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Traditionally know as Shrove Tuesday, or Mardi Gras (which translates to fat tuesday in french) is the last day before lent, and reason to use the last eggs, milk and sugar. Others call it Pancake Tuesday, whatever you celebrate any excuse to eat Pancakes is good to me!
So whip out those frypans, and don your apron, and share with me your BEST pancake recipe!
I'll be making chicken and mushroom crepe's for dinner, and possibly a regular stack for the kids for dessert.
im going round to my mums for lunch to have pancakes yummmmo i cant wait
happy eating
OHHH someone please please please share your best Chocolate Pancake.. i've never had one !!!! :redface:
i had pancakes with lemon & sugar for brunch today ;)
i just thought a pancake was a pancake... i didnt know you could have chocolate ones!!
Chocolate, Raspberry, Blueberry, Cherry, Ricotta, Ginger (these are great with honeycomb butter) etc etc...
And then you've got savoury like buckwheat, potato, cheese and bacon, or potato cheese and bacon...
We are Pancake aficionados in this house...
My favourite Pancakes are:
Marc's blueberry pancakes with whipped sweet sourcream (tastes like cheesecake)
Ginger Pancakes with honeycomb butter (made from blitzing crunchie and butter and honey) - I sometimes have this with caramelised banana as well...
Chocolate Pancakes with Raspberry butter (I actually have raspberry butter in the freezer YUM)
Regular Buttermilk Pancakes with lashings of maple syrup and streaky bacon
Potato Pancakes with parsley, cheese & bacon...
omg lol
geez... and i love my pancake shake pancakes!! lol
ill have to give some of these a try!
Cai, pretty please could you share your potato pancake recipe, with the cheese and bacon etc? I would love to make that for dinner tonight!
I must admit I had never heard of this until today when I picked my biggest boy up from his 3rd day at kinda and he announced that they had pancakes today because it's pancake day. lol
We just have a cup of milk, cup of flour, 1 egg and 1/2 cup of sugar. Then lemon and sugar on top :)
Oh man I dont even have an apron let alone a recipe!! :doh: :lol::
Ok this is a recipe I found, that tastes EXACTLY like Pancake Parlour's potato pancake...
Ingredients (serves 1):
Butter Pancake mix (flour, water etc.)
1/2 potato
Cheese
Black Pepper
1. Grate cheese & potato.
2. Drop a little butter in a frypan and put on stove to melt.
3. Make up your pancake mix and pour it out into the warm saucepan.
4. Wait until the bottom of the pancake begins to set.
5. Sprinkle grated potato over the top of the pancake. Push the potato down into the still liquid top of the pancake. Try to cover it all over with pancake mix. Grind a little black pepper over the surface.
6. Once the top of the pancake begins to dry out and the bottom just begins to change color, quickly spread the grated cheese over the top of the pancake so that there is a complete layer of cheese.
7. By the time the bottom of the pancake has browned, the cheese on top should be beginning to melt and stick to the top of the pancake.
8. Flip the pancake as carefully as possible. If the cheese starts to fall off as you turn it, leave the pancake to cook a little more so the cheese can melt into place.
9. Once flipped, simply cook the pancake until the cheese had browned and hardened a little into a crispy light brown crust. It is then ready to serve.
The thing I do to make it more authentic is add some chopped parsley to the pancake batter (and I make sure I don't put sugar in the batter) and you add the bacon to the top of the pancake (already chopped and cooked till crispy) and then top with cheese.
I made DP pancakes for his birthday. Nothing too fancy but he enjoyed them.
I must admit I didn't even know it was pancake day until DP mentioned it when he sat down to eat them. :redface:
mmmmmmmmmmmm thanks cai, I was going to ask for that one as well! yum-o
Cai, my standard pancake recipe is eggs, sugar (which I would leave out), flour, baking powder, milk etc. Would it work for the potato recipe, or should I find another one?
ETA Actually I think my pancakes might be a little too thin for the potato one, I think I'll have to find another recipe.
yum.. might have these for desert!:D:
That recipe should be fine, just make sure you have good SR or even add 1/4 tsp baking powder to help rise.
Yeah, I use flour and BP, but it's a very liquid recipe, and as such the pancakes are quite thin, even almost like crepes. I'm thinking the potato won't have enough time to soften?
Ahhh in that case you want a thicker batter definitely, but you can play with the flour ratio as that would help out too. And you can also grate the potato and nuke it for a few minutes (a few drops of water cover in glad wrap and poke with holes).
Ok I just made the kids... and I did them with nuked potato and not nuked. Not nuked is easier to make and comes out cooked fine. Because of how long you cook the cheese side to get it golden and due to the oil from the cheese it cooks the potato fine, and its easier to spread the potato as its not sticky as it is when it comes out of the fry pan.
The pancake recipe I used was:
1 cup SR
1 cup milk
1 egg
My SR is a bit old so I needed to add baking powder, but honestly I'd probably add a tsp of baking powder so its more fluffy anyway...
AND I had one sliver, and it was YUMMMMOOOO!
I love pancakes with lemon and sugar!! Just for interest in Poland Fat Tuesday is celebrated by making donuts filled with jam and coated with lemony icing:)
Better go wash my frypan!!
kirsty_lee - I have a fantastic chocolate crepe recipe - Will dig it up and post it for you tomorrow :) Great with chocolate sauce ...mmmm...
I did the potato pancakes and they were YUMMO, a big hit! I realised too late that I didn't have sour cream to go on them though :doh: (I love sour cream).
Cai, my pancake recipe calls for 100g flour and 1tsp of BP, so I used 150g flour and 1.5tsp BP. It worked really well! I think I went into overkill with the potato though - as well as making the batter thicker, I did the potato on the fine setting on the food processor, and I also nuked it a bit. I think it would be easier to handle without nuking it, and as long as it's grated small it would cook quickly enough. All lessons for next time, I'm sure there will be one :D So thank you, everyone loved them.
I then did my usual batter, and stacked them up high. On the table I had different jams, lemon juice and sugar, cinnamon sugar and butter, and maple syrup and ice cream. All soooo yummy! We had a ball, and have decided that we need more than one Pancake Tuesday a year ;)
I made these for dessert last night. Soooooo yummy with choco mint ice cream. I think I got the recipe off here a couple of years ago.
MILO PANCAKES
3 eggs separated
1 cup buttermilk (makes them light/fluffy)
1 1/2 cups self raising flour - sifted
1/2 cup milo
1/4 cup brown sugar - firmly packed
1/4 cup milk choc melts - optional
cooking oil spray
1. Whisk egg yolks and buttermilk until smooth
2. Combine flour, milo, sugar. Make wll in centre and gradually stir in buttermilk mixture. Stir to form a smooth batter. Add in choc bits if desired.
3. Beat egg whites in separate bowl until firm peaks form. Fold in egg whites in 2 batches - don't beat in, best to use metal spoon so don't loose the air.
4. Use non-stick frypan, spray lightly with cooking oil. Drop tablespoons into pan. Cook on one side until bubbles start to form. Gently turn over and they should start to puff up, leave for approx 1 min. Remove from pan and enjoy warm or cold.
I had Macca's hot cakes for brekkie after GTT yesterday - that's as good as my pancake Tuesday got! it was the only thing that didnt' churn my tum when it was suggested to me....