I LOVE meals and I LOVE video games – so when my RPG gaming group determined to do a Christmas Fallout Particular (we’re enjoying the Modiphius D20 Fallout recreation with some homebrew upgrades)… I knew I wanted to make some very particular Fallout meals!
Sure, that’s Dimi holding the Modiphius Fallout Guide, and my messy kitchen within the background!
I do know, I do know, there’s a Fallout Cookbook. However once I seemed over the accessible on-line pages, I used to be a bit disillusioned. The recipes have been slightly… tame. And my gaming group has launched meals ourselves that’s now canon and which, after all, gained’t seem in another person’s e book. So I made a decision to DIY it. Some stuff from the sport, some stuff from our personal desk. You possibly can see above the way it all seemed!
My Fallout Meals Menu
Simply to be clear, I like to feed folks and I like leftovers so there was WAY an excessive amount of meals! However right here’s what was on my Fallout Meals Menu for our six-person desk:
Pre-lunch Snacks:
Earlier than lunch we had the primary half of our recreation, so I provided up a group of snacks to maintain folks going.
- Potato Crisps (Fallout New Vegas)
- Cheezy Poofs (Fallout 2)
- Radioactive Gum Drops (Fallout New Vegas)
Starters:
As soon as the primary half of the sport was executed (leaving us on an appropriate cliff-hanger!) all of us dived into the starters. And hooo there have been lots of them!
A charcuterie & cheese board of:
Squirrel Bits (Fallout 4)
Blue Bighorn Cheese (Fallout New Vegas)
Headhunter’s Headcheese (Fallout 76)
Potted Meat (Fallout 4)
Mutated Maul-rat Poop (home-game canon)
An expansion of:
Pink Meals Paste (Fallout 4)
Thick Purple Paste (Fallout New Vegas)
Salads:
Dandy Boy Apple salad
Desert Salad (Fallout New Vegas)
Tayto-Mayto Salad (home-game canon)
A basket of
Razorgrain Bread & Crackers (Fallout 76)
Mains:
Blamco Mac and Cheese (ALL Fallout)
Brahmin Stew (home-game canon)
Tayto Mash (home-game canon)
Greasy Prospector Pork n’ Beans (Fallout 3, Fallout new Vegas)
Dessert:
Fancy Lad Snack Truffles (Fallout 4)
Drinks:
Nuka Cola (ALL Fallout EVER)
Irradiated Water (Fallout New Vegas)
Tenpenny Tower Wine (Fallout 3)
What recipes did I take advantage of for my Fallout Meals Extravaganza?
So, how did I put collectively this large Fallout Menu?
I used a mix of “look-a-likes” (i.e. seems to be like the unique, doesn’t style like) and recreations (i.e. seems to be like and tastes like). The rationale for this? A few of the stuff within the Fallout universe I might NOT wish to eat! Taking a look at you Pink Meals Paste and mysterious Thick Purple Paste. I additionally added some supplementary dishes, utilizing canon elements in a brand new manner. You already know, as a result of scurvy is actual and folks want veggies.
Traditional Fallout Meals Recipes Recreated
The recreations part of the Fallout Meals Menu have been pretty simple (recipes linked). These have been rendered fairly faithfully to the unique idea of the dish (besides, you realize, radiation free and attractive).
Blamco Mac and Cheese – after all – comes from EVERY Fallout ever! I like Mac and Cheese from scratch and grew up with it, but it surely’s not quite common the place I stay now. I made it really feel additional Fallout by including some fried bacon and onions and garlic, to present it a “soiled” look, which was actually scrumptious!
Fallout Desert salad – it seemed slightly bland so I added French dressing dressing and a few additional veggies like inexperienced onions for flavour.
Greasy Prospector Pork n’ Beans is a typical from Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, and pork and beans (and tinned meals basically) is a typical trope of the post-apocalyptic style. Since I’m not a fan of tinned, processed meals, I made butter beans in tomato sauce (a dish known as Gigantes, in Greece) from scratch and added rustic spiced sausage for the pork ingredient. It was DEEEELICIOUS! I used my very own recipe, however this one is analogous. Simply add chopped Italian/Greek sausage while you’re frying the onions.
The Desert Salad from Fallout New Vegas was made just about as pictured within the recreation. Because it primarily seems to be tomato and leaves, I threw in just a few additional greens (corn, cucumber and inexperienced onion) to present a bit extra selection and added a wine vinegar French dressing.
For the Blue Bighorn Cheese from Fallout New Vegas I used Stilton cheese (one among my favourites). Some other blue cheese, like Roquefort or Gorgonzola, would work simply as nicely.
