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Pancakes for tea - AIBU or DH?!

277 replies

glitterazi · 26/02/2017 23:51

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?

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AYankinSpanx · 27/02/2017 00:37

(next week viques will solve brexit in less than 50 words.)

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scottishdiem · 27/02/2017 00:37

Pancakes are better savory as crepes (creamy chicken and mushroom is the best).

Then the banana and nutella filling for dessert.

Desert for mains is not a filling meal.

peukpokicuzo · 27/02/2017 00:37

Of course you can have a substantial meal of pancakes but you need there to be high-vegetable and high-protein pancake fillings for this to work. Mushroom & cheese sauce is my favorite. Also spinach&ricotta.

DS has baked beans & cheese on his.

If DH isn't full there just haven't been enough pancakes yet.

RedastheRose · 27/02/2017 00:49

Your DH is definitely BU. ITS PANCAKE DAY!!!

Liiinoo · 27/02/2017 00:54

I cannot believe how U your DH is being! It's not called 'Normal Healthy Dinner with a Pancake Dessert Day' is it? And that's for a reason. Dinner/Supper/Tea , whatever you call that main meal should be nothing but pancakes. If I had my way we would put nothing but sugar and lemon on them (old school) but DCs put out a range of toppings including golden syrup, Nutella and ice cream.

MiddleClassProblem · 27/02/2017 00:55

I'd eat his Easter egg in protest Grin

steff13 · 27/02/2017 00:57

We have pancakes with bacon and eggs once a week for dinner. Breakfast for dinner is the best.

SecretNutellaFix · 27/02/2017 01:00

Your DH is breathtakingly wrong.

Pancakes, and only pancakes, are the order of the day for this one particular tradition.

Astro55 · 27/02/2017 01:06

Love pancake day - kids line up for one and get to the back of the queue for the next one

DH prefers a stack - but he can get in the sodding queue like everyone else

Even the dog luffs a pancake

kel1234 · 27/02/2017 01:09

Sorry but no. I don't feel pancakes is a proper meal
After dinner/ tea then my lo can have a pancake or 2. Certainly not as a meal though

80sMum · 27/02/2017 01:21

Pancake Day is one of the few occasions when I throw caution to the wind and abandon my usual healthy diet! DH cooks stacks of pancakes and that is all we have for our evening meal - about 6 or 7 pancakes each, dressed with lemon juice and a ton of sugar!! I love them. Smile

PyongyangKipperbang · 27/02/2017 01:24

I couldnt give them a dinner like that so we have a proper dinner then a pancake each for pudding, which is a big treat in itself as we never have pudding!

But I would secretly envy anyone who could have just pancakes without feeling a massive case of the guilts!

JaceLancs · 27/02/2017 01:34

Cheese ham and mushroom pancakes first
Then traditional lemon and sugar
We will probably have 2 of each per person

GrainOfSalt · 27/02/2017 01:35

There will be fluffy pancakes for breakfast here (made with yoghurt rather than milk - they look more like drop scones) with fruit and more yoghurt

... and then savory pancakes for dinner followed by the traditional lemon and sugar - 'tis my favourite food festival Wink

JamDonutsRule · 27/02/2017 01:38

YANBU, however for my DC we usually have a savoury pancake for main course then sweet for pudding.

MiddleClassProblem · 27/02/2017 01:43

YOu could also do them as fajitas, just switching the tortillas for pancakes

cantfindausername2 · 27/02/2017 01:51

We make them as crepes. No sugar and with bolognese, cheese, shallots, pineapple and sour cream.

EmeraldScorn · 27/02/2017 01:52

We always had pancakes for dinner (tea) on pancake Tuesday growing up, I don't see how it could possibly be unreasonable!

Graphista · 27/02/2017 01:55

Wow! Has he never met anyone Dutch?

Savoury pancakes are yummy (cheese, sauces, vegetables...) pancake day you can have both sweet and savoury!

MiddleClassProblem · 27/02/2017 01:57

Do crepes mean you don't get to toss? I get a bit competitive with myself over it Grin

HicDraconis · 27/02/2017 02:22

Just doing pancakes with sugar will leave you all hungry a few hours later.

Agree with others that if they are your main meal, you should have some savoury ones with cheese and protein (spinach & 3 cheese is awesome in pancakes, especially baked in a tomato, basil & garlic sauce), followed by sweet ones.

One of my favourite savoury pancake recipes:
Make a stack of pancakes
Roll each pancake up with a slice of ham ("naice" ham, natch!) and line up in dish
Pour a pot of creme fraiche over the pancake rolls
Smother in a mix of grated cheddar and parmesan
Put under a preheated grill for 15-20 mins until cheese melted and golden and bubbly

Serve with green salad / garlic bread.

PamplemousseRouge · 27/02/2017 02:50

April, if you're still after a good pancake recipe, try the Guardian recipe here - it makes delicious sweet and savoury ones!!

PamplemousseRouge · 27/02/2017 02:54

A lovely savoury pancake recipe is goat's cheese with walnuts and honey! Smile You slice the goat's cheese into small rounds, pop a cooked pancake into a pan on the stove to warm up, and then pop some of the slices on the pancake, leaving the cheese to melt for a couple of minutes. Then drizzle on some honey, sprinkle on some chopped walnuts et voilà!

Cuppaqueen · 27/02/2017 02:54

Totally with you apart from the 'stack' part - only way to eat pancakes IMO is straight out of the pan 😋 Make one, eat it while the next is cooking, and so on ... Mmmmmmm!

MillieMoodle · 27/02/2017 03:15

YANBU, your DH is. It's PANCAKE Day! The day of pancakes.

When I was growing up we always had normal dinner followed by a pancake or two for dessert. Now DH and I have our own house, we have our own rules. One of which is pancakes for tea on pancake day. And none of that savoury shite either. Lemon and sugar or golden syrup all the way here. Might try Nutella this year too though.

I do make normal dinner for DS1 though, because he doesn't like pancakes Confused

Also, I've read the word pancake so many times now that it's gone weird.