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the comfort of chili and cornbread





When the weather is cold it's hard to beat the comfort of a hot bowl of chi with cornbread.


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Creme Brulee





I got a culinary torch and learned to make one of my husband's favorites, creme brûlée!


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More of my favorite holiday recipes





Holidays at my house have a focus on food and making the day memorable. I love decorating the house, getting out my prized dinnerware to set the table, and cooking up something special. Here are a few of my favorite holiday recipes.


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Winter on the homestead





When the days are short and the nights are long and cold I take advantage of every dry, sunny hour to get chores done and make sure everyone is fed and happy.


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Yule is also known as the Winter Solstice





Solstices are threshold days. This day has the shortest period of daylight and the longest night. It is a time to gather together, to feast and renew relationships, to strengthen the bonds of friendship and family ties. This is also the time to forgive, a time to abandon the things that did not serve, to make peace with the troubles of the past and to look ahead with hope, each of us aspiring to be better, as we pay homage to the cycle of life.


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Comfort food





These are a few of my favorite cold weather recipes to instill feelings of comfort and cheer.


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The apple galette





This recipe bakes up into a delicious pie/crumble that melts in your mouth.


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Cooking with Quince





Quince is an interesting fruit. As it becomes ripe the fruit exudes a wonderful floral scent. It's unappealing raw but once cooked, the flesh takes on a rosy color and develops a complex tangy-sweetness.


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Some Favorite Holiday recipes





The holidays are a time of gathering together and rejoicing around a table decked out in festive dinnerware and holiday foods.


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The Joy of Baking Bread





I love making homemade bread. The simple ingredients bake into a food that fills the house with a luscious, comforting aroma and makes both family members and guests feel special.


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the generosity of the Blackberry Bramble



Blackberries hold energy for abundance healing, protection, and sweetening





This time of year the blackberry shifts from being a mean thorny bramble into a generous giver of delicious sweet berries. It will still stab you if you aren't careful but the harvest is worth the risk of the thorns.


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Garden Zucchini



Zucchini holds energy to protect health, increase prosperity, deepen spirituality, and empower psychic abilities.





I love growing squash. Once you get a couple of plants started they will produce so abundantly it will quickly become difficult to use up the produce. Read on for some of my favorite way to use zucchini.


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Lemon Blueberry Loaf Recipe



Lemons hold a bright energy to energize, inspire, and cheer while blueberries are fruits of abundance to protect health, draw good luck, and encourage prosperity.





The flavors of lemon and blueberry meld together to create a delicious sweet in this loaf recipe.


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Plums, plums, and more plums



Plums are fruits of love with corresponds for: Abundance, good luck, happiness, healing, and youth.





I picked the last of our plums, and while I really love the plum cake recipe, (look for it in 2024 Llewellyn's Witches Digest) I wanted to make something different. Click here for an out of this world plum cheesecake recipe.


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Homegrown Potatoes





Potatoes are one of the easiest and most rewarding crops to grow for kitchen use. A new potatoes is brimming with flavor that is lost to the store variety.


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It's raspberry season





The long cold spring we had this year affected many of our fruit crops here in the Pacific Northwest. Only about 5 percent of the blossoms on my apples, pear, and persimmon trees set fruit. Which makes it even more delightful that the raspberries came through with a bounty of berries.


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the path to Happiness





are you longing for a fulfilling existence? Shake off that blasé attitude and reclaim you life.


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the art of VISUALIZATION





Creative visualization is the act focusing on an image in the mind to manifest a desired outcome.


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The Wheel of the Year





A year divided by solstices and equinoxes, light and darkness, the time of bounty and the time of want.


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backyard garden witchery publishes july 8





My new book is about to come out! It's being called a natural companion for Kitchen Witchery.


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Chocolate Loaf recipe





I was up at the farmhouse without a car and craving a chocolaty sweet, so I looked at the ingredients on hand and came up with this lovely loaf recipe.


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SPANAKOPITA OR SPINACH PIE





This popular greek dish is a delicious combination of creamy spinach and feta filling and a flaky phyllo curst.


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Beltane or May Day



May 1 cross-quarter day, Earth festival, 2nd Fire festival





Beltane is an ancient spring festival celebration the fertility of nature.


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Book Event with Llewellyn at the PLA conference.





I had my very first in-person signing today and the Portland Conference Center.


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Baking with Einkorn Flour





Einkorn is an ancient wheat. The flour is soft and silky and it has a wonderful flavor that gives baked goods an amazing crumb. I thought I found the perfect substitute to achieve an authentic wheat experience without triggering my autoimmune disease. I was wrong.


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IMBOLC OR CANDLEMAS



February 2 - Cross-quarter day, Earth festivalThe year’s first fire festival






"If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. If Candlemas day clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again."

- E. Holden


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focaccia and fougasse





I came upon an old Julia Child cooking show and learned how to make fougasse!


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Cooking ROots





Turnips, Rutabagas and Parsnips contain nutrients to maintain good health and magickal properties to banish negative energy, repel unwanted quests, and ward your home. While I most often simply chop them and drizzle with olive oil then roast in a 400 degree oven, occasionally I will make them into a fancier dish.


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Brew up some good luck for the new year





New Years and the solstices are threshold days. It is on these days that we can petition the gods to draw good luck through the threshold to infuse the new year. Cultures across the world have devised lucky recipes to draw prosperity and good health. In Germany millet porridge is the dish eaten on New Year’s Day for luck. In Japan the luck drawing dish is made of buckwheat noodles. In the US, sauerkraut, lentils, and black-eyed peas are considered lucky.


