Today is Pancake Day in the UK (do they celebrate it elsewhere?). I’m not sure about other countries, but basically traditional pancakes are eaten either as a pudding, starter, or as a full blown meal. Whilst some of you are screaming “Oh shit! I forgot the flour, eggs and milk”, and are running off to the local Tescos to purchase these items. For those of you who are left, you will enjoy a short story on “Our” Pancake Day, last Sunday, with myself and Han.
We decided to forgo making proper pancakes and instead went for the cheap and easy pancake batter mix. This provided our first discussion/argument, on how to make it. Han was adamant that the batter mix gets added to the egg and water, I was sure it was the other way around. After threats, promises and threats, Han got her way.
She was happy, I wasn’t.
To appease me, Han designated me as chief stirrer, a position I accepted on one condition: that I had a photo taken of me so that it looked like I knew what I was doing.
It may be tricky to work out what I was doing, but I was getting rid of lumps in the mixture, the fork is moving so fast, the camera can’t capture it.
After another discussion on how many lumps we want in the mixture, the time came to make the pancakes. Han was up first, and she dropped some batter into the pan. It looked okay to begin with….
But Han wasn’t happy.
On plating up, we saw why. It wasn’t going to win Masterchef.
Next came my turn. Surely I couldn’t fuck this up?
Bollocks. Han then had another go, and produced the perfect pancake.
She was most impressed with her cooking.
I then had another go, but I managed to put too much oil into the pan, and ended up shallow frying it.
Pancakes, as you may already tell, are not my forte. Han cooked a baby pancake to finish, and we were full.
I’ve decided, while I’m generally ace at cooking, Pancakes are just my stumbling blog that I’ll never, ever be able to cook. I dunno why. I’m sure Gordon Ramsay has some Bogey Dishes, that he can not do anything with.
Also, tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, and I haven’t given up anything for lent. Any suggestions?
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I don’t know if they celebrate pancake day elsewhere but they do celebrate Shrove Tuesday - some christian bollocks.
I seem to remember you being more than special at pankcake making at uni too! We had pancakes on sunday - you can’t beat mum’s home cooked ones
As for giving something up for lent… well im gonna blog about this tonight so you’ll have to wait in anticipation
“I don’t know if they celebrate pancake day elsewhere” - its a religious event and christianity (unfortunatly) is one of the most prvalent religions in the western world.
I took that photo of you mixing the mixture to show how damned funny you looked! You really cant see the awkward wrist angle in that picture!
I’d started to eat that pancake thats why it was so messed up.
shallow frying? wtf! Deep frying!
and you’re so not ace at cooking! I have NO oil left after that and its expensive stuff! My mum told me when she goes OMG did I buy you that - why did I buy you that its expensive!
I’d suggest cooking, burping, farting and making loud noises!
I’m thinking I’ll give up being a bitch to people (which I dont mean to be, I’m just honest!) and interupting!
xxx
Guy: How about Gambling? You obviously just barely recouped your losses
Han: I object to the “special at cooking”. I’m think I’m pretty good, and the lime & soy sauce chicken seemed to work
Technically it wasn’t deep frying. It’s impossible to do so in a frying pan.
i’ll never recoup my losses - its best to stop! i dread to think how much i spent on gambling in the past few years…. intrigued but dread to think! after my scratchie win thou - the penny sweets are on me!
was gonna put £20 on spurs to beat fulham thou… dammit!
Hello dude, hows life?! Was just checking up on ya! I am really busy with my studies these days and Ive given up blogging for the moment.
These pancakes look delicious! Keep up the good work mate!
Cheers…
Yan
The first pancake is always crap, as the pan gets to the proper heat - and then again when you top the oil up. I think butter works better, too.
I think you should give up sex for lent ;).
Those are pancakes? They look more like crepes. American pancakes are much thicker and tend to pouf up to about 1/4 to 1/2 inch. Most of the Christian churches here celebrate Shrove Tuesday with a Pancake supper - so I guess it IS a religious thing.
Hopefully you and Han demonstrate more prowess in other areas.
Oh, and Han? LOVE the bangs (or fringe, as you called them). They’re quite attractive. Thinking about doing that myself…
I can’t believe no one has picked up your fabulous typo in this post
Fern: Haven’t you got better things to do?
Sayre: They were huge, I admit. There were bigger ones to follow!
Ally: No.
Yan: Cheers, hopefully you make a return to blogging!
Oh my god!@:£)(”!!!! What do you think pancakes are made out of eh? Yes, thats right, milk eggs and flour. To your ‘mix’ you added water and eggs, so the sum total of your ‘mix’ was … wait for it…
flour and a bit of powdered milk
ahahahahahaha
Just thought I sounded a little bit of a cock there. Y’know at some point I’m actually gonna post some nice friendly comments - honest. I’m a nice person really
No Pancake day here in the US. In fact, I’ve never even heard of it. I does sound like something I would LIKE to celebrate though.
Haha yeah we call it Shrove Tuesday (or Pancake Tuesday)… but it’s just a Catholic (or Christian) thing here.
Hahah, I’m so sorry: but I have to say Han’s pancakes absolutely shat all over yours!
you have a click link to wiki telling all about pancake day…. that tells you where its known as pancake day around the world
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To be honest I had never heard of it, but this post explains so much.
Like why iHop was giving away free pancakes that day… Which, in retrospect, isn’t that much to explain, but hey, I was kind of curious in the most half-assed way possible.
I must start celebrating this holiday…
I made better pancakes than you two my dears!
The best way is to mix self raising flour with three egg yolks and some milk, I guess it to be honest, till you get a nice smooth thick batter. Let it settle in the fridge, in the meantime, you whisk the egg whites till stiff peaks, then you proceed to fold the whites into the batter mix gently.
This method also means you need very little oil, in fact I did it with fry light (google it) and a non stick pan. do it on a medium heat, two sprays of fry light a pancake does the trick, just make sure you let air get underneath so you can turn it over and it doenst stick!!
Kristoff