I Hold Your Hand In Mine

Oracle Box

This started out as a sturdy carboard box with magnetic closures that I recovered in cotton fabric and accented with a few old buttons.  The Oracle patch is from Cat Coven a great place to buy all sorts of 

wonderfully witchy things, from patches to pottery mugs, pins, keychains, fine art prints and more!

The Oracle Box is going to be a gift for my friend who has a Halloween birthday. That has to be one of the best days for a birthday ever!

Fall and Dias de los Muertos Wreath

 Made from red twig dogwood, copper wire, fake flowers, wood and acrylic paint.  There is a hook to hang the bells and bow/skull from so they can be switched out easily. Made for my sister in law. I've been meaning to make this for years and finally finished it! 

Rainbow Chaat Masala Salad

Bella's Rainbow Chaat Masala salad recipe

This is a very versatile recipe in that you can clean out the crisper drawer or put in anything you like. Don't have green onions? White works too! As do shallots.

I personally recommend using rainbow carrots for added variety in taste and color.

Hate cilantro? Does it taste like soap to you? You can use parsley, fresh chives or a little mint as a garnish for something green and leafy instead.     

Feel like this recipe is totally lacking in garlic? You can fix that too, just add a few cloves of garlic to some of the lemon juice and grind it to a paste with a mortar and pestle.

Love tomatoes? I would advise adding them on top of individual servings rather than mixing into the salad so the tomatoes taste their best. This is a salad that can be refrigerated for days and tomatoes aren't going to enjoy chilling in the fridge.

Think of this recipe as a base which you can build upon however you wish based on your own tastes and things on hand.

Once I didn't have a lemon so I used a lime instead and it turned out great!

In a large bowl put the following tasty items:

One 15.5 oz can of Kidney beans - drained and rinsed

2 Celery ribs chopped

1 medium green pepper chopped

1/2 yellow or orange bell pepper chopped

2 carrots chopped

1 small bunch of green onions chopped and/or Shallot or small white onion

1/2 cup loose packed cilantro chopped

1 or 2 spicy peppers of choice such as Serrano, Jalapeno or Fresno chopped very fine

Mix together well in a small bowl or measuring cup:

1 heaping teaspoon Chaat Masala*

4-5 teaspoons white vinegar

The juice of one lemon

Salt to taste

Pour over everything in the large bowl and stir to combine

*Where to get the Chaat Masala

https://www.worldspice.com/blends/masala-chaat

World Spice Merchants

worldspice.com