Fried Venison Dinner

Ingredients:
Venison cut in strips.
white potatoes
1 Leek
1 Sweet onion
1/2  red cabbage
1 collard greens
Flour
Favorite spices
Salt
Butter
Olive oil
milk

1. Cut onion and cut only the white part of the leek to your liking. Save the leaves.
2. Pull the leek leaves apart and clean if there is any dirt. Chop the leaves to your liking.
3. Saute onion and leek in butter and salt.  
4. Cut cabbage and collard greens to your liking.
5. Saute cabbage, leek leaves and collard greens in butter and salt.
6. Flour venison in flour and your favorite spices.
7. Fry venison in olive oil and butter.
8. Place fried venison on a rack over a pan.
9. Boil potatoes, when tender to your liking, drain water and mash potatoes. Add salt, butter and milk to potatoes and mix well. Enjoy.

Fairfield Fiddle Farm Beginners Fiddle Book

The Fairfield Fiddle Farm Beginners Fiddle book 1 is a fun book to learn shuffling and double stops. I've had this book since 1996 and I never used  it until about a month ago. I've know how to play double stops for several years but shuffling is new to me. Someone explained the shuffling the easiest way of understanding of the bow strokes as long,short short,long.The first two song at the beginning are recognizable to most people in a country style: Mary had a little lamb and Old MacDonald had a farm. My favorite two songs that I can play fairly well from this book are the Camptown Races, Cripple Creek. 

A member from the Fiddlerman.com forum shared a link to a website that you can pick a old time song and jam with it called Old Time Jam. I haven't had a chance to try it out so maybe a future post about my experience. 

A video of me playing a few songs from this book. The reason for stopping and squeezing my hand because I have arthritis in my right hand causing me be sloppy on some parts. I didn't repeat part of the songs to cut down on time for the video. I've got a little bit better since this recording.

Honey Mint Roasted Chicken

Ingredients:
Whole chicken
1/2 cup Honey
1 pack Mint leaves
dash Garlic
Olive oil

1.

Preheat oven to 425°F, rub olive oil all over chicken, place chicken breast up in pan.

2. In a medium sauce pan add honey, minced mint leaves and garlic, simmer for a few mins.

3. Place chicken in oven for 30 mins.

4. Lower oven to 375°F and cook for 2-2 1/2 hrs.

5. On the last 30 mins brush on honey mint sauce.

6. After 15 mins brush on sauce again.

7. Enjoy. Stuffing goes great with this meal.

Got any left overs? Try shredding the chicken and fry in up with a egg in the morning.

Smack N' Good Macaroni and Beef (Venison)

Ingredients:
1 lb. ground beef or venison
1 1/2 uncooked small elbow macaroni
1/2 cup minced onion
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1 ts. salt
1/8 t. pepper
1 (15oz) can tomato sauce
1 cup water
2-3 ts. Worcestershire sauce
4 tbs. A1 sauce
American cheese

1. Brown the ground meat, drain fat.
2. Stir in macaroni, onion, green pepper, salt, pepper.
3. Cook, stirring until macaroni is transparent.
4. Add tomato sauce, water, Worcestershire sauce and A1 sauce.
5. Cover, simmer for 20 min, then stir.
6. Turn heat off, add american cheese slices on top and let stand for 5 mins.
7. Enjoy.

How I made my Athame

A few weeks ago in one of my posts I stated that I was working on my Athame and that I would share with you how I made it. I forgot to take a photo of the first part with the new handle but the process of my scabbard or sheath is the same way. There are diagrams in Raymond Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft in Lesson 3 pages 41-45. Also those pages explains how to etch and engrave your blade. To remove the handle with rivets make a shallow cut with a Dremel or small cutting disk in a angle below the rivets and use a flat head screwdriver and pop the rivets out.

Tools I used:

Athame:



This is what my blade looked like when I found it.




Handle removed.

New handle diagram from  Raymond Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft in Lesson 3.





New handle, handle of the blade is glued with epoxy between two pieces of wood for 24 hrs.



Handle is sanded down to a oval shape and added a second edge on blade.



Drilled a shallow hole on the end of the handle and epoxy glued a quartz crystal.Sanded the handle a little bit more.



Cut a oval hilt, wood burn vines and leaves then wood burn pentagram, my Zodiac sign, ruling planet and on the other side wood burned my Craft name in runes (it is a secret) on the handle.



Cut two rectangle pieces of wood and trace the blade on both. Before you trace the blade on your second piece of wood, flip the blade if the edge is not the same as the other side.

My husband was in such a rush to glue the wood together he forgot to let me take a photo of the pieces apart with the center cut with the grove shaped of the blade.

Sheath is almost done. It don't come out unless I twist the knife handle to me and away from me to lock it.

