You Know How I . . .

. . . Always have virtual lembas for my virtual birthday parties?

Well these people claim they have an Elven Lembas recipe. So I'm going to try it out. I can't resist. Some of their recipes are just hokey ('Merry's Chai Tea' or something like that) but a few of the mushroom dishes sound good. . . . And 'Rosie's Shire Pie' sounds definitely yummy.

I should start planning my birthday menu. Hey, I also found a shrimp 'n' hotroot soup recipe online. Anybody else read the Redwall books and come away with an intense desire to try the stuff? Here's the recipe, found on this great website, which has just about every Redwall recipe you ever craved, including 'Unny Moles and Mint Pancakes and Abbot Durral's cake . . .

Hotroot SoupIngredients:
3 pounds watershrimp (shrimp) cooked,shelled, and deveined
Salt
Freshly ground pepper
3 tablespoons bacon fat
Hotroot powder mix (a tiny bit of cayenne pepper, 1/4 teaspoon chili powder and 1/2 teaspoon arrowroot)
1/2 onion, chopped
4 cups sliced okra
1/2 cup chopped sweet red pepper
1 1/2 cups chopped fresh or canned tomatoes
2 teaspoons basil, crumbled
1 cup cooked rice

Procedure (by Ruddle) Boil watershrimps. Melt bacon fat in large skillet and brown watershrimps lightly. Remove from pan and set aside. Add onion, okra, hotroot powder mix, and pepper and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly for five minutes. Stir in tomatoes, basil, and three cups of boiling water. Mix in watershrimps and about a teaspoon of salt. Cover and simmer 30-40 minutes. Add cooked rice, mix well, and cook 5 more minutes to heat through. WARNING: this otter recipe is very spicy!! Serves 4.