Travel to the first of the Main cities for your faction listed below. There is no need to visit any other than these three cities.

For Alliance: 1) Stormwind, 2) Ironforge, 3) Darnassus.
For the Horde: 1) Undercity, 2) Orgrimmar, 3) Thunder Bluff.

You will find the special Pilgrim’s Bounty area  just outside or inside the front entrance of each city.

Stormwind or Undercity:

Start by training your Apprentice Cooking skill and learning the basic Spice Bread recipe with the Cooking Trainer at the Pilgrim’s Bounty area.

Next, purchase a Bountiful Cookbook from one of the Bountiful Barrels in the Pilgrim’s Bounty area. The cookbook contains the Pilgrim’s Bounty recipes you will need. The barrels also contain most of the special ingredients you will need for the special recipes. You will have to travel to all three main cities for your faction to obtain all of the ingredients to make all of the recipes.

In Stormwind or Undercity you can obtain the ingredients to make the Spice Bread Stuffing, Pumpkin Pie, and Slow-Roasted Turkey.

While in Stormwind or Undercity you will need to hunt down and kill the wild turkeys that you will find nearby in Elwyn Forest or Tirisfal Glades. Get at least 50 – 100 turkeys for the recipes and daily quests.

Make the Spice Bread recipe for 85 Spice Breads and then turn 80 0f the Spice Bread into Spice Bread Stuffing. You will reach 75 cooking skill during this, so return to the trainer and train your skill up to Journeyman Cooking, and then continue with the Spice Bread Stuffing until you reach 100.

Next learn the Pumpkin Pie recipe and purchase enough pumpkins and honey from the barrel to make 100 pumpkin pies. Make this recipe until you reach 160. (Remember to train at skill 150 to train Expert Cooking, so that you can continue to level up.) Save the ingredients for at least five of the pies until you reach Orgrimmar or Ironforge; you need to pick up the quest before you make the recipe for it to count.

When you reach 160 you can learn the Cranberry Chutney recipe. You will need to move on to Orgrimmar or Ironforge in order to obtain the cranberries necessary to make this recipe.

Orgrimmar or Ironforge:

Purchase cranberries and make Cranberry Chutney until you reach skill 220. Keep enough cranberries to make 20 more chutneys, but don’t make them yet. Remember to train to Artisan Cooking at skill 200. At skill 220 you can learn the Candied Sweet Potato recipe from your Bountiful Cookbook. You will need to visit Darnassus or Thunder Bluff to obtain sweet potatoes to make this recipe.

Thunder Bluff or Darnassus:

Purchase sweet potatoes and make Candied Sweet Potatoes until you reach skill 280. At skill 275 you can train for Master Cooking.

At skill 280 you can learn the final Bountiful Cookbook recipe Slow-Roasted Turkey. Return to Undercity or Stormwind and pick up the Slow-Roasted Turkey quest before you make the Slow-Roasted Turkey. Make this recipe until it no longer levels you up, but note a couple of things:

1. You get 2 skill points per turkey cooked
2. The recipe goes grey at 370 or so and it still gives you 2 points of skill per turkey.
   
3. At 405 it drops to 1 pt of skill per turkey and start to slow down after 410 or so. It’s really slow after 425. With enough turkey you should be able to hit 430.

Here’s a pic of my level 3 Warlock with 429 cooking skill:

Congratulations! You’ve gone from 1 to over 425, from Apprentice to Illustrious GrandMaster, in one day!

Click here for a guide to all of the Pilgrim’s Bounty quests: Pilgrim’s Bounty Quests Guide .

Hello!

I play WoW with my 10 years old daughter and she was as delighted with your cookbook as I was.

I just served her a dinner inspired by your cookbook and WoW – as it was not based on a recipe found in-game. I got the idea when explaining to my daughter the “Elwynn Lamb” pet that can be acquired from the Jousting Ground in Northrend.

So, I figured out an “Elwynn Forest Lamb” recipe and used for it some baby lamb tenderloins and modified your “Roasted Boar Meat” recipe. Instead of apples I used strong cider when kept in oven, and the herbs were more forest-like and included some dried mushrooms. Also cooking times were obviously much less than for a pork tenderloin because of the size difference.

The exact recipe will take some time to translate as I live in Europe and use metric system. My daughter (and my not-so-WoW-interested wife) were surprisingly delighted. Just ask, if you need more specific details. And thank you for the great cookbook.

