Food. I love food. I like food I cook. I like food other people cook. I like uncooked food. I just love food. I have an ongoing series of matching recipes to Tarot cards. I wanted this recipe to go in the Air/Swords category because it was a quick no-brainer kind of meal. The kind you throw together with whatever you have on hand. Since it went together in a hurry and was ready in a hurry, it made me think of the Knights of the Tarot. Always on the move, that suit is generally the age of the single man or woman in my eyes. So this could be a late night meal–what I used to call bar’thirty.

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I’ve got another party to go to this weekend. I also have a TON of things to get done including driving 2.5 hours one way to take Miss Josephine Goose to her new home. As per usual, this is a party where we bring a dish to share. Our lovely hosts provide hamburgers, hotdogs and a pool. I’m really looking forward to that pool.

But I decided not to do baked beans this time. As much as I love doing them, it’s more time than I have to spare. The party starts at 3pm. I will be 2.5 hours away at 10am which means I’ll be home by 1 if all goes well. So I needed something super easy.

I asked my best friend, writing partner, fabulous artist and good cook too what she would do. She sent me a couple of recipes. I was instantly hungry but also knew (more…)

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I’ve been struggling with which card to give to my baked beans recipe. It’s one that I make for large crowds. It’s also one that is one of my requested recipes because folks really like them. However, I couldn’t figure out which card was best represented for me by this one.

I mean do I give it to a King since all those beans are gonna cause gas? Do I give it to the suit of Water since it’s an emotional connection to my mother? Do I make it an Air card again because of the reason I would give it to a King? Or the Hermit?

Maybe I’m too focused on the (more…)

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This is a super simple dish. I had no CLUE what I was doing when I first made it and it turned out really tasty. I did learn a trick or two that I will share with you.

I am giving this one to the Two of Swords because of the Judgment of Solomon as well as the concept of Yin and Yang. (more…)

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It may surprise you that I associated a delicious party favorite with a card of heartbreak and sorrow. Why would I take this creamy green goodness only to name it after the treacherous Three of Swords? This card is a fairly well-known image with the three swords thrust through the heart. Blood drips from the tips in some renditions while others show a backstabbing traitor lurking to see if his job was finished.

Even in the fairly non-traditional Rider-Waite-Smith clone World Spirit Tarot, the image shows a shattered mirror. Someone is turning away shielding themselves from something. A figure can be seen in the window just around the corner. Again, pain and treachery from the Three of Swords.

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Sibyl of Wands

For most of us who love to cook, we have one or more signature dishes. These are what I like to call my show-off dishes. I have comfort recipes and others but the show off ones take more time but yield full tummies and blissful smiles. One of my best dishes is my fried chicken.

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10 of Pentacles (Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot)

Oh no! An office potluck?

There I was–like a deer in the headlights. The cook in me is shrieking with joy. The perfectionist is starting to amp up because this is a time to show off, right? You want a dish that will please a lot of people. However, you do not want a dish that will cause your inner accountant to lock themselves in the closet and refuse to come out.

It occurred to me that the card I would associate this with was the 10 of Pentacles. It is a card that represents community and family and gatherings. It’s about work and what you get from a great work ethic. You can also say that this card is about trusting in the path already taken. It’s about spending money in a wise way as well. It is about tradition. (more…)

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Look, I don’t know about you, but when Death hits in my life, I need comfort food and I need it now. I don’t want to wait for a pie to bake or a roast to roast. I need something fast and hot and completely familiar to remind me that “this too shall pass.” Death is about hard, unyielding change and sometimes it is about physical loss.

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I’ve been trying to come up with a recipe that would be right for the Fool. This card is more than what starts the Tarot. Here is the journey-taker of the Tarot. The Fool is zero because there is no number to assign this wanderer.

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For me the Ace of Swords is about great starts and being creative. There is an aspect of inventiveness about this particular Ace that I love. For me the Aces are the seeds of each suit. They contain all the possibilities both good and bad of that suit’s energy. Swords are about air in my world (I know, I know, some see them as fire and I do get that). This is challenging yourself mentally. (more…)

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