Fat Tuesday

Fat Tuesday, It’s an unofficial holiday for many in the metro Detroit area: Fat Tuesday, also known as Paczki Day. A Polish-American tradition, several celebrate on Fat Tuesday — the day before Lent begins – by gorging on paczki, which are calorie-laden, deep-fried pastries filled with the most delicious creams, custards and jellies.

Traditionally, the reason for making paczki (pronounced “pooonch-key”) was to use up all the lard, sugar, eggs and fruit in the house, because the ingredients were forbidden to be consumed due to Catholic fasting practices during Lent, according to Michigan.org.

The tradition has evolved over the years and now, come Fat Tuesday, Americans rush out to get the tastiest paczki they can find. Ask any metro Detroiter and they’ll tell you, the best place to go for pazcki is Hamtramck.

That’s where WWJ’s Mike Campbell found Denise Star, an executive at Compuware, standing in line at the New Palace Bakery to buy a whopping 19 dozen paczki for her office.

“I’ve been doing this for 24 years straight and I take them to the employees I work with,” she said.

What Is Fat Tuesday

What Is Fat Tuesday, In recent years, Mardi Gras, literally “fat Tuesday,” has gained a reputation as wild celebration held each year in boisterous places like Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans’ French Quarter.

Believe it or not, the Carnival celebrations often associated with beads, parades, costumes and partying actually stem from the Christian calendar.

According to AmericanCatholic.org , Mardi Gras originated as the “last hurrah” of gluttony before Lent and fasting began on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is also the final culmination of the entire Carnival season, serving as a grand finale to six weeks of celebration.

The Carnival season kicks off with Epiphany – which falls on January 6, 12 days after Christmas – to celebrate the Wise Men who brought gifts to infant Jesus. Epiphany is traditionally celebrated with a wreath-shaped “king cake,” often decorated the Mardi Gras colors of purple (justice), green (faith) and gold (power). New Orleans Online asserts that traditional king cake is one of the most popular Carnival institutions.

Mardi Gras as we know it today was first celebrated in the late 1700s, according to a report from the Orange County Register , when French settlers in what is now Louisiana held masked pre-Lenten balls. Though the Spanish prohibited the celebrations when they controlled the land, the revelry returned in the mid-1800s and has been celebrated in New Orleans every year since.

Today cities including Mobile, Ala.; St. Louis, Mo.; Sydney, Australia; and Quebec City, Canada hold massive Mardi Gras celebrations often including parades, parties and more.

Fat Tuesday History

Fat Tuesday History, In recent years, Mardi Gras, literally “fat Tuesday,” has gained a reputation as wild celebration held each year in boisterous places like Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans’ French Quarter. Believe it or not, the Carnival celebrations often associated with beads, parades, costumes and partying actually stem from the Christian calendar.

According to AmericanCatholic.org , Mardi Gras originated as the “last hurrah” of gluttony before Lent and fasting began on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is also the final culmination of the entire Carnival season, serving as a grand finale to six weeks of celebration.

The Carnival season kicks off with Epiphany – which falls on January 6, 12 days after Christmas – to celebrate the Wise Men who brought gifts to infant Jesus. Epiphany is traditionally celebrated with a wreath-shaped “king cake,” often decorated the Mardi Gras colors of purple (justice), green (faith) and gold (power). New Orleans Online asserts that traditional king cake is one of the most popular Carnival institutions.

Mardi Gras as we know it today was first celebrated in the late 1700s, according to a report from the Orange County Register , when French settlers in what is now Louisiana held masked pre-Lenten balls. Though the Spanish prohibited the celebrations when they controlled the land, the revelry returned in the mid-1800s and has been celebrated in New Orleans every year since.

Today cities including Mobile, Ala.; St. Louis, Mo.; Sydney, Australia; and Quebec City, Canada hold massive Mardi Gras celebrations often including parades, parties and more.

Want to check out Mardi Gras festivities for yourself? Click over to NOLA.com’s Parade Cam to join the party.

Fat Tuesday Recipes

Fat Tuesday Recipes, Fat Tuesday marks the last day before Lent, the austere month in which Catholics give up at least one vice for the month. In New Orleans, this means one thing and one thing only: Mardi Gras. But there’s no need to overdo it. Instead, make this New Orleans-inspired shrimp and sausage jambalaya recipe in the quiet of your own home. You will be instantly transported, at least for a moment.

