Fruit - Blog Posts
Apple: spirit work, offerings, love, healing, beauty, wisdom, harvest
Apricot: love, self love
Avocado: beauty, love, lust, fertility, spell work
Banana: wealth, luck, spirituality, religion, masculinity
Blueberry: protection, banishment, curses
Blackberry: protection, fertility, femininity, funerals, afterlife, moving on
Cantaloupe: spell work, protection, grounding, energy work
Cherry: lust, love, fertility
Clementine: childhood, dreams
Coconut: protection, cleansing, femininity
Cranberry: holidays, blood magic, spirit work
Date: fertility, luck, money
Dragon fruit: lust, passion, spell work
Durian: curses, cleansing, protection
Fig: happiness, divination, love
Grapefruit: cleansing
Grape: money, spell work, fertility, offerings
Guava: love, self love, lust
Honeydew: cleansing, energy, love
Jackfruit: divination, spell work, happiness
Kiwifruit: health, love, lust, happiness
Kumquat: luck, health, money
Lemon: cleansing, purification, protection, curse breaking
Lime: cleansing, protection, love
Lychee: love, self love, femininity, beauty
Mango: love, lust, fertility
Nectarine: love, self love, spell work
Orange: cleansing, protection, divination
Papaya: curse breaking, banishing, spirit work, love
Passion fruit: lust, love, passion
Peach: fertility, love, happiness, spirit work
Pear: offerings, happiness, luck, money, confidence
Persimmon: healing, love, luck, protection
Pineapple: protection, health, offerings, money, luck
Plantain: fertility, masculinity, lust, passion
Plum: love, healing, offerings
Pomegranate: offerings, blood magic, fertility, divination, spell work
Prune: cleansing, protection
Raspberry: love, dreams, health
Strawberry: love, wishes, dreams, happiness
Starfruit: lunar/solar magic, spell work, cleansing
Tangerine: solar magic, strength, energy work
Tomato: protection, cleansing, love, passion
Watermelon: healing, femininity, lust, love, spirit work, cleansing
PINEAPPLE DRAGON
Coconut
Raspberry Peach Coffee Cake
Savor the dog days of summer with this fresh, fruity coffee cake. The sweetness of the peaches and raspberries seems to hold the shortening days at bay, for a time at least.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup non-dairy butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
Egg replacer for 2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups Gluten Free all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup soy milk
1 cup fresh or frozen raspberries
1 cup fresh or frozen peach slices
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9" round cake pan with nonstick baking spray.
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg replacer and vanilla.
3. Combine the dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Add to the butter mixture alternately with soy milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition.
4. Pour into the prepared cake pan. Evenly spread the peaches and raspberries on top of the cake batter.
5. Bake for 1 hour. Remove and cool over a wire rack. Slice and serve, sprinkling with powdered sugar if desired.
ES| Aunque podemos encontrar limones todo el año, una de las épocas de recolección de la fruta es el invierno. El limón aparte de estar buenísimo, combinar genial en las infusiones y contener vitamina C y otros minerales, es un fruto con muchísimas propiedades beneficiosas no solamente consumiéndolo fresco, sino que también es muy apreciado por el aceite esencial que se extrae de su piel.
Exprimido se usa contra la artritis, es depurativo, diurético, antirreumático, antivírico, antibiótico, anticatarral, antigripal y antidiarreico, ya que es astringente y remineralizarne. Además, es antiséptico bucofaríngeo y ayuda a combatir la amigdalitis y la faringitis. El limón también contiene terpenos, que tienen propiedades antitumorales, ayuda con los mareos, las taquicardias y las enfermedades cardiovasculares.
A nivel cutáneo es un gran tónico y también se utiliza contra la celulitis. Funciona de maravilla como limpiador, por lo que es de gran ayuda contra la grasa facial y el acné. Es antiséptico, cicatrizante y coagulante, a parte de un fortalecedor capilar natural.
Su aceite esencial vaporizado tiene propiedades contra la fatiga, la tensión nerviosa, la depresión y la falta de concentración por lo que es un gran aliado en momentos de estudio o trabajo.
