We picked these gorgeous pumpkins. I can't wait to carve them. I love using the carving patterns. Especially from this site!
After that I love to roast the pumpkin seeds too.

Pumpkin Seeds

Spray a cookie sheet with no-stick cooking spray and spread them evenly across the sheet. Very lightly spray the seeds before roasting.

Put them in the oven and bake at 300° for about 35 minutes, until they're a toasted, golden brown. Salt the seeds to your preference

-Carol

I love making these cookies, they are fairly easy too and make a ton. They do spread out a little bit, so experiment and make them skinnier to look more like fingers. They taste great too. I used roasted pumpkin seeds for the finger nails w/ the point facing up, they look real cool that way.
Recipe here Enjoy!!!
-carol

I can always get the boys to eat this and it sneaks in some veggies too. Throwing in a handful of butterscitch chips makes it that much better!

Magickal Pumpkin Bread
1-3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon vanilla (love & mental prowess)
(symbolizing fertility & money) 1/2 cup vegetable oil
1-1/2 cups sugar (love & passion)
2 large eggs (fertility)
3/4 teaspoon salt (protection) 1/3 cup water (cleansing)
1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup fresh pumpkin (abundance) 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (health & wishes)
(spirituality & protection ) Powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg (luck & health) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine all dry ingredients
(except walnuts and powdered sugar).
Mix well. In another bowl, combine pumpkin, water, eggs, vanilla and
oil.
Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and beat thoroughly.
Stir in nuts and pour batter into a greased loaf pan.
Bake for 75-80 minutes.
Cool 15 minutes before removing from pan. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Gypsy Magick Newseletter for October 11 2004

-Carol

Rosemary Lavender face scrub
1 cup of oats
1 tablespoon of each of the following herbs;
Rose petals
Lavender flowers
Rosemary

In your blender chop all ingredients, heat oven to lowest possible setting, then turn the oven off, spread the chopped dry ingredients onto a cookie sheet and heat for about 7-10 minutes,
Place into sterile jar with lid.
To use, add a pinch to the palm of your hand, add enough water to make a moist scrub, scrub face allow to remain on face for a few minutes, then rinse with warm water.

Apple Salsa

2 medium red apples
2 tablespoons lime juice
1/2 cup finely chopped onions
1/2 cup finely chopped green pepper
1 finely chopped jalapeno pepper
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1 teaspoon olive oil
Core and dice Apples into 1/4 inch pieces.
Toss immediately with lime juice.
Stir in remaining ingredients. Chill 2 hours before serving over fish, chicken
Or turkey.
or for us vegetarians: use as a dip or on pita bread!

Blessings Mori`

I was looking for a recipe to make sangria and added some fall fruit. I'm making it to sit for a few hours for our Labor Day Celebration. Mabon is coming though.....

These cookies are magick for more than one reason. They are the simplest cookies ever, they don't even have flour in them.

Peanut Butter Cookie-
1 C peanut butter
1 C sugar
1 egg
1/4 tsp vanilla.

Mix together, place on cookie sheet how ever big you want. Dip tines of fork in sugar and press down, they don't really spread so well on their own. Bake 350 for 8- 10 minutes.

The book Magick Made Easy says that peanut butter is good for binding magick, makes sense! It also says if you want to change a habit to carve a symbol in your cookie before baking, then eat. I love that idea. Check out the book in google books, I linked it for ya! Lots of goodies to look up!
-carol

I'm making up a big batch of meatballs in the crock pot, I'm hoping to freeze some and get a
few meals out of it, so I doubled the recipe below. I found this in Cooking Light magazine
quiet a few years ago and it's always been a huge hit with everyone.


Beef Meatballs
from Cooking Light


Ingredients

1 1/2 pounds ground round- grounding, properity
1/4 cup (1 ounce) finely shredded fresh Parmesan cheese- joy
1/2 cup dry breadcrumbs
1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley- cleansing
1/4 cup tomato sauce-health money
1 teaspoon dry mustard- personal growth
3/4 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning- love, cleansing, prosperity, harmony
1/4 teaspoon salt- protection
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper- strength
2 garlic cloves, crushed ( I like to use powder the kids can't detect it
so easy)- passion
Cooking spray


Preparation

Preheat oven to 400°.

Combine all ingredients except cooking spray in a bowl; stir well. Shape
mixture into 30 (1 1/2-inch) meatballs. Place on a broiler pan coated
with cooking spray. Bake at 400° for 15 minutes or until done.

I cook in my favorite jarred sauce in the crockpot until I'm ready and serve
over pasta
-Carol

My grandmother always made cantaloupe milk shakes when we were growing up. They are so yummy! She just threw some peeled/seeded cantaloupe and ice cream in the blender. It had to be Breyers natural vanilla bean fleck though. They were soooo good! They are $1- at Walmart this week! Can't beat that! ;)
My sister always soaks cubes of cataloupe in Sambouca. That is so good too, ice cold. Serve with toothpicks.

-Carol