I've been reading a manga titled "Dungeon Meshi", and it's about a party of adventurers exploring a dungeon and cooking up the local monsters in all sorts of ways as the main source of their provisions.
I find this concept greatly intriguing - how much pepper does one use in a griffon stew?
The fifth chapter has the party's halfling rogue and dwarf chef teaming up to use a blade trap, a boiling oil trap, and a flamethrower trap as a makeshift kitchen to cook up fried tempura. It was mindblowing.
Have you ever done something like this on an adventure? Would you ever consider it?
What would you cook and how would you do it?
Storyteller-Zero wrote:
Mecha, I think you meant two buckets of cheese - it is a dragon egg, after all, lol. 
Over the years, the majority of my characters I've played and the parties I've DM'ed for have eaten a monster or two on numerous occasions... Usually limited to obviously animal-or-beast-like things, though.
(Well, except for the 4E ranger I had that kept a trophy rope of braided bits of gnoll pelts - she'd eat gnolls she killed since she was mildly deranged (pretty much a prerequisite for even considering eating a gnoll, lol), half-feral and had a total rage thing against gnolls because of her backstory...)
I've always played my rangers, druids and barbarians as taking the time to harvest the meat and useful bits of creatures they've killed when it's feasible and they have the time or the need to do so. Any skilled naturalist would know it would be wise to supplement dried rations with fresh meat when they can during their travels and to save the rations for when there's no foraging/hunting/random encounters with walking steaks around such as in a dungeon.
And then, on the other hand, there's my 4E pixie druid refluffed as a Fey Crow Spirit... Whose crow-like personality traits included a nasty habit of snacking on dead things...
Heh. In the Planescape game I am playing in, our party just ran into a giant feral lobster in one of the planes we were visiting. After we killed it, we used some cantrips to create a bonfire inside the pool of water it was in, and concentrated long enough to get the water boiling. After about an hour of sitting around and waiting, we ate it. My warlock-bard provided the entertainment during our downtime with a song. True story!
The dragons crown video games had a cooking mini game where what you'd fought in the previous dungeon were the feature ingrediants.
My players have recently defeated a Mosasaurus, and are now hosting a huge barbeque in the slumbs, to feed the poor, and recruit workers. I had the players have an encounter with the most famous cook in town, who was eager to have a go at this rare opportunity. This brillant cook is also training their ship's cook. I used the Mosasaurus dinner as an opportunity for them to meet some new characters, and move the plot forward.
I played a short order cook in a savage world game, but I never got as fancy as to work out the actual recipe. I wish I'd read this a year ago because it sounds like an awesome idea.
I think the closest I ever got to a recipe lead to the party argument because half the party thought it was offensive to talk about how best to prepare poached lizardfolk eggs.