Harry Potter Food Week

The conjuction of a couple of things--our visit to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter earlier this spring, and the release of the last part in the movie series--means that HP has been rather on our minds this summer. There was the Butterbeer Project, of course, and that seemed to lead quite naturally into the idea of having a Harry Potter-themed week of dinners.

A quick trip to Amazon for this cookbook by Dinah Bucholz,

and we were ready to go.

There are some cute things about this book--for each recipe that is directly mentioned in one of the Harry Potter books, the author references which book and chapter it comes from, and briefly describes the scene. That makes it easy to look it up if you wish, which we did before sitting down to eat. Fun!

Tonight was the first night of the venture, so I chose a couple of recipes that looked fairly "safe" from an everyone-will-eat-it point of view. This is the Shepherd's Pie:

and this is a batch of Hagrid's Rock Cakes. Of course I didn't overbake them or leave them out for a week, so mine are not as rocklike as Hagrid's. In fact, both recipes yielded great results!

Tomorrow night, the plan is Bangers & Mash, with Petunia's Pudding (Strawberry Trifle) for dessert.

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