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Originally Posted by eowyntje
I find it hard to believe hobbits were vegetarian, but of course you're free to create great vegetarian hobbit recepies.
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Well of course! Hobbits love gardening. That's just something that they do. I doubt very much that they slather all of their fresh produce with chicken-stock.
And what growing zone, do you think, the Shire would be? I should know an approximate one (having worked in a greenhouse last summer and grown up in gardens)... but I've forgotten. If the hobbits grow cabbages and mushrooms and apples and carrots and the like, they must be quite near to my zone, which would mean they'd be able to grow all of my favorite berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and blackcaps...), as well as squash, pumpkins (which we saw used in the very end of the RotK movie in the Dragon), pears and peaches, peppers, onions, garlic, tomatos, turnips, the occasional melon or plum depending on the season's conditions, grapes (ah yes, the wineyards)...
Which of these, though, would they actually have? Certainly I'm seeing little hobbit children lured to the kitchens by the smell of a baking apple crisp or something very equivilent, but would the hobbits have a fancy for sweet potato pie or carrot cake? Zucchini bread... now that's just heaven right there.
Sautèd red peppers with tomatos and onions? Fabulous. I can see it.