Enchanted Kitchen: Connect to Spirit with Recipes & Rituals through the Year

by Gail Bussi

A Delicious Month-By-Month Tour Through the Year

Turn your kitchen into the true heart of your home with inspiring rituals, meditations, spells, crafts, and foods specific to each month. From the author of Enchanted Herbal, this book provides more than seventy-five seasonal recipes, several with vegan or vegetarian adaptations, such as:

Sunshine Lemon Pickles Rhubarb and Rosemary Preserve Four Thieves Vinegar Faerie Truffles Spicy Apple Chutney Cinderella Soup Moon and Stars Cookies Part guidebook, part recipe book, and part inspirational journey, Enchanted Kitchen is ripe with the simple magic, healing, and joy found in the ordinary, everyday things we sometimes take for granted. Whether you prefer to follow its pages chronologically or jump into a specific month, this book provides a magical kitchen experience for any occasion.

Genres: Cookbooks, Witchcraft, Magick, Spirituality, Nonfiction

336 pages, Paperback

Published June 8, 2022

About the author

Gail Bussi is a writer, artist, kitchen witch, and professional cook. After running a catering company and writing a cookbook, she returned to her long-held interest in herbs and green magic. Gail has studied holistic herbalism, natural healing, and mindfulness.

Reviews

[The Sassy Bookworm · Rating 3 out of 5]

⭐⭐⭐ -- Love the cover!

This was an okay book. There was a plethora of interesting sounding recipes in it. However, my Kindle copy didn't really have any photos in it, which took away from my overall enjoyment. I would imagine they will be added to the published cover? 🤷🏻‍♀️

**ARC Via NetGalley**

[Abby Jones]

DNF: I realized I'm gonna just want to buy this so I can mark it up, so I'm returning it to the library and will read it later!

[Eva Leppard · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an absolutely gorgeous book, full of amazing ideas for our kitchens. Being in the Southern hemisphere I had to change the months around to fit in with my seasons but thats not hard, I also dont use many of the ingredients in the recipes (Im vegan) but once again, this is easy to tweak to make work for myself. I will definitely be buying a hard copy of this book to make notes in and to use for years.

[McKenzie · Rating 1 out of 5]

As someone who is mostly into Kitchen Witchery, this was a bit disappointing to me. I really wanted to love this, but I didn't find any recipes that I felt particularly intrigued to try or practices to use. I really enjoyed Enchanted Herbal, so I thought that I might enjoy this next installment as well, but this book gave me less ideas than I was hoping. I think the writing is overall fine, but the use of a racial slur for a soup name leaves me feeling pretty ick. It's become pretty well known that the g-word, used usually to reference the Romani people, is not acceptable to use anymore, but I guess a few people have miss the memo.

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher, and the author for providing me with an eARC of this book, however, all thoughts and opinions are my own.

[Alexandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy to get through. Good for wanting you to work in the kitchen by the months and seasons. Month by month of stories, recipes and traditions.

[Caroline Hurry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kitchen Witchery
If you relish simple spiritual nourishment, Enchanted Kitchen will feel like coming home.
Gail Bussi has created a guide through the seasons with recipes, rituals, and heartfelt reflections. I love how she finds goddesses for each month, weaving mythology and folklore into simple acts of magic at the stove or table.
Gail’s evocative storytelling brings her kitchen to life with ancient presence - like Blodeuedd, the flower-born Celtic goddess, reminding us of beauty and fleeting summer.
Gail describes the kitchen table as the soul of the home, a sacred place where laughter, tears, tarot cards, flowers, herbs, and fresh eggs are shared. I loved her spin on the Samhain ritual of ancestor remembrance, which uses rosemary and water to feel their presence in daily life.
I, too, have a Zulu broom, so reading her words about its magic made me smile with recognition. Mine is much plainer than Gail’s, which is adorned with purple ribbons, beads, and crystals - an everyday object transformed into a talisman as she sweeps anticlockwise, blessing the kitchen with lavender and seawater.
Honestly, I would recommend getting the Enchanted Kitchen paperback because you’ll want to mark this marvellous book with notes and keep it in your pantry to try recipes such as Cinderella Soup and Leprechaun Pesto. What a brilliant gift it makes!

[Juli Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was somewhat less cohesive and in-depth than Enchanted Teatime: Connect to Spirit through Spells, Traditions, Rituals & Celebrations, but I still enjoyed it.

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun read. Interesting ideas, great recipes and excellent connections with history and home life. I had the BARD Download, making a Very enjoyable listen!

[Roberta · Rating 1 out of 5]

ATTENTION: G SLUR USED IN THE BOOK

Il libro era anche carino per quanto alcuni contesti socio-culturali fossero un po' tirati, ma poi una delle primissime ricette usa la g-word per riferirsi alla popolazione Romani e mi son cadute le braccia. Aveva fatto un'introduzione che parlava di accettazione e rispetto, con tanto di inclusione delle postille per veg, e poi questo? Non mi va giù raga