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Gear
1-2 pounds of venison meat
salt and pepper
8-10 dried morel mushrooms
1/2 to 3/4 cup boiling water
2 T butter, divided
2 T. parsley, fresh and chopped
1/2 cup red wine - I used merlot
salt and pepper

1 recipe of Hylian Shroom Polenta

Quest

Prep your venison. Mine was frozen, so I had to thaw mine in the fridge first. season with salt and pepper and set aside.

In a measuring cup, add your dried morel mushrooms and enough boiling water to just cover the mushrooms. Set aside - you may have to add a little more water if it soaks it all up.

Once the mushrooms are reconstituted, cook down any leftover liquid from the measuring cup in our non stick pan until reduced by half. Put this liquid back into the measure cup - minus the mushrooms, but add the wine for easy pouring.

To this pan melt 1 T. of butter.

Cook mushrooms until they start to take on a little color - then add a pinch of salt. Take all those buttery mushrooms and set them aside in a bowl.

Sear your venison in the same pan - don't wipe it out! You want all that mushroom goodness in the meat! Flip the meat and immediately add the wine and mushroom broth from before to the pan. (Turn the stove off first). Then bring to a simmer.

Add the mushrooms back into the pan with the venison. Add 1 T. butter to help create a sauce and some fresh parsley for some freshness.

Dish over Hylian Shroom Polenta and you will be close to mushroom overload - what a way to go!

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It's September. This means that the days are getting shorter and cooler, Starbucks has brought back the pumpkin spice latte, and the internet is starting to hit the world with pumpkin recipes - so here is one more! As you most likely know by now, pumpkins appear in Twilight Princess in the Village of Ordon. The pumpkins are great! They even have rupees inside some of them. This recipe combines the two best things in a gluten free format - molasses cookies and pumpkin pie. I hope you like this recipe. I know my taste testers sure did. Enjoy!

Gear!

Crust
3/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup dark brown sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup black strap molasses
2 1/4 cups GF AP flour with xanthium gum
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp Chinese 5 spice
1/2 tsp salt

Filling
4 eggs
15 ozs pumpkin puree
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
14 oz coconut milk
2 T. GF AP flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp allspice
1 T vanilla
1/2 tsp salt

Topping
1/4 cup Butterscotch Chips
1 T. Crisco
1/4 cup Semisweet Mini Chocolate Chips
1/2 cup Praline Pecans, chopped

Quest!

Let's start with the crust. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Prep an 8x8 pan with non stick spray. In a mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar.

Add egg and molasses. Continue to mix together.

Add flour, baking soda and spices. Stir together until well mixed.

Pour 1/2 of the batter into the pan and bake for 10-12 minutes. Set aside and let cool.

Once cooled, press cookie into itself to compact.

Don't forget to bake up the rest of the cookies! Roll into 1 inch balls. Roll in sugar and place on a cookie sheet. Press cookies down. Bake for 12-14 minutes.

Enjoy the extra cookies!

Now back to our regularly scheduled recipe. For the filling, combine the eggs, coconut milk, pumpkin, and brown sugar. Mix to combine. Add flour and spices and mix until smooth.

Pour mixture on top of our cooled crust and bake for 40 minutes.

At the 40 minute mark, sprinkle about 1/4 cup of sugar over the top of the custard. Continue baking for 10-15 minutes or until custard is set.

Done! Set aside until cooled.

Once cooled, add chopped pecans over the top.

Add mini chocolate chips.

Melt butterscotch and Crisco together in a double boiler or microwave. Drizzle over the top.

Cut bars and Enjoy!

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The leaves are starting to turn color and days becoming cooler. This always puts me in the mood for apple cider. It seems fitting to me that we make yellow potion today. Apple cider has sort of an amber color, but with a little alcohol and some imagination, I think we will get the idea. We haven't made an alcoholic drink in a while; still getting over the affects of the great fairies tears :) So today we will celebrate the yellow potion; an expensive potion appearing in both the Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks as an elixir for all that ails you - filling up all your hearts. I hope to give you that same effect (at least in theory) as you enjoy this drink at your next party. And as always, enjoy this responsibly.

Gear!

Note: This recipe is for 2 drinks. If you have a large crowd coming, adjust quantities accordingly.

3/4 cup Apple Cider

1 Star Anise - whole

1/4 tsp Freshly Ground Nutmeg

1/4 tsp Cardamom
1/2 tsp Cinnamon

2 Slices of Orange

4 oz. Jameson Whiskey

3/4 cup Apple Wine, I am using homemade; whatever wine your choose - I don't recommend a sparkling wine for this.

2 Tall Mugs

The Quest!

In a sauce pan, add your apple cider, apple wine, star anise, nutmeg, cardamom, and orange slices. Heat until just simmering.

Remove the orange slices and place in your mugs. Also remove star anise and discard.

Turn off the heat to your pan. Add in Jameson to the saucepan. Stir and pour into mugs. Serve with a cinnamon stick in each mug. Enjoy!

Get a printable version of this recipe here!

If you are making this for a party, you may want to keep warm by having it in a party sized coffee maker or crockpot.

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