The ”Feast of Seven Fishes” filled with plenty of seafood is popular with Southern Italian and Italian-American families on Christmas Eve.
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An Italian-American Christmas Eve celebration where seafood is the star.
The ”Feast of Seven Fishes” filled with plenty of seafood is popular with Southern Italian and Italian-American families on Christmas Eve.
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A decadent collection of magical dishes and feasts created by the herbalist, witch, chef and co-owner of Catland Books, Melissa Madara. The feast is a meeting place between family and friends, between humans and gods. This decadent collection of enchanting dishes is an indispensable companion to kitchen witchcraft, revealing the storied history and seductive art of magical cooking. With witch, herbalist and chef Melissa Jayne Madara as your guide, explore five facets of the occult through food: traditional recipes, the wheel of the zodiac, devotional meals to the planets, seasonal feasts to celebrate solstices and equinoxes, and practical spellwork. Recreate a pagan feast of lamb roasted with milk and honey, with cheesecake baked in fig leaves for dessert. Celebrate a Gemini birthday with herbed fondue, followed by lemongrass pavlova. Align with the poetic pleasures of Venus with edible flower dumplings, or commune with Saturn over blackberry pulled pork sandwiches. Enjoy the vibrancy of the spring equinox with herb and allium quiche with a potato crust, radish salad with cherry blossom vinaigrette and jasmine tea shortbread. Share an evening of storytelling over mugwort and catnip divination tea, or embody an otherworldly spirit with ritual bread masks. Packed with ancient knowledge, practical advice and witchcraft expertise, this book will help you develop your craft through culinary creativity. Gather, share, and rediscover the most fundamental of human rituals: the divine indulgence of the senses and the soul. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781848994034 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Watkins Media Publication Date: 12-14-2021 Pages: 224 Product Dimensions: 9.80(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)About the Author Melissa Madara is a witch, herbalist, storyteller and chef. They are a co-owner at Catland Books, editrix at Venefica Magazine, and the curator of Catland's private courtyard garden, where they grow a variety of medicinal, magical and poisonous plants. Melissa's work as a chef has been experimental, running the gamut from traditional french pastry to molecular gastronomy to health-focused meal planning. Their magical practice is similarly eclectic, inspired by the praxis of chaos magic, with most of their research focused on ancient religions, traditional witchcraft and plant folklore. Melissa has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, and many other media outlets. Their writing has been published in Venefica Magazine, Susie Magazine, and Fiddler’s Green. Their work on kitchen witchcraft has been featured in Vice.Table of Contents Table of Contents About the Author 7 Introduction 8 Feast of the Ancestors 14 Traditional feasts, recipes and rituals of witches past Roast Chicken with Babylonian Spices 21 Pharmakos Cakes 22 Recreating a Pagan Feast 24 Fornacalia Focaccia 29 Hekate's Deipnon 32 Maslenitsa 35 Celtic Struan for Michaelmas 38 Hummus to Heal a Broken Heart 40 Hildegard von Bingen's Cookies of Joy 41 Aleister Crowley's Glacier Rice 42 SATOR Square Harvest Pie 44 Silent Supper 47 Feast of the Stars 50 Cooking through the wheel of the zodiac Aries - Chorizo meatballs with cheesy polenta & Cherry and Sichuan pepper truffles 58 Taurus - Spring onion gnudi with braised greens & Chamomile panna cotta with honeycomb candy 61 Gemini - Herbed fondue & Lemongrass pavlova with summer berries 64 Cancer - Poppyseed chicken bake & Coconut and lotus seed crispy bars 67 Leo - Heirloom tomato salad with nasturtium vinaigrette & Cantaloupe and Champagne popsicles 70 Virgo - Lemon lavender roast chicken & Russian honey cake 73 Libra - Floral papardelle with pistachio sauce & Roasted pineapple with basil mousse 76 Scorpio - Pork loin with pickled mustard seeds & Blood orange sorbet with Fernet-Branca 79 Sagittarius - Fig, prosciutto and blue cheese flatbreads & Hibiscus brownies 82 Capricorn - Sausage and plum hunter's stew & Blackberry meringues 85 Aquarius - Duck breast with blueberry balsamic sauce & Honey, walnut and goat's cheese tart 88 Pisces - Roasted cauliflower with miso and yogurt & Elderflower pâte de fruit 91 Feast of the Heavens 94 Planetary magic in the kitchen Full Moon Feast 105 Sun - Dandelion and orange fritule 110 Moon - Creamy mugwort soup 112 Mercury - Lavender butter with herbed seed crackers 114 Venus - Edible flower dumplings 116 Mars - Roasted artichokes with feta and harissa spread 118 Jupiter - Braised lamb shanks with juniper and red wine 120 Saturn - Blackberry pulled pork sandwiches 121 New Moon Feast 126 Feast of the Earth 128 Seasonal meals for the solstices and equinoxes Feast of the Spring Equinox 138 Feast of the Summer Solstice 144 Feast of the Autumn Equinox 150 Feast of the Winter Solstice 156 Feast of Spells 162 Potions, rites and dinner spells Home-blessing Rosemary Star Bread 175 Pine-baked Polenta Cakes with Arrabiata and Goat's Cheese 178 Four Thieves Vinaigrette 179 Lavender Potato Galette Against Mercury Retrograde 180 Protective Chicken Foot Soup 184 Ritual Bread Masks 182 Sacrificial Quail with Pomegranate Sauce 187 Sigil Grissini 188 Feast of Fried Blossoms and Mushrooms 191 Herbed Yogurt Cheese 194 Rosemary, Apple and Cheddar Picnic Pies 196 Salem Witch Trials "Witch Cake" 197 Chocolate, Beetroot and Grapefruit Celebration Cake 200 Opportunity-conjuring Dandelion and Calendula Scones 203 Honeyed Berries with Blue Lotus Zabaglione 204 Pressed-violet Offering Cookies 206 Elder and Blackberry Master of the Woods Cake 208 Bitters 211 Infused Ritual Wine 212 Love Potions 214 Mugwort and Catnip Divination Tea Ritual 217 Cleansing Iced Tea 220 References and Further Reading 223 Index 224 Acknowledgements 232 Show More
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Celebrate the holidays with a lovely tradition from Italy, the Feast of the Seven Fishes. This custom is a meal of at least seven different kinds of seafood served before Midnight on Christmas Eve. Use this menu with recipes from The Salmon Sisters cookbook to plan your own feast. Print it out for your table settings,
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Regardless of your heritage, a traditional Italian Christmas Eve dinner, aka The Feast of the Seven Fishes, is a delicious way to celebrate the holiday.
