Slow Cooker Puerco Verde

Slow cooker puerco verde is a delicious, warm supper for a cold night. If you don’t have a slow cooker, or don’t have 10 hours to kill, I’ve included directions for stovetop puerco verde, as well. “Green pork” is basically a pork roast cooked down in salsa verde. Use my recipe for the salsa or buy…

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Curried Chicken Salad

curried chicken salad

Chicken salad, like egg salad and tuna salad, gets a bad rap (is it rap? Or rep, like “reputation”? Rep makes more sense but it sounds like everyone is saying rap. Is it like “rap sheet”? And where does that come from? Aaaaaanyways . . .)  Chicken salad is a thing that everyone’s grandma made…

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HHH035 Tarot Card Reading with Jane Almirall

Happy Halloween! Jane Almirall is one witchy woman. A deeply talented artist, writer and tarot card reader, she cyber-stalked her way into my heart a few years ago. In this podcast, she explains a little about the history and different kinds of tarot cards and readings and then I get my own tarot reading done…

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Witch Finger Cookies

Don’t finger my cookies! J/K you can finger em all you want to. These witch finger cookies are perfect if you like cookies you can manhandle a little bit and not worry about them getting over-mixed. They are also perfect for Halloween, duh. And these witch fingers have a secret surprise inside to make them…

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HHH034 Jen Brown, Feminist Horror Critic

Part 3 of Occult October. I’ve known Jen Brown — actor and feminist horror movie critic at the Women in Caskets podcast — for probably a decade, since we were both heavily involved in the Austin theatre community. She’s maybe best known for her work on several popular Rooster Teeth series (Red Vs. Blue, RWBY, Day…

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HHH033 Ghost Stories

Your true ghost stories! This podcast was made possible by Y’ALL! Here, I share my own ghost experience and then talk to my friend Alejandro (The Dead Explorer on YouTube) to hear about the time he saw La Llorona as a child. I also had the honor of hearing from 5 listeners about their ghost…

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Instant Pot Turkey Chili

Instant pot (or stovetop) turkey chili with chipotle en adobo and beans

About a month ago, Chris and I decided to cut out beef from our diets for no other reason, really, than that our dog’s face reminds us of a Jersey cow and it seems sad to eat something that looks like Mr. Banjo. As a result, we’ve been eating more vegetarian meals and a whole…

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HHH032 Sarah Chavez – The Order of the Good Death

interview with sarah chavez order of the good death

Part I of my Occult October podcast series! In this interview, I got to speak with Sarah Chavez, historian and Executive Director of the Order of the Good Death. We discuss the American Civil War’s effect on funeral traditions and the historical power of beans to ward off ghosts and vampires. Find out if it’s bad luck to step…

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Healthyish German Chocolate Truffles

Healthy-ish no-cook German Chocolate Truffles are sweetened with only maple syrup and are full of good coconut oil, pecans and cocoa powder

Sweetened with just maple syrup and full of good fats from coconut and pecans, these no-cook German chocolate truffles hit all the spots! And guess what: if you use almonds instead of pecans they become Almond Joy truffles in a cinch. I’m really not sure what else I need to say about these. You’re probably…

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