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Ingredients: 1/2 cup Butter 1/2 cup Sugar 1/2 cup Brown Sugar 1/3 cup Buttermilk 2 teas. Baking powder 2 Eggs 1 teas Vanilla 2 cups Flour 1/2 teas Apple pie spice 1/2 teas Salt 2 cups Apples Diced
Directions: Preheat oven 325. Grease pan 9 x 5x3. Beat Butter and combine sugars Add buttermilk and baking powder. Add eggs and Vanilla Add Flour spice and salt Toss Apples in a bit of flower and hand stir in Apples. Sprinkle with topping:
Topping: 1/4 cup Brown sugar 1/2 teas Cinnamon # Tables. Flour 2 Tables Butter Directions: Mix and sprinkle on top Bake for 60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean
Filling ingredients: 1/4 cup sugar 3 tbsp flour 1/2 tsp cinnamon 6 cups blackberries, picked over, rinsed and drained
Directions: Preheat oven to 425. For the filling, in a large bowl, mix together the
sugar, flour, and cinnamon. Add the blackberries and toss to coat. Pour
the berry mixture into a 2 quart baking dish.
Prepare the
topping, and drop the dough by rounded tablespoons over the berries to
cover. Place the baking dish on a cookie sheet to catch any drips, and
place baking dish in oven. Bake for 16-18 minutes, or until filling is
bubbly and the topping is nicely browned and is no longer doughy.
Topping ingredients: 1-1/2 cups unbleached flour 1/2 cup cornmeal, either blue or yellow 3 tbsp sugar 1 tbsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 4 tbsp cold butter, cut into small pieces 1-1/2 cups heavy cream Directions:
In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking
powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the butter pieces, and rub the butter
and flour together with your fingers until no lumps of butter remain.
Add the cream and stir until a dough forms.
Ingredients: 2 cups sugar 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar 3/4 cup butter 2/3 cup evaporated milk 1/2 cup canned pumpkin 1 1/2-2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice 1 (12 ounce) package white chocolate chips 1 (7 ounce) jar marshmallow creme 1 cup chopped pecans 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Directions: 1. In a heavy saucepan, combine the first 6 ingredients; heat over medium heat until sugar dissolves, stirring frequently. 2. Continue heating until mixture begins to boil, stirring constantly. 3. Continue boiling until candy thermometer reaches soft-ball stage (234-243 degrees). 4. Remove pan from heat; stir in chocolate chips until melted. 5. Add in remaining ingredients; stir to mix well. 6. Pour into a buttered 13x9 inch baking pan; cool to room temperature. 7. Cut into squares; store in the refrigerator in an air-tight container.
Ingredients:
1 small peeled, seeded butternut squash
3 medium Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled
2 large carrots, peeled $
2 large parsnips, peeled
15 to 20 garlic cloves, peeled
1/4 cup olive oil, divided
2 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt, divided
1 1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper, divided
1 pound ground turkey (not breast only) $
1 tablespoon fennel seeds
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 large leeks, cut into 1/4-in. slices and rinsed
1 large head fennel, cut into 1/4-in. slices (reserve feathery fronds for garnish)
8 cups reduced-sodium or homemade chicken broth* Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 425° and arrange racks in upper and lower thirds of oven. Cut squash, potatoes, carrots, and parsnips into 1-in. pieces and put in a large oiled roasting pan; add garlic. Toss with 2 1/2 tbsp. olive oil, 1 1/2 tsp. salt, and 1 tsp. pepper and spread out in a single layer, leaving as much room as possible around the pieces. Roast vegetables on lower rack about 40 minutes, or until browned and tender (stir after they've browned underneath, about 25 minutes).
2. Meanwhile, make meatballs: With wet hands, mix turkey, fennel seeds, egg, 1 tsp. salt, and 1/2 tsp. pepper together in a small bowl. Oil your hands with some of remaining oil. Shape turkey mixture into 1-in. meatballs and set them on an oiled rimmed baking sheet as you go, using more oil as needed to coat them well. Roast meatballs on upper rack 15 to 20 minutes, turning a couple of times to brown well on all sides.
3. Heat 1 tbsp. olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add leeks and fennel, season with salt and pepper to taste, and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Pour in broth and bring to a boil over high heat, covered. Lower heat and simmer vegetables until meltingly soft, about 25 minutes.
4. When vegetables in oven have caramelized and meatballs are browned, remove both from oven. Transfer meatballs to roasting pan. Pour a ladleful of hot broth into baking sheet and scrape up browned bits; pour into roasting pan along with all contents of pot and gently scrape up vegetables' browned bits. Return to oven and bake 5 minutes to let flavors mingle. Serve with hunks of warm bread.
Welcome to Witchy Thing Weekly, in week one; we will be talking about Pendulum's.
Why you choose what you did? How do you use it?
And what do you use it for?
Pendulum's are a form of divination. When using them, its said to believe by others that you are contacting the dead, your spirit guide or its just simply your subconscious pulling the information out and giving you the answers.
What is a Pendulum?
A Pendulum is a weighted object suspended by a chain or string. You hold it and it will either spin around in circles or swing back and forth or side to side.
You usually have your elbow on a flat surface so that way your hand isn't moving the Pendulum.
When you first get your Pendulum, you need to program it right away. To do that, you need to ask your Pendulum, which way is for: yes, no and maybe/I don't know.
Usually, for me; yes would swing back and forth or around in a circle like a clock, no would swing side to side or in windershins and maybe/I don't know would swing diagonal or just won't move at all.
Also, when buying a new Pendulum and after you program it, you want to carry it with you at all times for about a week; so that way it could infuse with your own energy.
When buying your own Pendulum for the first time, I recommend that you choose one that calls out to you because you want to make sure that you can attune yourself with your Pendulum. If there is one that doesn't call to you, don't get it because it won't work.
I have 2 Pendulum's; my first one is an Amethyst wand crystal that my best friend Josh bought for me. I love Amethyst crystal's, mainly because its my birth stone and I'm more drawn to it. My second one is an Milky Quartz crystal that I made myself and had the intention of giving it away to my ex-bf Collin for his birthday but never got it (Long story and its personal).
I've always love Quartz crystal's mainly because I can go outside and look for a bunch and they are free from Mother Nature and I don't have to pay a dime to get a crystal. Granted, they are raw and not smooth but that's what makes them more unique.
I have worked with the Amethyst Pendulum many times but I have a hard time trying to get myself to try to use the Quartz Pendulum. I just don't connect with that particular Quartz Pendulum and I connect much better with the Amethyst Pendulum.
