Today is Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day as it also known, the day preceding Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.
We eat pancakes quite a lot in our house all year round. The kids love them with chocolate spread, my hubby likes them with sugar and lemon, me on the other hand......I know most people consider this very weird, I like mine with gravy (there I have outed myself). To me pancakes are no different to having Yorkshire pudding and I for one would never put sugar and lemon on a Yorkshire pudding.
I haven't particularly got a sweet tooth, however hitting 50, strangely, I am quickly acquiring one. No I am more of a savoury lass, chips and bread over a cream cake. As a youngster we had Yorkshire pudding with gravy as a starter before Sunday dinner. I am guessing this was to fill you up so you didn't want too much meat the most expensive bit of the dinner. My mum was a good cook, she was a stew type of cook, we rarely had chips other than on chippy day, which was usually Thursday as this was pay day in the days of weekly pay packets. Often as an alternative to dumplings mum would make pancakes putting the stew over them, so pancakes are seen very much as a savoury to me.
I must say my hubby thought this was very odd. He is a Liverpool lad their stew being called "Scouse" different counties have their own variations of hot pots and stews. I do realise other than in my family no one else seems to see pancakes as a savoury. Tomorrow evening I am out on my course, I will make Lamb Tagine for hubby, he will make pancakes with the kids and I'll eat mine in the closet when I get back.
Can't wait to A's face on Wednesday when for the first time she will have been daubed in ash with the sign of the cross on her forehead, I think the pancakes will go down better with her than the following days ritual.
Sha X
We eat pancakes quite a lot in our house all year round. The kids love them with chocolate spread, my hubby likes them with sugar and lemon, me on the other hand......I know most people consider this very weird, I like mine with gravy (there I have outed myself). To me pancakes are no different to having Yorkshire pudding and I for one would never put sugar and lemon on a Yorkshire pudding.
I haven't particularly got a sweet tooth, however hitting 50, strangely, I am quickly acquiring one. No I am more of a savoury lass, chips and bread over a cream cake. As a youngster we had Yorkshire pudding with gravy as a starter before Sunday dinner. I am guessing this was to fill you up so you didn't want too much meat the most expensive bit of the dinner. My mum was a good cook, she was a stew type of cook, we rarely had chips other than on chippy day, which was usually Thursday as this was pay day in the days of weekly pay packets. Often as an alternative to dumplings mum would make pancakes putting the stew over them, so pancakes are seen very much as a savoury to me.
I must say my hubby thought this was very odd. He is a Liverpool lad their stew being called "Scouse" different counties have their own variations of hot pots and stews. I do realise other than in my family no one else seems to see pancakes as a savoury. Tomorrow evening I am out on my course, I will make Lamb Tagine for hubby, he will make pancakes with the kids and I'll eat mine in the closet when I get back.
Can't wait to A's face on Wednesday when for the first time she will have been daubed in ash with the sign of the cross on her forehead, I think the pancakes will go down better with her than the following days ritual.
Sha X
2 comments:
I also prefer a savoury pancake :-), but never give up anything for Lent (shame on me).
Enjoy your day.
BW,
Lesley x.
Glad to hear I'm not alone!
Sha x
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