Magical Cooking #61 - 15th Jan 2025

Magical Cooking

Hopefully you read last weeks post and you have made some inroads towards your kitchen being a magical space, clean and uncluttered.

So now we can think about what utensils we might need. This will vary depending on what type of witch you are. An eclectic witch who just wants to cook great food filled with magical love will only have the exact same utensils as everybody else down her street, a Kitchen Witch may have some special gadgets but just a few and a Herbalist will have a whole array of bits and pieces most people have never seen before in a household kitchen.

The important thing is that you don't want to be rushing out and buying lots of gadgets that you are only going to use once or twice (remember last week post - no clutter!)

So when making magical food you will need pans, chopping boards, knifes of various sizes, measuring spoons, cups or scales, a jug, sieve etc etc - Do you notice something here? If you run a home already then you probably have all of these items already. Great, but if you don't, then either use your parents stuff or if you are just setting up home on your own now, don't feel bad about buying secondhand, if you know what hot boiling water and washing up detergent are, you are safe, it makes no difference to your magic if they have belonged to someone else first, in fact depending how you look at life, it is always better not to buy brand new, there is enough waste in the World already (ok, underwear, buy new underwear, but most other stuff, no need).

Here are some of the more specialised items you may want to keep a look out for in charity shops for instance - milk nut bags or a very fine sieve, a glass pan, soup zapper wooden utensils rather than metal or plastic, a herb drier of some description, a book stand for your recipe book, (I have a BOS recipe book, to be fair it is on the bookcase and not on a stand in my kitchen, so all of these things are entirely up to you. ) empty glass bottle and jars, (they need to be airtight) Again all these add-ons are not necessary if your only going to be making a chicken soup if someone gets a cold.