With just over a week to go before the premiere of Season 2, it’s time to nail down your party plans.
For starters, be sure to check out our page for Planning a Party. There, we have great ideas for foods both simple and daring, as well as templates for invitations, party favors, and much more. Our personal favorites are the Heraldic Banner Cake toppers, the very impressive Weirwood Tree Cake, Mulled Wine, Pork Pie, and Elizabethan Lemoncakes.
What foods are you planning to make? Are you decorating? Coming in costume? What’s the craziest Game of Thrones superfan thing you’ve done? Let’s make sure everyone watches Season 2 in style!
Last year my friend’s group made a huge feast for the premier. It included meat roasted on a sword, tarts, mead, roast boar, and a host of other delicious things. I, unfortunately, couldn’t make it, so am going this year.
We discovered your blog between then and now and have devoured it…and are looking forward to trying a host of your recipes for the premiere.
I know some of my friends will be trying the strawberry tart, lemon cake, and the Dornish roasted lamb. I’ll be bringing your shrimp and persimmon soup as well as the trout baked in clay. I searched like mad for a recipe for the mustard and stout deviled eggs (I was going to use duck eggs, too!), but my google-fu has failed me, so I’ll be trying to wing that one.
There will likely be costumes, too, because my friends and I are nerds. I’ll being going as Eddard from the first council scene of season 1 where he “dressed appropriately” by glaring and removing his gloves.
Thanks for all that you guys do!
That sounds like a fantastic time! Be sure to send us some photos! :)
I think this is the recipe I started with for my stout eggs, then also winged it: http://www.beerbitty.com/2012/01/24/spicy-pale-ale-deviled-eggs/
Best of luck, and have a blast!!
We’ll be sure to take pictures and send them to you…also, thank you for the starting point on the deviled eggs.
Last year at the season Finale I made a bear cake. It is a full body bear. (It’s a build a bear pan.) And took the head off. (Looking for picture to share with you.) I have poor Ned Bear X eyes too.
This year I’m planning on using my castle cake pan and making ‘The Wall’. I’ve got some chocolate rocks and I will put a tiny mini on it for it to be Jon Snow or Tirion. :D
I would love to hear other people’s ideas too.
M.
Thanks for referring to my recipe! Hope the eggs turned out tasty :)
Because the GoT S2 release happens to coincide with my 2nd anniversary, my husband and I have decided to seize the opportunity as a reason to go all out for our premier party.
Because we are going to run a marathon and watch the whole S1 before the episode release, we are going to serve all day apps. Will serve dinner about 1-2 hours pre new episode, so no one is focusing on food while watching.
The apps will be- your recipe for stuffed jalapeno peppers, much the same recipe stuffed mushrooms, breaded cheese bites, and deviled quail eggs.
Also set our all day and available with dinner are homebaked rosemary asiago bread, a variety of cheese types, in hunks, and olives and horsemeat chunks.
The actual dinner will consist of- whole honey roast quail, your recipe for lord Tywin’s venison, and (historically inaccurate but still medieval feeling) renaissance faire style turkey legs. As sides there will be (also inaccurate) corn on the cob, asparagus sauteed with scallops, baby 1 inch potatoes with savory brown gravy, and (now in season where I am) fidddleheads.
Dessert, served more than an hour after dinner, will be your bannock oatcakes, slightly modified, my own recipe apple crisp, and homemade vanilla custard.
I am fortunate enough where I live near Niagara Falls, Canada, to live very near a winery that raises bees for honey, and makes their own mead. They have the best mead I have ever had, though it is very sweet. We will be serving plenty of this.
And for those who do not drink there will be apple cider and (completely unrelated to GoT, but still geek approved, and looks medievally) butterbeer. (From Harry Potter).
I am very excited, and want to thank you for providing me with so many recipes to utilize for this! Love your site, can’t wait for your book!
