Roasted Butternut Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting (or not)
These days there can be very little difference between a muffin and a cupcake. Bran and Oatmeal has given way to Banana Chocolate Chip and Blueberry Coffeecake Crumble. This offering swings both ways. Served plain with butter and honey for breakfast or topped with a maple cream cheese frosting for a special fall occasion. It uses precooked […]
Continue readingSweet Dreams Remedy
I so want to call this a potion but unfortunately it is not a liquid. It is however something you can whip up in your kitchen with healing intentions. Tomorrow is a full moon and a super blood moon lunar eclipse to boot. If you are someone who looses sleep at the full moon or […]
Continue readingFresh Corn and Red Pepper Cakes
If anyone is waiting on this weekend (2016) to celebrate Mabon together with the full moon, here is a quick fresh corn pancake recipe that can be made larger for meals or smaller, as I have done here for sharing with friends. This full moon is also known as Harvest Moon. Farmers could work well into […]
Continue readingDark and Light Meringues
As equinox approaches, eggs always seem to me a good yardstick ingredient. In days past this would be the start and finish times for egg laying as most chickens need twelve hours of sunlight to produce eggs in rhythm with nature. Additionally I think, the light at this time of the year has a special feel to […]
Continue readingFresh Corn Soup with Crispy Salami
In European cultures, the word “korn” refers to all grains not just what we call corn in North America today. From the harvest comes the tradition of corn dollies and the story of John Barleycorn, making it very appropriate for corn, in some form, to be on a Mabon festival table. It can be a […]
Continue readingPear and Pecan Loaf
Pears trees can live a very long time and so in Chinese traditions, the pear is linked to immortality. It is also connected to partings as the word for separation and pear is the same and is the source of the custom of not sharing pears with others. The tale of Prometheus links golden pears (sometimes […]
Continue readingQuick & Easy Summer Pickles
The other day, I was invited to a delicious dinner that included Ice Cream Bucket Pickles. Thank you ladies. I had never heard of them before but I really liked their fresh crispy texture. They are a non processed bread and butter pickle made from fresh cucumbers and onion slices that are allowed to mellow in the […]
Continue readingZucchini Bean Chocolate Cake (Yes! you read it right)
Many gluten free cakes benefit from being chocolate as the extra flavouring helps to cover the taste of the substitute flours. This cake does not even pretend. It goes the alternate ingredient route with beans that add moisture, substance and disappear into the batter just like the zucchini does. I added a cube of my frozen blackberry […]
Continue readingNo Flour Chocolate Cake
I could tell lovely stories of dark chocolate cake uses for symbolizing lightless Winter Solstice nights but really, if you like chocolate cake, you are good to go any time of the year and since this one has half a dozen eggs in it, it would be more than a bit of a stretch to suggest this harkens […]
Continue readingApple Cinnamon Rolls with Rum Soaked Raisins and Cream Cheese Glaze
I can feel the cooler temperatures in the breeze today and for me, it is such a relief to experience the drop of air pressure that says fall is on its way here. The last of the seasonal fruits are getting ready for harvest, grapes, plums, pears and of course, apples. Mabon is coming and […]
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