Recipes From The Kitchen At Bag End

Yesterday the recipe!fics for the shire_kitchen challenge were posted!

We had three entries. Stories were:
Friends in Need by Dreamflower A chance call on an old friend turns into an opportunity to help.
Sharing Dinner on Lobelia Lane by Pearl Took
A Time for Truth by Larner

The winner of the apron was Pearl Took!



Congratulations, Pearl!

The shire_kitchen Sixth Annual Recipe!Fic Challenge has been extended to May 15th!

I hope this will help those who'd like to enter, and to get a chance to win the one-of-a-kind apron!

Just a reminder that the entries for the Shire Kitchen Sixth Annual Recipe!Fic Challenge are due before May 1, if you hope to have a chance to win the Shire Kitchen Apron!

All entrants will get the chance to have their name randomly drawn, and one lucky author will win the apron!

The LJ Community shire_kitchen would like to announce its

Sixth Annual Recipe Fic Challenge. This is a chance to find a creative way to share your very favorite dishes as well as have the fun of writing a story! The theme for this year’s challenge will be: Special Ingredient!. (Interpret the phrase any way you want!)

THIS year there will be a special incentive to enter the Challenge. All authors who enter are eligible to have their name randomly drawn, to win this apron!


Yes, one lucky person will get this one-of-a-kind piece of wearable art! To see more details of the apron and how it was made, look here!

If you are interested in winning the apron, here are the rules and guidelines for the Shire Kitchen Recipe!Fic Challenge 2010!

The theme for 2010 is "Special Ingredient".

Shire Kitchen Recipe Fic Challenge


1. A recipe fic is defined as a story in which a specific food or dish is mentioned, and the recipe for making it is given. If you would like to see examples of Recipe Fics, the previous years’ challenge stories are here:

First Recipe Fic Challenge 2005
Recipe Fics 2006
Recipe Fics 2007
Recipe Fics 2008
Recipe Fics 2009

2. Recipes should be given in such a way that the reader could use it to make the dish described. The recipe may be incorporated in the body of the story (but all ingredients and steps must be specified) or the complete recipe may be added at the end of the story.

3. Stories do not have a minimum or maximum word-count restriction.

4. Recipes should be something the authors have tried and know to be good.

5. Characters and settings: Any characters and settings from the published fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien. (This may even include tales from his non-Middle-earth fiction, such as "Farmer Giles of Ham" or "Roverandom" or others.)

8. Genre: Any genre

9. Ratings: G to R, no NC-17, please, and clearly label all warnings.

10. Deadline: Stories will be posted on Wednesday, April 28. Late stories are allowed, but the random drawing for the winner of the apron will be done on Saturday, May 1, so if your story is later than that, you will miss out on the drawing.

12. You should post your story directly to the community. Just be sure to put your story behind a cut so we don't overwhelm everyone's friends pages. We mods will hold the story posts in the moderation queue until then , so if you wish to post early, that’s all right--we can keep it under wraps until then. Head the story "Recipe Fic: Name of Story by Your Name". And don't forget to tag your story -- "special ingredient 2010". (For that reason, the community will temporarily be on moderated status until the stories are posted.)

13. If you do not have a LiveJournal account, you may e-mail your story to aelfwina@gmail.com and I will post it for you.

14. Previously published stories are eligible if they fit all the other criteria, and were not published in a previous Shire Kitchen Challenge.

We only had three stories entered into the shire_kitchen Celebrate! Recipe!Fic Challenge, though late entries are always welcome!

My story: Taking the Cake It's Frodo's last birthday before he leaves Bag End on the Quest, and Lily Cotton is making his birthday cake...

The other two stories are:

Of Bread and Butter by ceshaughnessy While Pippin's mother makes bread, Pippin and Tulip find a new friend.

Sensitivities by telperion1 In which Nob makes a mistake and worries about the consequences. Even in Middle-earth, they must have had food allergies.

(Cross-posted to dreamflower02)

We will be announcing the 2008 Recipe!Fic Challenge soon. For that reason, the community will temporarily be going on moderated status, so that any stories posted can be held until the deadline. However, rest assured that any other posts that are not Challenge entries will be okayed, as long as they meet the other community guidelines.