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Recipe: apple cake with Brazil nuts
We’ve already made the tea. The warm cup in hand, the smell of cinnamon throughout the house. But tea alone is sad. It needs a cake. A simple cake the kind you cut a slice of and sit in the kitchen to chat. Soft on the inside, with pieces of apple that fall apart, and…
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Recipe: apple cinnamon tea
As autumn comes to an end and the days grow cold, the body asks for something warm. The soul does too. Apple cinnamon tea is what nature has reserved for this moment: the fruit that keeps, the bark that warms, the honey that sweetens without weighing down. Here, I’ll teach you how to make the…
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The hidden star
When I think of autumn, what comes to mind is not just the falling leaves. It’s smell. Cinnamon, apple, and cake baking in the oven. A warm cup in your hands, a cat curled up on your lap like a cozy cushion while the wind begins to cool outside. Some foods seem to have been…
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Mabon and autumn
Autumn, like spring, is marked by an equinox. It is an astronomical phenomenon in which the Sun shines directly on the Equator, causing both hemispheres of the Earth to receive practically the same amount of light. The result is days and nights of very similar length. It is when nature begins to slow down, leaves…