Your Sunday Studs: Mike Betts and Rick Wolfmier

... love goes where our rosemary goes, therefore, we're giving you a recipe and some male flesh anyway. Rosemary is that herb powerful enough to protect against bad times.
Among its magical uses, beyond powerful protection, the departed gay wiccan, Scott Cunningham tells us this about rosemary:

"... it has long been used in love and lust incenses and other mixtures ... the powdered leaves wrapped in linen cloth and bound to the right arm dispel depression and make the emotions light and merry."



Looks like the gentlemen are somewhat light and merry. They are Mike Betts and Rick Wolfmier from a 1980 pictorial.

Those who know good food also know this useful herb. Here follows a warm weather treat.

Rosemary Orange Salad

Oranges, 4 navel, peeled and sectioned
Red Onion, small, thin slices
Rosemary, one spoonful, minced
Rosemary sprigs for garnish
Olives, pitted and sliced (cerignole and kalamatas)
salt, pepper
Olive Oil
Balsamic Vinegar and/or Lemon Lime juice

1.Toss the ingredients and drizzle with the olive oil with some spritzes of the juice or the vinegar
2. Refrigerate for a couple of hours
3. Serve at room temperature garnished with the magic of fresh rosemary.
4. This is for two people after a day communicating at the beach and is based on a recipe from Mark Bittman

These guys are legendary. Just enjoy.

Scott Cunningham in his Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs talks about tomatoes, although some argument can be made that tomatoes are not precisely herbs, the explanation of their powers seem particularly appropriate right now:

"When a tomato is placed on the windowsill ... it repels evil ... in the garden [the plants] are protecitve, since the yellow flowers and bright red fruits scare off evil. The tomato, when eaten, has the power of inspiring love." Any Italian knows That's Amore!

These young men seem to be the juiciest tomatoes of them all: capable of being protective as well as inspiring love.




They have become our annual July post.