Mairwen
June 8th, 2001, 02:10 PM
Foods are always fun to make with your kids. Making and eating traditional foods for the Sabbat can be fun and the children will recollect the Sabbat with the traditional foods each year.
Long-Arm Lugh Shish Kabob
Shish kabobs make a perfect diner in honor of Lugh. The skewers remind us of his spear, and children help them selves by making their own kabobs, with a little adult supervision.
You can make shish kabobs with just about everything. Here are a few suggestions: cherry tomatoes, green and red peppers, summer squash, mushrooms, pineapple chunks, pearl onions, corn on the cob, tofu and /or meat.
Cut up your kabob ingredients into even-sized pieces, no larger than 2 inches in diameter. Cube and marinate tofu and meat in Favorite Children's Meat Marinade or another marinade you like. Barbecue or broil in the oven. Be sure children wash their hands after handling uncooked meat.
Favorite Children's Meat Marinade:
Combine 1/2 cup orange juice, 1 t soy sauce, and 1 t honey.
Spiral Cookies
You will need:
1/2 C butter (one stick)
3/4 C sugar
1 egg
1/2 t vanilla
1 3/4 t baking soda
dash of salt
1 oz semisweet baking chocolate
On Lammas, the most important thought to hold is that life is a spiral. We move around the circle, but we never come back to the same place. We're reminded of the ever-changing spiral dance when we eat these simple cookies.
Cream together the butter and sugar. Add the egg and vanilla. Blend the dry ingredients together and mix in slowly. Set aside on cup of the batter. Melt the chocolate and add it to the remaining batter, blending until the color is uniform.
Work the light-colored batter quickly with your hands until it's smooth. Place between two pieces of wax paper, flatten, and roll out into a 14 by 9 inch sheet. Set aside and do the same with the dark-colored batter. Gently peel off one of the pieces of wax paper on each dough layer. Pick up one layer and invert it as you place it exactly on top of the other layer. Do this carefully; once the layers meet, you won't be able to shift them around. Remove the wax paper on top, and use the wax paper at the bottom to help you roll the sheets into a long cylinder. As you roll, press gently to remove any air pockets. Put the cylinder in the freezer a few minutes to harden.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With a sharp knife, cut the cylinder into slices 1/4 inch thick and place on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. This recipe yields about 50 spiral cookies.
Lammas Bread Blessing
Bless the earth that grows the grain,
Bless the water that gives us rain,
Bless the wind that helps seeds spread,
Bless the fire that bakes our bread.
Blessing
Lady and Lord, now the fruit hangs on the trees, the grapes tremble on their vines, the grasses bend with their seeds. We watch and wait with our hopes for a harvest of plenty. We fear they will be destroyed by storms, frost, or pests. Bless those who work with the earth to feed us, and bless their harvests.
This information comes from my book which I highly recommend to anyone with children, or friends with children. Circle Round by Starhawk, Diane Baker and Anne Hill
Bright Blessings,
Dragons_Angel
Web Site: http://home.att.net/~pagandragon
Long-Arm Lugh Shish Kabob
Shish kabobs make a perfect diner in honor of Lugh. The skewers remind us of his spear, and children help them selves by making their own kabobs, with a little adult supervision.
You can make shish kabobs with just about everything. Here are a few suggestions: cherry tomatoes, green and red peppers, summer squash, mushrooms, pineapple chunks, pearl onions, corn on the cob, tofu and /or meat.
Cut up your kabob ingredients into even-sized pieces, no larger than 2 inches in diameter. Cube and marinate tofu and meat in Favorite Children's Meat Marinade or another marinade you like. Barbecue or broil in the oven. Be sure children wash their hands after handling uncooked meat.
Favorite Children's Meat Marinade:
Combine 1/2 cup orange juice, 1 t soy sauce, and 1 t honey.
Spiral Cookies
You will need:
1/2 C butter (one stick)
3/4 C sugar
1 egg
1/2 t vanilla
1 3/4 t baking soda
dash of salt
1 oz semisweet baking chocolate
On Lammas, the most important thought to hold is that life is a spiral. We move around the circle, but we never come back to the same place. We're reminded of the ever-changing spiral dance when we eat these simple cookies.
Cream together the butter and sugar. Add the egg and vanilla. Blend the dry ingredients together and mix in slowly. Set aside on cup of the batter. Melt the chocolate and add it to the remaining batter, blending until the color is uniform.
Work the light-colored batter quickly with your hands until it's smooth. Place between two pieces of wax paper, flatten, and roll out into a 14 by 9 inch sheet. Set aside and do the same with the dark-colored batter. Gently peel off one of the pieces of wax paper on each dough layer. Pick up one layer and invert it as you place it exactly on top of the other layer. Do this carefully; once the layers meet, you won't be able to shift them around. Remove the wax paper on top, and use the wax paper at the bottom to help you roll the sheets into a long cylinder. As you roll, press gently to remove any air pockets. Put the cylinder in the freezer a few minutes to harden.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With a sharp knife, cut the cylinder into slices 1/4 inch thick and place on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. This recipe yields about 50 spiral cookies.
Lammas Bread Blessing
Bless the earth that grows the grain,
Bless the water that gives us rain,
Bless the wind that helps seeds spread,
Bless the fire that bakes our bread.
Blessing
Lady and Lord, now the fruit hangs on the trees, the grapes tremble on their vines, the grasses bend with their seeds. We watch and wait with our hopes for a harvest of plenty. We fear they will be destroyed by storms, frost, or pests. Bless those who work with the earth to feed us, and bless their harvests.
This information comes from my book which I highly recommend to anyone with children, or friends with children. Circle Round by Starhawk, Diane Baker and Anne Hill
Bright Blessings,
Dragons_Angel
Web Site: http://home.att.net/~pagandragon