Homemade Herbal Vinegars

It's a joyous thing to transform produce from the earth into beautiful objects you can also eat! And homemade herbal vinegars are a perfect example. Today I cut herbs fresh from the garden and promptly drowned them in magical herbal mix. Here's how I did it. Simply gather herbs - take…

Bymaggie7 February 20230Comments

Fig and Ginger Jam – A Recipe for Lust

Fig and Ginger Jam is a warm, sensual eating experience. But I wouldn't have said it was an aphrodisiac and definitely not an accidental love potion. Well, not until I did a little research into the symbolism of the ingredients. According to which text you read, figs (Ficus carica) are a powerful symbol of either…

Bymaggie19 March 20220Comments

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Mindful Tomato Relish Making

Today, at the Whangarei Grower's Market, an enormous bag of saucy tomatoes winked at me from the corner of a stall. The humble brown bag was filled with ripe, luscious, and slightly edgy red fruit. Almost every tomato was flawed: scarred, overripe, burst open and damaged. I love a project that can help me be…

Bymaggie14 February 20220Comments

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Gratitude in Action – Making Black Doris Plum Jam

All Plums are under Venus. Culpepper's Complete Herbal This is a recipe for making Black Doris Plum Jam, and it's also a post about gratitude. As the quote from Culpepper notes, plums have very feminine energy and are associated with love and protection. For example, according to Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (1998: P80), branches were…

Bymaggie9 February 20220Comments