- a level 80 hunter on Thunderhorn

I just received the recipe from my hunter friend and it sounds delicious. My husband read the recipe and wants to try it, so I have promised that I will make it for him as soon as we find the lamb tenderloin. (Unfortunately, lamb is not available year round here in the inland Pacific Northwest.)

Here is the recipe:

4 baby lamb tenderloins (enough to serve 1.5 humans)

Seasoning rub (like in roasted boar Meat):

• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon oregano
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon rosemary
• 1/4 teaspoon thyme
• 1/4 dried mushrooms powdered (porcini preferably)

Mix the seasoning rub ingredients together, put on a plate and rub tenderloins thoroughly with the mixture. Place the lamb tenderloins in the refrigerator and let them season for several hours, or 2-3 hours minimum.

Preheat the oven to 375 Fahrenheit and remove the tenderloins from the refrigerator 1/2 hour before you plan to cook them to allow them to warm up a bit.

Browning the tenderloins in butter in a pan on the stove top.

Prepare a baking dish by buttering or oiling it well.

Add about 1/4 cup of strong apple cider (I used alc 8% Henry Westons wintage  cider) to the bottom of the dish before putting the meat into it.

Place the lamb in the pre-heated oven for a total of 50-60 minutes.  Halfway through baking (after 30 minutes) turn the tenderloins over and continue baking.

The  strong cider makes the meat tender and subsitutes for the apple slices you  used in Roasted Pork Meat.

Serve with potato wedges or fries and some mint jelly (I told my daughter it is spider ichor). Beware an occasional Elwynn forest wolf  wandering around…

Thanks for the recipe! Try this one out and let us know what you think.

• Chocolate Square
• Dalaran Brownie
• Dalaran Doughnut
• Delicious Chocolate Cake
• Galgar’s Cactus Apple Surprise
• Ironforge Bread Pudding
• Murloc Eye Pie
• Tigule & Foror’s Strawberry Ice Cream

Murloc Eye Pie and Ironforge Bread Pudding are two exclusive Tauren Chef recipes and are already available for free! Yipee! You can find Ironforge Bread Pudding right here on this site.   Murloc Eye Pie is available in the free pdf that will give you a taste of the cookbook to come.

Chocolate Square is smooth, chocolately, and very easy to make as I’m sure you will be glad to know. This is an Apprentice level dessert that beginners can make with no problems.

Dalaran Brownie is also very easy to make, sort of Journeyman level dessert. You probably won’t even make a great mess of the kitchen, which your housemates will be happy about. You will fill the house with the delicious scents of baking chocolate stuff, and your housemates will probably forgive any mess because of this. Oh, and you will have to share the brownies.

The Dalaran Doughnut is a Master level recipe as it combines aspects of bread making with deep frying. It is quite delicious and allows you to try a variety of flavored glazes and sprinkles. Yumm! Homemade doughnuts!

Delicious Chocolate Cake is just like the name says: delicious and chocolate. This recipe makes a rich, very moist cake with all the right WoW ingredients. It is an Artisan level recipe, but well worth making from scratch. You won’t get this cake from a box mix!

I’ll bet you didn’t know that Galgar’s Cactus Apple Surprise is a dessert. Well, it is, and a very cool and refreshing one at that.I would classify this as a Journeyman recipe, possibly bordering on Expert.

Ironforge Bread Pudding is great on a cold winter night (and it’s also good first thing in the morning!) Journeyman level.

Murloc Eye Pie is a very different kind of pie. Think of a pie . . . filled with murloc eyes . . . sound good? Well, it really is. You just have to use really sweet, fresh murloc eyes. Make one and dare your friends to try it! This is classified as an Artisan level recipe due to the pie crust. But it could be Journeyman level if you buy a ready made crust. The filling is fairly simple to put together.

Tigule & Foror’s Strawberry Ice Cream is rich, creamy, and very strawberry. Yum! I love homemade ice cream. This is a Journeyman, bordering on Expert level recipe. Here’s a picture:

Tigule & Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream

I’m still trying to decide on whether the Burning Soufflé will be a dessert (Chocolate Soufflé or Grand Marnier Soufflé) or a main course soufflé (cheese soufflé, vegetable or seafood soufflé.) Any requests?

I’ve been working on a couple of the last few recipes this week. Yesterday I made Mead Basted Caribou, and oh that was good, if I do say so myself. We like it rare, and it was definitely red and juicy!

Today I made Carrion Surprise. This is a delicious and warming dish, great for a cold winter’s night. It is also good re-heated. (I know this because I’ve made it before, but I didn’t get any photos then. I think we ate it too fast.)

