I saw Thor eating a chicken and ptheh! This hair, it’s gonna be all over the food, this is gonna be brutal. Hey, welcome to Mythical Kitchen, where dreams become a feast for the god of thunder! He’s the son of Odin, he’s the prince of parties, and he’s portrayed by a really sexy jacked Australian man. That’s right, I’m talking about Thor, ya dummies, and today I’m gonna make something that he’d eat. Now I know what you’re saying, “Making food from popular movies on YouTube, what an original idea!” But that isn’t exactly what we’re doing, ’cause one, I don’t think there was a lot of food in the Thor movies, and two, high-key I haven’t really seen the Thor movies. Or is it low-key? No, Loki, that’s my brother, hahahaha! Mjolnir, come hither! Giant of jotun, gird thy loins and breach thy bridges as you feel the wrath of Thor, god of thunder, and Natalie Portman as well! Great in “Black Swan” and “Garden State”! All right, well, we broke the recipe down to three easy steps, you can snag the time codes right there, and if you wanna make it at home, we got a full written recipe down in the description near my little pantaloons. They’re tight. Like I mentioned, there ain’t a ton of food in Thor, and so we’re kinda making things up as we go, but in one scene, you do see him just chowing down on some chicken, and obviously roast game birds would’ve been a real thing that a lot of the Norse people who created these Eddas, these big stories about the gods, would’ve been eating. However, when you look at what Thor was eating, there weren’t really details, it was like “Thor went to a feast and ate a whole ox.” And it’s like “That’s pretty rad, dude.” So we’re actually making a Danish Christmas roast called juleand, which literally means “Christmas duck,” I believe, it’s sometimes made with goose. I saw Thor eating a chicken and ptheh! This hair, it’s gonna be all over the food, this is gonna be brutal. We got our chicken right here, we’ve got, like… Okay. I feel… Thor had short hair in one of the movies, right? Right? Yeah, Thor had short hair, we’re short hair Thor now. We’re gonna cut these apples into chunks. Really, untenable to wear that thing and cook. You wore it for like two seconds. What? I can’t! Okay, Annaliese, you come here! No, no, no. No, oh, now it’s split in the back. I tried to bend over to get my wig and it split. Oh, man, you might be wondering, “You said this is a Christmas recipe? Thor’s kind of a competitor god to Jesus, and you know, the one that we just call God.” Nah, it’s cool, man. ‘Cause that was a thing. If you know anything about the Norwegian black metal murders. Huh? Let’s get into that right now. Great film called Lords of Darkness with Kieran Culkin, about the Norwegian black metal murders, and there was a lot of, you know, cultural tensions between the pagan Norsemen and Christianity, and that’s why I believe since Marvel has already established the fact that they’re just gonna make gods superheroes, they need to have Jesus. Come on. Jim Caviezel, reprise the role. So, chopping up apples. These are a lot of food mentioned in Norse mythology, got the apples of Idun. Apples that grant eternal youth. See if that works out, my knees already hurt, so, things are working so far, you know, if the apples did that, maybe I wouldn’t come in injured every day to work and go “Ow, Nicole, I need you to put on my shoes!” Okay, so we’re splt! Eh! Okay. We are stuffing this. Hey, did you know that there was the, what’s that video game? Trevor, you play video games. Yeah. Video game, they made Thor fat, and everyone was mad or something, but then everyone was like “Nah, Thor’s pretty fat.” God of War? Maybe God of War. All right, we got the chicken stuffed, we got a bunch of this totally real hair all over the chicken, and so now I’m gonna truss up the bird, we’re gonna roast this on a bed of mirepoix, and then we’re gonna use all those juices, some of those prune juices leaking out of the butthole here. We’re gonna make that into a gravy. Truss up this bird, hold on, get under the wings, stupid idiot, I am the god of thunder! They didn’t really match up like that, though, in Norse mythology. All