Thatās my favorite!! Uh, now I want some carrot cake!!
I just make my usual cream cheese frosting and add some cinnamon! You can add it to premade frosting as well, but a few drops of vanilla make it swirl in better when you use a canned frosting! Its PERFECT for carrot cake & spice cake!
I childrenās book I especially love is āStone Soupā, the message is that when people share their resources that everyone has a feast. Such an important lesson! Great ideas!
As my own entry to the challenge, Iāve shared a nostalgic summer meal (enhanced with a little kitchen witchery~ ) in this post here!
Feel free to take a look (especially if you like the taste of fish, zucchini, and/or potatoes!)
Blessed Be to all!
I donāt do a lot of kitchen magic but itās something Iām interested in exploring further!
Me and Connie went foraging for blackberries yesterday and made a blackberry crumble, which we blessed with @SilverBear s chant
Today we picked some mint from the garden mixed them with some berries and put them into ice cube trays which we topped off with moon water this is a lovely ice to use with a gin on a hot afternoon!
In the end I didnāt make the lemon cake (I couldnāt find poppy seeds!), but instead decided to bake some cinnamon cookies Cinnamon has a lot of amazing magical properties, and it also can be used for success! Since I have a couple of very important exams coming up, I figured some success cookies would be perfect
At first I cleansed my kitchen and burned some cinnamon as incense, all the while visualizing my goal and how I would get there
Luckily the cookies turned out well, and my apartment still smells like cinnamon
Thanks again for the challenge, @BryWisteria! I love both cooking/baking as well as spellwork, but Iāve never did actual kitchen magic before
Those look delicious! Great job! I hope you enjoyed them!
I love baking too and cooking, I like to make everything from scratch and with love as my daughter would say. She is a great baker and cake decorator! She loves to work with buttercreams and fondant when her birthday or anyoneās birthday comes around.
Mmm, cookies.
What a fun summer adventure! It sounds like you and Connie had a blast and got some tasty treasures to make a great snack And a very creative use of the moon water ice cubes- I love it!
You are very welcome, @christine4- Iām glad you had fun with the challenge! It looks like you have quite the talent for kitchen witchery- those cookies looks amazing! And yes, Iām sure your kitchen smelt fantastic with all that cinnamony goodness
Wishing you all the best of luck with your upcoming exams- Iām cheering you on, along with your magickal cinnamon success cookies! You can do it!
It sounds like your daughter is a very talented baker as well! Butterdream frosting is my favorite- so rich and delicious!
A gentle reminder to all that the challenge will close tomorrow at 5:00am CET!
For anyone who would like to participate but hasnāt done so already, please jump in with a post about your take on kitchen magick before the deadline
Thanks to all who have participated so far- reading your recipes and seeing your pics makes me so hungry!
Blessed Be!
I donāt cook much but I did make me a salad for lunch today so I got out my Cunninghamās Encyclopedia of Wicca in the Kitchen and looked up my ingredients.
Lettuce was sacred to the god Min in ancient Egypt. He ruled over vegetation of all kinds. Itās good for peace, money, and strangely, celibacy.
Tomatoes are goo for health, money, love and protection. Lonely women once dried tomato seed, wrapped them up in a piece of cloth and wore them around their necks in hope of attracting men.
Carrots are good for one thing, according to the book. Sex. Must be their phallic nature. LOL.
Cabbage is good for protection and money. People used to stick a cabbage leaf to their forehead to ward away evil on Friday the 13th.
Iām not sure what is in my ranch dressing, Iām lazy and buy from the store. But I made my salad with the thoughts of peace and protection in mind. It was good too.
So thatās what I did this week. I really recommend the book I was using if you want to be a kitchen witch, itās over an inch thick and chock full of good information on foods and cooking herbs.
@christine4 The cookies look great! Cinnamon is amazing! One of the oldest-known spices. Ancient Egyptians regarded it as a gift fit for the gods themselves.
And thatās a cute little cauldron youāve got there!
Iām almost late because Iāve been busy! But I still have a lot of Lavender that grows in our back yard:
So I came across this interesting recipe for Herbal Honey with Lavender:
Herbal honeys are profoundly medicinal ā and they taste great. When herbs are infused into honey, the honey absorbs all the water-soluble components of the herb and all the volatiles (essential oils), as well. This yields an excellent extraction of the herbās complex chemistry and preserves it very well.ā
I used:
- Ā¼ cup dried lavender blossoms
- 1 cup raw honey
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Pour the honey over the blossoms and then stir to make sure the honey and blossoms are well-combined.
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Place the jar in a warm spot away from direct sunlight. The top of the fridge is a good, warm spot.
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Allow the honey to infuse for 1-4 weeks, turning the jar over every day to redistribute the blossoms.
I still have to wait so I canāt comment on it! But it looks promising!
7 Ways to use Lavender Honey:
- Stirred into tea
- Slathered over warm gluten-free biscuits
- Drizzled over brie and crackers
- Stirred into yogurt
- Drizzled on fresh fruit
- Externally, it can be used to soothe skin irritations (for example, as a burn salve)
- For skincare, it can also be used to make a clarifying and moisturizing face wash
Goddess @Francisco! That sounds great! What a lovely thing to do for this week, and youāll be enjoying it for a while I think. I bet that would be good on biscuits. Yum!
It sounds like a lovely salad infused with you intention and a lot of care, @Amethyst! I love how you carefully researched every ingredient- thank you for sharing what you found I imagine sticking a cabbage leaf to your forehead will keep away a lot more than just bad luck- a very interesting fun fact!
I hope it tasted as good as it sounds!
Lavender honey is one of my favorite honey flavors- and the flower buds look so lovely while they are soaking in the honey jar! Itās hard to be patient to wait for such a tasty treat, but Iām sure it is going to turn out lovely! And so many ways to use it too Enjoy, @Francisco!
This challenge is now CLOSED!
Thank you to everyone who participated in this weekās challenge! I loved reading about your tasty recipes and seeing some very mouthwatering pictures
There is a Props and Presents post with shout-outs and prizes coming very soon- please keep an eye out in the forums!
It was a simple salad but good. And youāre welcome for the research. There was much more in the book but I didnāt want to copy it word for word, you know? And yeah, Cunningham said a cabbage leaf in the face would ward off a lot of people too. LOL
Looks like Iām late with my posting but I will share anyway! I have an amazing herb garden on my porch that I use for so many things from lemon basil water to most any dish I cook.
Then I have a wonderful bounty from the garden. Zucchini bread will be my next project. I love being in the kitchen coming up with new things from what mother nature gives me!