Elven Lembas Bread

Elven Lembas Bread

Preheat oven to 425ºF/220ºC/490ºK

2 1/2 cups of flour

1 Tablespoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

8 Tablespoons cold butter

1/3 cup sugar

2/3 cup milk

1/2 teaspoon lemon extract

Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Chop butter into mixture with a pastry cutter or knead in with your fingers until you get a crumbly mixture. Add sugar and mix. Add milk and lemon extract and stir with a fork until dough forms.

Roll the dough out about 1/2 inch thick. Cut out 3 inch squares and transfer to a cookie sheet. Criss-cross each square from corner to corner with a knife. Bake for about 12 minutes or until set and lightly golden. Makes 10 to 12.

For Women Over 40...

I don't usually post things other than recipes and DIY stuff on this blog. However, I found this amazing blog written by Linda Holloway
(https://www.facebook.com/linda.holloway.31586/posts/174045222760265)  and wanted to save it. I could have put it in Google documents or Skydrive but I felt the need to share it as well as put it someplace I know I can always go to find it...

As I grow in age, I value women who are over forty most of all. Here are just a few reasons why: A woman over forty will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, “What are you thinking?” She doesn’t care what you think.

If a woman over forty doesn’t want to watch the game, she doesn’t sit around whining about it. She does something she wants to do. And, it’s usually something more interesting.

A woman over forty knows herself well enough to be assured in who she is, what she is, what she wants and from whom. Few women past the age of forty give a hoot what you might think about her or what she’s doing.

Women over forty are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you deserve it, they won’t hesitate to shoot you, if they think they can get away with it.

Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what it’s like to be unappreciated.

A woman over forty has the self-assurance to introduce you to her women friends. A younger woman with a man will often ignore even her best friend because she doesn’t trust the guy with other women. Women over forty couldn’t care less if you’re attracted to her friends because she knows her friends won’t betray her.

Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to a woman over forty. They always know.

A woman over forty looks good wearing bright red lipstick. This is not true of younger women. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over forty is far sexier than her younger counterpart.

Older women are forthright and honest. They’ll tell you right off if you are a jerk, if you are acting like one! You don’t ever have to wonder where you stand with her.

Yes, we praise women over forty for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it’s not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of forty-plus, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some twenty-two-year-old waitress.

Ladies, I apologize.

For all those men who say, “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free,” here’s an update for you. Now 80 percent of women are against marriage, why? Because women realize it’s not worth buying an entire pig, just to get a little sausage.

Witchy Cocktails

I realize Halloween is still a few months away but I couldn't resist sharing these spooky-sounding cocktails...

Witchy Cocktails

Here are some witchy cocktails I've come across, which you may enjoy serving at a Sabbat or Esbat dinner. Or sip one while reminding yourself that life need not always be taken seriously.


Black Magic Cocktail

You will need:
2 ounces Blavod black vodka
1/2 ounce Grenadine
Lemon-Lime Soda
A Maraschino Cherry for Garnish

Instructions:
Pour the vodka and grenadine into an ice-filled Collins glass. Fill up the glass the rest of the way with soda. Stir. Garnish with the cherry.


Red Witch Cocktail

1 ounce Pernod
1 ounce Bodka
1 dash Blackcurrant Cordial
1/2 pint Cider

Instructions
Mix Pernod, vodka and blackcurrant in a pint glass. Top up with cider and stir.


Witches Brew Cocktail

You will need:
0.5 ounce Cranberry juice (100% cranberry juice, not cranberry cocktail)
0.5 ounce Sour Mix
1 ounce Vodka
1 ounce Chambord

Instructions:
Fill a highball glass with ice. Add vodka and Chambord. Add a splash of cranberry and one of sour mix. Stir and enjoy.


Witches Tit Cocktail

You will need:
2 1/2 ounce Kahlua Coffee Liqueur
1/2 ounce Heavy Cream
1 maraschino Cherry

Instructions:
Pour the Kahlua into a pousse cafe glass. Carefully float the cream on top by pouring it over the back of a teaspoon. Place a maraschino cherry in the center and serve.


Strega: An After-Dinner Drink

Strega (or Liquore Strega), is an Italian herbal liqueur produced since 1860 by the S. A. Distilleria Liquore Strega in Benevento, Campania, Italy. Its yellow color comes from the presence of saffron in its recipe. Liquore Strega is 80 proof (40%). Among its approximately 70 herbal ingredients are mint and fennel. Strega is considered a digestif, meant for drinking after meals.

Household Products

Who says all recipes have to be edible? 

Here are some great recipes for common household cleaners (thanks to https://www.facebook.com/holly.capron.5)

Windex

Half White Vinegar

Half Water

1 tsp Dawn

Pledge

2 tsp Olive Oil (I used a bit more)

2 cups water

1/4 cup white vinegar

*Citrus fragrance

Febreeze

1/8 c fabric softener

2 tbs baking soda

Rest water

*Lavendar fragrance

Bathroom Cleaner

1/2 c vinegar

1/4 c baking soda

2 liters water

*Citrus fragrance

Reeses Cookie Brownies

Reeses Cookie Brownies

Preheat oven to 350; smoosh refrigerated cookie dough into the bottom of each well. Place Reese cup upside down on top of cookie dough (or an Oreo!). Top with prepared box brownie mix, filling 3/4 full. Bake for 18 minutes! HEAVEN!

Pizza Casserole

Pizza Casserole! 

















Box of rigatoni
Jar of pasta sauce 
1lb Italian sausage
16 oz of cottage cheese
2 oz sliced black olives
12 oz mozzarella cheese
Pepperoni

Cook and drain noodles. Cook and drain sausage. Mix together noodles sauce and sausage. Lay in a sprayed 9 x 13 dish. Mix cottage cheese mozzarella cheese and black olives. Lay over noodles. Top with Pepperoni and bake at 300 for 25 minutes. I added banana peppers but i am sure you can add anything you want.