My annual pancake party was hosted yesterday and it was good. I get very excited about pancake day, possibly too excited, which is why it's probably best it only happens once a year. At least 30 pancakes were consumed (there were 6 of us) with several different toppings. I went for one savoury with cheese and ham, a couple with sugar and lime juice (lemon is so last year), one with nutella and banana, and one with toffee sauce, ice cream and banana. Did you all have pancakes? What's your favourite topping?
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We were invited next door for "a quick apero" and by the time we got home, it was too late for pancakes. Wah! I LOVE pancakes. Classic sugar and lemon (even if it is a bit last year!) is my favourite, but I also like Crepes Suzette.
We once had "Crepes Comedie Francaise" in a restaurant at Villefranche-sur-Mer (back in the days before Kevin spent all our money on a central heating boiler!) which were prepared at the table and were fantastic. A mixture of fruits, lightly cooked in some butter, folded into the pancake, and the whole lot flambeed in Grand Marnier. Yum doesn't even come close!!!
We had crepes suzette once at a nice italian restaurant nearby. I enjoyed the theatre of it all, but I'm not really a fan of alcoholy tasting things, and prefer my pancakes plainer really.
I must say, don't feel like you've missed out, you can have pancakes any day you like! Although from one of your recent posts, it sounds like you have problems finding plain flour? Or was that just strong bread flour?
It was "strong white bread flour" that was posing the problem - and still is! I've just bought some fresh yeast, so I'm going to throw caution to the winds and have a bash using standard "Type 55" white flour - as soon as the bread-knife injury to my thumb has healed up and I can knead things without bleeding on them!!
I can't type the noise I made on reading that - I'm quite squeamish. Hope you don't fight with the bread knife again and your thumb recovers soon!
Slaverings of Savlon (imported!) are aiding the healing process. Not quite at kneading stage yet, but getting there, thank you!
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