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Mmmm….Doughnuts….
In England, Shrove Tuesday is the day to eat pancakes. (Unless you’re Anglo-Catholic apparently. The local parish is having crepes, not pancakes. Sounds very Catholic and not so Anglo to me.) On the Continent, Fastnacht, Mardi Gras, Carnevale, etc. is the day to eat fried dough. Who, I ask you, has chosen the better part?
I plump (literally I fear) for the Continent and started off the day frying up Krapfen, Shenkli, and “Naked Ladies with Their Legs Crossed“. I remain skeptical of the fried cookie (the Shenkli were not that great), but the Naked Ladies are–as I guess one should expect naked ladies to be–winners.
Fattening Tuesday
I pride myself on making the finest etouffee east of the Mississippi Hudson. Here’s my recipe, which was originally the crawfish etouffee recipe rustled from The New Orleans Cookbook but since modified (little hard to find crawfish or crawfish fat in Connecticut). As I tell Mrs. Kuhl, it’s basically health food — except for, you know, the sausage and the six tablespoons of butter.
Tomorrow is Super Duper Fat Pancake Mardi Day
Sure, tomorrow is Super Tuesday. (Or Super Duper Tuesday, even.)
But before it ever was that, it was Fat Tuesday, also known in mainly British circles as Pancake Tuesday. The Times of London has a few celeb chef pancake recipes, most of which would surely form a lead weight in your stomach as you draw a bead on the primaries’ exit polls. I’ll probably stick with the simplest beer-pancakes recipe ever.
Frothy former Sen. Rick Santorum suggests Super Duper Pancake Tuesday as he endorses Mitt Romney at the Pancake Pantry in Tenn. here.
