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Tonight I made the enchiladas suizas (chicken enchiladas with spicy tomatillo sauce) which were recently featured on the new ATK season. They looked sooooo good on the show, so I was really excited to try them...but I found them to just be okay. The sauce was really good and so was the chicken, but somehow it didn't come together in the final dish for me.

I thought the instructions were sorta strange too. The recipe was pretty simple, but made a lot of dishes, and the whole assembly and baking steps were so different to other enchilada recipes I've made. For example, ATK's ground beef enchiladas call for brushing the tortillas with oil and baking them all at once, but here you fry them individually in a 1/3 cup oil in a skillet, which you then use to bake the enchiladas in. But it also calls for a hot oven and dirtying a sheet pan, so the other method would have worked. I also found it strange how none of the sauce or cheese are mixed in with the chicken, and how little of the sauce is added to the dish while baking. I had to add more than it called for so it didn't look like they'd dry out in the oven.

So I was surprised when I went on the website to check out others' opinions to see nothing but glowing comments, and that it's a Staff Pick. Guess everyone has to be the tenth dentist at some point!

I'm replaying OoT right now, and I had this stray thought that winters must really suck for the Kokiri...which made me wonder how the Zora deal with the winter...which made me think wait, does Hyrule even have winters?

I'm trying to recall any times we've seen Hyrule in any seasons other than "late spring/early summer", or even had other seasons referenced at all, and I'm coming up short. All I can think of is the autumnal trees in Akkala (which seem to just be their regular colors) and the Frozen Hyrule stage in FSA (which may be unnatural? been awhile since I played it). Then of course there's Oracle of Seasons, but that game doesn't take place in Hyrule. Can anyone else think of anything? Edited to add: The fishing hole in TP! Totally forgot about it...

There's some evidence pointing away from Hyrule having regular seasons actually, like how when it becomes The Great Sea, the climate seems to be sub-tropical, with palm trees found across the whole map (Interestingly, Windfall Island has pine trees instead?)

There's also the presence of the Gerudo Desert to the west of Hyrule. Now obviously this is a magical fantasy world, but in real life most deserts form within a certain range of the equator, so Hyrule must be as well. And seasonal differences become less and less as you approach the equator, so...

I always wonder if anyone on the Zelda team has ever thought of these things, lol. Maybe not, but it is kind of surprising that Hyrule has existed as a fictional world for 40 years now and yet it's never been portrayed in fall or winter.

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Is there any evidence that Hyrule experiences the typical seasons?