Hi Everyone!

This thread is for those who are signed up to attend the Feast of Tabernacles in Eminence Missouri at the Discovery Ministries campsite, beginning October 15th or 16th, 2008.

So far, the meal we need to begin signing up for, is the first Shabbat, which will fall on October 17th. Last year, this meal was provided by the organizers of the feast, and it was a wonderful meal. However, it was a HUGE task for just a few people to handle themselves.

So this year I signed up to gather everyone's cooperation with this meal and a few other shared meals. We will begin with planning for the special Shabbat meal. I'll start a second thread for planning 1 or 2 other communal meals.

Instead of one set food (spaghetti last year) we will instead make this more of a pot-blessing (instead of pot l-ck) ), with everyone bringing something to share. This will split the pressure of feeding such a large group of people, and we will all get to sample each other's special dishes Yum!!

I will make a list of needed things, and as this thread proceeds, everyone can copy the list, and repost it with their addition of what they will bring added to the list. Sound like a good idea? I am thinking, if each campsite were to bring 1 main dish, then either a side, a dessert, a salad, or a bread that would cover all by the drink which will be provided. As we will have a lot of mouths to feed, we will need many of each catagory. But with everyone bringing a typical Shabbat meal for their own family, we shouldn't run short at all.

Sooooo....I will be back after a while with the beginnings of a list and we can get started! HalleluYah!

Nancy B.

OK, I made a seperate thread just for the special Shabbat meal October 17th. Here's the link to it, but you can also find it in this same folder, the fellowship folder:

http://www.eliyah.com/forum2/Forum13/HTML/000117.html

We will use this thread to discuss ideas for other communal meals. Maybe just a couple more would be nice, but I will leave that open to other families and individuals to decide.

Here are a couple of ideas I had for other communal meals:

A Crock Pot meal: Each family make a crockpot full of food, then everyone bring their crocks to the gathering. If you don't have a crockpot, you can either borrow one before the feast or they are VERY CHEAP at thrift stores and yard sales. This meal would be extremely easy for us moms...just throw into the pot what your are bringing for dinner that night, plug it in, and voila, at meal time the whole camp enjoys a great meal! That would be a great meal to have the night of the women's meeting!


Pizza meal: I have a great article from a magazine, on how to make and cook pizzas on a barbeque grill! This doesn't have to be extravagent...just a veggie pizza would be great, and even something without cheese can be delicious! We could do something like this for a dinner meal, or maybe a youth gathering on an afternoon. Moms could get it all set up (make the dough, maybe) and the teens could put the pizzas together. This could either be for the youth to eat, or they could make it for the whole camp's meal that night. We would definately need to make a list of things to bring, or maybe one day if everyone contributed a couple of dads could run to the store to pick up the supplies.


Any more ideas??? Please jump in!

Nancy B.

Shalom,
A brother in the faith and I have thought of butchering a couple sheep and freeze packing them to have that first day. We were going to quarter and roast them over a fire. It's just an idea but a couple lambs could feed people.

Shalom,
Obadyah83

Hey, that would be really cool. Everyone could still bring other stuff but that could be our main meat. How serious are you about this? We'd have to know for sure so people could plan around it. We have sheep, but unfortunately ours are pretty small, they are mostly fiber sheep, pretty boney.

The other thing that would be AWESOME...would be if we could somehow build, or rig up, some sort of outdoor oven. Another sister and I would REALLY, REALLY like to have a central place that the women could come (if they want to) and cook things together. Wouldn't it be cool if we could bake bread together? I looked up earthen ovens, but most of the plans I have found, unfortunately, are for permanent ovens. If anyone has any ideas about this please post the ideas here.

Nancy B.

I know a man who raises meat sheep and goats. I could get a couple few and arrange to have them ready. I do the butchering and the fellow sells the meat cheap to me. I'm serious about doing it and I love grilling out. We'll see where YHWH leads us to do it

Obadyah

homemade dough
butter or margarine
1 small coffee can
2 large coffee cans

Have a good fire going, as the idea is to bake this bread in a good bed of coals.


Take a small bowl, put one cup warm water with a bit of honey or sugar of your choice in it. Sprinkle about 1tsp of yeast.

While the yeast is activating,

check your fire is going good and forming nice coals.

In a larger bowl, pour your yeast mixture, one egg (whisked) and a pinch of salt.

Add enough flour to make a good dough. (Doesn't stick to your hands anymore)

I pinched off 2/3 of the dough (keeping the remainder for 'stick bread'.)

First rub butter all over the inside of a one pound coffee can.

Place dough in the can, pushing it down to the bottom.

Cover the can with foil and set by your campfire to rise up till doubled in bulk.

When the dough forms a nice head out of the can, put this can of dough into a large coffee can. This coffee can needs to have a smooth layer of small stones on the bottom.

We moved the coals into a circle, placed the large can with the small one inside it, into the center of the coals. Building about 2 inches of coals around it all.

We then took another large coffee can that had some holes in it, squished it a bit so that we could turn it upside down and put it on top of the other large can without tipping over.



We let this bake for about 30 minutes, and we added small tinder to keep the coals from dying out. Heap coals all around it.

Turned out awesome!


We took the remainder of the dough and rolled out long strands of dough. (like you do for challah) We twisted the dough over sticks, and let the girls roast them. Then we went inside, and enjoyed fresh campfire bread and butter! :)(Cutting the bread on the happy Sabbath day placemat my little girls made me)

I don't know if that is what you are looking to do, but if you had a large fire, you could do several cans. Just have folks collect large and small coffee type cans. My large cans are large vegetable cans.

If any of this doesn't make sense,.......just ask! Hope your time is blessed. I made another batch without eggs and it turned out fine too. (I use half and half flour)

Blessings to you, hope this helps more of my sisters have fun baking bread outside.

Love in Yahushua,
Tamar

Nancy, thanks for the post. I am really trying to work on planning ahead for this. I wasn't planning on bringing our crockpot, but I will add it to the list. I can possibly bring chili then.

See y'all soon!
Colleen, Sam
Aaron and Eliyah