Shrimp and andouille sausage jambalaya recipe
Serves 4 to 6

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 cups diced onion
2 cups diced bell pepper
1 pound andouille chicken sausage, thinly sliced
Salt and pepper
2 cups white rice
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves
2 cups chopped tomatoes
1 cup sliced okra
4 cups shrimp stock (recipe below)
1 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
Directions:
Put the olive oil in a pot over medium-high heat. Add the onion, pepper and sausage and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the onions are soft and golden and the sausage has begun to brown, around 15 minutes.
Stir in the rice, garlic, paprika and thyme and stir one minute.
Add the tomatoes and okra and cook, stirring, until tomato begins to break up, about five minutes. Stir in the stock and bring to a boil.
Reduce the heat to medium and cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the rice is tender and the liquid is almost absorbed, 20 to 30 minutes.
Add the shrimp and stir. Cook for an additional 20 to 30 minutes.
Remove from the heat, cover and allow to rest for 10 to 20 minutes before serving.
Shrimp stock recipe
Yields 4 cups

Ingredients:
Shells from 1-2 pounds shrimp (about 4 cups)
1/2 onion, sliced
1 carrot, sliced
4-1/2 cups water
Directions:
Combine the shrimp shells, onion, carrot and water in a large pot. Bring to a boil; then turn the heat to very low, cover and cook for 15 minutes.
Remove from the heat and cool slightly. Strain, pressing on the shells to get out all the juice.
Either use immediately or allow to cool completely and refrigerate or freeze.

Fat Tuesday 2011

Fat Tuesday 2011, Mardi Gras are the days of places are Faschnaut places. Mardi Gras, New Orleans include places, Venice, and Rio de Janeiro. Day places include Faschnaut Allentown, Kutztown and Hazleton.

Mardi Gras Faschnaut: It seems to others the day of which they call a, and Easton Big Easy. “Well then, or rather, another of the same reaction is the stimulus. This you are for the sting of Lent.

The liturgical season of Lent of the Christian faith begin the great Ash Wednesday (tomorrow will), and the end on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter. Easter, too, is the six Sundays of Lent, the days of any part of item 40 days, even in the times to run days. The Word from the Old English lencten of Lent, or the truths from the same root while, that which with the production of the days of spring.

The biblical accounts that they are the foundations of the Fourth Week of Lent are not sequential to them to death, and the resurrection of Jesus. Fourth Week of Lent which he took the set at liberty he recalls the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist on the recovery of 40 in the desert 40 days and nights of fasting and prayer, in which, endured the temptation of the Devil.

Although sequential gap, Lent, and Easter are by custom and the surrender of inseparable, are face to face. Fourth Week of Lent Christians Easter is preparing in a similar way this has Christmas Advent making love. During Lent, Christians prepare for Easter prayer, repentance, fasting and alms, and other forms and self-denial.

Given the time of Lent, the days of fasting and abstinence are before the need for an account at the time to exercise the pleasures of them soon the time is forbidden. Different folks have not joined with an opportunity in different ways.

Finally, before Lent, the Germans, the Stoics, of whom there are so many, came down in the portion of his use of sugar with the fat of fried potato in fact kind of a gift out of the batter. This gift, with many faschnaut us know, it is said (or fastnacht) meaning of the fourth night. (New International Shrove Tuesday is the word of the Fastnachtsdienstag or of the fourth Wednesday Night. “)

And / or men in places to celebrate the traditions of the Latin Carnival. The most famous is American celebration of the Carnival New Orleans’ Mardi gras celebrations of the great but there are many of the worlds in the neighborhood, even in Rio, Trinidad, nice of Venice. They’re a property of, and brought a, the portions of the public morals five years with strong drink.

He described the word of Carnival from the words of Farewell, flesh, or the flesh. The flesh can be said to be able to and / or by FLESH, swimsuit model, and worships item using the Carnival of what one cannot have later on.

The Germans Strike so I am going to eat donuts and a savage of the Latins were to run until the effects of the wine to escape the nkd in the. What kinds of mad Germans.

The Carnival is reckoned the time of a different culture of the ground, at times, in the first the beginning of the Public Domain (Jan 6), but in the Septuagesima more general, Fourth Week of Lent before Lent. Let them be as had assembled celebrations of the Ash Wednesday approaches, At the end of Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, and which.

Mardi Gras, a rooster is a “Fat Tuesday. But what saith the rich in this place, do you want to that here Wednesday is big; we clearly see the powerful and the useless? It is all of these things, but that’s does it matter which is fattie to this place. Is a living thing actually means the fat as the fat that is consumed the day before the last of Lent.

Oddly enough it is said Cenci sweet dumplings are traditional Mardi gras food. They’re from the Potato at all with a fat fried batter sprinkled with sugar. Delicious sound – And a little German.