One of the easiest and most heartwarming recipes for a kitchen witch, soups! Their recipes are easily manipulated to suit your intention, plus they’re perfect for the upcoming winter!
Basic Ingredients:
- Carrots, Onions, Celery. These are the holy trinity. I also like to add garlic, potatoes, tomatoes, and others.
- vegetable/chicken broth and/or water.
- many recipes call for crushed tomatoes. I like diced, and can find them canned in any grocery store, but it’s up to you!
- (Optional) beans or lentils (if you buy dried lentils, cook them beforehand)
- (Optional) meat–sausage, beef, chicken. Cook before adding to the soup please!
Directions:
1. Cut up vegetables and sautee them in a big pot for about eight minutes. This is to soften them up and sweeten up the onions. Don’t add herbs yet!
2. If you bought canned beans, drain and rinse them. If you want thicker broth, you can crush up a can of beans into a paste and add them to the broth, or even throw them into a blender.
3. Set pot aside. Add tomatoes, beans, meat, broth. Bring to a boil, then let simmer for 20-30 minutes. Add any herbs you wish.
Common Vegetables:
Carrots - sex (with parsley for best results), fertility
Cabbage - lunar food, protection, wealth, prosperity, luck
Onions - protection, purification, healing, exorcism, wealth
Celery - sex, peace, psychic powers, mental strength
Beans - wealth, sex, protection
Potato - protection, compassion
Mushrooms - psychic powers, strength
Common Herbs:
Thyme - love, psychic powers, purification
Basil - love, protection, money, exorcism
Rosemary - protection, consciousness, memory, healing, love
Parsley - protection, sex, love, wealth
Dill - wealth, love, consciousness, studying, luck
Bay - protection, psychic powers, healing, purification, strength
Garlic - protection, healing, strength, psychic powers, exorcism
Ginger - love, wealth, strength, success
Black Pepper - protection, purification, exorcism
Salt - purification, protection, healing
Most herbs are not put into the broth until the broth is simmering, to prevent burning. The exception to this rule is bay, which is put in at the beginning. BEWARE of pepper! The longer the pepper cooks in the soup, the spicier the soup will be!
IF YOU’RE ADDING MEAT:
- Do not cut your vegetables with the same knife you cut meat with.
- Cook meat beforehand, but remember that it’ll be cooking in the broth for a time afterwards, or be careful not to overcook.
- Most meat is diced into half-an-inch-squares.
Other Tips:
- Stir clockwise to create, counter-clockwise to take away.
- You can carve sigils into some vegetable slices.
- Cook with a crystal near your pot to boost a spell’s effectiveness.
- Fire and water are prominent elements here! Draw upon their power.
And that’s it!! Have a lovely winter full of great company and nourishing meals!
**if there are any additions feel free to add, and if there are any corrections, message me! :)
Fun things to do in the garden in the spring!
Yeet that weed onto the compost pile (and miss)
Curse at a slug
Yeet the slug
Feel icky, rub fingers into the dirt
Admire tiny seedlings
Tell them you love them
Long to eat produce that will grow in 4-5 months
Get hungry thinking about all the food you’re going to get
Dig out a root to bring home for soup
Fun thing to do in the garden in the summer
Panic because everything is out of control
Scold the plants for overproducing everything at once because now you have to can all day to preserve it
Snack on everything
Take pretty pretty pictures
Give a stern glare to the pests you don’t have time to pick off
Complain about heavy bags of produce, even tho you love it and you’re so proud you grew it all
Cozy mornings 🍂
If you know someone with a garden be their best friend. Tomatoes are always given away. These friends sometimes sell but at prices you can afford for good veggies. Buy a crockpot. Roast chicken in crockpot. Eat delicious chicken, majority of it. Add water to whats left and veggies and let it go all day. Got chicken soup. Add noodles at end before eating or you get a gloopy mess. 10 bucks for something a couple can at minimum eat for three days. I freeze extras for lazy days when cooking sounds awful.
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