My Magical Cottagecore Life

Another Thanksgiving has come and gone. It's time to relax and just enjoy the glow of family, if you don't have to go back to work right now. The house is clean and all bellies are relatively satisfied. But don't forget there's a few helpful hints that can still be part of the day after the holiday.

It's Thanksgiving tomorrow here in Michigan. And it is definitively cold. However, there's warmth in our hearts. If you have pudding people, stroller citizens, or other idle hands inhabiting the inside of your home during cook time, this is a craft that will be wonderful for you. It encourages them to go OUTSIDE. At least to gather twigs. It's an easy craft, and keeps them from being underfoot in...

Scrambling for a last-minute potluck dish for the office or thanksgiving? I've got you covered. Let's share a simple recipe, with some easy variations, on a classic quick potluck dish.

A deliciously sweet recipe with piloncillo and pumpkin.

Hunting season started and now it's truly time to get ready to remember how to make stock from game animals like deer or elk. If you're lucky enough to have gotten an elk tag, and got the harvesting, then this is a great recipe for you to use in order to extend the flavor of the bounty to other meals as well as any stews you want to make from the meat. A lot of gelatin can be extracted from a knuc...

Let's get those Hunters fed and full with an easy slow cooker recipe of venison sausage, ramps, and peppers. Time to pull out the venison stock and your ramp stash from Spring. Special Love to the Michigan Hunters. Be safe out there.

Today let's keep away the winter chills with a nice hot slow cooker filled with wonderful Navy beans, smoked meat, and rich flavors. We can even break out our magnolia honey and serve with biscuits or with cornbread on the side. Let's get started.

Time for slow cooker holidays. This recipe is great for beginner cooks, or students. Catalina dressing, apricot preserves, and some other key ingredients will make this a "go to" one.

It's slow cooker season and I'm back. I had a little trouble uploading episodes for the last couple of weeks. But I'm back and I brought with me a slow cooker recipe that uses Lebanese seven spice. In addition to this, there's also a recipe for zuke and juice rice. Let's get started. Music by A Desert Tale - Ethnic & Fantasy Background Music OB-LIX, Royalty Free Music

Let's make Nutella cake in the slow cooker, and top it with a raspberry chocolate glaze! I am not sponsored by Nutella. But this episode IS sponsored by the Michigan Witches Bazaar in Michigan. #michiganwitchesbazaar Music by Music by Yrii Semchyshyn from Pixabay

It's time for Persephone days as well as pomegranates. What a great time to take the skins from the pomegranate and dry them for tea.

It's time to get your blackberry leaves harvested before it's too late. They either are on Vines around brambles. They are useful for many things as a tea, or even as a poultice. In this episode we even talk a little bit about another use that you may not know about. Let's get started.

Raspberry leaves are a long believed tonic for women's health. Specifically, it's believed to help women and girls strengthen uterine health. It also helps with colds, breast milk, and peri menopause. There's some folklore, too. Special shout out to Lotions, Potions, and Notions LLC, in Michigan. LJ Rose carries safe, affordable, and organic herbs that I can trust.

Time to harvest peach leaves. They can be added to tea leaves, or used as a tisane in their own.

Let's chat a bit about gathering leaves for apple leaf tea. We'll also put a twist on the plain tea with a sweet addition.

It's autumn, or fall as we call it here in the Midwestern United States. Is the time to be thinking of pumpkins, hot chocolate, and apple cider. It's also the time when you can see the most beautiful free color show that nature can put on. This is the time also that you might want to take your little ones, or you're not so little ones, and go out and gather leaves and make an autumnal album. Best...

Let's chat about a gorgeous evergreen called leatherleaf viburnum. It blooms twice a year, and has a beautifully textured leaf surface. But do NOT eat it.

Time to gather up the box elder seeds for eating. Get them before they are gone. Let's chat about it, AND share some thoughts on compassion and mistakes in the nature based living space.

For some people, the words zucchini lasagna make more sense than zucchini casserole. However, I really like zucchini casserole and think that lasagna might be better represented with just the pasta. But no judgment. So I'm going to call this zucchini casserole and I hope you'll enjoy it. He contains lots of veggies, and if you bake it for a very long time it's nice and soft and will help for peopl...

Time to get the herbs into the honey at the end of summer. The clover honey is gathered, and the heavier goldenrod honey will be a bit too much for some of my garden. Let's talk about rosemary, my favorite, and learn how it's done.

Join me as I go to a Summer Festival here in Metro detroit. One of our sponsors, spiral Moon family circle, has put on the Detroit Pagan Pride Day. This event is not affiliated with the Pagan Pride Project. Let's talk about Festival prep during the summer season.

Let's talk about pillowcase dresses, Little Dresses For Africa, and more. You can find patterns online, with instructions. Don't be afraid to embroider, paint, or add extra love to the project. This episode is in no way promoting, or excluding, any faith or people in its intention. For a great resource, I recommend the pattern created by Melissa Mortenson on her blog, Polkadot Chair. https://www.p...

It's been a minute, but I'm back from vacation and I wanted to share my experience on making culinary ash. Let's chat a bit about what it is, what it does, and how to make it. Big shout out to Bosslady Anish for the sharing of her technique on her channel.

Let's meet Self Heal, or, what I was taught to call it, Heals All Wounds. Prunella Vulgaris is in season right now. This is a great time to make a healing honey. Today's music "Ethernight Club" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Lady's Thumb (Polygonum Persicaria) Or Saucy Alice, is all around the fields and gardens at this time of year. It's a great time to talk about her, and maybe much a bit of her alongside other green visitors.