to be excited its pancake day

[Strenua]

we have them quite often, but to know that this evening all I have to do is cover my table with loads of toppings, fry a few crepes and pancakes and THAT IS ALL - dinner sorted!!! I am smiling already!

Dangling, we have always done pancake day and before we had the DCs we would invite our friends round for pancake parties too. Why would it be just for kids? I love pancake day!! I am just trying to work out what to have on mine. Growing up we had sugar and orange juice - probably frowned upon these days!! - but I saw Gino De-Whatsit on This Morning do baked ones with a kind of bolognese sauce in, so I might try those, then bananas and syrup on the sweet ones afterwards. Yum!

thats not why you're getting slated on that thread at all!

Buzz, it's one reason.

Lazyem, Nutella and banana if you're going sweet! Savoury: spinach, cheese, ham and sweetcorn is the best. Used to have it in a much-missed creperie in Soho

Dangling - Yum, that sounds really nice!! No spinach in the fridge though. Am wondering if leeks will work instead!!

DC and I had drop scones for breakfast, and will have savoury pancakes (probably chicken, bacon and mushroom, but depends slightly on what falls out of the freezer) followed by sweet pancakes (with syrup/lemon/sugar/bananas/ice cream/anything else anyone wants and can find, with crepes suzettes for fussy DH)

Can't wait [pig]

No one could agree on fillings for my (savoury) pancakes today so I'm going to make Toad in the Hole instead. The batter is the same so hope it still counts as a 'pancake' :o
Then American style blueberry pancakes with ice-cream and maple syrup for pud.
Wrt packet mixes, traditionally the whole point of pancake day was to use up all your eggs, flour etc before lent, but I guess things have moved on since then!
For those who are getting vomity looking pancakes, try getting your pan a bit hotter and DON'T try to move or flip the pancake until it is completely set! I find that usually helps, tho' my first few attempts often end up in the bin before I get in the swing of things.

I love pancakes and all 3 kids hate them, we have made homemade bread (baking in the oven now and waffles). The kids have gone all american for some reason. I like mine with lemon juice and sugar.

I use a little pile of flour,make a well and break an egg into it then,using a metal spoon just mix it gradually adding skimmed milk until it is about the consistency of single cream.Heat a knob of butter in a flat frying pan[I have a crepe pan] until it sizzles.Add about 4tbsp of batter,jiggle it so it spreads out and cook till set on one side; flip with a spatula then,as soon as second side is set, just toss the pancake as many times as you like until you get a nice lacey brown pattern on both sides.My dgc love to watch me tossing the pancakes and count the flips :)

Nomnomnom. Just scoffed miine.

300ml milk, 30g melted butter, 225g plain flour, 1tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 2 eggs. Bung it all in a bowl and mix. Sorted.

sainsburys basics batter mix 7p add 1 egg and 200ml of water - perfect everytime and taste nice too, we eat them a couple of times a month as so easy to make and can get 5 thin pancakes out of 1 packet of mix.

Dont knock it till you've tried it!

If you don't want it to look like vomit, leave out the diced carrots FFS.

Mine made 9 fab thick pancakes.

Packet mixes only make sense if you don't have flour in the house (or baking powder for my recipe)

DS is at this moment 'helping' daddy to make Club Penguin black belt pancakes. We posl at the line that says 'pour the batter into the pan in the shape of a penguin.'

OK.

I attempted to make some but it went horribly wrong. We ended up with pancake pudding!

I'm about to make mine. Get ready for the smoke abeeeeep!

I'm using ready made mix. Don't give a stuff if people think I'm lazy. It's the only way they tase like my mums. She used to make a whole heap of them, around 20 or so all perfect. Don't know how she managed it.

Mmmmm melted mars bars. That sounds yummy. I think I have some mini ones somewhere.

We got really keen on pancakes last year after pancake day, and were eating them til Easter.

I don't mind giving up Cadbury's cream eggs for Lent though (bleugh !), and I could try and hold back on the Hot Cross Buns for a while at least

We just had ours, they were delicious! No recipe, just flour, eggs and milk whisked together. I had lemon juice and sugar, DD had 2 with lemon and sugar and 2 with nutella. DD thinks pancake day is almost as exciting as Christmas - she came running out of school today waving a huge card that she'd made me. It said "Happy pancac day" on the front, and inside it said "To Mummy, I hop your pancacs are very yumy. Love from DD xxx"

I just made pancakes for the first time
so chuffed
we loved them

manticlimactic, they taste like your mums because she used packet mix too. That's how she did it.

totally agree with jugglingjo about the creme egg thing.... horrible!!

Does anyone else hate the pong of pancakes cooking???

I like to eat them though

love to toss them?!?

an act that traditionally in my family is accompanied by very vocal hallooooings and AlleeeeyUP's!!!

anyone else do sounds???

Just eaten
2 ham and egg crepes (DS and me)
1 sugar and lemon (DS)
1 golden syrup (DS)
1 chocolate and banana (DS)
1 sugar and lemon (DH)

All home-made and delicious, but kitchen smells of fried butter and batter and there are trails of mixture, sugar, and syrup everywhere.

DOH! ham and cheese crepes, not ham and egg (so wrong imo)

We're having ours with maple syrup ! Yummy

Just like my great-great grandmother when she went out to Canada ?!

Love the tradition.

Mine's next

we had a new pan for xmas - it is awesome!