Miinu Recipes Vol. 1

Bee Bread

Often a sweet treat you can make for yourself, or offer as a gift. It's a recipe started by the bee Miinu, but can be made by anyone. Uses pollen as a base instead of flour and is heavily sweetened with pure honey. It doesn't require eggs or milk. Yeast is used to help rise. Can be topped with a sweet sauce and fruit chunks. It tastes of honey and starch with a fluffy, most texture inside, and a hardened, crunchy crust

Roast Cricket Leg

A meal for a meat loving hunter. Roast insect meat is a popular dish as it's easy to cook and easy to hunt down. Insect meat is rich in proteins, and is served great with butter and seasoning of your choice. Insect meat is known for it's naturally nutty flavor and crunchy exoskeleton; which could be peeled off or eaten through depending on preference.

Candy Shards

Candy harvested (stolen) from human settlements are often broken down into smaller, more manageable pieces with hammers and picks. Comes in the same flavors you'd expect from human candy, such as sweet grape, spicy cinnamon, or sour apple.

Honey Candy

Another delicacy from bees, they crystalize pure honey into delicious candy discs. The real deal can be bought straight from the bees, identified by the distinct bee comb pattern stamped on every piece. It tastes of pure honey.

Algae Noodle Soup

A cozy dish to eat on cold nights or to treat fevers. Food grade algae is harvested and simmered in a pot with veggies and spices, then pollen-based noodles are rolled out, dried and then placed into the soup to cook. The algae has a grassy flavor naturally, and the noodles absorb that flavor. Recommended to add in a good amount of salt and something with a strong flavor profile like peppers, onions, or garlic.

Pickled Duckweed

A lovely afternoon snack. Since cucumbers don't fit in tiny bug-sized jars, the Miinu pickle smaller vegetables, like the leaves of duckweed. The duckweed is harvested from ponds, rinsed in water, plucked, and the placed in a preserve jar of vinegar and salt. They taste very similar to normal pickles but with a slightly fishy aftertaste.

Nectar Wine

A perfect drink for a night out with friends. Anything with sugar ferments, and nectar from flowers is no exception. A wide variety of nectar wine and mead can be found all over the known miinu settlements with each region having their own unique flower they harvest from that changes the flavor profile. It has a light, sweet flavor with the bitterness of alcohol.

Grub Sandwich

A good to go meal. As stated before, insect meat is easy to cook and high in protein, but that doesn't mean it can't be paired with other things. Grub meat tends to be softer and have a more jelly-like consistency than adult insect meat, so it pairs well with crunchy toasted pollen bread, and brussel sprout leaves. Slices of cherry tomato can also be used, as well as guinae pig cheese, if you have access to it.

Loaded Baked Bean

Made using black beans and baking them in an oven until they are soft enough to cut into. Opening a pocket into the soft interior of the bean, you can then fill it with any number of ingredients like meat, cheese, or vegetables. Best cooked until the bean is very soft and easily mashed.

Chlorophyll Dumplings

Made from grinding leaves into a fine paste and turning it into dough, these dumplings are usually filled with minced insect meat and diced dried seaweed before being fried in oil. The dough has a leafy taste, similar to tea, while the meat again has a nutty flavor. They are best cooked to the point that the dough is soft but firm.