right, beautiful. Got our bird trussed up, we’re gonna cover this in salt. Hands are covered in raw chicken. That’s cool. And, there was a Thor myth where he had to find a neverending cauldron to have a feast with the jotuns, which were the big-ass giants. And Thor just, he invented HomeTown Buffet. COVID took a lot from us, but, HomeTown Buffet? That’s the biggest one. All right, we’re gonna squirt a little bit of oil all over this. We’re gonna kinda rub it down, Thor-style. Gonna give it a couple… All right, now it’s gonna go in the, what? This is sanitized. This part never touched the ground. We’re gonna pop this in the oven, 400 degrees for about 45 minutes, ’til its skin gets nice and crispy, then we’re gonna drain the juice and make some gravy. Pff. Oh, I forgot, yeah. Listen, my Thor costume, my biblically accurate Thor costume, it’s really coming out. Thor gotta make his gravy. So, we can pfleh! Too! Ptoohoo! We’re back, all right, so, we got all the mirepoix that’s been roasting onto the chicken, we can arrange that ’round. We got all our little pan drippings right here. I’m gonna take some vermouth, any fortified red wine works, you gotta pour it out there. Thor, oh my god, this is what people don’t know about him, he famously loved drinking a good tawny port after a meal. That wasn’t in any of the Eddas, it wasn’t in the Marvel movies, I just feel it in my soul, that he was just like “Mm, a nice little port, that’s gonna be fun.” So, we’re reducing the vermouth, that’s gonna add some nice sweetness and acid in there. And then now, I mean honestly, listen. Even if you’re not a Marvel superfan like me, you can still make this dish and really love it, ’cause like I said, this is totally from the movies, and they really heavily feature this dish. This is my audition to become the official cook of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And I’d like to be in the next Thor movie, I already have the muscles and the biblically accurate Thor costume. I feel like I can come in and Thor would be like “Loki has the moon stones! We must find him!” And I’ll walk in and be like “How ’bout some smorrebrod?” And then that’ll be the scene, and I just think, Kevin Feige, come find me, man. You know? I’m not doing anything, I’m open to work. I got that banner on my LinkedIn. Got one chuckle with the open to work banner. That vermouth is reduced to almost nothing, we’re gonna toss in some butter right here, get that melting, we’re gonna create a roux with the reduced vermouth right here. Eheh. Hot liquor! Ooh, carrot. Drop a little bit of flour in there, gonna stir that in. Get it nice, we want this gravy to thicken up. Beautiful, we’ll let the flour cook for a second, season up this gravy with a little bit of black pepper. There we go. Thor is greasy, he’s covered in grease, as he was often depicted in the Eddas. Eddas were, there was the Poetic and the Prose Eddas. One is, I’m taking a lot of my cues from Snorri Sturluson’s Edda, and also everything else I know about Swedish culture is from discus thrower Daniel Stahl. It’s smelling all nice and Christmassy in here, I’ll tell you that, and as a pagan god, Christmas is my favorite time of the year, I go eat Chinese food with the Jews. All right, gravy’s nice and reduced. Gonna pop this right in a little gravy boat. And now we have a feast that can serve any Asgardian, that’s where we are. That’s what all this is for, we’re in the halls of Asgard, and I believe Idris Elba, really underutilized. Before I make the soup that has slain 1000 dragons, bar maiden, come plug the merch! A wild creature appears, the pizzacock apron! Now available at Mythical.com. A wild creature, I must slay! I don’t wanna hit you, Nicole, just run away, I don’t wanna hit you. We’re making a soup. Why are we making a soup? Because in “Thor”… In the halls of Asgard, you see a bunch of squashes laying around, and boy, did I promise you a whole history about new world plants? Squashes originated in the Americas, one of three sister crops, we’re gonna render out some bacon here. Ah, the hairs! The hairs are back! In the halls of Asgard, you see some bunch of squashes laying in the background, those