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Hobbit Week: Apple Hand Pies Two Ways
These petite apple pies can be enjoyed either as a hearty vegetarian breakfast when visiting Beorn or as a durable teatime treat capable of keeping their shape after bumping around in your pack for a...
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Hobbit Week: Plum Heavies
Chocolate and vanilla may seem ubiquitous today, but they’re actually both new world beans. That means Tolkien explicitly excluded them from the Shire, even though both flavors were quite popular in...
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Hobbit Week: Easy Shire Porter Cake
Don’t be intimidated by the list of ingredients. This isn’t fancy Elven baking chemistry. Like most Shire foods, this is good, solid stuff that can handle a lot of improvisation depending on what you...
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Hobbit Hole Door Sandwich Cookies
I’ve spent many months buried in the wonderful world of historic authenticity while working on An Unexpected Cookbook: The Unauthorized Book of Hobbit Cookery. I’ve loved every last second of it, but...
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Happy Hobbit Day!
September 22 happens to be both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins birthdays! In honor of Hobbit Day, enjoy this selection of recipes from An Unexpected Cookbook: The Unofficial Book of Hobbit Cookery, available...
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How to Eat Like a Hobbit in 7 Steps: Breakfast
In honor of our last cinematic trip to Middle Earth, this week Kitchen Overlord is treating you to one recipe per day from each chapter of An Unexpected Cookbook: The Unofficial Book of Hobbit Cookery....
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How to Eat Like a Hobbit in 7 Steps: Elvenses
While second breakfast was all about hearty, durable foods you could tuck in a pack and use as adventure fuel, Elevenses is full of more delicate breads, best served fresh and hot from the oven with a...
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How to Eat Like a Hobbit in Seven Steps: Dinner
It’s no surprise potatoes are one of the only three new world crops Tolkien couldn’t bear to ban from the Shire. (He also let them keep coffee and tobacco.) Sure, parsnips and turnips were more...
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Make Your Hobbit Hole Smell Like Christmas with Small Adventure Sized...
If you enjoy the hundreds of free recipes here at Kitchen Overlord, help me keep the lights on by picking up a cookbook or two. As a historian who grew up reading Tolkien, An Unexpected Cookbook: The...
View ArticleHobbit Week: Shire Seed Cake
Many modern readers imagine seed cake to be chock full of sunflower or pumpkin seeds, but it turns out Tolkien grew up on a decadently buttery version of pound cake full of caraway seeds. They have a...
View ArticleHobbit Week: Shire Baked Scotch Eggs
This hearty pub grub makes a perfect luncheon for anyone fresh back from a tiring morning adventure. Serve it alongside a hearty crust of country bread and a fresh picked salad and you won’t feel the...
View ArticleHobbit Week: Hot Buttered Shire Scones
Forget those crunchy triangles you find at Starbucks. The Victorian scones of Tolkien’s day were far more like southern style American biscuits. Like American biscuits, these are best served hot and...
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