Fast Nachts Day

Happy Fast Nachts to you!   For those of you who are the uninitiated, Fast Nachts is the Penna. Dutch celebration of eating baked goods the day before Ash Wednesday.   Beginning Ash Wednesday, many folks would give up sweets for the entire season of Lent, so they got their fill of goodies the day before.

 These sticky buns are fresh out of the oven.....ooey, gooey, sweet yeasty goodness!   They've been a family tradition for as long as I can remember.   My Aunt Gladys goes one step further and makes doughnuts as well as the sticky buns!   If you've never had a fresh homemade doughnut you are missing one of life's greatest pleasures.

Wish you could smell how good my kitchen smells this afternoon.   After the cold, snowy, freezing rain, sleet day we had yesterday I decided to bake whole wheat bread for our sandwiches and sticky buns........well, the sticky buns are "just because".  You know what I mean.   But Fast Nachts sounds like a really good reason to bake them, doesn't it?

Yup!   This is what my car looked like yesterday during winter storm Titan.   Our temps dropped below 20 last night.   But now the forecasters are saying we will warm up all this week and by week's end be near 60 again.    So for us, the week is really looking up.   AND, our cabinets should be installed by the end of the week!!   Woo-hoo!

Baking Fool,
Debbie