What do you serve for Holiday dinners?

[SSanf]

I am trying to think of menus for the eight sabbots.

What do you have for dinner on Pagan holidays? And, why are those your choices for that holiday?

[Rick]

Since most of those are spent with the group, it's generally pot-luck (although for Winter's Nights last year, I made a turkey, & the group brought the fixin's)...

[WitchJezebel]

I always go with what's in season for my area. There are several Wiccan cookbooks out there for ideas and reference.

[mucgwyrt]

I'm the only pagan in my little family, so although I dont ask my other-half to join in with any rituals I do, we both find it's nice to share a special meal (although to be honest I think my other half is just in it for the food :hehehehe: ). I'm bordering on being an anglo-saxon recon, so most of the food I consider to be special enough for sabbats is anglo-saxon oriented.

For a lot of sabbats I cook a traditional anglo-saxon pea-soup. I only make this on sabbats because (it's yummy and) although it doesn't take much effort it does take a long time to cook (about 3 hours). Its doubly meaningful for me because although its apparently an anglo-saxon recipe, my mother used to make it when I was a kid, and she learnt it from her mother who learnt it from her mother and so on... ;)

I also do hot-cross-buns at Eostre and on sometimes on May-Day too (because I like them that much :lol: ), but I use a 'modified' recipe which uses honey instead of sugar (because the anglo-saxons didn't have processed sugar).

I also often do a roast dinner; chicken, potatoes, yorkshire puddings, peas, cabbage etc, sage n onion stuffing, gravy... :drool: but we have that on a lot of non-sabbat days too ;) I'm thinking though, to make sabbats more special I might splash out on an organic chicken next time :smile:

In September(ish) I make fresh bread for Hlafmæsse (harvest), and if I ate red meat I'd cook beef or lamb for the November sabbat, but I dont so I usually do a chicken dinner for that one too ;)

xx