Fat Tuesday

[Winchester]

Today is Fat Tuesday and you know what that means.....doughnuts! Lots of doughnuts! I'm going to drink my morning coffee and then the kitchen will be busy today. I'm making doughnuts and beignets. There will be plenty; c'mon in for coffee and doughnuts! (I really don't like deep-fat frying, so Rick has to stay in the house the entire time I have the fryer turned on....just in case I do something stupid. You know me. It happens.) Tonight we'll take some up to Rick's mom. She's already waiting for hers.

Anybody else celebrating?

 

[Kat0121]

I hate deep frying. No celebrating for us. Have one for me.

 

[NY cat man]

Here in WNY, we have a large Polish contingent, so today is paczki day, which is a type of doughnut. How they get 'punch-key' from that spelling is beyond me, but they sell a ton of the things.

 

[rubysmama]

Today is Fat Tuesday and you know what that means.....doughnuts! Lots of doughnuts!

Hmmm... isn't Fat Tuesday related to, or the same as, Shrove Tuesday? Which means Pancake Day?

Yup, Googled and found this:
Fat Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday. It is also known as Mardi Gras Day or Shrove Day. ... So, Fat Tuesday is a celebration and the opportunity to enjoy that favorite food or snack that you give up for the long Lenten season.

And this: NATIONAL PANCAKE DAY - February 25, 2020 | National Today

Guess I'm having pancakes tonight. And I just happen to have strawberries and blueberries, as well as pure maple syrup, so yummy topping.

 

[verna davies]

I hate deep frying. No celebrating for us. Have one for me.

Same here, so have another for me.

 

[Lari]

I've got a couple bakeries to go to where I can hopefully get my pączki. If they're both out I guess I'll have to get the four pack from Jewel.

 

[Winchester]

I don't like deep fat frying either. It used to scare the crap out of me. Rick's mom wouldn't take NO! for an answer; she said that she wouldn't be around forever and somebody needed to make the doughnuts when she was gone. So every year I'd go up and we'd make doughnuts. At first she did everything while I watched. Then I started doing them while she watched. Eventually it got to the point where I'd go up and do it all while she drank coffee and read the morning paper. Now that she's in a nursing home, it has, indeed, fallen to me to make the doughnuts. Still not my favorite thing to do, but as long as Rick stays around, I'm OK.

 

[Kat0121]

I don't like deep fat frying either. It used to scare the crap out of me. Rick's mom wouldn't take NO! for an answer; she said that she wouldn't be around forever and somebody needed to make the doughnuts when she was gone. So every year I'd go up and we'd make doughnuts. At first she did everything while I watched. Then I started doing them while she watched. Eventually it got to the point where I'd go up and do it all while she drank coffee and read the morning paper. Now that she's in a nursing home, it has, indeed, fallen to me to make the doughnuts. Still not my favorite thing to do, but as long as Rick stays around, I'm OK.

I hate it because it's messy and the oil stinks up the house even if you change it often. We used to have a deep fryer. I got rid of it and will not be replacing it.

 

[Koveshnikov]

Hmmm... isn't Fat Tuesday related to, or the same as, Shrove Tuesday? Which means Pancake Day?

Yup, Googled and found this:
Fat Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday. It is also known as Mardi Gras Day or Shrove Day. ... So, Fat Tuesday is a celebration and the opportunity to enjoy that favorite food or snack that you give up for the long Lenten season.

And this: NATIONAL PANCAKE DAY - February 25, 2020 | National Today

Guess I'm having pancakes tonight. And I just happen to have strawberries and blueberries, as well as pure maple syrup, so yummy topping.

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that's what we ate today favorite berries for our cats and favorite syrup for us

 

[Lari]

The two bakeries were sold out and I really didn't want a four pack from Jewel, but the local doughnut shop saved me! I prefer custard or cream, but chocolate and lemon was what they had left (and plum, but I don't care for prune and I was afraid it'd be more similar to that and not the fruit), so I'll take it!

 

[maggiedemi]

What a coincidence! I actually had an apple fritter donut today for lunch with my vanilla cappuccino.
But crumbcake donut is my favorite.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

Well now I don’t feel so bad about eating the leftover cinnamon bun from Mooch’s birthday breakfast celebration.

 

[denice]

I actually forgot about it until after I had eaten an early dinner so I didn't have any of the traditional things that go with Fat Tuesday. If I had thought about it I probably would've had pancakes for dinner. I am not a big donut person, I am more of a bagel and cream cheese person.

 

[Mia6]

I had an apple fritter.They begin selling paczkis at the beginning of January around here as there are
a huge amount of people that have eastern European backgrounds my self included, maternal grandfather
was from Lithuania and my maternal grandmother was from what was then Yugoslavia.

So being Catholic, no meat on Fridays or Good Friday. Some people still give it up for Lent
but it's more common to give of yourself to others dung these next 40 days.I'll go to Mass
this evening.

 

[Winchester]

Disclaimer: I am not a chef, nor am I a profession baker. They don't look the best, but they taste good.

In the kitchen:
My beignets are from an old favorite recipe that Rick's mom found many, many moons ago. You drop spoonfuls of batter into the hot oil; they's why they look a little wonky. But they really are good. I'm going to look around for a recipe for beignets that you can roll out and cut. These were shaken in a bag of sugar and cinnamon.

The glazed doughnuts were then sprinkled with an Easter-like sprinkle.

I had a devil of a time, trying to fill these doughnuts from the side. I finally cheated and stuck the tube into the top of the doughnut and squirted the strawberry filling in that way. Worked! A sprinkle of non-melting white sugar (from King Arthur) and they were done. They really taste good!

For some reason, it took a lot longer than it used to to make these buggers, frost, fill, etc. I cleaned up for the second and last time around 4:00. And needless to say, I didn't make dinner; we made sandwiches and canned soup. Cleaned up from that and I was done. My sister came in and picked her doughnuts up and then we took a few up to Rick's mother. She was very happy.

 

[maggiedemi]

These were shaken in a bag of sugar and cinnamon.

I think I would like those beignets, they look like fried bread dough. I don't like donuts that are too sweet like with frosting or filling.

 

[rubysmama]

I'm not that much of a donut fan, but those look delicious, Winchester

I'm glad you posted this thread, and that I saw it, as I hadn't realized yesterday was Fat Tuesday. I didn't make donuts, but did make pancakes for dinner.