Tag: dwarves

Broadbeam dumpling stew recipe! yay!

I hope you like it, Dets! Tell me how it goes, and feel free to share, (and tweak) the recipe! 
Ingredients
Pork hock
bone in lamb shoulder
1 cup red cabbage
2 big carrots
1 medium rutabaga
half an onion
1 ½  cups kale
celery leaves
splash apple (about a teaspoon) cider vinegar
1 bay leaf
½ teaspoon ground Rosemary
¼ teaspoon ground mustard
1 teaspoon oregano
salt and pepper to taste  
 
Dumplings
 1 egg
 1 cup almond flour
 ¼ teaspoon thyme
 ¼ teaspoon baking soda
 1 tablespoon butter (softened)
Wrap pork hock in a loose layer (or two) of cheesecloth and tie closed. Place pork hock in large soup pot with celery leaves, onion, bay leaf and apple cider vinegar. Cover with water and bring to boil. Turn the burner to low and let simmer for 3 hours. Add lamb shoulder, rosemary, mustard, oregano, salt, and pepper. Let simmer for 4 hours. Dice red cabbage, carrots, kale, and rutabaga and place in pot. let simmer for 1 hour and 45 minutes. While that’s cooking mix almond flour, thyme, and baking soda in a medium size bowl. Add egg and butter and mix. Once combined roll into ¼ – ½ inch balls. Remove pork hock (it should have fallen apart inside the cheesecloth) and discard. Remove lamb shoulder and strip meat from the bone, it should come away easily (don’t forget to dig out the marrow!). Cut meat into bite size pieces before returning them too the pot. Place dumplings on top of stew with plenty of room between them, they will expand (a lot). Cover and cook for 15 minutes. Serve immediately.

ALL HAIL THE CHEF. This looks AMAZING. And delicious! 

I had a chat to Mr Dets about this: we are absolutely going to make it (not this week, but very very soon) – AND we are going to photoblog it. BROADBEAM DUMPLING STEW. YES. (pork hock! YUM. and lamb shoulder! YESSSSS OH THIS WOULD BE SO RICH AND DELICIOUS AND HEARTY AND COMFORT-FOOD-Y, ahhhhh I can’t wait.)

Thank you so much! I am floored, totally and utterly. I am so amazed and floored at your creativity, your skill, your dedication! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Hi, I love Sansûkh and it’s gotten me thinking about, well, mixed-race children. I think in the area of Elves we might have an answer, if the child chooses mortality they got to their mortal side’s fate. So what about half-Dwarf children? What do you think?

Oh boy, this is a puzzler.

So, I am not sure, is the short answer. But I like that theory! Ah, Eru bless the Peredhil, they solve so many problems! 🙂

So, yeah – I am totally guessing here, but I think they’d probably be able to choose the same way Elrond and Elros and Arwen and the twins did/do. I suppose that if a half-elven, half-dwarven child were raised by Elves, they would be more likely to adopt an Elven mindset and identify with their Elven heritage more closely than with their Dwarven side. And therefore they’d choose the Elven allotted span/place in the Halls of Mandos (and possible? re-embodiment) over a place in the Dwarven Afterlife, and vice versa.

*shrugs helplessly* IDK!

ursubs:

more sansûkh fanart! wee thorin and laerophen during battle. and then another scetch (or sketch? can someone tell me the correct spelling this is driving me nuts) of wee thorin. hes so adorable and i love all the little dwarrows so much

i really like mandel21′s laerophen design so thats what i went with.  

sorry about the sloppy elf armor i got lazy. the axe was also pretty much a spur of the moment scribble haha

OH MY GODHJLSDHFKSHGDFLSJGFDLSJGDFK!!!

This is WONDERFUL! Wee Thorin’s expressive little faaace! You can feel how scared, and how determined he is. Laerophen’s expression! Their poses! YES FOR POC DWARFLINGS. I am totally in love with their poses here, you can feel the urgency of it, and Laerophen keeping an eye on the tense little fellow, and AUGH, just so awesome!

(psst – it’s ‘sketch’ 😉

Thank you so so SO much! I love it! You are amazing!

thebagginshieldacorn:

Erebor, TA 2644
The presentation of Simba Torbor Thrain, son of Thror.
Based off of this and this.

I’ve been meaning to do fanart for Sansukh for almost a year, so this was lots of fun. I almost forgot to give Hrera a beard and had to add one at the last minute, otherwise I probably would have been served a lawsuit by the Ereborian royal family.

BRILLIANT!!!

(LOLOLOL@ ‘simba’ the cirrrrrrcle of liiiiiiiife)

Loving Hrera’s expression! AND HOT DAMN THROR’S BEARD YESSS

christmashippo:

I spent almost five hours on this, what is wrong with me?!

Here, have some Narvi and Celebrimbor hanging out, aka “bffs judge people together” (and yes, that is its actual title). I love these goobs in all their different combinations: bffs, friends with benefits, cuddle-buddies, queerplatonic, romantic asexual, or the biggest romance to ever romance, but I tend to ship them all the way to Valinor.

I swear, it has taken me such a long time to figure out how to draw that stupid Noldorin prince, there are at least three different versions of him in my scrapped-folder! The only things that have been consistent are the eye-shape and that he’s a redhead, though the specific shade of red has varied as well.

The almighty Determamfidd wrote a line in a scene where Legolas and Gimli talk about tattoos (I think it was in one of the Lórien chapters) and Legolas mentions that some Elves use paint to adorn themselves. I sort of latched on to that and decided that make-up is totes a thing.

Also, have any of you noticed that when I don’t have a clear idea of the clothes a character is wearing my brain tends to go “PURPLE!!!”?

I might shade this later. Or not. We’ll see.

OH CHRISTMASHIPPO THANK YOU SO MUCHHHHHH!

Gosh, they’re GORGEOUS (elves in makeup YASSS). I am sure I mentioned how much I ADORE Narvi’s hair! LOOKIT THAT NOSERING, that is awesome! 

I LOVE IT I LOVE YOU

tosquinha:

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Young Gimli complains that he wasn’t allowed to go to the Quest; Thorin III complains that Dain didn’t let him go to BOTFA. Their young mind makes them believe they could have made a difference. But they can’t stop wondering if they’d not end like Fili and Kili.