Sheath sanded and shaped.

Sheath engraved, wood burned and both sealed with clear semi-gloss.

Crunchy Italian Chicken with Black Cherry sauce

Ingredients:
Chicken
1 cup Flour
1-2 eggs
Progresso Panko Crispy Bread Crumbs-Italian style
Gia Russa Bread Crumbs-Italian Seasoned
Shredded Monterey Jack cheese
Salt
Olive oil

1. Have 3 plates or pans, first plate with four, second with beat egg and third plate with both bread crumbs and shredded cheese mixed.
2. Slice chicken 2-3 times
3. Cover each piece with flour.
4. Then cover each piece with egg.
5. Cover each piece with the bread crumbs.
6. Heat olive oil on medium-low heat.
7. Fry each piece of chicken.

This breading works great with pan fish.

Black Cherry Sauce:
2 1/2 cups Black Cherries
2 tbs White sugar
2 tbs Cornstarch
4 cups water

1. Remove pits and chop cherries in food processor.
2. Add chopped cherries, sugar, and 2 cups of water in a medium size sauce pan on low heat.
3. When cherries are soft, combine water and cornstarch in a cup then add to the cherries.
4. Heat until the sauce has thickened.
5. Drizzle the sauce on chicken and enjoy.
Note: Red wine goes great with this meal.

Free Violin Lessons

I found a great website called Fiddlerman.com where you can learn how to play the violin or fiddle for free. He also has another website for Viola. I've been a member at Fiddlerman.com for a week and I'm excited to try his new International "He's a Pirate" Youtube project.

http://fiddlerman.com/
http://violaman.com/


I made a ad for his website.

At the point when I started to smile while I was playing my cat Neko-chan was hugging my feet.LOL she likes the way my violin sounds.

Chicken Stir Fry

Chicken Stir fry with carrots and green peppers.

Fried Venison Steak and Green Pepper Potatoes

Country fried venison steaks.

Chocolate chip Orange Cake

Nice moist cake using fresh oranges just in time for Imbolc.

Cakes and Ale Recipe

Bread recipe for Cakes and Ale Rite and offerings to the Gods and Goddesses.

Pasta Amatriciana

This recipe is on the back of Holland House Red Cooking Wine. I changed it little so this is my version.

Squash Spaghetti

Great combination with squash, green peppers, noddles and spaghetti sauce.

So long 2011, Hello 2012

2011 is gone and now its 2012 to start a new year. last year was big hectic year, hopefully there is less to worry about this year. More recipes will be posted soon. I've been studying more on Wicca for the last few months. I was finally able to get more books before Yule.Went to a antique shop and found two little bells from Seneca Rocks, WV for $8. For my birthday I got a little cauldron to burn lose incense, Fraya statue and charcoal tablets from Amazon.com for my alter and my husband decorated my birthday cake with the triple moon goddess symbol.He has also been helping me make my Athame. I'll have a new post with step by step of what we did for my Athame when its finished.

 

 







Also got a new sword from Trueswords.com called Conjuring Wizard's Spell-Proof Fantasy Sword. It reminds me of the Green Man. I just love the acorn on the end of it. My husband was talking about hanging it up on the wall in our dinning room. I was thinking in the hallway near my alter but we will see when I get a chance to hang all my photos in the hallway.

Mirelurk Noodles

New ramen recipe with crab.

Orange Mocha Ricotta Creme

My mother use to make the original recipe a few years ago and I really enjoy it. I usually don't like espresso or anything like coffee. I never thought of combining ricotta cheese, chocolate  and French Vanilla Cafe taste so good. I found out the original recipe is from the The South Beach Diet cookbook. My recipe tastes just like Terry's Dark Chocolate Orange.

Also today is my 25Th birthday. Most people would say I was a Christmas baby but I would say I was born 1 day before Yule makes more since.

Buffalo Chicken Ramen

Tired of plain ramen over and over again? Try this for a change.

Alfredo Chicken Ramen

Another one of my favorite ramen recipes with Ricotta cheese and Alfredo sauce.

Winter Solstice Tea

This tea recipe is from the Youtube user CharmingPixieFlora.Yule is coming soon and this is a great tea to welcome the sun back to the earth. Last year my husband and I started celebrating Yule. Since it was our first year, I wasn't sure how to go about it.

Ramen Flavor Gravy

Don't know what to do with your leftover ramen flavor packets? Do you just eat the noodles dry, like I do sometimes? Don't throw them away, save them. I don't roast a whole chicken that often so I just use a quick way to make gravy whenever  I need it. A few days ago I had venison patties and my husband decided to make Salisbury venison steak. I came up with the idea for the beef gravy with a left over beef ramen flavor packet.