Nina and the Redwall Feast

[osprey_archer]

A very successful trip to the grocery store! I got clementines (yay!) and adorable holiday slippers, which are intended to infuse my apartment with holiday cheer, as I am far too lethargic about decorating to cheerify it otherwise.

Although I did buy a Christmas ornament, which hangs off the curlicues on my headboard and cheerifies the room! At the Nutcracker there was a table of ornaments, and after much dithering (do I want a mouse with a sword? A Nutcracker ornament? An ornament which is just the top half of a Nutcracker, which is kind of creepy really?) I got a ballerina in a pale blue tutu.

"I will call her Nina," I thought - after Nina in Black Swan - and then I thought naming one of my Christmas ornaments after Nina was perhaps a bad idea - but alas, the name had stuck already.

***

I also had dinner out tonight with a couple of friends. "You know what we should cook?" I said. "A Redwall feast."

(The Redwall books are replete with descriptions of food. Wheels of cheese, delicious trout, seed cakes, goodness knows what else...are there tarts? I want there to be tarts.)

Everyone liked this idea. Redwall feast next Friday! If it actually goes through, I will come back bearing photographs.

"We could make literary meals a thing next term," Rick said thoughtfully.

"Harry Potter feast?" I suggested. But we agreed that in fact, the Harry Potter food doesn't lend itself to a feast. A dessert-tasting, maybe. A full dinner? No. "A Lord of the Rings dinner!" I said.

"But you couldn't do all the Lord of the Rings food in one night," said Rick.

"We'd do it, night after night," I replied. "It would be...a Ring cycle."

Comments

[goldjadeocean.livejournal.com]

Do any of you have the Redwall cookbook?

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I was unaware of the existence of a Redwall cookbook! But it looks like the local library has a copy.

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

I kind of want the Redwall cookbook now, even though it will probably make me wonder again where the hell a bunch of mice get all those dairy products. Redwall's worldbuilding does not bear close scrutiny....

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Let's not even get into how badgers, rabbits and mice all fit into the same Abbey!

Also, clearly cows donate the milk. The badgers milk them. They're tall enough, right? If they really stretch? Or it could be goat milk. Goats are a lot smaller. :p

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I have the Redwall cookbook! The forest creatures were mad Redwall fans. It's a great cookbook ^_^

Take pictures of your feast and tell me how it goes! And if you want, I can send you a recipe list and any recipes from the cookbook that you want to make.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I think the local library has it, so I don't need the whole recipe list. But as you've made some of the recipes, are there any you would recommend?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The shrimp and hot root soup is delicious--we loved that--and the grilled leeks are nice. There's a preponderance of desserts in the book, not all of which we've tried, but all of which look yummy.