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Every time we have the pesto egg honey grilled cheese for dinner I think “eh this isn’t going to be as good as I remember it being” but it is

[dykemind]

drop that recipe ma’am

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Breakfast Grilled Cheese with Soft Scrambled Eggs and Pesto.

Soft scrambled eggs, fontina cheese, and basil pesto all sandwiched together between two slices of sourdough bread, then pan cooked and fini

its too good for its own good

[bloomingnova]

The summer solstice is almost here! And I want to share with everyone one of my favorite cookie recipes that is perfect for this time of year. They are soft, chewy, and full of honey goodness! 🍯🍪💛

[bloomingnova]

Perfect Bread:

I absolutely love this recipe! The bread is soft, and is perfect for sandwiches, French toast, and pretty much everything you can think of. I don’t want to buy bread from the store ever again!

6 Cups all-purpose flour

2 ½ Cups very warm water

2 Tbsp. Active dry yeast

2 Tbsp. Sugar

1 tsp. Salt

1 Tbsp. Butter

Combine warm water, yeast, and sugar and let sit until the surface is foamy (If it’s doesn’t foam, the yeast doesn’t work).

When yeast is activated, add 3 cups of the flour, the salt, and the butter. Mix until thoroughly combined, about 2 minutes.

Once mixture is smooth, add the remaining 3 cups of flour. I recommend folding the flour in until fairly combined before kneading.

Once combined, knead dough for 6-8 minutes in a stand mixer, or 8-10 minutes by hand.

Form dough into a ball, cover with plastic wrap or a cloth, and let rise for 45 minutes.

Cut dough into 2-3 equal pieces and place into a buttered bread pan, and brush melted butter (or olive oil). Allow to rise in the loaf pans for an additional 10-15 minutes. (🍞 Tip: Use a small knife to make a slit longways across the bread to prevent splitting along the side of the bread.)

Bake bread in a 375°F oven for 30 minutes uncovered, and and additional 10 minutes covered in foil to prevent excess browning.

Makes 2-3 loaves of bread.

[aesthete-witch]

Warming Autumn Soup

My all time favorite season is just around the corner, so I figured with all these soup recipes floating around that I’d post my own! I make this all the time when it’s cold, and the leftovers are amazing too. Feel free to adjust the ingredients to your liking.

Ingredients:

2 cups of water

2 cups of chicken stock

2 cans of cream of chicken

¾ Cup of milk 

3 Bay leaves

1 tablespoon of pepper

1 tablespoon salt

1 Tablespoon Rosemary

1 Tablespoon Basil

1 Tablespoon Oregano

1 Tablespoon Sage

You can substitute the above ingredients with dried herbs/seasonings or just use 2 tablespoons of italian seasoning

1 Cup of carrots cut into circles

2 cups of yellow or red (or both) potatoes

½ Cup of green beans

½ Cup of corn

4 cloves of diced garlic

½ cup of diced onions

2 large chicken breasts cut up into bite size pieces

Steps:

First cook the chicken pieces until they’re white both inside and out! You do this by boiling it, cooking it in a pan, baking, however you want! Feel free to season it a bit if you want to add more flavor to the meat, but it’s not required at this step!

While the chicken is cooking (I usually boil or Pan cook my chicken) go ahead and prepare your vegetables. Since this is a witchy stew, I like to ground myself and think happy thoughts while I’m doing this step. I always wish for whoever I’m making this soup for enjoys it and feels great afterwards. If you have those little bento veggie cutter shapes this would be a great time to use them!

Once this is done, get a large pot ready and put it on the stove at high heat. Go ahead and add in your water, herbs, chicken stock, veggies, seasonings, and cooked chicken, then cover with a lid. You could cook the chicken at this part, but I just like to cook if beforehand because you can never be too careful when cooking chicken. Beef is okay rare and stuff, but poultry HAS to be cooked all the way through or you could easily get sick. Stir occasionally.

Now you can just sit here and chill, maybe say a chant if you’d like while you wait for the veggies to cook. This should take about 20-25 minutes for them all to be cooked through. Honestly this is my favorite part because the house just smells amazing while it’s all cooking. 

Once it’s done turn the heat down to low-medium and wait for it to stop boiling before you add in your cream of chicken and milk. I do this part last because any other time I add it these two ingredients in it always turns out with the milk curdling or getting weird. 

