Bread, Halloween Style
For me, Halloween is a time of creativity and family. We make decorations for months and spend time together as a family. It’s a time of friends and fellowship and a time to celebrate another year. For one night, we come together like we never parted. We party and eat and enjoy. It’s a time to get together and just BE for a night, be whatever you want, whatever you can imagine, no matter how fanciful. It’s a party full of good food and laughter. It’s about our individuality as much as it is our cohesiveness. We come together as an eclectic group of individual people and form a strong bond as a group through our love and acceptance of each other. That is what I love about Halloween.
For me, Halloween is a time of creativity and family. We make decorations for months and spend time together as a family. It’s a time of friends and fellowship and a time to celebrate another year. For one night, we come together like we never parted. We party and eat and enjoy. It’s a time to get together and just BE for a night, be whatever you want, whatever you can imagine, no matter how fanciful. It’s a party full of good food and laughter. It’s about our individuality as much as it is our cohesiveness. We come together as an eclectic group of individual people and form a strong bond as a group through our love and acceptance of each other. That is what I love about Halloween.
I wanted some Halloween foods, but then went and made sure I spent all day in the kitchen Sunday making everything. I often talk about how easy it is to add coloring and make something fun for any holiday. I did that this week. These are all common bread recipes I made into fun Halloween food with gel coloring. Make your grocery list and let’s get ready for Halloween fun! Maybe put on a movie to enjoy while waiting! Meet me in the kitchen for these easy Halloween breads!
It is that time again for me. The annual AVMC Halloween Party is this Saturday in Okmulgee at the VFW. It’s been 20 years!! I am super busy this week preparing but I didn’t go easy on myself, a fact I am regretting today. I went with breads this year because I guess why not make it difficult.
I know Halloween is cause for concern for some, but Halloween is not about devil worship and celebrating evil. Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year often associated with human death. Celts believed the night before the new year (Oct 31) the boundary between worlds of the living and the dead became blurred and the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. To celebrate, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where people gathered wearing costumes and masks to hide themselves from the earth roaming ghosts. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which were extinguished earlier in the evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.
