#Redwall cookbook

[rose-of-redwall]

My partner and I made Hare's Pawspring Vegetable Soup and Crispy Cheese'n'Onion Hogbake from The Redwall Cookbook! Served with buttered sourdough bread, sautéed mushrooms, and hot mint tea.

We wanted to make stuffed mushrooms, which I believe are also in the cookbook, but it was too much for one day.

I wasn't sure how the hogbake would turn out, but it was really delicious! I also really loved the shredded cabbage and the string beans in the soup.

This food was so yummy, I enjoyed it so much!!! I'm working on learning how to cook this year, so some meals can feel really intimidating to make. The recipes in this cookbook are wonderful, though. Because they're aimed for kids, they don't feel hard to make. They're straightforward and still very delicious and rich in taste.

Plus, I felt like I was spending time in Redwall making these recipes. In a way, it felt familiar. The Redwall books never miss an opportunity to praise the importance and beauty of food, and they are right. Cooking this meal was really special :) Plus plus- I didn't realize this beforehand, but they're all vegetarian!

Thank you for reading ♥️

[crossroadsdimension]

[id: eight scones sit cooling on a cooling rack, positioned on a greenish marble counter. Behind them is a toaster and a portion of a Kitchen Mixer stand, which is partially out of frame.]

I wasn't kidding about the Redwall cookbook, btw. I made these scones last summer by following one of the book's recipes to the letter. First time making scones and they turned out so well. They're pumpkin spice flavored!

I'm tempted to make something again in a few weekends, now that I think about it....

[thelastspeecher]

Shrimp 'n' hotroot soup in the Redwall books: described as basically the spiciest thing ever, so much it causes characters to have tears streaming down their faces

Shrimp 'n' hotroot soup in the official Redwall cookbook:

Contains one (1) teaspoon of curry powder or chili powder and that's it

[Image descriptions: First is a picture of most of the shrimp 'n' hotroot soup recipe, including all the ingredients. Second is zoomed in on one ingredient in the list, reading "1 teaspoon curry powder or chili powder, or to taste"]

[bisexualbaker]

BTW, Tumblrites, I need you to know in case you didn't already:

There is a Redwall cookbook. It's a hybrid picture book with illustrations and Redwall-verse snippets to go with each recipe.

You're welcome.

[balaenabooks]

Happy Mole Interest Monday, folks! I don't have my Redwall books on hand today, but I do have the official Redwall Cookbook, and here are two recipes to help everyone really get into the spirit of the holiday. Recipes and moles under the cut. The measurements and temps use the American system.

Vegetable Casserole à la Formole

Ingredients:

Unsalted butter, for the casserole dish

4 large potatoes, scrubbed and sliced

4 medium carrots, peeled and sliced

1 turnip or 1/2 a rutabaga, peeled and diced

I cup vegetable stock

Salt and pepper, to taste

3/4 cup breadcrumbs, preferably whole wheat

2 cups (4 oz) grated sharp cheddar cheese

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a large casserole dish with butter.

Arrange the vegetables in alternate layers in the dish, beginning and ending with potatoes.

Pour the stock over the vegetables and season with salt and pepper.

Cover with a lid or foil and bake for 1 and a half hours.

In a bowl, mix together the breadcrumbs and cheese and sprinkle them on top of the casserole.

Return the dish to the oven and bake, uncovered, until the topping is crisp and starting to brown, 10 to 15 more minutes.

Mole's Favorite Deeper'n'Ever Turnip'n'Tater'n'Beetroot Pie

Ingredients:

I lb (3 medium) potatoes, peeled and chopped

Salt, to taste

1/2 pound (4 medium) carrots, peeled and chopped

1/2 pound turnips or rutabaga, peeled and chopped

6 tbs unsalted butter

Pepper, to taste

I cup (2 oz) grated cheddar cheese (or any favorite hard cheese)

(Optional) Crisp green salad, for serving

(Optional) picked beets, for serving

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Place the potatoes in a saucepan, cover with water and a pinch of salt. Place carrots and turnips or rutabaga in another saucepan, cover with water and add a pinch of salt. Boil all the vegetables until soft, 10 to 15 minutes.

