Yum Categories: African Diaspora Maizeland, Bread, Food Offerings, New Birth Food, Offering Recipes, Prosperity, Wedding Food Tags: bread, corn, corn bread, corn cake, corn meal, cornbread, cornmeal Courses: Blessings, Bread, Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Offerings Cuisines: African Diaspora, Food Offerings, Indigenous Maizeland Cornbread is a common thing in both southern “soul…
Yum Categories: Alcohol Based Concoctions, Condition Formulas, Prosperity, Sprays Tags: house, money, money house, money house blessing, prosperity Course: Blessings Cuisines: African Diaspora, Afro Hispanic Money House Blessing spray is a fruity, mildly floral, pleasant concoction meant to draw money to one’s household or business. There are many recipes for…
Yum Categories: ADTS Holiday Foods, Libations, Oshun Tags: love, money, ochun, oshun, osun, oxum, prosperity, romance, sex Courses: Cocktails, Offerings Cuisines: African Diaspora, Beverage Offerings, Easy Seasons: Spring, Summer There are times when one has a lot of Oshun work to do. In order to make sure everybody’s concerns are…
Yum Categories: ADTS Holiday Foods, Bread, Deities Honored Spirits and Ancestors Courses: Bread, Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Offerings Cuisines: African, African Diaspora Season: All When we dispatch offerings outdoors, we try not to do undue damage to the environment. Paper and cardboard as well as bamboo and large leaves are often…
Yum Categories: African Diaspora Maizeland, Dairy, Funerary Food, New Birth Food, Oshun Courses: Dinner, Lunch, Offerings Cuisine: African Diaspora Season: All This is a recipe for macaroni and cheese that uses five kinds of milk products. It follows along the tradition of doing things for Oshun involving multiples of 5,…
Yum Categories: Food Offerings, Oya, Vegetable Offerings Tags: aubergines, beans, eggplant, oya, pasta, rain, storm, tomato, tomatoes, wind Course: Offerings Cuisine: African Diaspora Season: All This dish is very not traditionally African, but it is seen around the diaspora from time to time as an offering to Oya. It’s suspected…
Yum Categories: African Diaspora Maizeland, Oshun, Seafood, West African Course: Offerings Cuisines: African Diaspora, West African Season: All I’ve seen all sorts in terms of recipes for ochinchin. I think some make a kind of a joke of seeing what sort of mess they can get people to serve Oshun….
Yum Category: Libations Tags: beverage, coffee, drink, eshu, esu, offering Cuisines: African, African Diaspora, Beverage Offerings, Food Offerings, West African Season: All The usual disclaimers come with this one. Everyone has their own Eshu, and each has his own specific demands. Some Eshu are even female as Ayizan, and for…