Ohhhh tasties and nibbles and noms, chewies and eatings and chomps.
We have us such hungries, why won’t you feed us some crunchies!Staff’s Stomachs

This challenge is all about… you guessed it, food! One of our staff members recently started paying more attention to what she’s eating, and in particular, reducing her sugar intake. This means she’s become super conscious about food, and has also started to try and eat foods she’s disliked all her life — to her surprise, discovering she actually *does not* passionately hate chicory, brussel sprouts, lasagne or pasta sauce any more, that honey is actually surprisingly tasty if it’s not put in tea, and that there are all sorts of tasty things she’s never even tried before. She then proceeded to bother all sorts of people (-cough-fellow staff-cough-) with her freshly gained food knowledge, and an event idea was born!

For this challenge, you have to pick one of your favorite recipes in real life and Mycenify it. This means you could (but not limited to)...

• write a story about the dish,
• draw the dish,
• make the dish out of clay,
• design a dance inspired by the dish,
• and/or perhaps alter the ingredients slightly to be more Mycena Cave-esque.

You have until Sunday, May 3rd at 23:59 ST to post your entry in the Recipe Submission Topic. In the following two weeks, voluntary staff members will nominate (AND more importantly, PREPARE AND EAT) recipes that appeal to them. There will also be a group of additional non-cooking (staff) Gourmet Experts to judge your creativity, and together we will pick a winning recipe from the nominees.

“Wait— Did you say… winning?Mycena Cave Inhabitants

Why yes! Of course there is something to win. The overall winning recipe(s) will win a Gold Medallion! But, rest assured, even if you do not win — all entries that meet minimum participation will receive 1 gem. For this event, minimum participation constitutes of posting the ingredients, instructions, showing you have made a clear effort to Mycenify it and giving us proof that you have made this recipe before. Proof can be in the shape of a photograph including your username in the picture, or alternately if you do not have access to a camera, providing another creative way that proves to us you have actually made the dish before. No submitting a recipe from allrecipes.com! -leers at-

However, there is a catch. Or two, actually.

1. Some of us live on a pretty tight budget and/or do not have the time for twelve hour recipes. Not all of us can afford caviar, and not all ingredients you are familiar with will be easily available in all countries :) Just something to keep in mind!

2. There are certain things some staff members cannot or will not eat. The list will be provided in this topic, but may be expanded throughout the event. Your recipe absolutely does not have to fit everyone’s preferences, however! We just want to be open and honest with regards to any biases.
   Myla - Pescatarian/Vegetarian recipes preferred.
   feyers - Pescatarian.
   Firkasa - Recipes low on dairy, not too strong/rich in flavour.
   Amaterasu - No recipes containing eggplants.
   Prose - No tomatoes, not too many onions.
   Juney - No recipes containing alcohol.

Voluntary Chef/Gourmet Expert Staff Members
- Myla
- glitch
- daemon
- feyers
- Firkasa
- Amaterasu
- Prose
- Juney
- King

WE CAN’T WAIT TO START TRYING YOUR DISHES :D Go go!

*Scratches chin*

Hmmm…. Very interesting. I have an idea…

Hawkins; Well, that’s one particular staff member who is trying to eat healthy. -shifty eyes- totes not me -/shifty eyes- ...Some of the others are PARTICULARLY FOND of sweets 8D (-cough- looking at you, glitch & daemon)

No, you absolutely don’t have to stick to healthy recipes only :3

Condor; A salad recipe is just fine :) As long as you can provide proof of having made it before, and creatively Mycenify your recipe one way or another, it doesn’t need to involve any type of cooking, baking, grilling, stewing, steaming, ... :D

In addition, recipes could be dinner courses, but may also be breakfast/lunch dishes, appetisers, desserts, snacks, or anything else you can think of!

I only know how to make one super bad for you dessert.  Curses XD

Ama for President though.  Eggplants X_X

What a lovely idea. :D
I’m bad at this kinda stuff, but luckily I’ve got a medallion already. XD Good luck to anyone trying! I can’t wait to feast my eyes on the tasty looking photos and maybe even try some of the recipes out. <3
Also I love tea with honey. XD

*shivers* Eggplants. My mother tricked me into eating it once!!!!111!!! :( Never again.

But seriously, feeeeed meeee. ;3; My exams will be done which means I actually have time to cook again! (And maybe I can set it up so you guys can see me fail at reproducing your recipes!

*swooshes through with her mouth open whale shark style*

suction noises

i want a food in my mouth!!

I’ve played sous chef with my sister a lot, so she’ll help me formalize a recipe from what we normally make! We normally just “measure” to taste. “Oh, I love mushrooms—let’s chop in that whole basket!” XD Very arbitrary.

I just joined a few weeks ago, so what exactly does mycenifying it mean? Should I try to incorporate consumables on the site? Make it pet-friendly? @_@

WeyrLeader; What we’d see as “mycenification” is not set in stone :3 As the list of suggestions shows, you could do a lot of things — use an existing recipe and write a story about how & why your characters would eat that dish (celebratory dish, ‘once a week party meal’, favourite ingredients); You could draw the dish in a Mycena Cave event; You could depict the dish as an offering to the Bone Monster & design a ‘tribute’ dance; OR, you could mix up the ingredients and add Mycena Cave inspired ingredients :D Given that Mycena Cave is essentially magic, the freedom you have for your creativity is endless ;3 (And to emphasise for those worried — no, that means dishes do not all need to contain mushrooms to be considered Mycenified :P)

mellomyst; You coulddd.. Take a picture of your kitchen or your kitchen supplies that you used in the picture that has your username on it :D? That way, you don’t have to re-make the dish, but you can still prove the photograph of the dish is yours? Or, come up with another way — feel free to send me an echo if you think of a way & would like to get it checked :3

Myla‘s post made me cackle out loud & my mother downstairs wonder if I was alright >>

I’m in college right now and the dorm rooms, so no cooking for me :C I do, however, have a favorite childhood recipe I used to make. Would telling the story of how I learned to make it and the story behind its name count as proof of evidence?

Alternativly, I do have pictures on my facebook of myself cooking different dishes. However, again they were all from before college, and thus they don’t have my username on it. Would these pictures me acceptable?

Argh, I’m horrible with preparing any kind of food. (seriously, i can only cook pasta and toasts lol)

And I’m even more horrible at trying to Mycenafy the few recipes i actually know XD

Good luck to everyone who enters, I’ll be sitting here, drooling as i think about food :P

Meesh; A childhood story of how you learned to make a dish & the story behind the name, and/or pictures of you cooking a recipe with you in it (which do not have to be submitted publicly, but would have to be shown to staff) both sound like perfectly fine ways to prove you know the recipe through & through and have actually made it before, yes <3!

We really just need some way to be 99% certain you didn’t just pick a recipe off some website & list a cooking show photograph, just to get a quick entry in :)

Knight; There will be much drooling on our end, too, promise!

Whew! Thanks Juney.

Think I’m going use my Mycena characters. >_< Ohhhhh~ This is gonna be so fun!

I was going to ask the same thing as Cryolite.

How many submissions can we enter?