Passionate Tick Meat Stew

Passionate Tick Meat Stew is a rare delicacy if it could be called a delicacy. The two primary ingredients are mutant tick meat and Passion's Kiss flowers. Exceptionally rare due to the ingredients, only a few would dare consume it, not least for the strange effects it produces and the taste is somewhat acquired.

History

After a mutant tick is killed sometimes the hunter who kill it will eat a part of its meat in a stew. This is as much a sign of bravery as anything else due to the awful iron taste of the tick's meat. Sometimes a tick will be killed in an area with Passion's Kiss flowers. They will garnish & cook the meat in a stew with the flowers that adds a delicate flavour to the overall stew.

Execution

The tick meat is covered in a bit of flour (with a pinch of salt & pepper) and browned in a knob of butter. in a high sided pan.  Then placed to one side. Onions and carrots are them fried in the same pan until softened. The tick meat is added back in and 200 MLs of water added. Fragrants are added, and can be anything, though thyme, basil, and even mint will be added. Some will add orange, lemon or lime juice too to add a bit of extra flavour, or spices imported from the Far East. The latter elements are according to taste only. Near the end, half of the Passion's Kiss flowers are added for taste and calm down the strong taste of the tick meat. The remaining are added when the stew is finished.

Components and tools

The ingredients are:

• Any amount of tick meat
• Flour with a pinch of salt & pepper
• knob of butter
• Onions & carrot
• 200 MLs of water
• Thyme, basil, mint or similar fragrant
• Passion's Kiss Flower
• Spices and citrus juice optional
• Bread to serve with.

A few tools are needed:

• chopping board and knife
• high sided pan
• fire or similar heat source
• bowls.

Participants

One person is needed to act as cook if none is available. Whoever is cooking will carryout the whole process themselves.

"Oddly disgusting and pleasant in the one go. You'd be surprised what you would eat if hungry enough though. The tick meat is really stringy and tastes like concentrated liver. Like really concentrated. The Passion's Kiss flower helps to get rid of the taste quite a bit and adds a pleasant after taste to it thankfully. As for side effects, strange little magic thingies happen if your not careful, like breathing or burping out rainbows, or farting out miniature fireballs...... All part & parcel of eating it."
A Slavic hunter talking in a tavern in Eschbach.