Sweet Potatoe Yule Cake (Makes Pan Happy)

Ingredients:
- 300 gr. flour;
- 125 grams of sugar;
- 1 sweet potatoe, around 150-200 grams, boiled, peeled and mashed;
- 1/2 carrot, grated;
- the peel of half a lemon, grated;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 glass of milk;
- 5 cardamom seeds, powdered;
- 1 cinnamon stick (around 10 grams), powdered;
- A spoonful of powdered ginger – you can use [...]

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Little Bits Of Life & Craft

I finally finished the restoration of the mannequin that Fernando found in the trash several months ago. Most of the hair had to be resculpted with air-dry clay, plaster and craft glue and repainted, and the face got a complete repaint to give the skin a more natural colour and take off all the hideous [...]

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Herbal Cookies Recipe

Ingredients For Around 35-40 Cookies:
- 150 grams (1/3 pound) of butter, at room temperature;
- 1 egg, at room temperature;
- 150 grams (1/3 pound) of sugar, white or brown;
- Baking soda, two teaspoons;
- 250 grams (a bit more than 1/2 pound) of flour of your choice;
- the rind of half an orange, grated or cut in [...]

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Peach Delights

Yesterday, Fernando’s father came with a motherload of ripe peaches from their crops – as usual, following our no-waste policy, we started deciding what to do with them before they got spoiled. Here you have the first two recipes:
Peach Jam

- 4 cups of peaches, peeled and cut in dices;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 1/2 glass [...]

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Witching And Cooking: Homemade Dog Treats

My sister’s dog, a gorgeous and super-happy black cocker named Hamlet, has been very ill due to hemolytic anemia. I wanted to make some “auntie’s treats” for him now that he his back home and recovering after being several days at a vet hospital, so I researched online and of course called one of my [...]

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First Cake Of Autumn: Orange And Carrot Cake With Mint Flowers

This is a very simple cake recipe that came out of a “I have nothing in the kitchen and STILL I’m going to bake” day (LOL). The minced fresh mint really adds a very special flavour to the cake – I collected the flowers yesterday and they were not enough to prepare tea mixes, so [...]

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Witching, Recycling And Offering

My husband went on a wildharvesting trip yesterday (I could not go due to the place being hard to reach – I cannot climb rocks and jump over stuff as he does lol) through the valley next to his parent’s house in the mountains of Anaga. Besides bringing the delicious organic vegetables from his parent’s [...]

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Medicinal Candy Rocks Recipe

These candy rocks can be eaten as a small treats, or added as a sweetener for your tea or coffee. Properties: stimulating, antioxidant, sedative, and are specially good for people with low blood pressure (like me) that tend to faint or feel dizzy after physical effort or during menstruation.

Ingredients (makes about a hundred pieces, in [...]

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Medicinal Syrup Recipe

This is a very simple syrup that anyone can prepare, so I’m sharing the recipe today for if anyone would like to try!
Its properties are many: it is revitalizing, analgesic, sedative, antipyretic, stimulates digestive mobility, and it is very high in antioxidants.
Ingredients:
- The same amount of water and brown sugar; syrups are usually made using [...]

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Busy Baking Weekend

I haven’t had much time for crafting this weekend as one of the owners of the Tea Bar where I make my Tarot readings asked me if I could make a big order of my orange-and-spices cookies to take to his other job (he works in a bank). For me, being a full-time crafter also [...]

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