Hi
I'm Michelle. I live in Minnesota and I am what you would call a spinster. But who says that anymore? I live with my mother. Maybe my life isn't where I wanted it to be ten years ago, or even a year ago, but I am alive and I'm going to make the most of what I have.
I have been a Wiccan for several years but lately, I have started to get serious about it. This is an exciting faith to be in. It is also an expensive faith to participate in. So trying to figure out ways to save money and be a Wiccan is a challenge and fun, too.
On top of all this, I have PCOS. I have gained a lot of weight and am working on losing the weight. But it's tough. PCOS is a hormonal disorder that affects fertility in women as well as many other things such as weight and insulin resistance. I am coming to terms with this diagnosis and trying my best to get a handle on a whole new lifestyle. I am exiling all starchy foods from my home. Those I live with have to put up with it but they are being awfully kind.
I didn't think that the practice of my faith and my new culinary adventures would intersect until the recent Middlemas. I was going to drink wine, which isn't terrible, and have a bit of cake as part of a ritual. But I couldn't. It was the first time I had to give it up. Now, this isn't Earth shattering. It's not like going to mass and passing on the body of Christ while glugging down the blood of Christ. Ok, it kind of is. But it doesn't have the same religious symbolism. Still, it gave me the idea that as a Kitchen Witch, I could experiment on the sacred sweet cakes and moon cakes etc... and come up with something that is gluten-free or even readily edible by the Glycemic Index and Load communities. Right? Right!
And away we go!
