Pixie's Pocket Spotlight: Cayenne Honey

Graphic and Photo by Modern Scribe Design

Cayenne Honey?

Oh, yeah...it's warm. It's sweet. It's dangerously yummy...

Cayenne honey is made with sweet Appalachian mountain wildflower honey, blended with cayenne powder and poured over a bit of dried cayenne pepper that was grown organically.

This honey is hot, in a really sneaky way. It warms you in the throat and tummy before the heat really has time to settle in your tongue!

It's a good idea to add a honey like this to a tea when your sinuses are stuffed, or if you feel yourself coming down with a cold. Use it if you appreciate the heat cure for a compromised immune system.

Cayenne Honey also rocks for adding to a marinade for chicken or veggies or whatever it is that needs some sweet, spicy love!

Purchase Cayenne Honey from the Pixie's Pocket shop!

October Mornings

Sol, by Amber Shehan

It is truly October.

I woke this morning to blue light filtering in my window, mist and dew clinging to the dying pokeberry bushes outside. It was a sweatshirt morning, a full pot of coffee morning, and a get something on the stove kind of morning.

Currently, there is a pot full of Cocoa Honey starting to work it's melting magic in the kitchen, and then it will be Ginger Honey for my folks fighting colds. I'm thinking of making a seasonal Elderberry Honey for the sneezes and snorts of winter. There's a sick little girl on the couch, healing from a tonsil infection who's going to get some nice, soothing elderberry tea once the kettle starts to sing.

*yawn*
*stretch*

Good morning, world.

October marches in...

Photo by Modern Scribe Photography

Cold and windy, dark and ominous, October is marching in, leaving muddy tracks on my carpet to mix with the windblown leaves.

I've been away from this blog and my shop for much of the warm months. I've been delving into gardening, raising chickens, working full time hours outside of the home, drumming, socializing, and altogether being a happy and busy bee.

Now the cold is returning, and bringing with it my nesting instincts. I'm ready to clean and create. So far this fall, I've put away some applesauce and pie filling after picking at Stepp Orchard in Hendersonville, NC. I have one jar of peelings soaking in rum, and another in vodka, for making cordials. I have a jar of spiced vodka infusing in my cupboard as well.

I'm eying the plants outside to prioritize the autumnal harvest...the burdock is dying back and after the first frost, can dig up his root for eating and pickling, oh, and the chicory, too.  The primrose is bright with flowers, and I've been pulling leaves of yarrow for drying.  We have a big jar of dried shitake mushrooms, and I'll soon be getting some pumpkins for carving, roasting seeds, and making pumpkin butter and pies.

We have recently used an extra bit of canvas to create a wind block for the chicken coop. The biddies are all fluffy and feathered out as the days get colder. They are happy, healthy, and producing well! Our first winter in caring for them is coming, and I'm confident we'll all make it through with all of our toes.


Enjoy this crisp season of woodsmoke, chill wind, and rustling leaves. I'll be in better touch with all you folks out there.