I add in the cream of chicken to give it a little extra thickness. 1 can for semi-thickness and 2 for super good thickness. Add in however much you like. Now just sit there and put it on low completely with the lid on, stirring occasionally, until it’s all mixed in and nice and thick.

And tada! It’s done and now you have some delicious soup for the chilly days and nights. when Autumn rolls around this year I’m gonna try and make some homemade bread to go with it. If I do I’ll post or link the recipe on this blog.

I hope you enjoyed this recipe.

(Updated and changed a few things cuz it’s been up for about 2 years now)

[irllisa]

strawberry juice 🍓

ingredients:

- 8 frozen strawberries

- 2 tbsp of honey

- 2 tbsp of lemon juice

- 4 cups of water

- mint leaves

- ice

instructions:

boil the water in a medium pot! when the water starts to boil add six of the frozen strawberries

let them boil for about ten minutes, then remove the strawberries with a fork! add honey to the strawberry water and let it sit for about 2 minutes

strain any strawberry bits out of ur juice (that part is completely optional) and then pour it into a cup/jar! add lemon juice and two frozen strawberries and let it chill in the fridge for a few hours

remove the strawberries, replace them with ice, and garnish with lemon slices and fresh or frozen strawberries and mint leaves!

most important step: take pictures and send them to me or reblog them onto this post!!

[theashcraftcoven-blog]

Moon Spell Cookies Ingredients: • 1 cup of finely grated almonds (optional) • 1 ¼ cups of flour • ¼ cup of confectioner’s sugar • ¼ cup of butter • 1 egg yolk Directions: 1. Combine almonds, flour, and sugar. 2. Work in butter and egg yolk until well blended. 3. Set it in the fridge until chilled. 4. Roll into crescent moon shapes or use a cookie cutter. 5. Place on greased cookie sheet and bake at 320 degrees Fahrenheit (160 degrees Celsius) for 20 minutes. Spells for: Love - Add a few pinches of rosemary, sweet basil, cinnamon, and honey. Prosperity - Add cinnamon, nutmeg, basil, and grated lemon peel. Protection - Add cloves, rosemary, anise, and cinnamon. Psychic Ability - Add star anise, nutmeg, orange, and thyme.

[theladymorganlefay]

**Reminder that "smudging" is part of a closed practice. Please call it smoke cleansing.

[kitchenwitchtingss-deactivated2]

hi angel! I'm very in love with peaches right now and I was wondering if you had any recipes that included them? if not don't worry😊 have a wonderful day dear

Hi! I happen to LOVE peaches! Hmmm, I do have quite a lot, alright, what about a peach cobbler? 

WITCHY SKILLET PEACH CRUMBLE 

For The Filling

6 skinned and sliced peaches

1/3 cup granulated sugar

3 tbsp brown sugar

1 tsp nutmeg

Pinch of salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tbsp cornstarch

2 tsp lemon juice

For The Topping

1 ¼ cup flour

¾ brown sugar

pinch of salt

½ tsp cinnamon

½ cup melted butter

1/8 cup buttermilk

Directions:

Over medium heat, combine your filling ingredients in a large skillet. Mix until all the ingredients are melded together before taking off the heat.

In a separate bowl mix your flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt together. Add in melted butter and buttermilk. Combine with your hands until it forms a crumble. If it is too liquidly simply add more flour. Spread the crumble on in an even layer.

Put the skillet in the oven for 50 minutes on 350 F. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Hope this helps!

[the-witch-queen]

Fried Honey Cakes

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for Beltane

1/2 cup sweet white wine

2 tablespoons sugar

1 egg

1 cup honey

2/3 cup flour

1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

1/8 teaspoon cinnamon

Oil for frying

1/8 teaspoon salt

Beat the wine and egg in a medium bowl. Combine the flour, cinnamon, salt & sugar in a small bowl. Stir into the egg mixture. Let stand 30 minutes. Combine the honey & nutmeg in a small bowl. Heat 1/2-inch of the oil in a frying pan until hot, but not smoking. Drop the batter into the oil 1 tablespoon at a time; fry until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Dip into the honey.

