Crafty Kitchen Witch

1. A quartz crystal placed on or near the stove when cooking makes Food taste better. 2. A pot of basil herb grown in your kitchen keeps the area safe From evil forces and negative spirits. 3. Candles keep their shape better and longer when chilled Thoroughly in the refrigerator. If you put your candles in the Freezer for a few hours...they smoke Much less. If you soak your candles in some salt water...they drip Much less (and you have less wax to scrape off of your altar Cloths!) 4. A witch's kitchen should never be without a lunar calendar or Chart showing the phases of the moon and its movement through the Wheel of the zodiac. 5. A full moon increases extrasensory perception and is the ideal Time to prepare and use potions that increase the psychic abilities. 6. Love phiters and aphrodisiacs should always be prepared during The waxing of the moon. 7. The best time to plant an herb or vegetable gardens when the moon Is in Cancer, Scorpio, Libra or Pisces. 8...

Kitchen ABC's   A lways stir in a clockwise motion   B efore you chop veggies, offer thanks   C ut mindfully, gratefully   D o all preparations in a loving spirit   E nergize food with good thoughts   F east gratefully   G ive and share what you can spare   H ome and hearth are sacred   I nvoke blessings of God and Goddess on all food   J oin hands with friends often   K indness shows in serving food   L ove goes into every dish   M indfully gather ingredients   N o wasting - recycle, compost, feed animals   O pen your senses, enjoy your surroundings   P lay as well as work   Q uench thirst, thinking of clear clean rivers   R esolve to be grateful and waste not   S alivate as you smell fragrance and anticipate flavors   T hank the Universe and God & Goddess for health   U se utensils carefully, then clean up   V alue time spent ...

Colours Through visualization or the colour of the food itself, you can bring the energy of colour into your kitchen magick.  Hold your hands over the food and visualize the particular colour energy you need radiating into the food, much the same way that you would bless or charge the ingredients when preparing a meal.  You might wish to plan a menu based around a particular colour to incorporate more of its energy into your life, and you can also use combinations of colour, for example red tomatoes served with a green spinach salad for growing fortitude.   Another way to work with colours in kitchen witchery is to choose the colours of your dishes, serving platters, napkins, tablecloths, and other kitchen items with magickal intention, depending on the energy or mood you wish to invoke. Colour and Food Correspondences Red   strength, courage, vitality, fire  beets, radishes, red cabbage, watercress, spinach, meat, cayenne pepper, tomatoes, strawberr...

Cooking with the Sun and Moon From the eternal dance of the seasons Through each waxing and waning moon, To follow the Goddess is to walk The path of the sensual As well as the spiritual... For the body and the soul are one And both must be considered when Thinking about nourishment.   ~ Karri Ann Allrich   Excerpt from Cooking by Moonlight by Karri Ann Allrich, (c) Llewellyn Worldwide. Although any time is the right time for magick if your attitude is good, consider making certain foods during specific times to help the energy along.  This is a very old custom.  Even a hundred years ago people might bake bread or make beer when the moon was full so it would rise or ferment properly, for example. It won't always be possible to make a meal at the time specified for the results desired, but you can prepare a dish ahead at the "right" time and then freeze, can, preserve, or refrigerate it until you need it.  Remember to label these foods with t...