Palm Sunday Poland

W week before Easter we celebrate Palm Sunday. On this day people bring palms to churches and priests bless them. In the town of Lipnica Murowana there is a custom to organize a competition to choose the highest palm. This year the winning palm measured 32 meters 34 centimeters. Have a look!

 

Happy Easter form Polish friends!

skillful hands

Some of our friends wanted to know how to make cards. I made ​​a film for them to see the steps to achieve cards.

Customs of Kathari Theftera in Greece

 written by Kostantinos Z.

  In Greek, the Ash Monday is called Kathari Theftera (which means Clean Monday) or Koulouma. Kathari Theftera is the end of the carnival and the beginning of Lent (the forty days before Easter).

  In Nicholas Politis opinion (he is a famous Greek folklorist) the word Koulouma comes from the Latin «cumulus», which means abundance and end.

  The meaning of Kathari Theftera is spiritual and physical purification.

  Tradition says that this day housewives clean their utensils off the feast of Carnival.

Greeks don’t eat meat and products of animals like milk, cheese, eggs etc this day. The most religious people don’t eat oil, either. The meal includes olives, taramas salad (it is made of fish eggs), beans, sea food excluding fish (octopus, sleeve fish, shell fish),  boiled potatoes, vegetable salads and a kind of bread called “lagana”.

Another custom of this day is to fly kites, so all children pray for  good weather.

Polish students dancing 'trojak'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt6QunBz5M4&feature=youtu.be

Enjoy a traditional recipe from Abruzzo - ITALY

Today we will  present the recipe for the fiadoni, a delicious meal  where we have a sheet that wraps around a filling of traditional cheeses.

They are so called  because, first of baking them,  on the surface of fiadoni you have to  get a small cut that allows the stuffing to "breath" during the cooking process and drain the good smell of cheese

 

During Easter holiday they are prepared because often accompany the traditional trip on  Easter Monday ...  comfortable to carry in backpacks for the traditional day out with friends!

Here you are the recipe from Greta

 

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the recipe of italian easter cakes

La pupa, il cavallo e il cuore 

Ingredients: 1 kg of flour, 800 grams of sugar, 10/12 eggs, 1 cup of extra virgin olive oil, 3   teaspoons of baking powder, ½ kg of crushed almonds, dark chocolate flakes, grated rind of 1 lemon and 1 orange, a glass of Aurum liqueur d'Abruzzo.

Preparation: mix the ingredients and add into them the eggs, oil, liquor and yeast.

Mix until a homogeneous paste which will take the desired shape.

Bake and ...

...  enjoy your meal!

happy Easter holiday from pupils and teachers