Yield: 1 ½ Dozen

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These cakes are similar to ones women in the past would make the night before Beltane. If you practice faerie magick you may want to put some outside with a bowl of honey milk sprinkled with flowers or sweet herbs. This recipe is much like one my mother used when I was a child when she would make fry bread, minus the wine. If you find it's too sweet for you, 'flitter bread' was another favorite of mine, she made it with leftover dough from making biscuits in the morning by frying the dough instead of baking it. We would then dip the warm bread in a mix of butter and honey. I'm sure it's not a healthy food but it's so delicious.

[diioonysus]

GREEK GODS/GODDESSES WITH TXT POSTS

ZEUS: “I guess we all learned a valuable lesson, except for me, I wasn’t paying attention and was asleep for most of the time”

POSEIDON: “do you want salt with your answer”

HERA: “just found out the world doesn’t revolve around me. Shocked & upset”

ATHENA: “my kink is when people admit I’m right”

APOLLO: “i’m a brat??? okay and??? I know??? next argument???”

ARTEMIS: “i want that dog” “you want every dog”

APHRODITE: “hey just wanted to let you know, I’m beautiful, thank you and goodnight”

HERMES: “you’re kind of annoying” “kind of? kind of?? excuse me. excuse you. I am fully annoying. i am very annoying. there’s nothing half-assed half-hearted  “kind of” about it”   

HADES: “occupation: the family disappointment”

ARES: “sure, I made mistakes when I was younger. But now that I’m older I’ve learned how to make different, often far more serious mistakes”

DIONYSUS: “i’m dropping hints that I’m not fine”

HESTIA: “there’s so much caffeine running through my body right now. It’s like having a cockfight with my anxiety”  

DEMETER: “im sick of being a person. im going go into the woods lay down in the dirt and become a geological feature. and none of you are powerful enough to stop me”

IRIS: “defending myself: oh yeah?? well i got five words for you buddy: please be nice to me”

EOS: “have you ever met someone that was sunshine in human form”

HEBE: “what the fuckaroni”

HEPHAESTUS: “you can’t offend me. I lack emotion”

HEKATE: “it’s only forbidden if you’re a fucking coward”

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Historically Sacred Items/Offerings to each of the Ouranic Theoi! I made this for my Hellenic polytheism group on discord, so I thought I’d share this information with all of you as well.

All information has been taken from theoi.com as well as various historical books on the gods, and I have decided to make this powerpoint so that other people don’t have to sift through all the pdfs and books themselves.

Make sure to click each image to get a fullview! Ευχαριστώ!

[dawn-delocksley]

Made some memes to appease my Classics 40 TA

[grimoireofthevillagewitch]

I'd like to try and put out some offerings for Dionysus, Hades, Hecate and Persephone. Can someone help me?

[hellenicpolytheistteen]

For Dionysus Grapes, Wine, Bread, Honey, Snake/Bull/Panther images, Amethyst, Red Jasper, Orange Tormaline, Ylang Ylang Incense, Styrax incense. Im not sure about the others

[hynpos]

Ariadne, rescued from the island where Theseus left her, wed Dionysus and was immortalized as the goddess of Crete, labyrinths, and fertility

[godsofhumanity]

[witchingandbitchin]

Credit:

ig: Mysticalmoon_lunemystique

-credit to the creator-

[witchescollection]

Are there any good books about witchcraft and other related stuff?

Some of these may be controversial, but I found them interesting (& some useful):

Everyday Witchcraft: Making Time for Spirit in a Too-Busy World (by Deborah Blake) - Good book to help engage with the spirit all the time, rather than just on holidays. 

Wicca (by Harmony Nice) - Views on Wicca (and basic introduction to Divination, Astrology and Correspondences) 

Norse Mythology (by Neil Gaiman)* - The Story of the Norse Gods

The Gospel of Loki (by Joanne M. Harris)* - The Story of the Norse Gods told from Loki’s perspective.

The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic (by Christopher Dell) - A historical and factual look at the different types of magic.

Wicca & Witchcraft For Dummies (by Diane Smith) - An introductory book to Wicca and Witchcraft - set out like a textbook. 

Majority of my resources come from online, so I figured I’d link a few here:

A Bad Witch’s Blog

The Hoodwitch Blog

The Travelling Witch Blog

The Poetic Edda*

The Prose Edda*

@lokeanwelcomingcommittee‘s blog on Tumblr*

*Norse Witchcraft related