Tag Archives: Sleepy Hollow

RedHeadedGirl’s Historical Kitchen: Apple Taert in the Walloon Manner

I got inspired by The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassell  and went looking for a Dutch recipe that was very seasonal and tasty and also used the oven because IT GOT CHILLY HERE, and that was from the general era and might have been something that Katrina would have eaten. This was made much easier by a friend of mine who is a living history nerd (much like myself) and also a Dutch American who … Continue reading RedHeadedGirl’s Historical Kitchen: Apple Taert in the Walloon Manner

Book Review

The Spellbook of Katrina van Tassel by Alyssa Palombo

The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel

It’s October, it is decorative gourd season, motherforkers, and time for SPOOKY STORIES and pumpkin spice and boots and scarves and right on time, we have a feminist version of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow told from the point of view of Katrina van Tassel, the woman at the point of of the love triangle between Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones. In Washington Irving’s original story, Ichabod Crane comes to the village of Sleepy Hollow  … Continue reading The Spellbook of Katrina van Tassel by Alyssa Palombo