#redwallaugust

[mymainisacook]

Foodies and fandoms collide to recreate dishes from beloved fantasy literature

Some fellow bloggers got interviewed for an awesome article about nerdy food! 

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For Redwall August I made The Abbot’s Cake: greensap milk sponge, honeyed cream and ginger poached apples, all wrapped in sweet marchpane!

RECIPE HERE.

Please be sure to check out all the other amazing recipes made for Redwall August over at Fiction Food Cafe! August isn’t over yet... why not make a Redwall item too? Just be sure to use hashtag RedwallAugust!

[mymainisacook]

I hope you’re ready for a new recipe tomorrow, but I’m also here to talk about some other exciting things that are going on!

Some fellow food blogs have been putting together monthly link-ups and we now have many more planned through the next year! I’m so excited! 

What is a link-up, you ask? A link-up is a fun way for multiple blogs, or even readers to contribute to a themed event! For our purposes, we are creating a food link-up each month, where anyone who makes a food from the monthly theme (while the link-ups the different blogs will be hosting are food specific, you can use the tags for the month to show off other creations related to the theme!) Simply make your recipe (and make sure to give credit if it is not your original take on something) and add it to the post where the link-up is hosted! 

This month was #RedwallAugust and you can see the delicious list of contributors here!~ Next month is #PokeNom and info about that can be found here! I may not personally be able to contribute ever single month, but I would like to try, and as soon as the pages for each month goes live I will be sharing info for them here so you guys can participate as well!

[fictionfood]

Mouse Ear Headbands for the Redwall series by Brian Jacques

I made a slew of these headbands for a Redwall-themed picnic this Summer :).

Materials: Felt (I found large folded bundles at Michael's) Hot glue  Headbands (I got mine from the Dollar Store) Card stock sheet

Instructions: Make a figure '8' template from card stock by folding the card stock, tracing a cup mouth on the fold (letting just a little bit of the cup go over the fold), and then cutting out the shape.

Next, fold a bit of the felt over itself to the width of the template, and then hold the template in place while cutting the felt around it; making two identical felt '8s' for two ears.

Folding one '8' around the headband at a time, position it where you want it (in symmetrical relation to where the second ear will go—you don't want them to be too close or too far apart), and put a little bit of hot glue on the band and press the base of the felt ear in place.

Spread a thin amount of glue on the inside center of the back half of the ear and press both sides together.

Put a thin trail of glue along the inner edge of the felt to hold the edges together.

Lastly, put a dab of hot glue on the outside bottom corner of the ear nearest the center of the band, and then quickly fold over just a bit of the edge (see photo) to give the ear a more realistic mouse look. Hold in place until secure.

Repeat the glueing steps for the opposite ear.

Glue on fabric flowers if you’d like :).

[fictionfood]

Squirrelmum’s Blackberry & Apple Cake

From The Redwall Cookbook by Brian Jacques, with beautiful illustrations by Christopher Denise.

Recipe here.

Click here for the #RedwallAugust recipe link-up!

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Share your love of Brian Jacques’ Redwall series across social media with the hashtag #RedwallAugust! 

Post recipes, fond memories, quotes, photos of your books, etc.. If you make a recipe, share it on the Redwall August Feast Link-Up!

[fictionfood]

#RedwallAugust is live, y’all! For the whole month of August, spread the Redwall love by sharing photos, fond memories, quotes, crafts, FOOD, etc. across social media with the hashtag #REDWALLAUGUST!

If you post any Redwall-inspired recipes (either original or from another source with proper credit) feel free to add them to the Redwall Feast Link-Up!

The Redwall series by Brian Jacques is a twenty-two novel, three storybook (including a story cookbook!), one graphic novel collection published between 1989 - 2011 chronicling the struggles and successes (and FOOD) of woodland creatures in a medieval setting. There is also a three season animated series that ran from 1999 - 2000.

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Across the internet, Redwallers far and wide will be making and baking enough creations for a full abbey feast, and tagging them on social media as #RedwallAugust.

I’m here to spread the word, if a little bit late. I encourage all of you to visit the event post on Fiction Food Café by clicking the photo above. And tomorrow, get involved! Make something delicious and share it with us all.

Happy cooking!