I still have to make Murloc Tacos, and Tracker Snacks this week, and here it is nearly Thursday. I will make the Burning Soufflé and Northern Stew next.

Here’s a picture of the Mead Basted Caribou. As you probably know, Mead Basted Caribou is a recipe from the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

Mead Basted Caribou

We’ve put together a mini-cookbook that’s free for the download. It’s a sample of what you’ll find in our main cookbook and a preview of the recipes that will be in the enhanced cookbook.

What’s in the mini-cookbook?

• Skyguard Rations: Normally you have to be level 70 and have and honored rep with the Sha’tari Skyguard faction in Outlands to get these babies, but we sent the Rogues in to steal the recipe. You’ll find it in the mini-cookbook.
• Warp Burgers: Most characters who’ve been through Terrokar Forest know about the warp critters and that they make darn tasty burgers, which also buff agility and spirit.
• Murloc Eye Pie: Finally you have a use for all those Murloc eyes you’ve been collecting, something other that Westfall Stew.

What’s the catch? You need to join our mailing list to get your copy. You can leave the list at anytime, but then you miss any cool letters we send and any future freebies.

Just go to the Tauren Chef homepage, scroll down to the yellow box, enter your name and email, hit the button, confirm your subscription, and the mini-cookbook is yours.

Leave your thoughts in the comment area.

Thanks!

Now, while Darnassian Bleu doesn’t have much in the way of benefits for a druid, as a Tauren Chef it made me think. Hmmm, wouldn’t it be great to know how to make your own cheese? Especially in the event of a life-as-we-know-it-is-ending apocalypse (such as the destruction of the Sunwell) that sort of knowledge would be nice to have.

During my research at the grocery store and on the internet I came across a site that gives easy to understand instructions for how to make your own cheese at home.

The recipes were written by David B. Fankhauser, Ph.D. who is Professor of Biology and Chemistry at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College in Batavia, Ohio. He also has a very informative site on homemade cheese (and so much more) titled Fankhauser’s Cheese Page.

He has cheese recipes, cheese videos, recipes for home made root beer, ginger ale, limoncello (an Italian aperitif liqueur,) and other items of interest too numerous to list. And yes, he does have a recipe for Blue cheese, though I don’t believe it is Darnassian Bleu.

His cheese recipes use rennet tablets from the Junket Company, which sounds like a good idea. They are very inexpensive and apparently quite reliable. I bought some today, but I haven’t tried them out in any recipes yet.

Of course, if you are a purist, you can always do it the old-fashioned way and use a small piece of salted and dried abomasum. (According to Dr. Fankhauser, an abomasum is the last of the four chambers of the stomach of a ruminant animal. The abomasum from a suckling kid or calf was apparently very good for making cheese.)

Or, you can always buy cheese at the store . . .

Now you can do it in the real world. The people at LearningHerbs.com have a video for you, in anticipation of their new site. The video shows you how to collect and eat Stinging Nettle.

No mention is made of what heals or buffs you get from eating this, and yes, he does recommend adding it to your salad. In place of the spinach.

Here’s the video

Here’s the site

Enjoy your salad.

It should be up any day now and will be available to subscribers to our newsletter.

Ingredients:

• 2 eating apples (Gala, Jazz, Fuji, etc.)
• 2 Tablespoons sherry, or white wine
• ½ cup of sugar
• 1 day old loaf of sweet french bread or baguette
• 1½ cups of half-and-half
• 1 egg
• ½ teaspoon of orange extract

Directions:

Prepare a one quart baking dish by greasing it with butter or spraying it with a non-stick cooking spray.
Peel, core, and slice the apples, then cut into bite-sized pieces. Place the pieces evenly in the bottom of the baking dish.
Pour the sherry or white wine over the apple pieces.
Sprinkle ¼ cup of the sugar over the apple pieces.

Slice the french bread or baguette in thick slices (about 1-inch thick) and remove the crusts. Lay the slices evenly on top of the apples until the entire apple layer is covered.
Beat the egg and blend it into the half-and-half. Add the orange extract and the remaining ¼ cup of the sugar and mix thoroughly.
Pour the half-and-half mixture over the bread slices.

Let the pudding sit for 30 minutes. Spoon the half-and-half mixture up over the bread slices if the bread appears dry on top.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake bread pudding in oven for 20 to 25 minutes.

Ask your team or guild to take a break somewhere safe, and then serve the pudding warm with a dollop of whipped cream. Delicious!