little pumpkins. We got some roasted acorn squash right here, and you gotta wonder, they wouldn’t have gotten to Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, until, what, 1600s, right? Import export things came longer to get to Northern Europe. Part of the three sister crops of the Americas, corn, bean, squash of course. None of that existed in Europe until they got here, neither did chili peppers, so you think about Thai food or Indian food, chili peppers just weren’t there until like 16, 1700s, now are part of an endemic cuisine. Thor is big on world history. This spoon just shattered, I was too strong. It’s a shattered spoon, we’re gonna stir up some bacon. And so I like to think of the fact that if Midgard included all of Earth, it’s like how in the Book of Mormon Jesus was in Kansas at some point, I like to think that Thor was just traveling down to Peru and just being like “Ceviche! Rub a dub dub, I enjoy this!” So, we are making gule aerter, which is a Danish split pea soup, but I figured, if Thor likes cooking, he got squarshes, we’re gonna add some squash to it, and so we’re gonna kinda, you know… I can’t, I can’t, I can’t with the hair. I ca- Ah, the Helmet of Infinite Protection. It’s how I guard against the tricks of Loki, my brother in the movies. But not in the book. The book of course referring to the thing written in the 1200s. Which, again, was like Marvel just made a comic book off of a god. Which kind of implies that they’re pantheists, and they believe that all religions technically exist at the same time, so like Vishnu is just, I don’t know, punching Doctor Doom in the face in some iteration of Marvel. Almost harder to cook in a helmet. We got the bacon rendering, let’s add some chopped leeks in there. Let’s add some nice little herbs, we got some leeks, we got some celery. Are you all making this at home, ’cause this is gonna be such a lovely, hearty soup. We add some thyme in there, we’ll fish it out later. We’re gonna add a little bit of salt and pepper. That’s nice. The thing about soups, is you really want to, now I’m just gonna go straight Food Network. The thing about soups is you really want to layer flavors, so we’re taking that smoky bacon, we’re rendering all the fat out of that, and then you toast the aromatics in the fat. Also this is a He-Man costume, that was the joke. And they did not pad the butt muscles, but they did pad the thigh muscles, and I think that’s weird. Also, there’s no stuffing. So, I’m just gonna go ahead and stir this up a little bit. Thought about just putting a whole acorn squarsh down there. Did I put pepper in? Probably not enough pepper. Thor, he didn’t even control thunder and lightning. You believe that? You believe that? That’s like a X-Men thing. That’s a Halle Berry thing. Leave it to Halle Berry. Technically, “Monster’s Ball” was part of the Marvel Cine- I watched that movie way too young. All right, we’re gonna go ahead and add… Woo! That gave me some weird thoughts about what romance is. All right, so, we’re gonna go ahead and we’re gonna add some of those split peas, gule aerter means yellow pea in Danish, so like I said, this is a traditional yellow pea soup. I’m gonna take some stock, I’m gonna add that, this helmet squeezes your melon pretty hard. I will say that. So we’re gonna let this come up to a boil, we’re gonna let the peas get nice and simmery, then we’re gonna add our squashes and we’re gonna put it into our nice little gourds. Nice little gourds. As I say unto thee in the words of my father, the great Odin. “Soup is done!” Soup’s done. All right. If we look at this, this looks really lovely. Got all the split peas, the squash, it’s not perfectly emulsified, we still got some nice brothiness. Then we take a little bit of cream, sorta add some in there for a little extra richness, stir it in right at the end, that way the dairy doesn’t separate, and ugh, lovely, fit for a ragtag group of weird mixed race Viking gods. So, we’re gonna take our gule aerter, gonna spoon it into, ugh, how homey is this? If you have kids and you’re struggling to get them to eat vegetables, this is just such a fun way, I know when I serve