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\nMardi Gras is one of those very Catholic things that cracks me up \u2014 because it\u2019s so human. Just before Lent, during which people are called to refrain from all excess and on some days fast, Mardi Gras is a final blowout, devoted to eating the most decadent food you can think of \u2014 both because they are foods you won\u2019t be allowed to have again for a month and a half, and to use up those ingredients in the home.<\/p>\n

The most traditional food is fried dough \u2014 pancakes especially, and also donuts or latkes (which if you recall I wrote about two months ago as being the traditional food of Hanukkah<\/a>). Once again, an excuse to eat fried carbs!<\/p>\n

Last year, on the way home, when I hadn\u2019t managed to find any opportunity to have pancakes or donuts on Mardi Gras and it was already nighttime, in a moment of inspiration I got okonomiyaki for dinner. Okonomiyaki is Japanese street food at its best: pancakes made of flour, eggs, shredded cabbage and diced squid, topped with Worcestershire sauce, mayonnaise and bonito flakes. I\u2019m super-lucky to live in a partly Japanese neighborhood and go to the nationally-known takeout stand Otafuku<\/a> around the corner for it once in a while. I wrote about Otafuku and okonomiyaki in this piece last summer: Okonomiyaki and connecting through music<\/a>. <\/p>\n

So today, maybe I\u2019ll get some more traditional American pancakes. But right now, I\u2019m leaning towards turning Otafuku\u2019s okonomiyaki into a tradition by doing it for a second year in a row. I know it\u2019s not really decadent, which is supposed to be the point, but honestly I have no desire to binge on bad food in advance of Lent. <\/p>\n

You can see all my Lent-themed pieces together at patheos.com\/blogs\/philfoxrose\/tag\/lent\/<\/a>. Please share this link, or just one to my blog, with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"