#Maple Kitchens

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Kitchen Islands: The Perfect Blend of Style and Functionality

A kitchen island is way more than just an extra counter in your kitchen, it's the heart of modern kitchens combining style functionality and a touch of luxury. Whether you are redesigning your kitchen or building 1 from scratch adding a kitchen island can transform the space into a more efficient and enjoyable area cooking dining and socializing. In this guide you can learn everything about the benefits of Kitchen Islands.

What do you need to know about a kitchen island?

Just like a Breakfast Bar OK kitchen island is actually a freestanding countertop that's often located in the center of your kitchen. It can serve multiple purposes like additional storage and extra workspace or even a casual dining area. Kitchen islands are available in different sizes and designs making them a versatile addition to your kitchen.

Benefits of kitchen island

Kitchen island provides additional space for your meal preparation whether it's chopping vegetables or assembling dishes. The extra counter area is a lifesaver especially if you have a small kitchen. The kitchen islands often come with inbuilt cabinets drawers and shelves. The extra storage can help you keep your kitchen organized providing space for pots and even cookbooks. The island can create a central gathering point for your friends and family especially for sharing a cup of coffee or chatting while preparing meals. It fosters connection and interaction.

Different types of kitchen islands

Stationary kitchen islands are basically fixed and freestanding structures that remain in one place. They're ideal if you have a large kitchen and can also include it's just like stove tops or seating areas. Portable islands come with wheels making them very easy to move around. They are perfect for small kitchens where flexibility is important. Or peninsula island is attached to your wall or counter on one side. It's a great option for small kitchens where island might not fully fit. Breakfast bar islands feature an overhang that creates a comfortable dining space with stools. They are perfect for you as a family or just entertaining guests.

So above all you need to know that a kitchen island is an investment in your home’s functionality and beauty. By carefully planning the size and design you can create a space that suits your lifestyle and elevates your kitchen’s overall appeal. Whether it's for cooking or entertaining a well-designed kitchen island will quickly become your favorite spot in your home.

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Chicken & Waffles

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Roche d'Harveaux limestone, cut into sixteen-inch squares and placed in a running bond pattern, is used in all remodeled areas. The limestone picks up the tone of the maple cabinetry, while the black granite, devoid of grain, provides contrast.

Designing with Tile, Stone & Brick, 1995

[cerealkiller740]

1954 Log Cabin Syrup and Downy Flake Frozen Waffles

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[fizzytoo]

nothing better than a pancake breakfast

and im reminded of when a teenage adrien made pancakes for a baby julie 😔

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i need to stop being so shy about main tagging my miscellaneous sasha rambles . god forbid the sasha nein guy post about sasha nein

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Maple Bacon Turkey Roast with Port Bacon, Apple and Mushroom Stuffing

De-boning turkey legs to make this Maple Bacon Turkey Roast with Port Bacon, Apple and Mushroom Stuffing take a bit of work and effort, but having the skin between the flesh and the bacon makes a delicious difference. The flesh is incredibly juicy and flavourful, and this pièce de résistance of our Thanksgiving meal, particularly stunning!

Ingredients (serves 8 to 10):

2 (1-kilo/2-pound) turkey legs

a good pinch of fleur de sel or sea salt flakes and freshly cracked black pepper

about 1 1/2 cup

about 16 strips smoked streaky bacon

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 onion

1 cup water

4 tablespoons pure (Grade A) Canadian Maple Syrup

Preheat oven to 210°C/ 410°F.

Thoroughly de-bone turkey legs, keeping the skin on. Flatten both turkey pieces and lay them flat, joining both vertically onto cutting board or work surface. Season with fleur de sel and black pepper.

Spoon Port Bacon, Apple and Mushroom Stuffing in the centre, and roll turkey roast upwards as tightly as possible. Completely wrap with bacon strips. Tie with twine.

Peel onion, cut into slices, and scatter at the bottom of a large roasting tin.

Sit turkey roast onto the onion slices, and drizzle generously with olive oil. Rub oil gently all over the bacon.

Pour half of the cup of water at the bottom of the dish, and place in the middle of the hot oven. Roast, 1 hour, at 210°C/ 410°F.

Generously brush roast with Maple Syrup, and pour remaining water at the bottom of the dish. Return to the oven, along with the stuffing, and roast, another 30 minutes at 210°C/ 410°F, regularly brushing with Maple Syrup and basting with cooking juices.