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A few of my favorite holiday treats





I love holiday baking. To preface any celebration I almost always spend the days before baking. This Yule's dessert menu will include Banana bread (p134 K.W.) Sweet Cranberry bread, Chocolate flourless cake, almond cake, and a cheese cake. (Recipes in post)


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New Book Alert





I am so excited to announce Backyard Garden Witchery will be publishing July 2022!


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is it dressing or stuffing?





It's name depends upon where you grew up or where your relatives come from, but no matter what it's called, the holidays just wouldn't be complete without a side of dressing or stuffing.


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Happy Thanksgiving!





This harvest celebration is one of my favorite holidays, as loved ones gather together to feast and honor the Earth and her bounty. Blessing to you all!


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The magick of October





Halloween, halloween. Such a spooky time!


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Kitchen Witchery has been nominated for a witchies award!





The 2021 Witchies Award Nominations have been announced and I am so thrilled that Kitchen Witchery was nominated for Outstanding Recipe/Formulary Book of the Year!


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Another Zucchini Recipe





It has been a bountiful squash year. Not only has the garden produced a bounty of pumpkins, but also patty pan, yellow summer, and zucchini.


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WHEN THE GARDEN GIVES YOU PUMPKINS





This year pumpkin was a bumper crop. I've given 8 away and made puree out of 3 and still there are 24 pumpkin out in my yard. It's time for me to find some new ways to cook them up.


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Interview with the well Seasoned Librarian





I had a lovely conversation today with Dean Jones from The Well Seasoned Librarian and I came up with a few more topics I wish we'd talked about...


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Sometimes things get a little squirrelly





Life got a bit more hectic when I adopted 3 orphaned squirrels.


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HAPPY LAMMAS





Aug 1 - Cross-quarter day, Earth festival, Fire festival Lammas is the first of the three autumn harvest festivals in the season of ripening for now our backyard gardens burst with fruit.


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Publishers weekly reviewed Kitchen witchery



pub date august 8





"Many delightful recipes and thumbnail histories of ingredients’ spiritual usages (such as of the seven sacred grains of Europe) make this stand out from similar fare."


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My book Kitchen witchery is available for preorder



pub date august 8





I am so excited to announce that my book Kitchen Witchery can now be preordered!


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Slow cooker sourDough





a broken oven plus a bowl of rising dough forces an unexpected experiment that produces amazing results!


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Fried Chicken ala air fryer





Finding a food way to prepare chicken for a hubby with diet restrictions was a trial until I experimented with my air fryer.


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Chocolate Olive OIl Ice cream





This recipe mixes up into a creamy and decadently chocolate ice cream without the use of an ice cream machine. Milk adds mother-love, energy. The healing energy of olive oil complements a host of intentions from encouraging love and fertility to heightening beauty. While sugar and chocolate sweeten or encourage happiness and affection.


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The Spring Garden





Spring came early this year allowing the vegetable and herb garden to be planted well before May.


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The art of bath magick





For the practitioner of bath magick , or the process of using the energy of water to completely submerge the body and head to clear the body, mind, energy field, and spirit, the tub becomes a sacred place to reset, unwind, and revitalize.


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my bay tree ally





The Bay tree holds a victorious energy that can be used to purify, increase vitality, encourage, psychic development, and even break curses.


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ostara or the spring equinox



March 20 or 21 - a Quarter day, Solar festival





Ostara marks the beginning of the growing period.


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Path to happiness





Are you longing for a more fulfilling existence? Then shake off that blasé attitude and reclaim your life.


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yorkshire pudding or popovers





Popovers, also known as Yorkshire pudding, are recognized across the world as a traditional British dish served with roast.


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happy imbolc



February 2 - Cross-quarter day, Earth festival, The year’s first fire festival





Imbolc, also known as Candlemas, is halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox making it a cross-quarter day on the wheel of the year calendar. Imbolc celebrates the return of life to the world. Now the daylight hours are noticeably growing longer.


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easy and delicious chocolaty seed treats





These chocolaty seed balls are brimming with energy as they are made with some of the world's most amazing superfoods.


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Living A Magickal Life





The roots of Natural Magick reach all the way back past even the oldest religions when life was tied to the land and the seasons, and interacting with the natural world was integrated into every part of life. To stay alive one had to pay attention to the natural world.


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working with nature spirits and faery folk





Many flirt with the idea of a faery encounter seeking out ways to meet one. If you are among their number you might try going to a wild place and seeking out the oldest tree. Sit with your back to its truck and open your mind.


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Experiments with pea protein





After reading enthusiastic accounts of veggie burgers using pea protein I set out to try a few.


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All things magickal





Magick is the art of accessing the hidden powers of the human mind and finding the links that echo through the Universe. For every spellcaster knows that there is a truth that is greater than he can see or comprehend, but that by acting on that which he can understand he may perhaps influence other things associated with it.


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Garden butternut squash





How to cook this winter favorite.


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The Importance of Celebrations





Celebration is part of the human experience. When we put energy into making something special it becomes memorable and strengthens the ties of our clan.


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Garden Rhubarb





A no fuss garden plant with a bright tart flavor and energy for: Celebration, Clear Sight, Fidelity, Health, Inspiration, and Love.


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Happy New Years!





New Year's Day holds the energy of the threshold making it a power time to renew and remake your life into the life you desire.


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Happy Yule!



December 20 to 21 - a Quarter day, Solar festival





The Solstice marks the longest night of the year. Since the dawn of civilization December has been a month of celebration.


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