Spirited Cooking

Weave magic into every day with seasonal cooking and craft designed for every solstice, equinox, and halfway point in between! In The Spirited Kitchen, practicing witchcraft means nurturing a relationship with the seasons and drawing on ancestral roots to find magic in small details. Here, simple ingredients—apples, hazelnuts, wheat—become magical elements of cooking and ritual crafting. The result is an enchanting culinary journey through the pagan Wheel of the Year, from the Halloween festivities of Samhain to the return of autumn at Harvest Home. With each season, readers can cook feast dinners to celebrate nature’s cycles. In winter, Cranberry Custard Tarts encourage health and well-being; in spring, Deep Dish Nettle Quiche ushers in resilience after cold months; and Calendula Chicken embodies the abundance of summer. Along the way, ritual crafts like Salt Spells, hand-woven Offering Baskets, and a Maypole Chandelier bring extra symbolism to the table. Complete with stunning photographs and a glossary of spirited symbols and ingredients, this book is a bewitching guide to seasonal magic.

Add depth to your cooking with the use of spirits, liqueurs and fortified wines, and seduce your taste buds with over 35 recipes. The potency of spirits and liqueurs make them wonderfully enriching ingredients. The recipes in this book range from tantalizing fish dishes such as Thai mussels with dry sherry to robust meat recipes such as whisky chicken with onion marmalade. While brandy and whisky are used more often on meat or fish recipes, it is in sweets and desserts that liqueurs come into their own: try apricot frangipane tart with kirsch, rich Caribbean rum cake, exquisite mini florentines with Grand Marnier, as well as dramatic crepes suzette and classic, seductive zabaglione. Rarer spirits and liqueurs such as kahlua, peach schnapps, curacao, cafe noir and mandarine Napoleon are used as well as the more usual whiskies, brandies, sherries and vermouths.

Boozy starters, main meals, desserts, and more, accompanied by stunning photography Julia Child famously commented, "I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food . . . " Kristy Gardner has taken this idea to the next level in Cooking with Cocktails. Every recipe is touched with alcohol; the result is a punchy visual adventure with roots in Italian and French cuisine that demands enjoying meals with passion, with friends, and with alcohol. Recipes include: Irish Whisky French Onion Soup Limoncello Spot Prawns with Fresh Black Pepper Beer Braised Chicken Thighs Apple Cider Pork Loin with Thyme and Rosemary Red Wine Poached Pears with Creamy Ricotta Whiskey Soaked Vanilla Anise Cherries Join the celebration of the very best that life has to offer—good friends, good food, good drink, great stories, and bad jokes—with humor, delicious recipes, and mouth-watering photographs.

Fremont Mischief Distillery chef and local forager John Wahlke's innovative take on Pacific Northwest cuisine references the Distillery's specialties while incorporating new methods and fresh flavors. In this essential cookbook, Wahlke shares his culinary insights into his spirited cooking, along with accessible, vibrant approaches for every home cook. With recipes as varied as the region that inspires them, Spirited Cooking from the Pacific Northwest celebrates just how easy it is to incorporate a bounty of delicious foods into our kitchens.

Recipes from Feast of Fiction, the innovative YouTube show featuring fantastical and fictional recipes inspired by books, movies, comics, video games, and more. Fans of Feast of Fiction have been clamoring for a cookbook since the channel debuted in 2011. Now it’s here! Just as they do on the small screen, hosts Jimmy Wong and Ashley Adams whip up their real-life interpretation of fictional dishes to pay homage in a genuine, geeky, and lively way. Jimmy brings a wealth of gamer and nerd cred to the table, and baker extraordinaire Ashley provides the culinary wisdom. The quirky duo offer an array of creative and simple recipes, featuring dishes inspired by favorites such as Star Trek and Adventure Time, as well as Butterbeer (Harry Potter), A Hobbit’s Second Breakfast, Mini “Dehydrated” Pizzas (Back to the Future), Sansa’s Lemon Cakes (Game of Thrones), and dishes from the niches of gaming, comics, and animation such as Fire Flakes (Avatar), Poke Puffs (Pokemon), and Heart Potions (The Legend of Zelda). With 55 unique and awesome dishes, this long-awaited cookbook will help inspire a pop culture dinner party, a fun night at home with family and friends, or an evening on the couch thinking about what you could be cooking!

More than one hundred recipes combine vegetarian cooking with wine and spirits to create a fascinating and unique exploration of meatless cuisine, from classic recipes to modern creations, all of them sure to impress with their style and sophistication. Original. 25,000 first printing.