Best-selling author and white witch Titania Hardie is back, this time in the kitchen. So follow her enchanting culinary advice and season your dishes with some magic
Any food prepared with love has magic in it, said Isabel Allende. Taking this idea one step further is third-generation white witch Titania Hardie, who has conjured up a cookbook for enchanting your loved one and dinner guests.
Hubble Bubble focuses on the eternal preoccupations of attraction, fertility, health and home, and uses recipes as spells to give your food magical properties. 'Magic is to be shared with family and friends,' says Titania. 'You can weave a charm around your guests at a summer picnic or at the Christmas table, and your loved one or gaggle of guests will fall under your spell of delight.'
As a domestic witch, you need to make every meal a magical experience. 'Enchanted food is an extension of your own magical thought,' she explains. 'The cornerstone of this concept is that you can manifest everything you want through powerful, concentrated thought… food then becomes the medium through which your magic reaches others.'
Food prepared in this way will also turn out tasting better. 'Dishes will work well; nothing will seem too difficult. Cooking up your ingredients with a feeling of their magical potential will alter your awareness of the littlest things around you… Magic will be infused in your very touch, on all things.'
Become a domestic goddess with Titania's recipe spells:
- For fertility: Lovers' Salad
- For good luck: Damper Bread
- For health: Red Pepper and Spicy Tomato Soup
- For seduction: Thai King Prawns with Chilli and Ginger
- For success: Edible Spells in Brandy Snap Wrappers
Then read Titania's guide to creating the right atmosphere for a magical Halloween supper
Titania Hardie's Hubble Bubble: Titania's Book of Magical Feasts (Quadrille, £14.99) is available from Amazon