I completely condone the inclusion of Harry Potter in your GoT festivities! :)
Not sure what I’m going to do about food yet, but I put together a whole blog post of GoT-themed cocktails, so I’m sure I’ll have at least one or two of those. Also trying to finish my Winter is Coming scarf so I can be viewing in style.
would love a link to that post XD
Right here!
http://oldnansneedles.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/all-of-the-game-of-thrones-cocktails-you-can-handle/
What are you guys doing for your season THREE premiers? I’ve already got the ball rolling with some especially nerdy festivities which I will be hosting as a castle kitchen wench complete with the canvas over-smock, wooden spoon and hair wrapped in a cloth so it doesn’t end up in the stew.
I started planning this thing after November. We’ll have 8 guests (9 if you count the 4 year old but he has a small but so he only counts a little…) In November, I took some red clay and fashioned 3 10 inch tall dragon eggs. They look pretty awesome and are in the process of being fired now so I can paint them. They’ll be placed in a wooden chest that is rigged with a heating pad so that the eggs stay warm to the touch.
I also started sanding down 55 3X3X1 square wooden blocks to make a “Curtain of Houses” with each of the house sigils in the series. This includes sigils that are yet unknown to the TV fan like the House of Black and White. I’ll polycrylic those sigils unto the blocks and connect them with little eye-hooks to hang on my fireplace.
We will have a total of 3 separate “houses” attending our event so I’ve made for each of them their own house sigil. Being in a group of friends who are avid gamers and nerds (REPRESENT!) I’ve made the following sigils: For my comic drawing friends from Scotland – “For Pen, For Glory.” and of course, the Loch Ness Monster as their sigil. For my Portal and Minecraft loving junkie friends “With Our Thumbs, We Thrive.” and since they love whisky so much, they got the Jackalope as their sigil. My boyfriend and I settled on the Chupacabra because lets be honest, we love to eat. And cook. Fittingly, our sigil reads “We Shall Not Starve!” I’ve created these sigils in photoshop and printed them into transfer paper which I then ironed onto stained canvas. These sigils will be adhered to a dowel for easy hanging once I’ve finished embroidering them. They will go into their travel basket after the evening is over.
I’ve also made an apothecary kit and a leather bound book to go with it. The kit is contained in a large wooden box with a wax seal of the skull and crossbones on it. Inside, you will find every herb, poison and remedy talked about in the series. From Pennyroyal (Big jar full of lavender) to Milk of the Poppy (small jar with corn syrup) to tears of Lys (crushed purple rock candy) to Tansy (medium jar full of chamomile), it’s all there. I also fastened burnt labels to each one on parchment so people could tell what they are. I’ve got a remedy for everything including some Moon Tea if you require and the book was put together to tell you what each of the contents will grant you. Slow suffocating death or a blissful night of sleep? Whatcha need? I got it all. Plus when you open the box the wonderful smell of lavender fills up the room so – added plus!
Premier night should be awesome. I’m making Medieval Pork Pie, Flea Bottom Bowl of Brown with black beer bread and old town mustard, Hen on the Wall, (Not a silkie though, the idea kinda freaks me out and you ladies have my utmost respect for being bold!) roasted leeks and carrots, White beans and bacon, black cherries and cream and Roman sweets. I’ll also brew up some wassail and my buddies are bringing over mead and mulled wine. We may also see if we can spring for some Iron Throne Ale that will be released on the 31st as well.
We’ll probably follow dinner up with a game of Game of Thrones – the board game which is incredibly fun especially if you have some sneaky and dubious characters among your montage. After the premier, I’ll be sending each house home with a travel basket. Inside will have a jar of oldtown mustard (I looked very hard on ebay to find the same old type of jar you used for your picture – success!), a jar of roman sweets (if I can can em without killing them!), any leftovers of course, they’ve been instructed to bring tupperware, their house sigil, a small loaf of black bread, a small hunk of cheese, a flagon of mead, a small bunch of grapes, and – if we can swing it – a bottle of Iron Throne Ale. Hey, you never know, they could get hungry on the way home!!
Then the night will be over… and I will be sad for a brief moment before ideas start flying through my head for the season finale…(insert evil laugh!)
By the way, none of this would be possible without you two, this site, your book and last but not least, George. You have all created a wonderfully bubbly monster of creative Westerosi shinanigans and for that, I thank you!