Fat Tuesday (Pancake day!)

[Pumpkin Becki]

We tend to go a bit OTT with pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, so couldn't bear to eat them any other time of year!!

[HeyWayne]

I know but it's a bit like mince pies. Why do we only have them at Christmas ?

Because it takes so long to work them off again - I guess it's similar with pancakes. It probably takes most people at least a year to wash the ceiling and repaint it and then another few months to forget you did it in the first place, and so the cycle continues....

[binley100]

pmsl

I'd just luuurve one of you blueberry efforts Ollie thankyou.

[Flummery]

My daughter is making pancakes - I know 'cos she's coming round shortly for some eggs!
I don't think we will. We're having Spag bol and I think pasta followed by pancake is going to be a bit filling!

[Bren In Pots]

I got eggs out to do pancakes but made omelettes instead after spotting some bean sprouts that needed using up

[Alison]

OH's away this week and I'm not doing them just for me! If I was doing them though would just stick to proper pancakes not those horrible thick American things, they're just too stodgy for me. Normally will make a batch and have some sweet and some savory for our tea.

Re mincepies, still got a load in the freezer which we didn't eat at Christmas so will have to eat some more soon!

[Nicos]

Well- I'm going to make my mix now and leave it to 'settle' as granny used to say!
Mushroom stuffed in a creamy sauce followed by lemon and sugar or apple and icecream (must eat those apples..must eat those apples....)

[jackyspratty]

My kids love pancakes and we make them a fair bit. Often do savoury ones too, especially when they are stuffed and rolled up like lasagne tubes and sauce over them and baked.... yumyum... also like scotch pancakes.. which are graet with bacon etc but also good smeared with honey, raspberry jam....mmmmm

Just having plain old lemon and sugar tonite tho, and having pasta with meatballs before hand..... kids got to choose!.... Anyone got a fork lift truck to get me off te sofa later??...

Mines already made and settling too! Anyone experimented to see if this makes any difference?

[Alison]

Mines already made and settling too! Anyone experimented to see if this makes any difference?

I never bother as I'm not organised enough to do it and they always turn out fine.

[Rossa]

Ham and cheese pancakes first tonight, then either lemon & sugar ones or hot banana with fudge sauce. Slices of banana, fried in a butter, add some dark brown sugar, melt it into fudge sauce and if really naughty a splash of cream.

Batter makes too many for 2 just for a pud and I don't like keeping it so we're having both savoury and sweet tonight. Saying that I better go do it now!

Read somewhere that if you put more flour in another bowl with some sugar and add the leftover batter you end up with a thick enough mix for making muffins. Think it was Jamie Oliver. I put blueberries in my muffins so hey could have fab tea time tomorrow too!

I heat blueberries in microwave for breakfast pancakes and drizzle over some maple syrup. Use the Scotch pancakes from Sainsbury's that I keep in the freezer for lazy Sunday mornings. Sainsbury's also sell frozen blueberries that work just as well. Nuke in microwave from frozen....roll on this Sunday, know what I'm having.

Pancake overload week!

[Brengirl]

Ham and cheese pancakes first tonight, then either lemon & sugar ones or hot banana with fudge sauce. Slices of banana, fried in a butter, add some dark brown sugar, melt it into fudge sauce and if really naughty a splash of cream.

Batter makes too many for 2 just for a pud and I don't like keeping it so we're having both savoury and sweet tonight. Saying that I better go do it now!

Read somewhere that if you put more flour in another bowl with some sugar and add the leftover batter you end up with a thick enough mix for making muffins. Think it was Jamie Oliver. I put blueberries in my muffins so hey could have fab tea time tomorrow too!

I heat blueberries in microwave for breakfast pancakes and drizzle over some maple syrup. Use the Scotch pancakes from Sainsbury's that I keep in the freezer for lazy Sunday mornings. Sainsbury's also sell frozen blueberries that work just as well. Nuke in microwave from frozen....roll on this Sunday, know what I'm having.

Pancake overload week!

Rossa you seem to know a thing or two about pancakes. Mine are somtimes OKish other binableish. Best pancakes I have eaten were on the beach in Kerala. 'Plain with syrup'/fruit salad/chocolate/whatever you fancy all cooked on a 'primus stove'.

[Hilary B]

OH wants a paella tonight 'with pancakes for afters'..... Oh well, start dietting again tomorrow!

[Jeanied]

OK this is one for all you expert pancake makers - does the first pancake in the batch always end up not very good so it ends up in the cook's tummy? Or have you got a secret way round this?

[OllieMartin]

OK this is one for all you expert pancake makers - does the first pancake in the batch always end up not very good so it ends up in the cook's tummy? Or have you got a secret way round this?

Nope, it's never as good as No.2. My mum calls it 'proving the pan'.

I still haven't made mine. I've spent too long devouring my 12.5 oz steak with peppercorn sauce!

[rustylady]

First one's never as good as the rest. I used to hate/love doing pancakes when the kids were all at home. It was a production line. By the time I'd finished I never fancied eating one (even if there was any batter left)