Writing Group: Recipe Disasters

This was a fun prompt, yes, it was to make a spoof of a recipe blog posts but instead of telling about a fantastic recipe, we wrote about how it went wrong. This could be a real story, a magic, fantastical fiction. Whatever made us happy. Mine as magic.

Also, if you are curious for an update on my book manuscript – I’m working on draft no. 4. It is almost a compete rewrite. It’s a lot but I’m loving the enhanced storylines.

Do you have any real stories of recipes gone wrong? Let me know in the comments. Happy reading and safe cooking.

The Witches Blog – Recipe Experiment No. 13

Hello readers, so ah, the recipe this week was a failure and ended with a heart pounding scavenger hunt that cost me a couple hundred bucks outside in the cost of ingredients. The main things I learned? 

• I’m not ready for this level of spell work.
• Enunciation is extremely important. 
• So is the intention. 
• Do not, for the love of all things blessed, let your mind wonder.  

So, what happened you ask? I decided for this recipe experiment to try a spell to save me some time, a vanity spell. I wanted to get rid of all my unwanted body hair. You know, save me some time shaving my legs, under arms, keep my eyebrows correctly shaped without the occasional unibrow hair that likes to pop up. Simple right? No, it was not. I researched the spell, the cleansing, the oils, the words. Mistake #1. I did not clean my space before cleansing the energy and starting the spell.

Mistake #2: I didn’t lock my dog out of the room with my spell alter and she came tramping in mid-spell, distracting me and she shook and hair went flying. It’s spring, she is blowing her winter coat. 

Mistake #3: I didn’t stop my spell work, I continued, now covered in dog hair, and messed up my words. Instead of hair, I said heir. Get rid of all this excess heir… But, I don’t have a child, so the spell saw my adorable pup as my heir and she freaking VANISHED. Or maybe I did say hair but was thinking of the dog hair and not my body hair. I don’t really remember at this point.

Readers, I freaked out. Because I love my dog and now she is gone. I hoped and prayed to every god, goddess, and saint that I have ever worked with that I could find her. Seriously, my altar is currently covered in offerings and will be for the foreseeable future. Hoped that she did not just vanish into the energy of the universe. Hoped that the spell just vanished her elsewhere in the world. I mean, I am not a super powerful witch or anything. I have a basic gift and I make sure not to do any malicious spells. Keeping my energy bright. I hoped the spell vanished her somewhere close. 

After my requests at the altar, I took the non magical steps to find her. 

• Social media posts
• Flyers
• Calling every animal shelter I could find a number for. 

I told everyone she escaped out of the yard.

The universe punished me for being so vain. It took me three days to find her at an animal shelter two hours away. Also, from additional research apparently that makes the spell decently powerful, not that I’m trying it again. After a four hour round trip visit to the shelter, where it turned out the spell removed her collar but not her chip, I paid the adoption fee and then to a groomer and then to a pet store for treats. They found her in a mud puddle. The guilt is real y’all.

Please, please readers. If you learn nothing else from my blog, please learn from my mistakes. Anyway, I’m going to apologize again to my dog and give her another cookie. I’m also going to stick to basic spells for the time being. 

Thanks for reading and subscribe! 

Edit: Here is the requested dog tax! 

Thank you KW Photography for allowing me to use your wonderful photos!

INSTAGRAM│TWITTER│YOUTUBE │PATREON

If you like the banner check out this design and others at Canva!