Beltane Bake Day!

[mousme]

I am spending Walpurgis Night at work, defending the country from terrorists and not really waiting for spring (it's chilly enough to make me think that we may have skipped summer and gone directly to autumn), but I thought I'd post this anyway.

owldaughter and bodhifox came up with the idea for a Beltane Bake Day the other day. The concept is simple: bake something on May 1st and, if you can, post a picture in your blog/LJ.

Here are the rules, quoted quasi-verbatim, with minor alterations because I'm posting late:


Now technically speaking May Day, AKA Beltane (Beltaine, Bealtinne, Latha Bealltainn, Walpurgis Night, etc.) is the first of May, traditionally beginning at sundown on April 30 and carrying forward to sundown on May 1. This year it happens to fall on a Thursday, and so I am declaring the Beltane Bake Day a THREE-DAY HOLIDAY! Yes, it will begin on May 1 (however you want to determine when it begins) and end at midnight on May 3. This gives everyone a chance to bake with a relaxed schedule whether they work full-time outside the home or otherwise.


The rules:

1. Bake something.

2. Your baked item must be from scratch. No mixes, unless they are an ingredient in a multi-ingredient recipe. (Using a pudding mix in a cake recipe, for example.)

3. Brag about it in your on-line journal. This is your opportunity to wax poetic about your love of baking, and/or the specific product you have baked, and/or the process and your experience baking it. If it falls flat, share your woes with the rest of us and we will console you.

4. Brownie points to those who post a picture! (Seriously, what other kind of points belong in a baking holiday?) If you don't have a camera, describe it as best you can. Or borrow one from a friend, bribing them with a taste of your baked item!

5. Because bragging inevitably engenders envy, people will likely ask for your recipe, so you can post it as well. Unless it's a closely guarded secret, in which case you can gleefully withhold it and taunt us all.

That's all there is to it! This event is simply to give us all a reason to bake something and talk about it, sharing it in the only way we can with people scattered all over the continents. Your baked item can be as simple or as fancy as you like.

I propose that we use the original post over at my main Owls' Court non-LJ journal as a home base, so to speak: When you've participated and posted about it in your journal, leave a note there with a link to your post so others can find it. Feel free to repost the link to that original post in your own journals to share the event with as many people as you like.

You have three days in which to plot, plan, and prepare. Have fun!

(There's a redirection issue linking to the original post, so here's the URL to copy and paste into your browser: http://www.owldaughter.org/blog/?p=2145)

Comments

inspiration!

[mcphoenixa.livejournal.com]

Seems like fun! I might do it. Here's some inspiration:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT_n__vsguk&feature=related