Simply Savory: Magical & Medieval Recipes

By Dixie Deerman

This cookbook is a must-have for anyone who wants to make meals that look enticing, smell incredible, and taste delicious — real food that comforts the body and rocks a party! These recipes can keep you slim and won’t break the bank.
Everyone from a young beginner to an experienced cook will appreciate succeeding with these easy-to-follow directions using no-fuss, readily available ingredients.
Beautiful woodcuts and fascinating explanations of the olde origins of these recipes and traditions accompany each category of culinary fun.
Make yourself and loved ones as healthy as folks of yore. Learn what to eat to attract love, recover from illness, conjure cash, create harmony amongst fighting family members, and more! (One fan credits the Spiked Shepherd’s Pie recipe with healing her elderly anorexic father: When he smelled its delicious aroma, he left his death-bed, sat at table, and ate the whole pie at once!)
Discover complete holiday and Sabbat menus featuring themes that impress your guests with the meaning of season! For example, learn how to simmer an enchanting feast medieval-style in a cast-iron cauldron.
Stop fretting about needing funds to buy gifts — find out how to easily transform foodstuffs at hand into presents with a personal touch that people will savor for months on end, thinking of you each time they do!
This cookbook covers everything: Light and chilled to hot and hearty appetizers; elegant entrées, authentic recipes for medieval glogg, delicious drinks, and decadent desserts. Cool and kicky spices replace unhealthy salt, honey or maple drizzle for processed and artificial sweeteners.
Each balanced serving offers alternatives to encourage your own creative approach perfect for vegans to omnivores, aficionados of “hippie-food,” to those who crave fowl and game.
Frying, preparing raw fruit skewers, firing up a smoker, and weaving store-bought breadstick dough into an edible basket centerpiece to fill with a variety of dried fruit — it’s all here!
These simple dishes will make you indispensable and appreciated for your ability to make much from little, and any rare leftovers that may remain resemble catered French cuisine!
Cherish these recipes and keep their tricks your secret if you wish — or better yet, teach your kids, spouse, roommates, or friends how to cook the olde, wise way!
From the author of The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells for Modern Problems; Ask-A-Priestess: Magic Answers & Spells from a Real Witch; and Magical Mentor: Wise Ways To Counsel Anyone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dixie Deerman
• Release date: Oct 23, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301547821

Dixie Deerman

Published Book: The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells For Modern Problems, Sterling Publishing,NY, NY 2005 Available: amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, everywhere Italian translation: Il Libro Degli Incantesmi: Antique Formule Magiche Per Risolvere Problemi Attuali, Milan, Italy E-book: Ask-A-Priestess in color, fully illustrated, author-signed edition at: www.oldenwilde.org Citations in other authors' books: Drawing Down the Moon, Margot Adler, 2006 The Temple of High Witchcraft, Christopher Penczak, 2007 Mystical Dragon Magick, D.J. Conway, 2007 The Living Temple of Witchcraft, Vol. 2, Penczak, 2009 Magazines: NewWitch, Oracle 20/20, The Mystic Buffet Newspapers: Mountain Xpress, The Indie, Asheville Citizen-Times Other web site: www.wiccans.org Numerous activist Witch national and state legal precedents set in the categories of Religious Rights, Public Health, Environment, and Peace (see at: oldenwilde.org Charitable works funded by donation in these categories: Activism Advocacy Divination Education Herbal Home Legal Magical Medical Military Personal Rites For counseling: http://www.oldenwilde.org/oldenwilde/members/pass/consult_lady_passion.html

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Simply Savory:

Magical & Medieval Recipes

Lady Passion (Dixie Deerman)

Published by Coven Oldenwilde at Smashwords

Copyright Lady Passion, 2013.

All rights reserved.

Cover woodcut tinted by Lady Passion.

Smashwords Edition 1.2, May 2013

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Lady Passion, aka Dixie Deerman, has been a public Witch since 1976, and a Registered Nurse since 1988. She is an expert herbalist, and a grandmother thrice over. Lady Passion, 3°, has been High Priestess of Coven Oldenwilde in Asheville, NC since 1994, and is the co-author of The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells For Modern Problems, as well as the author of the e-Books Ask-A-Priestess: Magic Answers & Spells From a Real Witch and Magic Mentor: Witch Ways to Counsel Anyone. See her Smashwords Profile at: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/LadyPassion

