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The Arcane Tavern’s kitchen is cooking up something new and delicious. In spite of what this image looks like, this is not your simple French onion soup. The recipe will be up in a day or two. We hope to see you back at the Arcane Inn and Tavern when it goes up!

#cooking #work in progress cooking #soup #kitchen #Cooking photos

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Hello there darling! While not purely dedicated to solely witch-based posts, the Arcane Inn and Tavern Page does both create and reblog witchy content. I plan on posting some more Samhain content as we draw closer to the holiday. I hope we can become friends. You’re welcome at the Arcane Inn and Tavern anytime.

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Triple-Spiced Hot Chocolate

Good day, weary traveller. It’s certainly getting chillier out there this time of year. Here where the Arcane Inn and Tavern is, we’ve already been getting our fair share of snowstorms and chilly days, let alone the freezing nights. However, we here at the Arcane Inn and Tavern also have just the perfect thing to combat the cold and warm your soul in these darkening days. Our local barista has recently prepared a recipe for a hot chocolate that is sure to warm you right up. He combines the warm heat of Mexican hot chocolate, the subtle warmth of a chai black tea blend, and a few simple spices in a spiced soft cream to guarantee any soul who enjoys a nice hot chocolate will feel warm and fuzzy after such an experience. We sincerely hope that if you’re a hot chocolate lover, you’ll give this drink a try and let us know your thoughts. Triple-Spiced Hot Chocolate 2 mugfuls of milk of your choice

1 bag of chai black tea blend (or, 1 serving of loose leaf tea mixed with your favorite chai spices if you don’t use tea bags)

16 ounces of a chocolate of your choice, chopped (we used 70% cacao dark chocolate for ours, but feel free to use whatever you like)

6 tablespoons of your favorite Mexican hot chocolate blend

2 teaspoons of brown sugar (can be substituted for regular sugar)

3/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1/4 cup of heavy whipping cream

A splash of vanilla (for the soft cream)

A plain whipped cream for the peak (your favorite recipe or product works)

Sprinklings of cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove (to your contentment)

White sugar, adding enough to get a soft consistency to the cream

Nutmeg and grated chocolate, for topping

Directions:

Start by warming up your milk on a stovetop on a medium low to medium setting. You can either wait for the milk to come up to temperature before adding your tea blend, or you can do as the barista at the Arcane Inn and Tavern does and add the tea blend as soon as possible, allowing the milk to warm and the tea to steep while other ingredients are prepared. NOTE: Do not let the milk come past a light simmer. Feel free to fluctuate your heat up or down if needed so the milk remains on heat but does not boil.

Once the tea has steeped to your liking, remove it from the milk and add in your chopped chocolate of choice. Allow it to sit and soften for a moment in the hot milk, then whisk until there are no visible clumps of chocolate that remain.

Add in your Mexican hot chocolate blend and brown sugar, and whisk again. NOTE: Don’t add in the vanilla now, as you should wait until your other components are prepared. Otherwise, some of the vanilla flavor will be lost to the heat.

To prepare the spiced soft cream: Start by adding the vanilla and spices to the heavy cream. Using a whisk or a milk frothier, begin mixing until all of the ingredients are combined and the cream has started to thicken, but isn’t quite there yet. Start adding in sugar in small additions and continue to whisk in air until you can create figure-8s that hold when you remove your mixing tool of choice upon the surface.

Grate your topping chocolate, and have the soft cream, stiff whipped cream of your choosing, and ground nutmeg ready to go.

Stir in the vanilla extract into the hot chocolate, making sure to whisk until adequately combined.

To assemble: Ladle your hot chocolate into a mug until approximately 3/4s of the mug is full. Then, spoon in some of your soft cream, smoothing it around to ‘cap’ the hot chocolate, or in other words so it resembles a soft foam on top. Add a swirl or dollop of the whipped cream of your choice. Garnish with the nutmeg and grated chocolate.

This recipe serves 2 people, so do feel free to share this with someone you care about.

