
Saints, Feast, Family
- Traditions passed down with Cooking, Crafting, & Caring -
August 28
Saint of the day:
Saint Moses the Black
Patron Saint of Africa
St. Moses the Black's Story
Born into slavery to an Egyptian official’s family. An unruly thief, he was driven from the house and fell in with a band of robbers. On the run, he took refuge with hermits at the monastery of Petra in the desert of Skete, Egypt. He was converted and joined them as a monk. Priest. Possessed of supernatural gifts. A confirmed pacifist, he refused to defend himself with his monastery was attacked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_the_Black
https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=6428
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Moses_the_Black
https://oca.org/news/oca-news/the-brotherhood-of-st.-moses-the-black-conferences-and-ministries-connect-t

Prayer:



Visit:
His relics and major shrine are found today at the Church of the Virgin Mary in the Paromeos Monastery, Egypt
The Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black




Recipe
We are celebrating with an Egyptian recipe because our Saint was from Egypt.
Egyptian Hawawshi ( Alexandria Way )
Ingredients
The Dough
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5½ Cups AP Flour
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1 Cup Oil
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2 Cups Warm water
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¼ Teaspoons Black pepper
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1 Teaspoon Salt
Stuffing
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2 Tomato
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2 Green pepper
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1 Onion
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1 Carrot
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1 stalk Celery
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¾ kilograms Chopped meat ( beef )
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1 Teaspoon Black pepper
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1 Teaspoon Paprika
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2 Teaspoons Salt
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1 Teaspoon Beef Spice
Direction:
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Preheat the oven at 300 'F
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Add the flour, salt, black pepper, and oil together.
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Mix well.
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Add the warm water and mix well with your hand.
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divide the dough into 16 equal parts and let them rest.
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Start preparing the vegetables Cut tomatoes (2 big ) with out seeds
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Cut the green pepper (2 big )
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Cut the onion ( one big ) and one big carrot and some chopped celery
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Add salt, black pepper, spices beef, and paprika to the beef
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Mix all chopped vegetable to the beef
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Divide the meat to 16 parts like the dough
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Put on the table some of the oil and a ball of dough
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roll out the dough as a circle
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Put the meat ball in the middle
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Roll the meat ball as a circle
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Close the dough on the meat
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Put it in the oven ( 300 F ) for 15 to 20 min

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