A fun cookbook! I loved the Redwall books growing up so it was neat to see some of these recipes, and I recommend it if your a Redwall fan.

Fun pictures and we enjoyed making some of the dessert recipes, but most of these won't appeal to a typical American child's palate. There are a lot of vegetables featured! =)

This is one of my favorite cookbooks purely because all the recipes are arranged seasonally. I'm also a huge red wall fan, but this is one of the few nerdy cookbooks where I regularly make several of the meals. HOTROOT SOUP TIME

Redwall books aren't complete without the mouth-watering feasts, so a cookbook companion is quite fitting for the series! The recipes are split up into four feasts, one for each season, with desserts and entrees, an appetizer, and a drink for each. Recipes include the perennial favorites October Ale, Summer Strawberry Fizz, Shrimp' n' Hotroot Soup, Deeper' n' Ever Turnip' n' Tater' n' Beetroot Pie, Cheese' n' Onion Hogbake, and Afternoon Scones. All recipes are relatively simple, but quite delicious. What makes this even better is that each season has a story line*, highlighting the preparations for the feast. Many characters make an appearance, but I was especially delighted by Bungo the molebabe: MOST ADORABLE THING EVER. The illustrations that accompany the book are some of my absolute favorites of the entire series.

Very highly recommended if you like the Redwall series. Even if you don't cook, the stories and illustrations still make it a worthwhile!

*It seems like this is set in early Redwall times, as Matthias makes an appearance. I haven't read the original trilogy in a very long time, but some of the other names of characters do sound familiar to the first book as well.

I have long loved the beautiful descriptive passages in this series of books. The chapters describing the Redwall feast were left me hungry. Since the peaceful animals eat only fish, the recipes in this book are vegetarian. Jacques has included wonderful passages about the preparation of the feast including the characters which make the books so enthralling. I may need to order a copy of this for myself.

Oh does this ever exist. I intend to make YAF literature themed cookbooks for the rest of my life...starting with GOSSIP GIRLS!

Definitely will try some of the recipes for sure.

I haven't tried any of these recipes out yet, so don't ask me whether or not they went well. If/when I make some, I'll update the review to include them!

This was a fun little story - and I say story because between recipes there is an adorable little arc about a young sister named Pansy becoming more and more confident as a chef until she is chosen to replace the aging Friar Hugo.

The story is more like four little mini stories with an overarching culmination in Pansy getting the job. There isn't really much of a plot - there's not really much conflict here. They're just meant to facilitate getting to the recipes, which considering this is a cookbook, is fine with me.

The only thing that makes me sad is I know something must have happened to Pansy - either she left or died - because she isn't in Mattimeo.

I bought this for my mom but it would be a great gift for any BJ fan. One of my favorite parts if his books is the descriptiom of the feasts. And the illustrations are so sweet.

After getting through all those agonizingly delicious food descriptions that ALWAYS made me hungry, EVERY time, it's so cool to have a cookbook to go along with it! I tried making a couple recipes with my fiancé and it was fun and delicious. If I had kids, I'm sure they'd love reading Redwall and this would be a super fun way to introduce them into cooking. Honestly, it's introducing me, Queen of Microwaves and Cancer/Diabetes/High Cholesterol/Obesity Inducing Dishes to the scary world of cooking. I don't really cook...

DELICIOUS and easy recipies mentioned in the Redwall novels, of which a main attraction in feast descriptions.

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