ❤

I thought Yavanna made hobbits but I’m more than happy to fling that away bc Bilbo to Mandos is so much better! I also think that Custard would smell Bilbo’s problems and just flop onto his head. ~ the ‘IDK how there’s gonna be a happy ending’ anon

Nah I’m sorry, Yavanna’s children are canonically Ents, not Hobbits. The Yavanna-made-Hobbits thing is fanon, I am sorry to say. It’s SUPER adorable tho, it’s cute to think that the wife of Mahal had her own little hairy people and that they’re all parental of both, but yeah – Hobbits are an offshoot of the race of Men, and they go to the same afterlife as Men. And Yavanna doesn’t. Like. Dwarves. At. ALL. (they chop down trees!). *wince* idk, I like the fanon idea, it really is sweet! But the books don’t groove with it at all, sadly.

I sort of like the Hobbits-go-to-Mandos thing as well! CAN YOU IMAGINE, snrk. Mr. Mysterious Doomsman of the Valar meets say, Pippin. Bwaaahahahah.

Awwwww, Custard would. Also, I expect Bilbo would fuss and curse about all that blasted cat fur (”it gets everywhere!”) but would secretly slip Custard little bits of fish when nobody was looking, ❤

hey Dets, how do balin and bilbo think of each other/ feel about the other person since erebor or at the time of the dead dwarf peanut gallery? since sansukh is crammed with a ton of balin’s much noisier and flashier kith and kin and balin is more often than not the voice of reason, he seems to be the more quiet and analytical counterbalance to the spectatorship of the ring quest but how does balin really *feel* about it all (moria apart), particularly as bilbo, dwalin, frodo etc?

Heya Nonnie!

Balin and Bilbo are hugely fond of each other. HUGELY fond. (I loved Book!Balin, the lookout-man, when I was a littley!) 

Balin is very sad that Bilbo is suffering memory problems and becoming so frail due to his age. That’s hard to watch – particularly as the last time Balin would have seen Bilbo in life would have been his visit to the Shire with Gandalf (from the books). Bilbo was vital and merry and hale – in fact, he had barely seemed to age at all. And so to see Bilbo’s clever mind slipping and his body slowly crumbling is very difficult for Balin.

He’s rather fond, in a distant sort of way, of Frodo. He doesn’t have the sort of connection or emotional attachment that Thorin has to Frodo, but he’s very proud of the job Bilbo did with the lad nevertheless, and reveres him as the Ringbearer.

He misses Dwalin like he misses life. His taciturn, grim-faced, looming younger brother. It feels wrong to smile at someone else, negotiating this or that, without his scowling bulk a silent presence behind him. 

He’s tremendously proud of what Dwalin has achieved though. He can’t believe how high Dwalin has climbed. General in chief of all Erebor’s armies! The great War-Hammer of the Dwarves! His little brother! 

Balin approved heartily of Orla – and he is so proud of his namesake he might explode. 

real talk now, how amazing do you think dwarven plumbing and drainage has to be to cope with ALL THAT HAIR EVERYWHERE seriously in the basins on the floor on every cloth surface in every room but especially the washrooms omg

This would certainly explain why Hobbit plumbing simply could not cope.

the plugholes would have to have the finest and most amazing grommet/grates imaginable. Can you imagine the epic shower hair-catchers they’d have to install?! I bet there’s a whole line in drain-unblockers and fancy plungers. Good grief.