Smingus Dyngus

Yesterday, on Easter Monday they celebrated "Smingus Dyngus" in Poland. It's a strange tradition - basically on this day guys have to surprise girls and water them like plants. Or even worse... It's said that girls that get soaked with water get married within the year. I think I've heard this expression before, but I didn't really know what it means. I just thought it's some nonsense talk.
It seems to be a pagan tradition, but then again why is it on Easter Monday? Well, there are actually some other pre-Christian celebrations that take place in the same day with religious celebrations. Maybe it's because when people got Christined religious authorities wanted to eclipse previous celebrations, by integrating or explaining them by Christian ones.
Anyway, noways it doesn't really matter, you just water anybody. You can even water old ladies on the tram (while taking their seat, hehe), I guess they wouldn't mind, as long as it brings good luck...
I didn't have the chance to take part directly in it, however. Still, I got wet since it rained all day. How appropriate for wet Monday, as a friend commented, frustrated that we couldn't play frisbee.

Easter recipes

OK, now I know that I have praised Polish shops too much. There may be a few of them opened during the night (Tesco and any small shop specialised in alcohol, hehe), but they really suck during holidays. That's why I starved for Easter this year. Well, actually it wasn't my Easter since I'm not catholic, but anyway, others were eating till they got sick. EVERY store was closed on Sunday and on Monday. It was crazy! There were opened till noon on Saturday, but since I've been partying till a bit before they got opened and slept a lot after they had closed, I didn't manage to buy anything. And I found out about that too late. Well, I'm actually exaggerating, I didn't starve as I had had a few options, like eating out, but I was too lazy for that, so I found myself cooking the strangest things that I have ever cooked using leftovers in my fridge (some of them even considered for throwing under normal circumstances). As I was cooking those things I was wondering whether they had ever been cooked by anybody in this damn huge world.
Sunday, the great Easter lunch: I boiled some soup pasta (I didn't have any normal one) I fried two large onions (carefully cutting out the brownish middle of one of them that was nominated for throwing away; I used the white part though :P), then I added a bit of chicken breast and since it wasn't enough I added a tuna can, then some tomato sauce, and before it was done, la piece de resistance - kiwi. Oh, and of course, sandwich cheese on top (nothing close to parmigiano or any other seasoned cheese). I don't want to hear any Italian again that you're not supposed to add cheese on tuna pasta. It was pasta con con tollo (or con ponno, I'm not really sure). I must say it was great. The sweet-sour taste of kiwi payed off.
I tried to get on without dinner and it was working really nice before my stomach uprose at 2am.
I had to cook again. This time I wanted to make it fast as I was starving, so I skipped the onion. I fried/boiled some pork, nicely seasoned, while boiling some potatoes (cut in small pieces to boil faster). I added tomato sauce in the pan and then three eggs. As I wasn't patient enough to mash the potatoes I mixed them with the rest. I added sandwich cheese on top and - dinner is served. It looked like goulash, but it didn't taste like it. It wasn't as bad as it looked. You should try it some time. I ate the rest for lunch the next day. But I survived!!!
I can't wait to get home for the real Easter. I hope I'll find sarmale and lamb steak. And cozonac and pasca, of course...