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I'm still not sure if you are talking about the elevens preparing food, you preparing food in real life as if it was an elven dish or if you mean elven cannibalism. I think I may just have watched too many post Apocalypic movies with cannibalism as a theme, add in the fallout quests dealing with the same.
I am just going to say roast beef. I like it hot, rolled up with mash potatoes or cold as a sandwich.
Having only played Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim, and being unsure of whether Arena or Daggerfall (or was it Hammerfall?) took place in the Dominion...
I can only pretty much assume lots of fruits, some veggies, and dried meats. Try a chopped up summer sausage with a thick fruity drizzle, perhaps? Perhaps a light salad with berries? Most people think elves as light-eating vegetarians, but the Mer in TES actually DO eat meat. Perhaps combine the two?
Gotta say, I love the idea of having fantasy-themed lunches/dinners during a game session. Why did I never think of this before? At most, I've only ever had 'fantasy goblets' and mugs to use on game days.
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Sweetrolls?
Honey roasted root vegetables?
Don't play that much elder scrolls though...
If anything, if you really want to go for the atmosphere, pleasant plating is key. It has to LOOK nice. Even if you don't break out your best china, everything all willy nilly on the plate is definitely going to throw out the 'This is Altmer food' vibe.
Apples! Definitely the sweetest apples you can find. Slices, naturally. Heat up some caramel in a pot, then use a nice spoon and drizzle over the slices. You can slice thin for a bite-sized snack and lay them on their side against one another, or you can make them thicker to lay on their back, for something that'll take more than a couple bites to down.
I'd advocate some pound cake, either plain, or with a strawberry kind of sauce in a 'strawberry short cake' kind of way, but without the whipped cream.
Can ya tell I like sweets yet?
Chocolates will never hurt. One of my favorite home-made chocolate snacks is to take cooking chocolate, preferably a lightly bitter dark, melt it down, and dip maraschino cherries in it. I typically set up a little drying station that hangs the cherries by their stems so the chocolate coating is roughly even and round, rather than having a flat side where it rested on a plate.
I'd also advise something orange. Either using the peels for the zest, or straight up with the oranges themselves. I usually just have mine normally, so I'm not all that great at orange dishes...
Hope these help ^_^.
Lol, neither am I. In any case, it doesn't have to be 5-star pretty. I wouldn't suggest in the style of my chicken rice & soup dish, however, in which everything kind of just gets mixed up and stirred together to look like slop, lol.
Example using the apples: Arrange the slices in a circle around the plate. For the "chip" style, just laying them with the straight edge over the curved in a ring around the plate, and spiral the caramel drizzle over them. For the "natural sliced" thicker kind, arrange in a ring near the rim of the plate, then perhaps a smaller ring (as in a fruit platter) or a 'star' in the middle, drizzle caramel as desired.
Whatever happens to look nice to you. Like I said, no need to kill yourself over a fun lunch. Not like you're going to do a heavy RP session with a diplomatic dinner in the Altmer embassy, lol.
Well, when I catch a High Elf for actual eating...I normally prefer them raw. Dead...but raw. If they must be cooked...then very very very rare.
Wait...
That's not what you were asking...was it...
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I'm thinking light and airy foods, perhaps some various french pastries with light whipping creme, strawberry wine seems like a good bet. They like to think of themselves as highly sophisticated so, perhaps finger sandwiches.
Lots of Hors d'oeuvres
Elf tastes just like chicken.
Cultural recipes are not so much based on who they are as much as what is availabe to them in thier surroundings. They then develop tastes within that which are modified by the culture or the people.
Given that they are high elves, my bet is that they appreciate subtle tastes in food, and are more impressed with the condition and textures of meat than strong flavors. Given that they are elves, meat is likely a delicacy so more food would be drawn from plantlife than animals. They may even magically enhacen the food with flavor.
http://www.macromeme.com/dog/WQkfxDC.html This might help, it's a breakdown of known elder scroll cultures and seeming root cultures in the real world, you may find it useful, if not, I'll have you remember that Summerset Isles where they live is an island nation, thus, fish are probably pretty likely to be a staple food source.