User blog comment:LordTBT/News:Redwall Cooking - Hotroot Soup/@comment-4078511-20130127223605

I worked with three of my siblings to make this once about a year ago, and that in and of itself was a lot of fun. I agree about the spiciness, though--in fact, when I tasted it, I thought this recipe called for too much dairy. It was this sortof milky, leeky thing. With curry powder.

And that works on its own, I think; one day I might make something close to it again. But it just didn't seem like hotroot soup to me, even with the shrimp.

The experience of making it was great, though. This cookbook is a lot of fun, especially for bringing a bit of Redwall into the real world.

Your bowl looks pretty appetizing. ...And your produce is cheap! If memory serves me correctly, we spent close to twenty dollars for our ingredients, but then, we were buying more than we needed of the broth stock and the shrimp.