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If the witch-hunters are to be believed (!), when we're not eating babies at our Sabbats, we're busy relishing food that's half-rotten and stinks instead.
Just goes to show that even witch-hunters can get something right every now and then.
Even the part about the babies.
Boss Warlock's Really Stinky Half-Moon Baby Turnip Kimchi
1 lb. baby turnips
4½ teaspoons salt
2-3 teaspoons crushed red pepper
10-12 minced scallions
10-12 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon sugar
Aside from a pact with the Horned One, the secret to good health, long life, and eternal youth is to eat lots and lots of fresh vegetables: hence my decades-long Evil Plot to Get the Pagan Community Eating More Fresh Vegetables.
Not that it's been hard, you understand. Everybody likes good vegetables. In modern paganism's Potluck Culture, the bowl is always empty by the time I bring it home.
I first discovered Purple Pickle years ago while living in the Middle East. Every pickle-seller down at the souk would always have huge, eye-grabbing jars of pickled cabbage and cauliflower that glowed a radioactive neon-purple color.
Gods, I'd think. I don't know what they put in there to make it that color, but I don't think that it's something I want to eat.
More the fool, me. The dye, of course, is all perfectly natural.
Oh, and as for that pact with the Horned: let me recommend it.
Vegetables aside, it sure has worked for me.
Old Warlock's Purple Pickle
In today's Earthy Thursday post, we've got stories about our one-and-only biosphere: opening North Carolina forests to logging?; thirsty forests in California; crowd-funding dark snow res in Greenland;an emerging food economy; pickling for fun and sustainability; wonderful slot canyons.
In a move that has southern environmentalists up in arms, the US Forest service has proposed opening 70% of the massive Pisgah-Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina to industrial logging.
An unexpected side effect of climate change is fast-growing conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Good news? Not if you are a human (farmer or city dweller) competing for water with the increasingly thirsty trees.
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