Seizing a moment of pleasure in yesterday’s deeply despairing hours: the little bit that I can still manage by way of cooking, which is really just assembly and using kitchen appliances (a rice cooker, the microwave), in a conscious imitative realization of the delightful verse by Maurice Sendak, “Chicken Soup with Rice” (1962):
Whoopee once
Whoopee twice
Whoopee spicy beef and celery soup
With rice
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🐇 🐇 🐇 Today is both St. David’s Day — the Welsh national day, celebrating its patron saint, always March 1 — and also Shrove Tuesday / Fat Tuesday / Mardi Gras — a Tuesday mov(e)able feast on the Christian calendar.
St. David’s Day calls for leeks. Also daffodils, but pretty though they are, daffodils aren’t edible. And red dragons. And, of course, singing, always the singing. (Background on this blog: my 3/1/12 posting “Take a leek” and my 3/2/15 posting “St. David’s Day”)
And then Shrove Tuesday is a food holiday, a moment of excess (in food, as in other things) before the strictures of Lent, celebrated with pancakes or fried dough or the food of Carnaval (in the US, anything Cajun or Creole). In my ethnic community, the Pa. Dutch, Shrove Tuesday calls for doughnuts:
(#1) A display of assorted foodstuffs called doughnuts / donuts in American English
(Background on this blog: my 3/8/11 posting “Fasnacht Day”; my 8/3/18 posting “Ruthie and the language of doughnuts”)
Yes! They can be combined, in Fat St. David ‘s savory (rather than sweet) doughnuts, which have sautéed leeks in the dough.
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