Drain the vegetables separately, then return them to their pans and add half the butter to each pan. Mash the vegetables until they are smooth and season them with salt and pepper.

In a deep casserole dish, spread alternating layers of the mashed vegetables, starting with the carrot mixture and finishing with a layer of potato. Roughen the top with a fork.

Sprinkle cheese on top and bake on the top shelf until the cheese is bubbling, about 15 minutes.

Serve with a crisp green salad and pickled beets if desired.

And here are the moles, as promised.

[rose-of-redwall]

It looks beautiful <3 did you find it to be spicy enough?

Shrimp and Hotroot Soup

I’ve made the soup three times throughout my life, each with a different recipe, but this time is right from the Redwall Cookbook (plus chives and garlic).

[outeremissary]

Gotta say, Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen has been all hits and no misses with actually making the recipes so far. I don't expect much from recipes in cooking spinoffs but this has worked pretty well and I've consistently had tasty food that came out as expected. I think sometimes the directions are a little sparse for preparation/process, but the chapters recipes are drawn from are accurate enough to process that going back and looking at what characters are doing has cleared up my questions every time I've had them. Not a bad way to get some stuff that's hearty and easy to make at home. Excited to make more from the volume in the future!

[katzish]

What is your Hogwarts house?

i don’t have one i didn’t like the books as a kid, i was obsessed with redwall tho

[herbirdglitter]

Look here’s the thing,

I started dressing historically because it makes me feel good and I started listening to sea shanties because of Dani Banner’s instagram story and I got into fashion history in general because of Bernadette Banner but actually,

Actually I grew up reading every single Redwall book more times than I can count and actually probably my love of sea shanties comes from that and I probably like the historical vibes because of Redwal and my room is decorated as close to a fantasy cottage in the woods as I can get it because of Redwall and I love the renaissance fair probably because of redwall and wouldn’t you know it, I love cooking and all my cookbooks are medical fantasy cookbooks and WHY DO THINK THAT IS??

I bought a bunch of knives at the ren faire, all to stop myself buying a custom made sword of Martin because that would be really really bad for my wallet

And when I think about it, everything I believe about people, how it’s important to stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves, those people being just as valuable as the people who defend them, I learned that as a child, from Redwall.

Anyway I’m starting to think Redwall may have affected me

[rose-of-redwall]

This is so beautiful

Cooking my way through the winter section of the Redwall Cookbook! First up, Shrimp n’ Hotroot Stew, just like the otters make. I made some changes to the recipe because it is written for children and therefore has almost no seasoning. Turned out tasty!

[thelastspeecher]

In regards to the Gravity Falls cookbook that we're now -both- manifesting: I was looking at the food page of the gf wiki and realized that there's not much in the way of non-commercial processed foods featured in gf. So... I guess what would you do as a take on Baron Num Nums High Flyin' Beans?

I think the best route to go would be a bean-based dish. Possibly framing it in the cookbook as being a recipe that is on the can of beans, like how chocolate chip packages have chocolate chip cookie recipes on them. Could even have Ford say something about how his "research partner" loved it when he made this recipe back when they were working on the portal, but he never told McGucket that he just got the recipe from the can of beans.

Maybe the title of the dish would be something along the lines of "Baron Num Nums High Flyin' Bean Dish".

To get into specifics for the dish, the classic option would be some sort of baked bean recipe. But a LOT of novelty cookbooks have recipes for baked beans. A more original (and thus more fun!) option would be a calico bean recipe.

Also, I think calico beans are tastier than baked beans anyways!

[canisalbus]

I have the redwall cookbook and it unironically has amazing recipes

- There's a cook book?

- Of course there's a Redwall cook book, of course, of course.