this to my kids, they’re like “Ugh, my god, Mom, that’s so fun, and I totally don’t hate you for reading my diary.” Oh, I’m gonna read the out of my kid’s diary. I’ll invade, okay. And, aw, shoot, I fudged it. Lemme put the… And there we have it. We have our completely historically accurate and also accurate to the Marvel Cinematic Universe gule aerter soup. But wait, what if I told you that we’re gonna make an open faced sandwich, and that I also think this helmet’s triggering migraines a little bit? ‘Cause there’s a lot of ringing in my ears, and I smell toast. I know what you are thinking. “You are the mighty Thor, god of thunder, slayer of giants, you must fear nothing.” Except LASIK, which I do. That’s why I still have these bifocals. We’re gonna make smorrebrod. So there’s a scene in Thor where what’s his, like the silly, the kinda silly, kinda bigger… Anyways, he’s eating a big old stack of bread and cheese, and so that made me think smorrebrod. Smorrebrod is a Scandinavian open faced sandwich, effectively, so we got some beautiful Danish rye right here, this is the real thick and hardy stuff, and we’re just gonna put some typical smorrebrod stuff on it, ’cause I think Thor would really like that, you know? I think he’d like some thin shaved fennel and sliced golden beets. That’s what I think of when I think of Thor, that, and Natalie Portman, nee Hershlag. Natalie Portman changed her name from Hershlag. Jonah Hill, Jonah Feldstein. Jon Stewart Leibowitz? Leibowitz? I wanna make my name more Jewish. Got some roasted golden beets right here, I’m gonna slice ’em thin. Smorrebrod’s fun, because you can kinda make it your own. Really popular Danish Scandinavian lunch food right here. Also, speaking of Jews, Moses is technically a Marvel superhero, put that in the canon. But, honestly, eating Danish smorrebrod is when I was like “Oh, the Nords and the Jews, we’re like this,” ’cause we grew up just eating a lot of small pickled river fish on bread with dairy. All right. Slice up these beets, that’s beautiful. Gonna slice some onions, these are thick boy onions. Thor of onions. So Thor… Talk about Thor. Thor’s depicted as being kind of like a stupid, lovable oaf, although that doesn’t necessarily add up with how he is depicted in the Eddas, and there’s kind of only one where people cite him as being a dumb dumb, and that’s because he lost in a battle of insults to Odin, which I think is hilarious that they just straight had like, y’all remember “Yo Momma,” hosted by Wilmer Valderrama? Yeah, I know we all do. But actually, listen, Odin was the wisest man alive. You lose one insult rap battle to the wisest man alive, and suddenly you’re an oaf? Unfair, history. Unfair, characterization. We’re gonna slice up a little bit of fennel right here, that’s beautiful. Oh, this got a small little core, I love that. I was just complaining about this, not enough usable fennel in fennel. I’m just gonna… Beautiful, slice it. Super thin. Love it. Okay. We got that. So now I’m gonna take some of this lovely rye, get outta there. Get outta there, fennel, what are you doing? This rye’s cracked, that means I get to eat it. Mm. No one makes a bread as dense as the Danes! I’m gonna take a little bit of duck fat. Could be goose fat. A lot of people use mayonnaise and whatnot. I’m using duck fat. Gonna smear that on there. Oh, probably most people use butter, but I’m gonna use duck fat. I mean, Thor wants to use duck fat. Thor’s a big fan of duck fat fries. Thor goes to gastro pubs, and he goes like “Ooh, those fries are served in a little cone, and their burger’s served on a butcher block. That’s fun.” Now I’m gonna take a couple slices of beet. Beautiful, I’m gonna take this beautiful pickled herring, I’m just gonna, this is for me. Like Gollum. Also part of the MCU. So, I’ll layer on some pickled herring. Oh, god that’s good, it’s packed in oil, too. None of the water-packed stuff, that’s for jotuns, am I right? All right, cool. And now, just gonna put some onion on there. The hairs from earlier are really down there in the diaphragm. And we’re gonna take some beautiful fennel, love it, nice, crunchy fennel, really underrated