Friday, March 4, 2016

Maslenitsa is coming.

Maslenitsa is a holiday that marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring
We depict Winter as a woman like this:

And then burn her in effigy.
Sometime we write our wishes on small pieces of paper and put them in this woman's pockets.
Maslenitsa comes from the word "maslo", which means butter, and it refers to pancakes!
The boys are getting ready to mass pancaking.


He uses two dipping sauces, one is  sweet condensed milk, second is sour cream.
When time arrives there will be more filling for pancakes. Caviar, fish, sweets, meat, many, many of them.

Depending on number of guests, my wife uses from two to four pans simultaneously:

And usually, we have a lot of guests on this day:

Let's celebrate it !

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