Serve Maple Bacon Turkey Roast with Port Bacon, Apple and Mushroom Stuffing hot with Stuffing, Maple Poultry Gravy, Apple-Cranberry Sauce, Vanilla Whipped Parsnips and Honey Roasted Pumpkin. Happy Thanksgiving!

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[subtle-kitchenwitch]

Had some berries about to go bad, so I figured I’d treat myself to berries and Greek yogurt with some maple syrup 🤤🤤🤤🤤 🍓 🍁

[toyastales]

Chicken & Waffles

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Zionist charities in Canada are paying student journalists to write and share “pro-Israel" content.

The program, now operated by HRC and Allied Voices for Israel (AVI), consists of post-secondary students being paid $1,000 for six months of participation, with the expectation that they:  • “Monitor their local campus media”; • “Respond to problematic coverage, whether by filing complaints or submitting counter letters to the editor and rebuttal op-eds”; • “Proactively submit opinion commentaries and press releases to steer the conversation about Israel, following with the adage that the best defense is a strong offense”; • “Create and share pro-Israel content on social media and report antisemitic/anti-Israel content.”

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1970 Brach’s Royals Candy

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Maple Tree Correspondence

Maple Tree Correspondence:

One can honor Maple Syrup in their kitchen witch recipes and rituals as a way of connecting with her energy.

Maple Lore:

 Maple trees are believed to repel demons and evil spirits. For protection it was customary in many houses to have a piece of a maple tree in the main door. Maple trees symbolize balance, offering, practical magic, promise, longevity, generosity, and intelligence. One reason behind these meanings is that maple trees can adapt to many different soil types and climates. Furthermore, it is an important tree in Celtic mythology. It was a tree consecrated to Dana, the Celtic goddess of fertility. It is also known as the tree of tolerance. In China, maple is associated with honor, and its leaves are a motif in Japanese ukiyo-e paintings representing love and autumn.

Maple trees are also associated with Virgo & Libra.

In Druidry if you’re born between the dates of April 11 - April 20; October 14 - October 23. You are known for a lively personality, a sense of humor, ability for deduction, analytical mind.

Maple is also the tree of offering, as it’s giving its sap, so that others can benefit. Therefore, it makes a great gift for the magical person in your life.

There are over 125 different species of the maple tree that are indigenous to Asia, Europe, North Africa, and the U.S. With the species interacting with so many different cultures over millennia, it’s attracted all kinds of myths, associations, and related magical properties.

Maple trees are mostly dioecious, meaning that there are both male and female trees. However, some species are polygamo-dioecious, carrying both male and female flowers on the same tree. They are therefore considered to resonate with both masculine and feminine energy.

Owls are commonly associated with the maple, because the tree itself represents the changing of the seasons, the natural cycle of death followed by rebirth, and wisdom accumulated over a lifetime. Under normal conditions, a maple tree lives between sixty and two hundred years.

Healing is strongly linked with maple trees, and many shamans and witches use a maple staff, wand, or the smoke of maple wood in healing. The inner bark can get used as:

An astringent to soothe sore or swollen eyes.

An infusion to treat stomach cramps and diarrhea.

A tea to treat coughs.

A concentration (infused with maple leaves) to detoxify the liver and spleen.

Kindness and compassion are other associations. Since the maple tree starts blooming in late winter or very early spring, it’s a feeder for pollen and leaf eaters when there’s not much nourishment available. It’s therefore associated with nurturing, purity, caring, and sharing.

Magical Properties of the Maple Tree

Apart from healing, many witches use maple wands and pendulums because it reveals options seen and unseen, broadening the intellect and acquiring knowledge. It also encourages peaceful communication making it excellent for use when doing spell work or readings that involve conflict resolution.

Because maple is a wood of caring, knowledge, and wisdom, it will guide you in making realistic and honest decisions and choices. It won’t do much for you if you use it for harm or rash outcomes, like quick luck or gambling.

Maple is Feminine in nature and associated with the moon & Jupiter and the elemental energies of water.

Maple is ideal for spells and rituals that involve abundance (with pure intentions), binding, beauty, cleansing, and love. You can use maple wood in your home to encourage love, harmony, and happiness.

Maple is useful in moon magic and in spells related to travel, learning, and decision-making, especially in matters related to bringing about or dealing with change. Maple is also useful in spiritual healing.

Maple Syrup can be used immensely in Kitchen Witchery.

Maple wood is excellent for wands, staffs, and maypoles.

The wisdom that maple brings into any situation makes it ideal for divination. If used for negative ends, maple is known to become a neutral energy. It tends to choose its companions, seeking people who are devoted and who have a strong sense of conviction and truth.

