Shieldmaiden in the Kitchen
When cooking and the past collide
As some of you know, one of my favorite things to do is cook. And since I can’t keep all the disparate parts of me separate, I mix my love of cooking with my love of Viking history on my YouTube channel “Shieldmaiden in the Kitchen.”
It’s where I share how to make recipes I find tasty ranging from Viking barley flatbread to Icelandic Skyr to beef stew, with a few oddities mixed in like granola, spicy mango chutney, and how to harvest honey. There’s more than a few history lessons thrown in to boot like:
The Viking creation of England
The life of King Harald “Bluetooth”
The history of Scottish haggis (yes, the Vikings were active in Scotland…)
The Younger Futhark runic alphabet
The Viking torture known as the “Blood Eagle”
And more. Kind of weird, I know. But I have fun with it.
I also discuss whether Vikings could have eaten what I’m making (hint: lots of times the answer is yes).
Food and history are both made to be shared, so I welcome you into my kitchen — yes, my actual kitchen. Find a new recipe to try and learn something new about the past. Most of all, have fun and enjoy :)
I love this.
See how or if you can introduce the extreme-lean red meats like Venison. Where I live we have "white-tails", and I find them delicious but admit that Elk or Axis are preferred. You will (maybe?) want to introduce fats/oils, but the protein boost is amazing with such dense natural sources.
EDIT: not to indicate an issue with beef, I enjoy a good steak as much or more than might be normal. I'm talking about the daily-diet here. If you want red-meat (who doesn't truthfully) then I think venison is the answer to the health conscious, or those well versed in wildlife conservation methods.