My Magical Cottagecore Life

It's skunk wandering season! If you are on the skunk pathways, this garden might help you. Let's also chat about some Detroit history about Skippy Candles.

Here's a recipe for my friends who celebrate Ascension Day with a great feast. I love all my friends and find joy in sharing meals with many people of differing faiths. Enjoy.

Let's chat about some hints on gathering dandelions for wine.

It's pea Planting Time. let's chat about peas, pots, and my secret tomatoes.

It's time for Ramp, or bear garlic, season here in Michigan! Let's talk about how to enjoy this yummy Spring treat.

I love repurposing this to keep them out of unnecessary waste. One of my favorite ways is to use Everfresh juice bottles, or other juice bottles. I store rice, beans, herbs, pasta, and more. Let's talk about it.

Let's chat about a set recipe from my book "Scythe and Seed: An Autumnal Cookbook ". This one is sweet treat that can also be good for lifting your spirits. You can find my book on Amazon. https://a.co/d/4BuHGgr

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Let's talk about seasonal feasting. Whether planning, or making memories by attending, they are a unique part of our social tapestries.

Let's share a recipe from my cookbook " Scythe and Seed: An Autumnal Cookbook". This is Roasted Sweet Potato, Pumpkin Seed, and Black Bean Tacos. I love sharing recipes with my friends, and we're friends, right? You can find it on Amazon or on Spiral Moon Publishing . Message me through the Facebook page for My Magical Cottagecore Life before Christmas and you could win a copy of this book.

Let's talk about apples. Winter, and a couple of neat things you can do with sugar, apples and coffee grounds will be a fun chat.

Let's make candy with fruit juice and 2 other simple kitchen ingredients. No thermometer is needed for this recipe. also, we can put a twist on it by adding common herbs. Let's get started.

Hello, this is Kenya, and Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you had a wonderful holiday. I finally found a platform that will allow us to spend thing together again. So let's celebrate by making some festive holiday Ornaments of of cinnamon. I also share a memorials holiday story about my mishap when making dough Ornaments, years ago. HEED MY WARNING ABOUT THE RED HOT CANDIES! Haha! Let's get started.

A great recipe found online from Rhonda F. Thank you so much! Let me know if you try it.

It is cattail season, wherever you may be, in Michigan. Those beautiful long blades of green have a lot of useful properties and things you may not even have heard of. They can be food. They can make baskets. And they're home to wildlife and insects. They are a vital part of the ecosystem. And they're so fluffy. Let's give a good look at these because they're really cool.

It's a beautiful day and let's try something new. I love watching my hair when I'm feeling in a kind of bleh mood. I love giving myself a little extra treat with the pretty sense and the soft lather but what I love most of all as part of the process is the conditioner. A good conditioner can lift your mood. And I'm going to tell you how to make your own homemade conditioner so that you can actuall...

Let's share a recipe for 7UP pound cake. This cake has a lot of cultural relevance to the holiday of June 10th. However, it's not about just a cake made with a soft drink. There's other facets to how special this recipe is. Memories and hand it down appreciations from family reunions of the past. We're having a special podcast family recipe share. There's no one else I'd love to share this recipe...

What do you do with 5 lb of fermented cherries? Well, let's find out together. Whether it's making ink, or possibly using it to die some sheets and pillowcases, let's see what happens. Sometimes the unexpected can lead to unexpected opportunities. Not everything is a win. But a fail is nothing more than a chance to try again. Let's chat.

This is the bonus episode. In many of our episodes over the years together, we've mentioned Faygo. I love Faygo. But for many of you, you don't really know what it might be if you've never encountered it. Faygo is an iconic soda company founded in 1907 in Detroit. Let's chat about it, 80's hair, and memories of ICP costumes. Special thanks to #Serge Quadrado Music for the song "clown panic". #Serg...

Today we're going to talk about the pants stretchers. There are a couple of kinds. And it's a forgotten item that many people are still using but if you've never heard of it it might be something to look into you for your own laundry needs. It definitely cuts down on ironing in one version. The other will definitely help you with that extra piece of pie you might have had. If your closet has a ten...

This is a fun episode. It's not very long and it's not very complicated. We're going to make hazelnut cookies with a Serviceberry edition. Just on the top. There's also a gratuitous Taylor Swift reference. Let's get started.

An unexpected visitor in the form of white campion appeared in my garden home. Known also as the Flower of the Dead, let's chat about it. Also, let's talk about changes to the show.

It's hot outside. Let's cool down with hot teas.

If you are a fan of lemony flavors, pickles, and squash, this is the recipe for you! This is one of my original recipes, and I wanted to share it with you because I'm planting lemon verbena. Or actually, my husband Planted lemon verbena. But I helped. We have a stash of lemon verbena that could terrify most herbalists. And that's partly because I use it for my asthma. But eating things flavored wi...

It's time to go out and forage and get those lilacs going into those pots. Lilac cordials or something you can only make when they're blooming so catch spring before it's gone away. Shout out to Will Forage For Food because I can.