Ha, ha, you probably thought that I was done with food and activity pairings. If I hadn’t made one for today, I would have missed out on one of the best days for food of the entire year.
Call it what you want, Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day, Paczki or Faschnaut Day. Traditionally for observers of Lent, it is the day to use up forbidden foods before the fasting of the Lenten season. Here are some things that you can do today to celebrate Fat Tuesday.
11 Mardi Gras/ Fat Tuesday Food and Activity Pairings To Get Our Of Your System Before Lent Begins
- Begin your day by shoveling some snow and enjoying a delicious fastnacht, a Pennsylvania Dutch potato doughnut.
- Take some time to whip up the batter for your dinner waffles before handing out beads to your neighbors.
- A King Cake is the perfect accompaniment when building a parade float for your neighborhood parade.
- Order in some andouille gumbo to keep you full while you play some Dixieland jazz for your neighbors on your trombone or your marching snare drum.
- Prepare some muffuletta sandwiches to take with you to your town’s Mardi Gras parade.
- Throw your friends and family a crawfish boil in your back yard to get everyone together before the season of prayer and reflection.
- Pick up paczki, Polish strawberry filled doughnuts, at your a local bakery and enjoy them while clearing the snow and scraping the ice off of your car.
- Take some cajan mac and cheese on a picnic and make take some time to figure out a cool street performance, perhaps a fire dance, to share with your neighbors.
- Shrimp and grits for breakfast builds the perfect base for a day or drinking outside with open containers on the street in front of your house.
- Crafting a chicken and sausage jambalaya can be time consuming but well worth it. Take it to your closest parade and maybe you will be gifted a rare Zulu coconut.
- New Orleans Style beignets are a good accompaniment for day of reading books that take place in New Orleans Here are some suggestions: The Client and the Pelican Brief by John Grisham. You could also watch the 1999 movie Double Jeopardy with Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones.
Nice tri-axle, H! Does that have a Cummins, Detroit, or CAT powerplant?
I love these food and activity pairings you do. They’re always a great way to get some smiles in while the day is getting underway!
Thank you Jonathan I appreciate that. I like to write these posts because I actually do think a lot about matching foods with the season/ time of year/ holiday/ activity. For some reason that really appeals to me. Also sometimes I just like it as a writing activity. I like to feel like I am working that creative part of my brain because I don’t always want to write about me. I just want to pull something out of thin air. I appreciate your comments. Also Henry got the lego truck at Chocolate world in Hershey. Brendan and Patrick put it together and Henry customized it a little with his own legos. Its a pretty cool truck.
I love your pairings- can’t wait to see the photos from the parade! I love the smile from the truck man more- it screams “ I love this truck!!!”
Thank you Aunt Heidi. He sure loves trucks. No parade here but wouldn’t it be cool if places outside of the Gulf states had Mardi Gras parades?
Love the food/activity pairings Katie! And that’s a great picture of the boys. I love their smiles.
Thank you Katie
Henry looks like he couldn’t possibly be any happier 😊
I always found King Cakes interesting but mainly because of the hidden plastic baby. I’ve never seen a group of people partake & look for Jesus.