[caffeinatedbasil]

unfortunately everyone who says Jason read warrior cats is wrong—the first books didnt come out until 2003. Jason was reading Redwall. He read all 22 books and has signed copies and made Alfred cook the recipes from the cookbook. Damian for sure read warrior cats tho

[honey-badgers-library]

OMG ANOTHER REDWALL FAN! HERE IS A LINK TO A COPY OF THE REDWALL COOKBOOK!

hobbies include: close reading the Redwall series to answer my most burning questions. such as:

- can I replicate any of these delicious-sounding foodstuffs and would they in fact be delicious if I was able to

- corollary to the above: are we just supposed to read “oat cream” and “nut cheese” every time we see the words “cream” and “cheese”? I think so. bc if not, what tha hell are their livestock animals

- what is Society like? I don’t think we ever see a Mouse City or even Mouse Town though we do see castles and obviously an abbey. are we supposed to believe that most creatures are either in wandering bands or these societies based around a single structure (castle/abbey?)

- they appear to have an idea of what currency is (the bad guys always want treasure — maybe just to have, not to sell? but less ambiguous is some dialogue I just read, “acorn for your thoughts?” “you can have them for free”) but again, we never see anyone using money or making goods for the market. is this after the fall of Mouse Capitalism? are the bad guys (the idea of rat pirates gives me a headache, vis a vis the political/economic systems needed to power piracy) raiding preindustrial mouse societies for treasure/meat?

- corollary to the above: the abbey creatures have oats and wheat but we don’t see anybody farming or trading for farm goods on a large enough scale. is the abbey “orchard” really a like an indigenous forest farm of mixed foodstuffs? is that possible if you live in the same place the whole year or only if you travel each season? I have to do some googling

- both the lack of mixed-species families and the idea of mixed-species families give me a headache. has a squirrel never fallen for a handsome otter? what is the culture shock like if you marry into a subterranean mole family?

- this is the least “important” question but this read through I’ve been desperately trying to figure out What Size Everything Else Is. i’ve come to the conclusion that everything other than animals are at mouse scale, given that they can make seaworthy vessels their own size (a mouse sized vessel with real-world-sized waves seems impossible) and pick and eat apples and plums. but so far it seems like they’ve avoided mentioning how tall trees are — like a person compared to a tree or a mouse compared to a tree?

[samwisethewitch]

👀 would you ever publish a cookbook by chance?

I would absolutely publish a cookbook! Cooking is one of my favorite hobbies and I love collecting new cookbooks to try recipes from.

I'm actually currently writing a cookbook based on my spouse's homebrew Dungeons & Dragons setting. Basically, any time our characters are in a new part of the world I ask them a bunch of questions about 1.) the ecology, bioregion, and native plant and animal species (they have canon answers to this because my baby is on some Tolkien level worldbuilding) and 2.) the culture(s) present in the area and their food traditions. Then, I create recipes based on those answers so I can serve food at sessions that mirrors what our characters are eating in the game. The cookbook draft is on a shared Google Drive for all our players, so everyone has access to the recipes.

I'd absolutely be down to share some of those recipes here, but I worry they won't be as cool to people who haven't been playing an ongoing campaign in this fictional world for 5+ years.

In the meantime, if you want more recipes for food that tastes like what I post on here, here are some of the cookbooks I use most often:

An Unexpected Cookbook: The Unofficial Book of Hobbit Cookery by Chris-Rachael Oseland (my favorite cookbook ever, everything I've made from it is delicious)

The Redwall Cookbook by Brian Jacques (100% vegetarian! And has more simple, kid-friendly recipes I can make with my nephews)

The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook edited by Sara Roahen and John T. Edge (THE BEST collection of regional cuisine from the Southeastern USA. If you aren't from here, your tastes may vary, but I can testify that the recipes are authentic and delicious. The brisket recipe I make for my Christian and Jewish family at our Easter/Passover/Spring Equinox gathering is from this book and is approved by my beef farmer in-laws.)

Chez Helene Cookbook: A collection of New Orleans family recipes by Ellen Chenevert Herry (Picked this up on my most recent trip to NOLA and I like to whip it out whenever I miss the city. I adjust the recipes based on cooking tips from my friends in Louisiana.)

Happy cooking!

[msmargaretmurry]

for christmas @hopetorun got me the redwall cookbook and today my friends and i made all the recipes in the winter section and had a feast fit for abbey mice :)))