#The Arcane Tavern #hot chocolate #Spiced hot chocolate #recipe #drinks #winter drinks #cooking #Drink making

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With both Halloween and Samhain right around the corner, the staff of the Arcane Inn and Tavern saw this poster and found the contents simply essential to share for our little up-and-coming community as well. In addition to the information on the post here, here is more a pumpkin-spice recipe, with a breakdown on the common magickal uses to keep in tone with the above. Please note - you can very much hold these spices to have magickal properties that work for you that others might not identify with these spices. The following are phrased as ‘commonly used’ for that reason - witchcraft is personal to the witch, and the staff believe this message should be encouraged. Just because the common books say something does not mean you are not allowed to disagree and have your own unique perspective. So, dear traveller, if you study the arcane and identify different properties to any of the spices below, feel free to share with your fellow students. The common room is open for a reason, after all. Pumpkin Spice Recipe: 3 tablespoons of cinnamon (Commonly used in witchcraft for help with: Protection, love, fertility, happiness, health, and wealth) 2 teaspoons of ground ginger (Commonly used in witchcraft for help with: Healing, protection, wealth, and general amplifying of the energy in a spell/other spell components) 1 1/2 teaspoons of nutmeg (Commonly used in witchcraft for help with: Luck, love, and wealth) 1 1/2 teaspoons of allspice (Commonly used in witchcraft for help with: Health and luck) 1 1/2 teaspoons of cloves (Commonly used in witchcraft for help with: Protection, wealth, luck, and can be used in essential oil form to possibly aid in mental health) [Optionally] 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla powder (Commonly used in witchcraft for help with: Relief, empowerment, amplifying the energy of a spell/other spell ingredients) In a small bowl, or directly in a jar, add all of the ingredients. Mix together until a relatively uniform mixture is formed. Keep stored in a jar until ready to use in your favorite pie or enchanted tea.

Thank you to The Spectral Cottage for making the incredible original post that inspired this one. Please wander to their corner of the world sometime and indulge in their other content.

Pumpkin Witchcraft

Keep carved pumpkins to scare away spirits and negative energy

Make pumpkin pies for abundance

Roast pumpkin seeds and put them in your money bowl

Add pumpkin spice to your coffee for abundance

Give a pumpkin to your deity as an offering

Offer a pumpkin to your home wards

Light pumpkin scented candles for abundance

Drink pumpkin tea before bed to protect you while you sleep

#witchcraft #halloween #samhain #pagan #witchblr #recipe #pumpkin spice #spices

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Introducing the Innkeeper

Good morning, afternoon, or evening, weary one. Whether you’ve been on a journey for quite some time or you’re just a local who needs a good bite to warm the soul, the Arcane Inn and Tavern will have you covered plenty.

My name is Rania, and I am the innkeeper here at the Arcane Inn and Tavern. I figured it might be a wise idea to introduce myself, give you a little bit to get to know me by. I’m a woman living in the midst of mountains and forests, or, more specifically, a city right on the border. That’s where our little Inn and Tavern is. When not busy here making meals for the customers or helping those who need advising, I’m in the libraries studying wildlife biology. I am, what I like to call, a believer in both science and the supernatural. Been walking the path of learning pagan practices since the tail end of 2020, and while I do very much handle the mundane over the magickal, there are intersects between the two worlds that I have found most interesting and hope to share. Some of my favorite past times include baking goods for the counter, prepping and cooking meals before rush hour, and and the written and visual arts. You might notice some pieces on the walls soon - I need to get some new decorations in here, after all. A little pause to the rush of energy in taverns, or a warm breath in the morning as you savor your stay in the inn.

I’m a friendly person, and have my mailbox open here in the entrance to the inn. Feel free to address me with /ask for all of your curiosities about me or the inn and tavern. It’ll send it right to me. Pleasure to meet you, dear. I hope you enjoy your time here, however long you choose to stay.

#intro post #introducing myself