Write about your muses favorite food. Describe a complete dinner from their point of view.To start with, it would be vegetarian. I used to eat meat, indeed for quite some time in Beleriand, particularly after my brothers and I lived in Ossiriand after the Nirnaeth, we relied entirely on hunting game for our sustenance. But when you've spent decades eating small animals you've shot or trapped yourself, cooked over an inadequate campfire and eaten in the rain, it tends to be rather off-putting. Nowadays, I don't really like meat at all, so I just don't bother with it.
One thing I never really learned how to do, was cook (aside from those campfire meals). I had a wealthy and priviledged upbringing, and while my mother did most of the cooking for the family, there were also servants, who would cater for the parties and gatherings that my parents hosted. So I never had to cook at home, it was always done for me.
Later, after losing a hand, well. Have you ever tried cutting and preparing food with one hand? It's next to impossible. So again, most of the time I was left with little choice but either allow someone else to prepare it, or eat it with as little preparation as possible.
Now, living in the Seventh Age, I find things considerably easier, though my skills are still limited to the freezer-to-microwave cuisine. I'm a scavenger by nature when it comes to food - perhaps a remnant of those days of poverty and near-starvation, so I will often just raid the 'fridge for whatever is there. Cheese, bread, salad, raw vegetables, pasta, leftover pizza, cold potatoes, fruit. Anything I can just pile on a plate and eat with my fingers. I'm not fond of highly spiced food either. Plain and simple is always best.
Of course there has to be dessert. A rich chocolate cake.
maedhros // Silmarillion