Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake

It looks great and it appears easy too

Homemade Peanut Butter Candy

Valentine’s Cheer

Chocolate Martini Ingredients 3/4 cup half-and-half or light cream 8 ounces dark chocolate liqueur (1 cup) 2 ounces vodka (1/4 cup) Ice cubes Directions In a pitcher, stir together the half-and-half or light cream, chocolate liqueur, and vodka. Place ice cubes in a martini shaker. Add liqueur mixture; shake. Strain mixture into four … Continue reading Valentine’s Cheer

Lamb Pot Pie With Saffron Pastry

I like pots pies this time of year, they are a great comfort food and these look yummy.

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Pot pies are such wonderful comfort food, chicken or beef or vegetables, they are all good. A savory pie with flaky pastry and a thick rich filling is a mealtime favorite. For a little creative touch I infused the water for the pastry with a generous pinch of saffron; The lamb stew is full of tender chunks of lamb, onion, carrot, parsnip, sweet potato and peas and the flaky saffron infused pastry is delicious when combined with the stew. This recipe made 4 small but deep pot pies. I used 2 small ramekins and 2 small coquettes.

The pies are delicious, baking them you can smell the fragrant saffron and lamb stew, it’s wonderful and the saffron in the pastry is subtle but you know it’s there. I am bringing these little gems to a party, I pretty much start my weekend on Thursday because I must go to Throwback Thursday…

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Imbolc

Awesome post

Magickal Connections

The following blog post is a short excerpt from my book:
The Spiritual Feminist

Imbolc
(February 2)

The Goddess celebrates renewed fertility, fertility of body, mind, and spirit. Seeds are sown now for future harvests; the bricks and mortar of new paths and new adventures are laid. The Goddess is reborn as her younger self, the Maiden, and it is her strength and power and sinewy young muscle that we imbue ourselves with, so as to have the strength and endurance to fulfill our life journey.

This is also a festival of the Celtic goddess, Bride, so beloved by the people of the old world that the Roman Church couldn’t eradicate her. Instead, they made her a saint, Saint Brigit. In Celtic lore, the Old Woman of Winter (the Cailleach) was reborn as Bride, the Young Maiden of Spring. It’s this image that is most nostaligic in my mind, from the…

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