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Happy Fastnacht Day, People

There’s nothing quite like waking your family up to the sound of a deep fryer.

Today is Fastnacht day — for those of you who are thinking, “fast-what?” it is the day before Ash Wednesday when households would use up the fat in their house before Lent started. It literally means in German “the night before the fast” (okay, I didn’t just know that. I googled it.). Making homemade fastnachts has always been a family tradition since….well, my grandmother’s grandmother maybe? I’m not going to be the one to break tradition. We like tradition.

So, at 5:30 am, I headed to the kitchen to start fastnachting the day using the original family recipe.

I quickly found that taking photos seriously impeding the fastnacht process. I had a time schedule I was up against.

I promise you won’t take in any calories by simply looking upon this picture. Sadly, I cannot say the same for myself since I did a lot more than simply look.

The boys woke up first and gobbled some down before I could clean my hands and grab the camera again. But, since the girls tend to sleep a little later, I did manage to take some pics of them.

Mmm…deep fried and covered in powdered sugar. 
Why does Lydia respond to “Do you like it?” by showing it to us?
That’s not a sour face. It’s a silly smile face. So cute.
It just happened to be a gathering at Community Bible Study today with international foods. German fastnachts? Perfect. I loaded about 6 more on top of this plate that my family didn’t polish off. 
Now, we’d be set if we were giving up fat for lent. Perhaps I should actually consider it given the number of these babies that I have eaten today.

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  1. I hadn’t heard of that before. I think it’s a great tradition that should DEFINITELY be carried on! YUM!!!

  2. Oh, I miss Fastnacht Day. Back when The Boss worked in Steelton, back when I didn’t really need to care about carbs, fat, or calories, I might add… he used to stop at the Orthodox churches in town and bring some home for us to share in place of dinner. They were all over the place there. Sigh.

    Have fun with what you have left – tomorrow you can fast fat and sugar :)

  5. YUMMMMMM….I want one with my coffee this morning! Wow. Seriously. You need to share that family recipe. I’d like to make some of those!

    Love the tradition–love family traditions of any kind.

    And Lyd’s yeah–she’s absolutely precious and is it my imagination or is she getting “soooo big” (as Izabella would say?)? The silly smile is uniquely hers-only she could do it so darn cute.

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