How to Eat Bugs Bunny
Buy one rabbit from local Pagan organic homesteader. Do so out of his trunk in a parking garage like some strange drug deal in a movie. Rabbit comes dressed in a big freezer bag.
Bring the kill home in a canvas shopping bag.
Make boyfriend whose totem is Rabbit (or Hare) cut meat off the bones. Poor sod.
Toss larger bones in a pot of water to simmer meat off bones so you can practice wicked witcheries with them at a later date.
In a Dutch oven or a very large ceramic skillet pour some olive oil and put on low heat. Chop onions, a tomato or two and garlic and put them in the pan.
Add a bay leaf or two, rosemary, savory, sage, parsley, ground black pepper and sea salt.
Cook this until onions (etc) are nice and translucent or brown-y or whatever. I like my onions and such to basically disintegrate into the stew by the time it’s done, as I can’t stand their texture but like the taste.
Turn heat up to medium-high and add chopped rabbit meat. Push content in pan around at random with wooden spoon while the dog sits at your feet drooling.… Continue reading
Cooking in the Dark with a Stick
I have never posted a recipe! Why you may ask?
Well, I’m not the kind of girl who buys fancy kinds of mushrooms or puts mango sauce on my chicken, if you know what I mean.
So for the witch on a limited … everything … here’s dinner:
Purchase one tiny BBQ grill on clearance at the end of the season for under $15.
Purchase small bags of BBQ briquettes from the local small mountain town discount store, seems the local manufacturer is clearing stock.
Get a BBQ pan 3 for a dollar at the Safety Mart (small town grocery store)
Buy a cool looking knobby yam, extra virgin olive oil and basil at the Safety Mart.
Get a nice big grilling steak from local butcher and cut it in half to serve two.
Realize when you get home you don’t have any fire-starter.
To get coals going, build tiny kindling fire in the bottom of newly assembled BBQ grill. Then pile charcoal over the flames. This is best done on one side of the grill, confined fires burn hotter and all.
Once coals are cheerfully glowing through sheer force of will and patience, spread them evenly and attempt to… Continue reading
Hallowed Hearth
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” ~ Joseph Campbell
Throughout history the hearth has had a special significance in the home. For ancient cultures, the hearth was the center of the home. Nearly every household in history had a hearth, in one form or another, which was particularly respected by each member of the family, but typically cared for and safeguarded by the household matriarch. The fire had greater meaning than merely the source of light and warmth it symbolized the lifeline of the family and its ancestry.
In Modern days, the kitchen is still a focal point of the home, as is the fireplace. Even the fire pit out in the backyard is still a place around which humanity instinctively congregates. Personally, the sound of the furnace “firing up” is very welcome in my home during winter.
Finding the sacred in your home is as easy as stopping for a minute, and thinking about the sources of heat, warmth, comfort, food and togetherness in your home. This may be the ornamental fireplace, the stove, the fire pit outside, even if you lack all these things, there is still someplace in your home where… Continue reading
Hearth Craft
Hearth Craft
“An rud a nitear sa chuil, thig e dh’ionnsaigh an teine” ~ What’s done in the corner will come to the hearth.
“No matter where I serve my guests, it seems they like the kitchen best” ~ A decorative plate that once hung in my Great Grandmother’s kitchen.
In these modern times, in Western society especially, the home of today is centered on the television. The furniture is placed strategically around it; the couch or sofa faces it and the faces of the family are also turned towards it. Often our most prized family photos, trophies, mementos and the like rest on or near it. Surely if archaeologists one day dig up the bones of our civilization, they will think the television was our God.
But before primetime TV and soaps operas took over our lives, before Nintendo and Xbox, the household and everyone in it would gather around the family stove, and before that, the hearth. The hearth was such in integral part of European (and Colonial) culture that there was no separating hearth and home, fireside and family. In fact, the word for “hearth” in Latin is “focus”.
Hearthcraft is working with the magick and… Continue reading
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