How do you know if maple is choosing you as a companion? You’ll be naturally drawn to the tree even if there aren’t any growing nearby. It will pop up in articles, books, and catalogues. A companion piece is anything that you keep nearby or with you all the time. Maple is a potent and loyal companion. Folklore/Symbolism

Strength and Wisdom- In Folklore, maple trees are associated with strength, endurance, and wisdom, often seen as sacred or auspicious.

Protection- Maple leaves have been used as protective talismans in various cultures, believed to ward off evil spirits and harm.

Connection to nature- Maple trees are regarded as symbols of nature’s beauty, resilience, and the changing seasons, especially in Autumn.

Maple at Risk

Unfortunately, sugar maples have seen quite a bit of decline due to logging of forests (they are slow growing, and faster growing trees, like birch, will often come up in their places after a forest is logged).  Sugar maples are also not very tolerant to pollution, including soil acidification and acid rain (this is mainly caused by automobiles). While they were once found in parks throughout the USA, with the rise of the automobile, these trees had a harder time surviving in urban areas.  Culpepper goes as far as calling this tree a “gentleman’s tree” as it was often found in urban parks.  The salt from roads also damages the tree’s root systems, contributing to its decline. This is not to say that the sugar maple is still not a dominant tree-it is.  You just need to get off the roads and out of the cities to see them.

Native American Lore

To understand the sugar maple in the Native American lore, I reviewed numerous legends–the sugar maple features prominently in their tales. Including my Husband, who is part Native American & Part Ecuadorian.

The maple as a gift that takes work. The maple was one of the only sources of sugar for the native peoples–as such it was seen as a gift from the creator.  While the maple is a gift, the native tales are clear that this gift takes work (in the form of collecting sap and boiling it down to make sugars). In Gluskabe Changes Maple Syrup, the Creator had originally had sap flow from maple trees as rich and as thick as honey–one needed only to break off a branch and the sap would flow out at any point of the year. However, Gluskabe, whose job it is to report back to the Creator, comes across a group of people who were fat and lazy, who abandoned their village and instead laid down in a maple grove sipping sap all day. Gluskabe was instructed to fill the maple trees with water each day for a full moon cycle, and now, people would have to work to have the sweetness of the maple and they would only have it for a short time in the spring to learn the error of their ways. At the end of the story, the people worked to turn the sap into sugar by burning cedar and making white birch buckets (using the magic of those two trees as well).  The work of the maple sugar is also found in the Senaca legend, Woman who Fell from the Sky, where the maple sap is changed to keep people from living too easy. In another legend, The Sugar Maple, the Sugar maple gets help from Woodpecker, who helps him by pulling out the grubs that are under maple’s bark.  Later, Woodpecker is dying of thirst during a drought, and Maple allows him to drink by pecking holes in the tree.

Maple as a delicacy. Maple sugar was seen as a delicacy by the Native Americans.  In several tales, babies appear sucking maple sugar.  In other tales, it is prepared as a drink with herbs.  In one Ojibwa legend, a maple syrup feast is mentioned.

Honoring the maple tree in ritual. To keep the maples producing the sap, Native Americans did maple ceremonies to ensure good sap harvests each year.  These were typically done right as the sap began to flow from the trees.  These ceremonies usually involved having everyone gather around the tree, addressing the tree in ritual language, and offering the tree tobacco incense.  This reminds me quite a bit of apple orchard wassailing.

Maple as a gentle tree. When talking sticks are made of maple, it is said to represent gentleness.

The Fiery Red Leaves of Maple represent blood. The reason that maples turn red in the fall can be explained by Chasing the Bear, where a long bear hunt ends with the hunters piling up sumac and maple branches and butchering the bear upon the branches.  In another version of this legend, “Hunting the Great Bear” reported by Hageneder, the long bear hunt happens each year.  The four brothers (who make up the constellation of the great bear) finally kill the bear and the bear’s blood falls from the sky and turns the maples red. This post was requested by: @jjatanywitchway

Sources:

The Druids Garden

Magickalspot.com

Wiccamagazine

Witchwood

The Green Witch- Murphy-Hiscock

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our home's vibes are immaculate rn

I've got a huge pot of chicken soup cooking on the stove, I'm just about finished making pumpkin brioche french toast ... it's raining outside and so many of the leaves are golden against the dark green evergreens. the whole house smells like sweet cinnamon, hearty soup and warm laundry

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