Llewellyn's 2012 Witches' Companion by Llewellyn (chrome ebook reader TXT) 📗

energies in the ingredients expanding. Visualize the activity of the molecules within the food as they become excited when heated, increasing their speed and motion and activating your magick.

You can add the magick in with a dash of spice or a wave of your wand right at the end. Or, you can make every step of the process magickally aligned with your goal …

Designing Ten-Minute Magickal Meals

A meal can be made magickal with one little touch or with magick infused in every step of the process. You can add the magick in with a dash of spice or a wave of your wand right at the end. Or, you can make every step of the process magickally aligned with your goal, choosing every ingredient based on its attributes and preparing the food while fully focused on your intent and the working at hand. It’s up to you and how much energy and attention you want to devote to your magick in the ten minutes of cooking time.

Not every ingredient needs to be in line with your spell goal, but if possible it’s nice to have at least two ingredients that compliment each other magickally. You can choose spices based on traditional attributes found in an encyclopedia of herbs or vegetables based on color attributes, associated symbolism, or folklore; use your imagination and trust your magick!

Now of course, getting in and out of the kitchen and working magick while you’re at it in just ten minutes flat is no easy task. Many foods require a longer cooking time and aren’t going to work when you’re in a rush. But there are a few staples that can be widely adapted to a variety of recipes and that cook very quickly. Pastas, wraps, and chilies are three of these secret foundations for a ten-minute magickal meal.

Pasta Power!

Quick to cook, noodles are a mainstay of the ten-minute kitchen witch. Associated with good health and longevity in China, pasta is both wholesome and magickal. It’s also very versatile, and you can choose what herbs and vegetables to add to your sauce blends based on the magickal attributes of these ingredients.

To start, fill a pot with water. Hold your hand over the pot and think about the magickal pasta you’re about to cook. If it’s a joy-inducing spaghetti, conjure an energy of happiness and send this power out of your hand and into the water. If it’s defense noodles you’re making, summon protective forces to infuse the water with incredible strength. Place the pot on the stove and turn on the burner, invoking the element of fire or calling on the energies of the sun as you do so.

Now grab whatever herbs and/or vegetables you want to use in your recipe and get to washing and chopping and whatever else you need to do to prepare the ingredients for cooking. Make each step of the ingredient preparation process an act of magick, purifying energies as you wash vegetables and fresh herbs, infusing ingredients with your magickal intent as you peel, cut, or tear. Slice vegetables into thin pieces for quicker cooking.

Once the water comes to a boil, put in your noodles. To keep the recipe under ten minutes, choose angel hair pasta or thin spaghetti, and use whole wheat noodles for greater health value and greater magickal power. While the noodles boil, heat a few tablespoons of olive oil in a pan and add any vegetables you’re using, then any herbs. Think about the magickal energies of the ingredients you’ve chosen seeping out into the oil as the heat magnifies their power. Drain the noodles while the vegetables and herbs finish cooking. Once vegetables become bright in color and herbs begin to release their scent, pour the mix over the noodles and toss gently to coat. For a lo mein, add soy sauce. Empower the finished dish with an extra enchantment: think of your magickal goal and send a feeling of success and certainty into the noodles. If you like, affirm out loud the food’s purpose, saying something such as, “These joyful noodles will bring happiness to everyone who eats them.” Serve and enjoy.

That’s a Wrap

Wraps—sandwiches that forgo bread and are instead rolled in tortillas—are a fast, fresh, and fun way to make a magickal meal in no time. Choose vegetables such as yellow squash, zucchini, mushrooms, tomatoes, lettuce, onion, or cucumber. Charm the vegetables to enhance their natural power: simply connect with the energies in the food and call out the attribute most suited to the magick, magnifying the ingredient’s inherent qualities or color associations. Prepare the vegetables using a magickal slicing technique, then either put them fresh into the tortilla or quickly saute them in a little butter, letting the heat magnify the magick of your empowered ingredients. Add protein with a bit of cold tofu salad, a nice vegetarian assimilation of chicken salad—just drain a package of firm tofu and mash it up with a little mayonnaise and curry powder. If you’re a meat eater, simply add sliced turkey or forkfuls of tuna. Serve rolled in wheat or spinach tortillas, adding cheese or honey mustard if you wish.

Chili to the Rescue!

Another staple of the magickal quick cook is chili, made with canned beans so that it’s ready in less than ten minutes. Choose three cans of beans, any combination of dark red kidney beans, light red kidney beans, black beans, garbanzo beans, and pinto beans. All beans are associated with health, prosperity, stability, fertility, growth, increase, and strength. Color attributes can also be considered, perhaps choosing red beans for a meal to bring love, black beans to banish, brown beans for earth energies, and so on. Select the energetic attributes that match your magickal intent and empower the beans you’ve chosen accordingly, keeping the bean’s symbolism and inherent power and the goal of your spellworking in mind as you cook.

All beans are associated with health, prosperity, stability, fertility, growth, increase, and strength. Color attributes can also be considered.

Put the beans in a pot