Episode 416 - Scribbly Gum
Release Date: March 13, 2022 |
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Running Time: 115 min |
It’s Autumn in Australia and you’re a Scribbly Gum moth, looking for the best places to lay your eggs. Behold the mighty eucalyptus! Lots of shelter for for your larvae as they burrow between the layers of bark, old and new. They’ll dig back and forth growing and moulting until the time comes to munch their way to daylight. When the old bark falls away, their scribbles tell a story on every tree.
Scribbly Gum is a flip and write game. Each turn a movement tile is flipped and players direct their larvae by drawing paths through the layers of tree bark, hoping to gather food to complete meals. After three rounds of twisting and turning paths, the most well fed moths will emerge the winner!
Listen in to explore the game and take a fun side trip with our resident entymologist, Lucio Rodriguez, to learn more about the Scribbly Gum moth.
ALSO FEATURED IN THIS EPISODE...
A quadruple sized Meal segment featuring four recipes paired with four game recommendations, including contributions from Doug, Stephen, Lucio (The First Airbender) and Paco from GMS Magazine and So Play We All.
Scribbly Gum
Designer: Phil Walker-Harding
Artist: Meredith Walker-Harding
Publisher: Joey Games | BGG Entry
1 or more players 10 minutes ages 6+ MSRP $35 AUD ($32USD)
Time to teach/learn: 2-3 minutes
Scribbly Gum Moths
Thanks to Lucio Rodriguez, our resident entymologist!
Check out his new show The First Airbender.
The Meal
Thanks to Lucio Rodriguez and Paco Garcia-Reed Jaen for playing along and sending us a delicious set of recipes! Check out Paco's work at GMS Magazine and his YouTube Channel So Play We All.
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Stephen | Recipe: Baked Chicken Parm | Game: Ready Set Spaghetti
Recipe: Baked Chicken Parm
Prep Time: 30-40 mins | Cook Time: 15-25 mins | Servings: 8 cutlets
Ingredients
4 chicken breasts
bread crumbs
flour
condensed milk
paprika
salt
pepper
parmesan cheese
oregano
basil
olive oil & garlic (sliced) (if crisping up in the pan
Directions
Pound flat
Three step breading - seasoned flour, condensed milk, breadcrumbs with herbs
Refrigerate overnight
Place on baking sheet
Bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes, depending on thickness
For crispier parm there’s one more step
Heat up olive oil and garlic in a pan.
Brown each fillet quickly in the pan and sprinkle with parmesan
If you’re doing it without crisping in the pan, sprinkle parm and maybe even some mozzarella while they bake.
Serve with spaghetti and a nice red sauce doctored to your taste
The Game: Ready, Set Spaghetti | BGG Entry
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Doug | Recipe: Coccoi e Corcoriga | Game: Delicious
Coccoi e Corcoriga
Delicious | Pencil First Games | BGG Entry
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Lucio | Recipe: Torta | Game: Roco Ranger
Torta w/ Flank Steak
Prep Time: 10-15 mins | Cook Time: 15-20 mins | Servings: 4 + leftovers
Ingredients
Bolillo or Telera rolls, halved
1-2 pounds of Flank steak
Worcestershire (Wu-stuh-shur) sauce
Mayonnaise
Butter
Avocado
Tomato
American cheese slices (Kraft singles)
Grill pan (preferred, not required)
Directions
Grill the flank steak, splashing both sides with Worcestershire sauce until medium rare to medium. Chop into quarter-inch pieces. If using a grill pan, don’t clean the pan, set it aside to use later.
Cut avocado into thin slices (1-2 mm).
Cut quarter-inch slices of tomato.
Inside the roll, put a thin layer of mayonnaise on both sides. Pile on the chopped flank steak (I do at least a half inch of meat, basically what I can just get to balance on the bread). Top this with an American cheese slice. Next put on a layer of tomato, followed by a layer of avocado slices. Close the sandwich, add a thin layer of butter on the top of the roll—place this side onto your grill pan. Press down on sandwich, 30-60 seconds—doesn’t need to be constant pressure, but we do want to crisp the bread and flatten the sandwich. Butter the bottom side of the roll before flipping. Grill the other side as above, again applying some pressure.
Roco Ranger | Rolling Rhino Gamese | BGG Entry
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Paco | Recipe : Broccomole | Game: Nakum
Recipe: Broccomole
Watch Paco make Broccomole here!
The Game: Nakum | Eclipse Editorial | BGG Entry
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Apropos of Nothing
Aftershow
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Interstitial music credits include:
Scribbly Gum Smokehouse by Desmond Cheese | the song
Scribbly Gum Suites by Nigel Helyer
A Moth and A Flame by Georgia Gibbs | the song
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