Pancakes for tea - AIBU or DH?!

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It's Pancake Day on Tuesday! Bloody love Pancake Day.
Although, who's BU?
I think stacks of pancakes for tea on Pancake Day (dinner to the Southerner lot) with loads of different toppings, fruit and fillings is perfectly adequate.
DH thinks that's not a substantial tea, and they're perfectly good as a starter but it's not a main meal for the kids.
Am I unreasonable to think "Shurrup, it's Pancake Day!" and continue to fill us all with pancakes or do you do something else as well?

We had 3 pancakes each for tea. Lemon juice, sugar, maple syrup, bacon, jam, chocolate spread. Yum

yanbu :)

We had them for breakfast! We had a light dinner with some more for dessert. I usually just do loads for dinner with various fillings.

Your DH is being unreasonable.

Pancakes are eggs and milk and flour before you put anything else on them! Which is proper food. And if you make enough of them then they are def. substantial enough.

You cook pancakes for you and the kids, if that's what you fancy, and if he wants anything else he can get on and cook it himself.

We've just finished ours.

We had:

Pancakes rolled up with spinach and cheese and baked in the oven (with extra cheese on top)
Pancakes rolled up with cheese and topped with condensed mushroom soup, again oven baked
Dds loved pancakes with melted mozzarella inside
The obligatory chocolate spread (Jim-Jams, I don't buy Nutella any more)
Lemon and sugar

HIBU. Completely. The world and its mother knows that in Pancake Tuesday you have to eat pancakes until you physically can't fit any more. There full of goodness. Eggs and stuff. Totally healthy. For flips sake it's only once a year.

They're. Omg, the pancakes have gone to my head.

Very jealous of your pancake feast, Dancergirl. I don't have any eggs in so am enjoying pancakes vicariously through this thread.

Your DH would hate living in my house. DC pleaded to be allowed pancakes for every meal today, so they had pancakes with lemon and sugar for breakfast; a proper hot lunch at school and a pancake with lemon and sugar for dessert; dinner at home was savoury pancakes filled with sautéed courgettes, spinach and Parmesan, topped with a spinach and cheese sauce, followed by a sweet pancake filled with Nutella and caramelised banana slices. We also have pancakes for breakfast at least 2 Sundays a month. So gorgeous!

We had pancakes galore! It's only 1 day a year, enjoy!

We had pancakes with a massive fruit salad, Nutella, chocolate ice cream for tea. The kids had a piece of cheese on toast around 4pm so didn't do any other tea. It's one day a year and it's fun!

I make the batter a good couple of hours before then, when I make them I stack pancakes with a piece of tin foil between each in the oven at about 80'c to keep warm. Otherwise I don't get to sit down!

We are having spinach and cream cheese ones, followed by peanut butter and cream cheese, then I'm having some with amaretto on! They're plenty for a proper dinner.

"Shurrup, it's Pancake Day!" Haha this!! I had pancakes for tea and so did my DC :D

Would it be very wrong to have Pancake Wednesday tomorrow? Not really in the spirit of the Lenten season I grant you

We're having our pancake day tomorrow venus. We were too knackered for anything apart from freezer food.

That makes me feel better about it! Not that you're tired, obvs. I hope you have a nice relaxing evening.

Thanks venus. I think it's a new cold percolating so it's going to be an early night. Enjoy your rebel pancakes tomorrow.

I will you too.

Pancakes for pudding here. The post sugar crash is horrible if we've had nothing substantial!

They had a dinner then maybe 4 pancakes each with lemon and sugar, DC3 likes them with Nutella and banana.

So I'm with your DH saying YABU

I'm a southerner and it's definitely tea for me - please don't confuse us normal working class southern people with middle class twats.

Pancakes are totally a proper meal just eat more of them

Its once a year, totally acceptable

Oh, I've only ever had them as breakfast or a dessert. Personally, I couldn't do them with savoury fillings. I saw an add today with a stack of buttermilk pancakes and a huge dollop of Marmite on top, I was nearly sick at thought....and I like marmite 😱

We eat just pancakes after I got fed up of cooking dinner then pancakes. We eat savoury and sweet ones.

April - probably too late now but use a Good size nob of butter in very hot pan allow to melt and spread it around till covers all of pan and then add a laddle full of batter To the middle of pan and tilt pan in circular motion to allow batter to spread out thinly, then flip over once golden brown on bottom!

April if they aren't cooking well the oil probably isn't hot enough. Get it very hot before you pour them in.

If your batter recipe includes melted butter you don't need to use butter in the pan, or not as much, anyway.