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Chickpea Maltagliati e Fagioli - Soups, Stews and Chili Gluten-free chickpea lasagna sheets are broken into uneven pieces and cooked with cranberry beans for a twist on the traditional Italian stew.
Maybe I should be asking why poisoning is so common there that Kay feels the need (and has the means) to provide poison-proof cups which can feel anger, or how the silver is on fire, and I am now, but the first question which came to my mind was, "What is in the blue stew?" Blueberries? No, that would be indigo or just plain purple. I can't think of any means of dyeing food blue which they would have had in the Middle Ages. Was there some lost technique? Is that one of Kay's powers? If anyone has insight on this one, be it scholarly or humorous, please let me know.
I really appreciate that the Alliterative Morte Arthure is giving Kay a solid 45 lines to go full batshit mad scientist on his feast preparations, featuring
Peacocks, plovers, pork, porcupine, herons, swans, beef, wild boar, barnacle goose, young hawks in bread, cranes, curlews, rabbits
By my rough count, approximately eight different kinds of wine
On-fire blue stews ("wavy with azure sauce all over, they appeared to be flaming")
More fire: "pheasants adorned in flaming silver"
Poison-proof gold cups: ("So that if any poison should go secretly under them [in the cup],/The bright gold would burst all to pieces with anger,/Or else the poison should lose its power because of the virtue of the precious stones")