CONTENTS

Introduction

Awesome Additions

Monster ‘Taters

Cracked Corn

Veggie, Seed & Nut Blend

Bread Basket

Pecan Stuffing Extraordinaire

Nut Bread Basket Centerpiece

Herbed Bacon Dippin’ Bread

Cauldron Cooking

Full-Meal-In-A-Cauldron

‘Beggar’s Benison’ Meat ‘n Veggie Pie

Nourishing Medieval Beef Tea

Hot Raja Sauce

Chilled Meals

Margarita Gazpacho

Pepper-Ranch Chilled Pasta

Zesty Sunflower Shell Pasta

Creative Casseroles

Beef tips & Mushroom Stroganoff

Potatoes Au Gratin With Ham

Meatball Rigatoni Italiano

Tortilla Mexi-Melt Bake

Strega Lasagna

Spicy Shallot Scalloped Potatoes

Absolut Magic Meatloaf

Porcupine Balls

Crafter's Mac & Cheese

Crock-pot Creations

Mushroom Venison Roast

Smoked Pork & Mushrooms with Cranberry Beans

Spiked Shepherd’s Pie

Bomb-diddy Chili

Supernatural Stew

Decadent Desserts

Chocolate Pecan Honeydew Crumble

Spectacular Strawberry Shortcake

Dark Moon Brownies

Blueberry Hazelnut Puff

Yuletide Eggnog Custard

Elegant Entrées

Maple Syrup & Pecan-Glazed Pork Chops

Pine-nut Pesto Chicken Kiev

Italian Harlequin Kabobs

Spicy Herbed Crab Cakes

Strega Italiano Stuffed Chicken

Enchiladas Apassionata

Garden Veggie & Beef-tip Kabobs

Dutch Baby

Trifecta Pottage

Food Gifts

Chocolate-Dipt Spoons & Stirrers

Herb-Spice Marinades & Oils

Mason Jar S’more Bars

Game Galore

Sizzlin’ Venison Fajitas

Citrus Salsa Game Hens

Venison & BBQ Bean Bake

Luscious Drinks

Raspberry Damiana Liqueur

Flaming Glogg

Champagne Sauvignon Blanc

Shining Punch

Wondrous Wassail

Medieval Mulled Wine

1732 Punch

Dragon’s Blood Cocktail

Super Schnapps

Hot Dr. Pepper With Lemon

Nuts

Fruit, Berries & Nuts Kabobs

Pecan Candy Roll

Fried Mahi-Mahi Almondine

Pizzas

Strega Pizza Pies

Holy Stromboli

Cupcake Mini-pizzas

Sabbat Menus

Samhain

Yule

Imbolc

Ostara

Beltane

Litha

Lammas

Mabon

Salad Suppers

All Elements Salad

Sweet Pea Salad

Hot Ham Linguine Salad

Scrumptious Soups

Minestrone Stone Soup

Hearty Potato Veggie Soup

Noodles Galore Wonton Soup

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Introduction

Pagan frolics featuring communal forest feasts, enticing aromas wafting from bubbling cauldrons luring folks from afar… food was and remains an integral part of the Art Magical.

Food is a malleable art form that affords infinite means of creative expression. It’s a spoke in the Wheel of the Year: Each Sabbat celebration has cuisine correspondences that emphasize each season’s unique bounty. The promise of edible delights motivates us to persevere through difficult days, to land softly amongst loved ones at dusk, and heals us when we’re sick, bone-cold, or weary.

Science and society often play catch-up to what Pagans have known for millennia — most recently, the proof that family bonding is cemented in those who cook and eat together (reference America frozen food company Stouffer’s advertising campaign implying that eating their processed products could reduce drug abuse).

The ability to cook from scratch, for oneself or others, is an important survival skill. Many take pride in being able to make something luscious out of nothing, such as ‘stone soup’. Yet, modernity challenges every cook’s repertoire: Rising food costs, scarcity, irradiation, genetic modification, and ever-changing packaging, preservation, and ways to prepare food keep us off-balance. Stores offer seeming dazzling arrays of choices, but a cursory glance reveals all as full of harmful salt and sugar.

Television shows further frustrate, offering only two extremes — slap-dash personalization of processed foods, or pressuring viewers to use exotic, expensive ingredients. It’s enough to sap all magic from mealtimes!

Wholesome food slow-cooked to comfort, fill, and heal is the way to go. From cooking complete meals in a cauldron, to making your own flavored schnapps, this e-cookbook shows how anyone can make hearty and scrumptious meals that will get rave reviews.

Illustrated with evocative woodcuts, these recipes range from centuries old, to modern takes on perennial favorites — all sure to delight all. No salt recipes and low to no-sugar treats promote goodly digestion and their herb and spice-rich goodliness tastes great!

Cauldron cookery,

Reviews for Simply Savory

[Cheyenne Honza · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Recipes aren't exactly authentic. And I wish better measurements were given. Otherwise, it's a pretty good collection of recipes.