Mustafarian Dinner

If you liked #girldinner, you’ll love #mustafariandinner.  

Of course, we all know the planet Mustafar best from Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi's iconic duel in Revenge of the Sith, but we would do well to remember that there are intelligent lifeforms that actually live on that planet.

Despite the ubiquitous volcanoes and horrendous atmosphere, beings of various species are willing to live on Mustafar to earn a living mining the mineral rich lava reserves. Not to flex my knowledge of deep cut lore or anything, but before the rise of these lava mining ventures, the Techno Union took over the planet and forced the locals to pay rent to continue living on such a lucrative site. I don’t know about you, but I think that forcing the locals, who are already braving incredibly harsh conditions, to pay rent to remain on their own planet is such a bold colonial flex that it’s hard to even be mad with the fiends responsible.

Despite everything that the Mustafarians have to go through, living on a lava planet based on George Lucas’s childhood vision of Hell, I like to imagine that they low-key kind of enjoy it. In fact, my head canon is that Mustafarians like Mustafar so much that they cook meals that bear a visual resemblance to their beloved home planet. If anyone could enjoy living on a lava planet it’s the Mustafarians. Just look at that absolute unit in the first pic on their Wookiepedia page (my apologies if the pic has changed since I added the link). Anyway, back to what I’ve made. Authentic Mustafarian cuisine, consisting of a rocky mound of black rice and a fiery ocean of pumpkin and carrot puree. I won’t even bother giving instructions for making the rice. Just boil it and add a bit of salt, I’m sure you’ll all manage.

Making the puree is also incredibly simple. Begin by chopping and boiling two carrots and half a butternut squash. The butternut can be pealed either before or after boiling (just make sure that you don’t burn yourself if you do it afterwards. We don't need another immolation scene on Mustafar).

And now for the seasoning. I massively over seasoned the puree when I first made it, but like Anakin training Ahsoka, I hope that you will do what I say and not what I do.  

Anyway, here's the ingredients: 

• 2 carrots

• ½ butternut squash/pumpkin 

• 1 teaspoon of garlic powder or minced garlic 

• ½ teaspoon of cayenne pepper 

• 1 teaspoon (not a tablespoon) of ground paprika (smoked paprika if you can get some)

• A pinch of salt (to taste) 

• A grind of pepper (also to taste)

And now for dessert.

For dessert we have layers of jelly representing iconic Jedi lightsaber colours topped with blue Bantha cream. Feel free to add fruit if you like, but I didn’t want to adulterate the colours of the jelly. You'll have to wait for each layer to set before you add the next (the entire process will take many hours but not very much work). I whipped the cream in a stick mixer, but there are probably much better ways to whip it. Just whip some cream in whatever way you normally would and add a couple of drops of blue food colouring (not too much or your digestive system will become as explosive as Mustafar’s numerous volcanoes).

Unfortunately, the poor blue jelly wasn’t incredibly visible between the green and purple, which is especially sad given how ubiquitous a lightsaber colour it is. Hell, Obi-Wan went through three of them on his own (including one picked by Ewan McGregor himself).

And there you have it; Mustafarian dinner. One could argue that it looks just as much like Mordor as it does Mustafar. Or one could go even further and argue that it looks like neither. But imagination is everything, people. This post will now close with some advice from Mustafarian Giggachad.