Kitchen Witchery
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Lemon Lavender Rose Jelly – A Floral Twist on Classic Preserves
It feels like forever since I’ve done any canning. (Though in reality, I did make a garlic dipping sauce yesterday – remind me to blog that!). Honestly, it has been a while. I’ve been caught up in working outside the home, commuting an hour each way, which doesn’t leave much time in the kitchen. With our quarterly food swap coming up, I wanted something new to bring to the table. So, I pulled out my canning cookbooks and started browsing for inspiration. In Better Homes and Gardens 2014 Canning (Special Interest), I came across a Lemon Lavender Jelly that sounded amazing. Being me, I had to tweak it. First, I…
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Spaghetti Western Steak Rub
It’s food swap time again, which means time to get creative with my swapping stuff. As I was perusing Pinterest, I came across a couple of different steak rub recipes that – things being what they are – I didn’t have all the ingredients for. No worries, I took the basic idea and came up with my own. I call it a Spaghetti Western Steak Rub because I added fennel, which wasn’t an ingredient in any, but a substitution for a substitution of (did that make sense? X can be a substitute for Y. Y is a substitute for Z, therefore, X is a substitute for Z… or vice versa).…
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Crème fraîche and Pork Al Latte Review
YouTube – I could get lost for hours in the food videos there. And, actually, I have. It started innocently enough – a video for homemade crème fraîche. Which, by the way, is super easy and tastes way better than sour cream. And by super easy, I mean this: I didn’t stop at the crème fraîche, though. I kept watching videos. Eventually I came across this one: Chef John is amazingly funny. I know because I’ve watched about a zillion of his videos. This one uses crème fraîche – which is amazing since I have a jar in my fridge. I made this for dinner last night and it is AMAZING.…
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Cake in a Mug
I generally don’t keep ready-made sweets in the house because when I do, they just get eaten and I no longer have ready-made sweets in the house. It’s a vicious cycle. However, I do get cravings, as does the man-child, and I need a quick fix for that. We’ve played around off and on with the brownie in a mug cakes. I recently purchased a product called “Mugging” at the grocery store – which works, but is a bit high for my budget. Duncan Hines to the rescue! This is super, super easy, people. Just mix together a box of cake mix of your choice (I currently have yellow and…
