Fellowship Of The Ring Eat-athon

Fellowship Of The Ring Eat-athon, Part One!

(We are pacing ourselves with small portions... It's the reason for the half apples or cupcakes!)

We begin with a hobbit chomping into a cake! We started by eating half of a vanilla cranberry cupcake!

And there's a number of times tea is made in the Hobbiton, so go ahead and make a whole pot (we drank this lovely Earl Grey blend from @adagioteas fandom blends)

Bilbo Baggins turns 111! So we eat the other half of the cupcake!

Merry eats an apple to look nonchalant while stealing fireworks with Pippin.

After seeing some elves in the forest, Sam can't sleep on the hard ground and eats some bread in the middle of the night... My kind of hobbit!

Then, as we make it to Bree, we see Peter Jackson take a huge bite out of a carrot... We had baby carrots😂

Pippin's infamous Second Breakfast scene gives us another opportunity to eat an apple! Gotta say healthy!

And then we make it to Weathertop! The biggest meal in this film and well worth the effort it took to make.

We started with Rice Paper Bacon. 

Marinade ingredients: nutritional yeast, Bragg's liquid aminos (soy sauce alternative), olive oil, liquid smoke, black pepper, maple syrup, onion powder, garlic powder, and water.

The "bacon" is made by cutting rice paper into strips, briefly soaking in warm water, dunking in a marinade, then laying on parchment paper on an oven pan. I do a double layer to give it extra crunch. 350° for 20 minutes, checking every 8 minutes to flip and take out the pices that cooked faster than others.

Next was the tofu scramble! I pressed two blocks tofu (one firm, one extra firm) for about 20 minutes to get rid of some moisture. Mix in a non-stick pan with olive oil, garlic powder, onion powder, nutritional yeast, turmeric, black (sulfur tasting) salt, and black pepper.

Mushrooms were cooked with olive oil, garlic powder, and salt on the stove.

Orange and red bell peppers were cooked with olive oil, paprika, garlic powder, white pepper, and salt on the stove until they began to char.

Green onions were cooked on the stove... More like wilted than anything else.

The beyond sausage was cooked in the oven for 25 minutes on 350°, flipping halfway through.

Sun dried tomatoes in oil were added, and we ate another slice of pumpernickel bread (not pictured). Overall, this was an epic meal and my parents even asked for seconds of the tofu scramble!

Once we made it to Rivendell there's a lot less eating and a lot more running for your life taking place! We were pretty full after the last meal, so this was a nice little break. (I have to insert here that we have been stopping a LOT to get more tea, wrap pipes because it's below freezing outside, and get more food. This movie is over 3.5 hours long. It took us well over 4 hours to watch it, even with the amount of planning and cooking ahead. Be prepared! Also, turn on your subtitles! You would not believe the lines you are missing because the music is too loud.)

We drank ginger ale to represent the amazing waters of DOOM Arwen calls forth from the River Bruinen. (What an entrance! I know it's Glorfindel who rides with Frodo in the books, but this was an epic way to introduce Arwen's character.)

As the Ring goes South, the Fellowship stops and eats some meat and bread (and an apple, as one rolls by Aragorn's head while he's wrestling with Merry and Pippin, but we skipped that one). Here, another Beyond Sausage and pumpernickel sufficed.

Moria makes us sad, but we have lembas waiting for us in Lothlorien!

 This was the result of the first lembas recipe (see previous posts for more details)

After we cried through the breaking of the Fellowship, we ate more lembas and started cooking for tomorrow. I ate an orange... Not because it's in the movie, but because I wanted one. 

Thus ends the first leg of our quest! I hope you are enjoying our marathon of  #thereandsnackagain 

More coming tomorrow!