Challenge Entry One: 
Kitchen Witchery! - Kitchen Witch
I suppose I’ll start from the oldest challenge that I’m missing! I don’t fancy myself a kitchen witch at all. I cook out of necessity and I honestly don’t like it all that much. The food I make is okay – occasionally, it gets words of praise from my family that it tastes amazing. I’ve never really approached food mindfully, when I’m eating or when I’m cooking, and it was never something that was ever taught to me.
Anyway, I decided to be a bit more mindful when I made dinner last night and chose ingredients that would go well with the pork steaks but also that my intuition was guiding me to. So, I ended up using very simple spices: rosemary, salt, garlic, and paprika.
Rosemary: purification, memory, protection
Salt: protection, cleansing
Garlic: repeling negativity
Paprika: boost of energy
I also made fried potatoes and a salad but don’t have any pictures of that. I have a trick for making sure the potatoes are cooked nicely because they always end up either soggy or too crispy when I fry them first. Anyway, I put them in my air fryer first on the French Fry setting. It’s something like 15 minutes at 450F. I shake them about halfway through and then cook them some more. When they’re done in the air fryer, I put them in the pan that the pork was in since those were cooked with butter. It crisped them right up without overcooking them!
It seems that my intuition was guiding me toward a protective meal - either that, I just have more protective herbs and spices in my cabinet than anything else! 