Aunque ya sabéis que siempre se tiene que ir con cuidado, ya que no a todo el mundo le van bien los mismos remedios ya que a veces suelen tener contraindicaciones, como por ejemplo la acidez del zumo de limón puede estropear el esmalte de los dientes, o el aceite esencial si se expone al sol puede dejar manchas! 🍋🌱
EN| Although we can find lemons all year round, one of the fruit’s harvesting seasons is winter. Lemons, besides from being delicious, being great to combine to make delicious infusions and being a great source of vitamin C and other minerals, is a fruit with many beneficial properties not only consuming it fresh, but it’s also highly appreciated for the essential oil extracted from its skin. Its juice is used against arthritis, it is a diuretic, detox, antirheumatic, antiviral, antibiotic, anti-cold, anti-flu and anti-diarrheal (since it’s astringent and remineralizing). In addition, it’s an oropharyngeal antiseptic and helps combat tonsillitis and pharyngitis. Lemons also contains terpenes, which have anti-tumoral properties, helps with dizziness, tachycardia and cardiovascular diseases. It’s a great cutaneous tonic and is also used against cellulite. It works wonderfully as a cleanser, making it a great help against facial grease and acne. It’s antiseptic, healing and coagulant, as well as a natural hair strengthener. Its vaporized essential oil has properties against fatigue, nervous tension, depression and lack of concentration, making it a great ally during study or work sessions. Although you already know you always have to be careful, since not everyone is good with the same remedies and sometimes, they have contraindications, such as how the acidity of the lemon juice can damage the enamel of your teeth, or the essential oil if exposed to the sun can leave skin stains! 🍋🌱
ES|| Menuda ola de calor que tenemos encima!! Y, lo que más me asusta es que cada año, con el cambio climático y el calentamiento global, esto irá en aumento! El océano se convertirá en un caldo acido, los veranos serán mortales, habrá más tormentas y catástrofes, … En fin, no quiero ni imaginármelo! Si fuera por mí, me encontraríais nadando dentro de este vaso con estas bolitas tan simpáticas, pero, desgraciadamente, tengo que conformarme en ir bebiendo, a lo largo del día, una bebida bastante parecida, aunque con menos frutas y más hierbecillas que me ayuden a sobrellevar las ganas de derretirme en el suelo sin hacer nada todo el día. No sé vosotros, pero yo no llevo muy bien los climas “extremos” y no me gusta, si puedo evitarlo, gastar energía y contaminar, así que no suelo poner el aire acondicionado ni el ventilador, porque por poco que gasten si sumamos el consumo de todos… De momento, tengo un mantra para los momentos más duros “piensa en los osos polares!” Espero que aun estemos a tiempo de cambiar esta situación antes de que vaya a peor.🥝🍋
EN|| The heat wave we’ve in Spain is killing me!! What scares me the most is that every year, with climate change and global warming, this’ll increase! If it were up to me, you’d find me swimming inside this glass, but unfortunately, I’ve to settle for drinking a similar drink throughout the day, although with less fruit and more herbs, to help me cope with the urge to melt on the floor doing nothing all day long. I don't handle “extreme” climates very well and I don't like, if I can avoid it, wasting energy and polluting, so I don't usually put on the air conditioning or the fan, because no matter how little one of them may consume if every one of us puts its own on… I have a mantra for the hardest moments “think of the polar bears!” I truly hope we still have time to change this situation before it gets way worse. 🥝🍋
ES || Para esta época del año, con tantas supuestas lluvias y cambios de temperatura, es genial despertarse y beber en ayunas un vaso de agua tibia con limón. Es un remedio natural que ayuda a las defensas, ya que aporta vitamina C, potasio y flavononas, favorece la digestión y además es depurativo y alcalinizante. La receta es fácil, exprimir el jugo de un limón, poner a calentar un vaso de agua hasta que este tibia y, finalmente, añadir el jugo del limón al agua caliente. Si quieres darle un toque más cítrico y potenciar los beneficios del limón, en cambio de solo calentar el agua puedes hervirla con unos trozos de piel del mismo limón, después la dejas enfriar hasta que este tibia y le añades el jugo del limón! Como con todos los remedios no a todo el mundo le van bien las mismas cosas, mi recomendación es escuchar a tu propio cuerpo. Además por su acidez no esta recomendado para las personas que tienen los dientes delicados.🍋 EN || For this time of year, with so many supposed rains and changes in temperature, it’s great to wake up and drink a glass of warm water with lemon juice on an empty stomach. It’s a natural remedy that helps defenses, as well as it provides vitamin C, potassium and flavanones, promotes digestion and is also purifying and alkalizing. The recipe is easy, squeeze the juice from one lemon, heat a glass of water until it’s warm and, finally, add the lemon juice to the warm water. If you want to give it a more citric touch and enhance the benefits of the lemon, instead of just warming the water you can boil it with the lemon peel, then let it cool until it’s just warm enough to drink it and add the lemon juice! As with all remedies, not everyone reacts the same so my recommendation is to listen to your own body. Also, due to its acidity, it’s not recommended for people who have delicate teeth.🍋
Close up of the “lemon, lime, mint and kiwi soda” illustration (2022)