vegetable, but boy is it annoying to buy and prep and cook, so if you have a whole culinary production squad, shout-out, get fennel. Nicole will clean and prep any fennel for ya. Put a little bit of flaky salt on there, and then you know what? I’m gonna take some fennel fronds. Yummo, am I right? Garnish with a little bit of fennel frond? ♪ Just ’cause he’s a big oafish god ♪ ♪ Doesn’t mean it’s an excuse to not garnish your food ♪ Boom! Smorrebrod. Where’s my hammer? Avast ye and despair, the mighty god of thunder and also resurrecting goats and also killing Zach Braff, call back to before, has made a three course meal fit for any Asgardian! I almost said Asgardian Leviosa. Let’s eat. Now I am sexy Thor with short modern hair, come to seduce scientist Natalie Portman. Where is Portman? Where is my Portman? Ooh, food. All right. We got the chicken, this beautiful juleand right here, I’m just gonna pour some gravy on that. Ooh, I’m gonna start with my smorrebrod, though. This is a lovely, lovely-looking dish. Mm. It’s part of my DNA to crave cold, dense bread with pickled fish on it, and so for me, this is ideal. You get that duck fat, that kinda cuts through all that fishiness and oily. My hair is so wet, dude. Thor’s hair was always wet when he cut it. The fennel little bit of fennel frond, and the flaky salt and pepper, mm! Move on to my soup course, I’m gonna carve out a little bit of that roasted squash. Ah. What a homey bowl of food this is. I think the squash actually adds something to the split peas in that. That’s tasty. All right, jump into the chicken. Mjolnir! Sorry, I’m so sorry, that was embarrassing for all of us. Dip in the gravy. Why are you laughing? This is the only way I’m gonna roast chicken from now on. Now that’s what I call a feat. A feat fist for the gods. It’s what I call fisting gods. That’s what I call a feast fit for the gods, but hey. Let’s go creep out a fellow coworker. What mighty warrior sits there, and thinks he can best me, Thor, god of thunder and also goats, as previously established? Hey, Davante, what’s up? I don’t know right now. Ah, me neither, man. Here you hold that. We made some really delicious food that is featured in the movie “Thor” in the Marvel universe, except not really, we kinda made it up. Well I haven’t seen the movie anyway, so. Dude, I’ve seen one and a half of them. You a fan of Natalie Portman? I am a fan of Natalie Port- She’s mine. This is a squash soup. I’m Loki. This is called gule aerter. That’s really good. Yeah? Thank you, do you wanna try the smorrebrod? I’ve never had… So this is pickled herring on a really dense Danish rye with some roasted beets and fennel fronds. You have to put it on the spoon, or else it’s not legitimate. This is what I’m worried about. Nah, you got it, you got it. Don’t be worried. There it is, there it is, get there, Davante! Wow, wow, he’s done this before. Better than I thought. Shocked it worked. All right, now this is the best one, this is called juleand. This is, here, I’m just gonna grab the chicken for ya. Then we’re gonna submerge it in the gravy, and then we’re gonna get it on the spork. Wait, where am I? Chicken coming in the hole, man. We really just accost people with food in this damn place. This was really good. Yeah, the soup might be the best part, what’d you think of the smorrebrod? It was pretty good, like I would not have eaten pickled herring on my own. Well you’re glad you did. I’m kinda glad that I did. Now prepare for battle! I’m kidding, Davante, I won’t assault you, I promise not to assault coworkers. I appreciate it. I appreciate you. And I appreciate you all for watching Mythical Kitchen. We got new episodes for ya every week, we got new episodes of our podcast, I don’t know what stance I’m in. We got new episodes of our podcast every Wednesday, I spit a little bit, wherever you get your podcasts. Hit us up on Instagram and TikTok @MythicalKitchen with pictures of your Mythical dishes under #DreamsBecomeFood. Just like John Goodson did, he made a s’more burger, John, what the heck is wrong with you, you depraved son of a biscuit? That’s wild! 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