The snacks – Potato Crisps (Fallout New Vegas), Cheezy Poofs (Fallout 2) and Radioactive Gum Drops (Fallout New Vegas) – have been precisely what you’d count on. However I acquired kinda fancy with the packaging (extra on that beneath), and even made a sweet field!
Nuka Cola – tremendous simple. This was common Coca Cola with labels caught on (labels beneath).
Irradiated Water – very lazy! I simply used water carafes and labelled them.
Tenpenny Tower Wine – once more, I discovered some AMAZING labels on-line (linked beneath) for the wine, and simply caught them on the wine bottles. In the event you don’t like alcohol in your desk, stick them to grape juice as an alternative!
Look-a-like Fallout Meals
Then got here the extra “inventive” part of the menu. How do you make squirrel bits with out squirrel? And what about Pink Meals Paste? That’s acquired a Soylent Inexperienced vibe I don’t wanna mess with. Right here’s what I got here up with that LOOKED like Fallout Meals however nonetheless tasted good. You could possibly completely customise all this to your personal preferences.
Pink Meals Paste (Fallout 4) was a fairly simple repair, truly (regardless that within the Fallout recreation, it’s imagined to be addictive and trigger aggression). Taramasalata is a Greek dip product of cod roe, it’s simply accessible pre-made from the delicatessen, and it’s typically regarded as scrumptious. I truly don’t prefer it a lot, however everybody else does!
Squirrel Bits (Fallout 4) turned a mainstay of our RPG recreation, so I HAD to include them one way or the other. Ultimately, I used Polish cabanossi sausages lower into chunks. As a result of they’re skinny, I felt like they’d “weight” for squirrels. And since they’re smoked and dried, they’ve a barely “shrivelled” high quality that makes them really feel very Fallout! Some other sort of smoked sausage would work nice for this – if it’s fatter, chop it into skinny strips to make it really feel squirrely!
An in depth up of the cheeseboard on my Fallout Meals Meal, showcasing the Cram, Headhunter’s Head Cheese, Pink Meals Paste, Blue Brahmin Cheese and (behind the cram) Thick Purple Paste!
Potted Meat (Fallout 4) was a simple sub – I used pate! It went rather well with the bread, cheese and salad of the starter.
Cram – now that’s a tough one. It’s a tinned meat that seems in Fallout 3 and all the next Fallouts. The packet (see proper) makes it seem like scrumptious smoked/roasted ham, but it surely’s clearly a parody of Spam. And if you happen to’re not aware of Spam, it’s a processed, reformed, preserved pork product – and it’s fairly slimy and gross. I needed to choke it down as a child (college meals). I used to be NOT going to serve this as much as my group. Ultimately, I made a decision to go by the image not the outline, and located a scrumptious smoked ham joint.
Headhunter’s Headcheese. Within the Fallout recreation, it’s product of thriller meats. Not on my desk. However the concept of “Head Cheese” is one thing that crops up in Greece and the Balkans – it’s the most effective cheese, the very best high quality. In order that’s what we ate – kefalograviera (kefalo – head, graviera – the kind of cheese). There’s ANOTHER sort of Headcheese which is a Dutch recipe of boiled animal head suspended in gelatine (sort of just like the Victorian meat in aspic). This can be what this was based mostly on initially, but it surely was going to be a LOT extra work. So I skipped the boiled brains and caught with scrumptious cheese.
Thick Purple Paste was launched in Fallout New Vegas. There’s not a lot details about what it tastes like, solely that it’s confiscated by Caesar’s Legion. By that logic, I reckoned it needed to be too good to be true, so I used my commonplace spicy chutney recipe (I name it Dragon’s Breath Chutney). It’s candy and bitter, spicy and scrumptious, and went rather well with the charcuterie and cheese. Let me know within the feedback if you need the recipe – it’s bloody marvellous and goes with all the things.
I used Fancy Lad Snack Truffles packaging (see beneath!), however changed the within of the field with these scrumptious Greek cookies as an alternative!
Fancy Lad Snack Truffles (Fallout 4) are principally Twinkies. These don’t exist in Europe (sorry, People!). So I needed to get inventive. I already had actually good packaging for these (see beneath) so I felt like I may use a little bit inventive licence with the precise meals. They’ve superb, melt-in-the-mouth cookies right here lined in powdered sugar (kourabiedes) which I used as an alternative (pictured proper).
Supplementary Fallout Meals
And eventually, as a result of I needed to spherical out the meal (this ISN’T the apocalypse and we DO have recent meals!), I additionally launched some issues that used canon elements in a brand new manner.
