Pancake Day 2019

[polly]

Maple syrup is the BEST thing on a pancake day pancake polly.

You just know you're too far away for me to bother coming to fight you Or I would

 

[kabbes]

We’re having a kind of pancake cannelloni dish

 

[Maggot]

Just had creamy garlic mushrooms with mine. Having a break before the sweet ones.

 

[iona]

Just had three pancakes, with lemon and sugar obvs (I almost had to fight some commuter on the train earlier for calling jam and chocolate spread "traditional" polly )

 

[polly]

Just had three pancakes, with lemon and sugar obvs (I almost had to fight some commuter on the train earlier for calling jam and chocolate spread "traditional" polly )

Jam and chocolate spread? Wtf. no jury would convict. I'm enjoying the mental image of you almost fighting them though

 

[moose]

Oh. I forgot.

 

[campanula]

The offspring forgot (and I kept silent as I fucking loathe the things).

I am hoping they don't come back from celebratory cocktails demanding late night battery. D-i-L officially cancer free so unable to be churlish and refuse to don pinny and brandish my whisk.

 

[iona]

Jam and chocolate spread? Wtf. no jury would convict. I'm enjoying the mental image of you almost fighting them though

He was on the phone telling his partner/flatmate/whoever that he'd got pancake stuff, luckily signal dropped out just then and he got cut off before smacking him in the mouth became unavoidable. I did one of those snort laughs you have to style out as a stifled sneeze when he phoned back and joked "the train didn't want me to have that conversation with you" NO ONE WANTED TO HEAR YOU HAVE THAT CONVERSATION YOU FUCKING FREAK

 

[editor]

Just filled my face with blueberry pancakes in Seattle. Veh nice.

 

[Epona]

I am actually really fucked off with this whole thing (not cos of anything on Urban!), I may come back later and explain if and when I calm down sufficiently. There has been a domestic pancakegate type thing

(I actually probably do not need to explain it very much other than to say that I do not have a sweet tooth and he thinks dessert is a perfectly acceptable dinner, add into that the fact that he bought the ingredients and is sitting playing games while I make him sweet pancakes while I am feeling as if I have been denied an actual dinner (I wanted mushrooms and cream filling)).

*Edit to add: agreement has been reached that I will cook pancakes some other time when I feel under less pressure to produce pancakes simply because it is pancake day. After all, we barely celebrate xmas, and when I insist on having an xmas-style dinner, we often do it on a different day due to his work schedules. So I will do pancakes some other time when I don't feel so stressed about it.

 

[gentlegreen]

Gram flour pancakes initially taste like peas.
Can't say they excited me at all, but after eating too many - the last one with almond butter and apricot conserve, they at least made it easier to resist the last box of Indian gram flour sweets.

 

[polly]

He was on the phone telling his partner/flatmate/whoever that he'd got pancake stuff, luckily signal dropped out just then and he got cut off before smacking him in the mouth became unavoidable. I did one of those snort laughs you have to style out as a stifled sneeze when he phoned back and joked "the train didn't want me to have that conversation with you" NO ONE WANTED TO HEAR YOU HAVE THAT CONVERSATION YOU FUCKING FREAK

Everyone on the train except you is the fucking worst.

 

[Maggot]

I make pancakes virtually every day at work and have switched to vegan ones about 6 months ago. I find gram flour a bit too wholesome tbh (unless I'm doing something like Indian carrot pancakes, where it works). You can make vegan ones easily by just using self raising flour, a bit of extra baking powder, some salt, veg/sunflower oil and soya milk. The trick is to add the liquid to the flour slowly and give it a good beating for a minute or two when it becomes a wet dough, then slowly mix in the remainder of the liquid

I sort of see what you mean. I think the gram flour recipe is fine for savoury pancakes, but is doesn't really work for the sweet ones. It lacks the richness.

 

[RubyToogood]

I pancaked today as yesterday was inopportune. This turned out to be a good move as I had various odds and ends that needed finishing up and made good fillings.

So I had mushroom and black-eyed bean leftover pie filling with spinach and cheese, gigantes baked bean with spinach and cheese, and some sweet ones, mainly lime juice with cinnamon, brown sugar and a knob of butter, which is a work of genius if I say so myself.

I atoned for the fact it's actually Ash Wednesday now by eating a few burnt bits of frying pan, as the surface of mine seems to be disintegrating

 

[Chz]

Pah. I didn't have any farmer's cheese for my pancakes this year.
Polish Mama on the Prairie: Nalesniki z Serem or Polish Crepes/Pancakes with Cheese

Went for nutella-alike from Costco with brandy-soaked dried fruits instead. I deem this substitution acceptable.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Pancakes are not very nice.