Today is the day! The Fallout: The Vault Dweller’s Official Cookbook is officially out and ready for the world to enjoy. This is my first book and I am overjoyed! The past 6 years of work and each of you readers here on Pixelated Provisions have gotten me here. Thank you so much!
When I began working on the Fallout: The Vault Dweller’s Official Cookbook, I took a deep dive into researching the franchise. I’ve played three games from the series on PC and one on my phone but I wanted to cover all the food the series had to offer. My husband and I looked at all the food items found throughout the series and began linking them to recipe concepts for the book. Many of the recipes in the book ended up as everyday recipes with some kind of twist to them. Since the Fallout Universe is both like a time period we’ve moved past and a weird future we are headed towards, I wanted everything to feel familiar but not 100% certain. This book really pushed me to expand my spice pantry and to compliment flavors I would not have typically combined. I actually found a lot of inspiration for the recipes in a series of old cookbooks from the 1950s that my parents had lying around the house. Since Fallout loves to use the 1950s aesthetic, these books really helped me establish the presentation style I wanted to combine with the wasteland feel of the Fallout series.
A few of my favorite recipes in the book include the poached angler, radscorpion en croute, radgull power noodles, and mole rat wonder meat dip. Each of these recipes makes it to my dinner table at least once a month. I also think these recipes are a wonderful place to start if you are just starting out in the kitchen. You’ll impress all your friends!
Writing and photographing a book was a whole new experience for me. Prior to this project, my primary experience was working on one or two recipes on a weekend for my blog and that was very maintainable. For this project, I had to concept, test, cook, and photograph 70+ recipes in about 2 months. At first I was a little worried about finishing everything, but I was able to set up a schedule that worked well for me. I set aside a week in December where I ran through a majority of the final cooking and photography that I needed to get done. With an army of hungry friends eager to help, I was able to get through all the recipes and have taste testers throughout the whole process. My husband was a little sad that he had to share but even he can only eat so much food. Even my corgi Kanji got a whole roasted leg of lamb due to a small miscalculation. Don’t worry, it wasn’t all at once!
This evening at 7:30 pm CDT I will be on Twitch continuing my playthrough of Fallout 4 and answering any questions about the book. Come join me and let’s talk about all the treats found in the wasteland.
If you get your copy of the book, make sure to let me know what you think! You can find the book at your favorite bookstores today!
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My mother and I put together your Tato Soup for some folks in senior housing and it was a big hit! However, I was wondering if the “browning sauce” in the Nuka-Cola recipe was the home-made thin caramel syrup or something more like Gravy Master or Kitchen Bouquet to play with the singled-out spices?
I’m happy you all are enjoying it. 😀
For the browning sauce I just used a Kitchen Bouquet Browning Sauce.
I just learnt about this book. Such a neat idea. I can now have some poached angler whilst blasting away at some Raiders! Well done!
The best way to travel through the wasteland. 😀
I saw a pre-order ad on Facebook for this and couldn’t help but laugh, even though I’m a fan of the Fallout games. Unbeknownst to me, my lovely wife decided to properly look into it, took a risk and bought it for my birthday a couple of weeks ago.
How wrong I was to scoff at this book; it is marvelous! The recipes are all amazing; I’ll try them at least once. The meatballs are tasty, the pot pie is delicious, the slow-cooked yao-gui is amazing and the mystery meat stew is just to die for!
This book is incredible; well done for such a great project; you have captured the culinary delights of the Wasteland perfectly. I look forward to making my way through it, one meal at a time!
Very well done indeed; thank you!
I am so happy to hear you are enjoying it! 😀
I got the book for Christmas, and it’s amazing… I made the Brahmin and Vegetable Roast soup for the family, and what a delight! Every last drop and morsel of that soup was eaten, such rich flavours and interesting vegetables; can’t wait to make it again but have to plan ahead for that one…! The Radstag Stew was also a hit… Thinking I’ll do something a bit easier next time, maybe the Saddle Up Salisbury Steak or the Poached Angler… 🙂 love love love the book, well done!
I’m so happy to hear you are enjoying the book! Hope you continue to use it and you continue to enjoy each recipe. 😀
I love this book! It’s one of my favorite cookbooks to be honest, even if you remove the fallout theme it’s almost like a 50s cookbook with a focus on flavor that’s absent from some books of that era.
I honestly love the level of complexity in the recipes in it, and the photographs (I’m assuming they’re yours?) are super wonderful.
I hope you get the chance to make another cookbook, because it has absolutely made an awesome impact on my life.
Some of my favorites:
Blamco Mac and Cheese
Baked Bloatfly
Hi! my son and i love fallout. so your book really makes us want it. we are belgian (french speaking) and we cant find the book translated into french … we are a little sad but we do not lose hope that it will be the case sooner or later. in the meantime, I’m trying to translate the recipes offered on your blog, and try them!! 😊😊😊
Oh that is unfortunate that the book hasn’t been translated into French. It might be worth contacting Insight Editions and seeing if they have any future plans to do that. That is great to hear that you are translating the recipes on the site and making them at home. Good luck in the kitchen! 🙂
I want to make the Fire Belly (Hot Toddy) and I need your help. How much is: 1 strip orange peel, 1 strip lime peel, 2 slices fresh peeled ginger. I’m not sure what a “strip” would equate to and ginger comes in a variety of sizes so I need to know how much ginger is needed.
Appreciate your help.
So glad I found your site this morning. Getting ready to make the Radgull curry for my sons Birthday.
I gave him this cookbook for Christmas, I wanted to say Thank you. Its his first cookbook. I have been trying to get him more interested in cooking. and this was the ticket. We are both huge Fallout fans.. Our first recipe was Rad gumdrops. We had to sub Gran Marnier for orange extract , extracts have disappeared from from stores since pandemic hit. They were fantastic..
Duck is thawing and Sam is downloading Fallout to his screaming new PC , and I got the Xbox fired up for the same. Thanks again. Oscar