Razorgrain exists in Fallout 76, however I’ve by no means seen Razorgrain Bread. Nonetheless, it is smart, proper? And with all these scrumptious cheeses and meats, we would have liked a bread basket. I used a seeded bread to present it that rustic, post-apocalyptic really feel.
Dandy Boy Apples crop up in Fallout lots. Fom context, they’re principally sweet apples. However we had loads of sugar on the desk already. I took some liberties right here, and made a second salad as an alternative. And so the Dandy Boy Apple Salad was born. I used bitter apple, walnuts nuts, grated carrot, child leaves, steamed beetroot and a balsamic vinegar dressing, however you might simply change this up. The beets gave it an actual “sweet pink” color I preferred lots (they usually go rather well with apple and inexperienced onion).
Probably the most iconic animals in Fallout is the two-headed cows, the Brahmin. And I’ve discovered recipes for Brahmin steaks, burgers, noodle soup and extra! However steaks and burgers are a bit tough to do for a desk – one thing like stew is lots simpler. Plus you may make it forward (as a result of, you realize, I deliberate to spend the morning enjoying Fallout!). So voila – Brahmin Stew! I basically made a beef stew that’s typical right here in Greece known as Stifado, with little pearl onions, pink wine, and a TONNE of flavour. It disappeared. Right here’s a fairly good recipe just like what I made. It’s even higher if you happen to make it just a few days early.
An in depth up of the Tayto-Mayto Salad, Tayto Mash (on the again), Desert Salad, Pork and Beans, Nuka Cola and Blamco Mac and Cheese!
And eventually, Tayto Mash and Tayto Mato Salad.
These are authentic recipes from our dwelling brew video games. We’re enjoying Fallout in New York, and the native farm grows nothing however tomatoes and potatoes. So what do they make? Potatoes and tomatoes!
For the Tayto Mash, I needed one thing extra thrilling than simply mashed potato with tomato juice. That sounded preeeeeeetty boring as a recipe. So I made a creamy mashed potato and spiced it up with pink pesto. It was too scrumptious for phrases. No want for a recipe for this – simply combine pink pesto with a basic mashed potato to your style. It’s that orange dish behind the image on the suitable.
For the Tayto Mato Salad, I recreated a recipe from my youth – Italian potato salad. I realized lots of my cooking expertise from two Italian grandmothers in Southern Italy and this was a fully commonplace dish – boiled potatoes, tomatoes, very thinly sliced onions and a powerful French dressing with superb olive oil. Once more, you don’t want a recipe for this – simply mix the elements to your style and revel in. You possibly can see that within the image to the suitable!
My Fallout meals labels for Fancy lad snack truffles and radioactive gumdrops, proven towards Fallout Roleplaying Recreation Character sheets
Printable Fallout Meals Labels
Listed below are the Printable Fallout Meals Labels I both discovered on-line, or made myself.
- The superb Tenpenny Tower Wine Label made by the artist moltonel7. Able to print out and stick onto your wine.
- The identical artist additionally made this superb Radioactive Gummies field! I made this one simply from printer paper, so it was a bit delicate. Use card inventory for the most effective consequence right here.
- This weblog has the Fallout Pork and Beans Printable Label, and Nuka Cola label. It has another Printable fallout meals labels I didn’t like as a lot.
My Fallout Meals Printable label for Potato Crisps! It ought to come out about the identical measurement as a bag of chips while you print it.
- I used this Blamco Mac and Cheese label. Because you don’t serve it in a field (no less than, I didn’t!) I simply wanted a flat panel as an alternative. I caught it on a chopstick to stabilize.
- This was the Printable Cram label I used, though I solely used one picture panel (for a similar cause as above!)
- Right here is the Fancy Lad Snack Truffles Printable Label I used. Like with the gummies, if you wish to flip it right into a field, ensure you use card inventory! My cookies already got here in a field from the baker, so I simply caught the printed model over the field with sellotape.
- The Spring Valley Potato chips have been a little bit of a problem. Ultimately, I created this label (proper) myself, printed two out, and caught them to both facet of the chips bag.
For the opposite Fallout Meals labels I used card inventory and wrote the names on (together with costs in caps!). If I’d had extra time, I’d have printed out footage of all of the meals within the recreation and caught them on too, however I used to be sadly too busy with the World Anvil day job! Tooth picks or chop sticks have been nice mounts for these, with only a piece of sticky tape. For the Pork and Beans, which I served straight out of the inventory pot, I printed off an enormous label and caught it straight onto the pan, as if it was a large tin.
So, would I make one other Fallout Meals meal? YES! Our gaming group cherished it. Me too.
Would you want me to do one other fantasy meals submit? Need particulars for any of those recipes? Let me know within the feedback!
