February 24, 2009
Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras Masks by PDXFirefly
Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday and it is the day before the Lenten Season begins with Ash Wednesday. This year Mardi Gras is Tuesday, February 24, 2009.
New Orleans is the North American city most famous for it celebration of this time and Mardi Gras actually begins on the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6 culminating on the Tuesday before Lent begins. The colors of Mardi Gras are jewel-toned purples, greens and golds.
The food of Mardi Gras is anything you want to eat before the austerity and fasting of lent begins. In some countries, Mardi Gras Tuesday is also referred to as Pancake Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday because one is to use up the ingredients that you are not to have in the house during lent –and those ingredients mixed together make …pancakes!
So, if you don’t feel like cooking, and want to give the children and yourself a new “family tradition”, then make pancakes together on Shrove Tuesday and wear purple, green and /or gold!
