Dragon Bread!

So, today we made dragon bread (well, dragon pretzel) in honor of Michaelmas.  I had planned to use an old Annie's pretzel mix I had, but the yeast was dead, so I used this recipe instead.  It only took about half the dough to make our dragon.  We followed the Annie's instructions for baking (and for forming...no flour, just a Pam-sprayed counter).  It was easy and tasty.  We put the M&Ms on before baking...and some of the dye came off.  We then brushed him with melted butter and sprinkled cinnamon sugar all over him.  Tasty!

We talked about angels in the Qur'an...and Jibreel (Gabriel) and Mikail (Michael) are the only two whose names are mentioned.  We talked about how believing in angels (malaki) is one of the tenants of our faith.  We also talked about some of the lore of Michaelmas and how it used to signify the start of Autumn in much of Europe.  Happy Michaelmas!