FEAST OF PLENTY, part 1: The butcher, the baker, the hearty soup-maker! (77462, 30048, 77460)

[Rigel]

It's about that time...a chill in the air, the smell of woodsmoke, the crops gathered in. And despite hardships it's been a bountiful year. Time to celebrate with full heart and full belly.

This doesn't just happen, of course; it takes work. 

Click for delivery of produce, featuring 77665, 77657, and a few others we have seen before: 

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Rich vegetables, full of flavor and heathsomeness,

 

 

Apples, fruits, and kegs of cider,

 

 

Rich cream, milk, and fresh butter

 

 

And to make use of these ingredients, we have three worthy community members.  

 

Hock Metzger, the butcher (with his loyal pig Not-For-Eatin', here to dispose of scraps and waste) brings great hams, sides of beef and mutton, and cured meats and sausages of all kinds. 

 

 

 

 

 

Side note: it is very very easy to sculpt a ham, especially if you have a pin or small round-headed nail to serve as a bone. And cylindrical sprue bits make exceptional salamis and deli meats.

 

Next up: Tub the Baker. Here with an assortment of coarse and fine breads, ciabatta, baguette, cakes, pastries, and pies, along with some confectionry for the children. 

 

 

He is a skilled enough baker to have created a gingerbread Pastry Golem. It is very helpful in running errands (runs very fast) and about as helpful as you would expect an animated cookie to be for other tasks. (This, and the lollipops, came from a WotC Free RPG Day candy witch cottage set!)

 

 

He will find a use for many of those apples from earlier. 

 

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And now we are ready, here is chef and saucier extraordinaire, Pudgin, with kettles, cauldrons, basins, and vats. 

 

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And LET'S GET TO WORK!  (tripod cauldron from Adventurers' Camp set, Nolzur's, big cauldron from Nolzur's Witch's Study, middle cauldron and tantalizing steam again from the candy witch cottage set.)

The Stonehaven Halfling Cook is also here as a vegetable-peeler and extra set of hands for sauteeing and searing. 

 

Let things boil and simmer and mix while it gets dark. 

 

Gotta have lighting though! Chandler (from Midlam) is here to help. Owes Hock for a bunch of tallow, anyway. 

 

 

Click for setup shots and more of Tub's fine pastries! 

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Ah! This is a fine reward for the night's labor!

 

Ah, ready at last!

 

Stay tuned for Part 2: The Boozening. 

[Glitterwolf]

And now you got me hungry!

 

Great job, your setting is awesome, feels like we're getting a view of what real life is for the people in those fantasy worlds.

 

 

[Inarah]

Wonderful.  Are they free tomorrow to help at my place? 

 

[Chaoswolf]

This is great, I love the little scenes you set up!

[planetmut]

Oh my god, this is excellent!

[Rigel]

Thanks, folks! And thanks are due for this community and forum as well as for the specific kind words.
 

18 hours ago, planetmut said:

Oh my god, this is excellent!

18 hours ago, Chaoswolf said:

This is great, I love the little scenes you set up!

It was a good time! I've had this one planning on the back burner, so to speak, for a while.
 

On 11/24/2021 at 8:58 AM, Inarah said:

Wonderful.  Are they free tomorrow to help at my place? 

If only! If we could summon minis into IRL being, I'd have a lot more use for a chef and baker than for any armored warrior, be their thews never so mighty. Hope your Thanksgiving, and those of all on the forum who do that, went well!
 

On 11/24/2021 at 12:15 AM, Glitterwolf said:

And now you got me hungry!

 

Great job, your setting is awesome, feels like we're getting a view of what real life is for the people in those fantasy worlds.

Thank you! I like minis showing everyday life and noncombat jobs. 
And not gonna Iie, I did make a huge vat of delicious stew after taking these pictures! Got me hungry too!