Pancakes

Chris P Duck

Pancake Tuesday is next week so I was just wondering how do you eat yours.

I like mine 3 different ways:

1. With butter and sugar
2. With golden syrup
3. With ice cream

BuffyBot

My particular favourites:

Fresh Lemon juice and sugar.
Honey.
Maple Syrup.
Raspberry Jam (good quality)/sauce and cream.

Jahula

Plain with a bit of sugar. YUM

Shabadu

Has to be butter, sugar and lemon for desert for me.

For dinner, I make a ricotta and spinach filling w/ a dash of nutmeg etc, roll up the crepes like canneloni, only folding over the sides too. Pop in an oven dish, cover with a really good ragu (HOMEMADE! FOR GOD'S SAKE PEOPLE!), then covered in reggiano and thrown into the oven until bubbly.

Tree

really crispy streaky rashers and maple syrup, oooooh yum


hate with lemon, reminds me of washing up liquid


also delicious filled with ham and cheese and such savoury lovelys as chicken carbonara

babaduck

Homemade stewed apple with cinnamon
(have a load of this in the freezer ready to defrost next Monday night!!!)

Haagen Daaz or Ben & Jerrys with extra mushed up Flake for a pure sugar hit

Pancetta, onion, celery mix with parmesan or gruyere cheese

I bought a pack of crepes in Dunnes this morning to stick in the fridge - saves me going around like a headless chicken this day week desperately looking for pancakes and then making a terrible attempt at DIY ones

Saruman

the way my family has made them is simple and tooth rottingly good!

Cream and brown sugar. simply heat some cream in a pot, add as much or little brown sugar as you can handle and you have to best damn syrup for pancakes ever!!!

tSubh Dearg

Savoury Favourite: It has to be loads of melted red cheddar, don't know why but it's just so good with all the molten cheese! To that can be various meats but the cheese must be there!

Sweet Favourite: Butter and brown sugar, it's just so so good. Maple syrup isn't bad either but I really prefer that with American style pancakes rather than crepes.

Gordon

With melted mars bars/snickers/various chocolate items one can find.

The Sweeper

Sweet favourite is fresh squeezed lemon juice and cane sugar (none of this jif muck). Savoury favourite has to be chili n cheese.

Shabadu

This thread causes much droolage.

TerrorFirmer

Shabadu wrote:

This thread causes much droolage.

I had forgotten about pancake tuesday.

I only eat them once a year really, so you can imagine how good they taste after such a wait....

cuckoo

Nutella. Yum. :v:

Attol

Butter lemon and sugar. When I was younger I used to have Nutella and sugar because I loved the crunchiness. Ugh. What was I thinking!

Tar.Aldarion

Butter lemon and sugar, the classic.
Damn this thread is making me hungry. I think I'll make some this evening when I make my biscuits \o/

Davey Devil

babaduck wrote:

I bought a pack of crepes in Dunnes this morning to stick in the fridge - saves me going around like a headless chicken this day week desperately looking for pancakes and then making a terrible attempt at DIY ones

Packaged crepes?? Blasphemy.

Shabadu

Guys, lets post up pics of our pancakes tomorrow. Kudos for the best looking will be handed out!

netwhizkid

I intend to be emulating this little dish tomorrow. Drooling at it now, While listening to a certain Podcast, Subliminal Messages regarding the Public Enemy Number 1 Award -- Who should be shot on sight? OMG, Ye have suggested me for it Am I really that annoying?

tSubh Dearg

Shabadu wrote:

Guys, lets post up pics of our pancakes tomorrow. Kudos for the best looking will be handed out!

Is that some sort of cake? I'd take picture for cake

Talliesin

netwhizkid wrote:

Subliminal Messages regarding the Public Enemy Number 1 Award -- Who should be shot on sight? OMG, Ye have suggested me for it Am I really that annoying?

Yes.

segadreamcast

Talliesin wrote:

Yes.

I agree.

Chris P Duck

Ok so, im a bit confussed. Do you people eat 5-6 pancakes for your dinner or do you just have 1-2 for dessert.

Sweet fillings suggest that its a dessert, but savoury fillings suggest that its a dinner.

I usually eat 5-6 pancakes with a sweet filling for my dinner.

Blub2k4

Savoury pancakes for me tonight methinks, I dont really do sweet ones.
Dunno what filling they will get yet, will have to look when I get home.
If I can be bothered and they turn out well, will throw up some photos.

Shabadu

Chris P Duck wrote:

Ok so, im a bit confussed. Do you people eat 5-6 pancakes for your dinner or do you just have 1-2 for dessert.

Sweet fillings suggest that its a dessert, but savoury fillings suggest that its a dinner.

I usually eat 5-6 pancakes with a sweet filling for my dinner.

With the recipe I was talking about, we'd have about 2 for dinner, probably 2 or three for dessert, then have to lie prone on the sofa for a while, then swear to never eat pancakes again, until the following year, where we spend about a week anticipating them.

Looking forward to photos!

netwhizkid

I picked up a packet of Instant Pancakes in Lidl yesterday evening, All I have to add is a medium sized egg. It says the mix will make 6 7Inch Pancakes. I shall be posting up my results after my dinner this evening. I also got a packet of readymades just in case things go pear shaped. Anyone here ever try Silver-Dollar Pancakes, I used to have them for breakfast regularly while Holidaying in New York last Summer. They were between 2 and 3 inches in Diameter. Lovely stuff. I ate like a pig on that holiday and still lost half a stone. The Heat and sweating is amazing for weight loss.

Saruman

I got the ones i usually get today... Cant think of the name.. something like ma.. something or other...

Anyway ready made.. usually 6+2 free... just stick in microwave for a few moments to heat.. they are pretty good. Got some cream too... have ben and Jerries if needed (half price at tesco)! Cant wait for my cream and brown sugar syrup... yum....

TerrorFirmer

netwhizkid wrote:

OMG, Ye have suggested me for it Am I really that annoying?

I wouldn't have thought so, but even so regardless, fightin_irish must be contesting fiercely for the top spot at this stage.

Great news for me this pancake Tuesday. Moved house recently and still have no way to cook/fry food due to lack of necessary electrical equipment ;_;

And there's no way I'm buying those ones you get in a shop - I pesonally find them absolutely disgusting.

marshmallow

I just had one with Chocolate & Hazelnut spread, yummy!

The Sweeper

Ah on that note - here's a good trick with pancakes as cogged from Jamie Oliver.

Flour, milk, eggs, pinch salt, tsp baking powder.

Separate egg yokes from whites. Mix yokes, flour, baking powder and milk to a smooth batter. In a separate bowl, beat whites and salt until the whites are stiff and stand up in peaks. Then gently fold whites into batter mixture. Using a ladle, spoon mixture onto a hot pan to create thick, fluffy, breakfast-style pancakes.

If you want to add something to these, like blueberries, then once the pancakes are done on one side, drop blueberries into the soft batter on the top before flipping them to cook on the other side.

The one caveat I'll say about these is that I find they can burn easily so a pan on two-thirds heat is better than a pan turned up high. Plus it allows them to cook through, which is important because they're thicker than normal crepe style pancakes.

I haven't started with measurements in here because I prefer to measure my flour-milk-egg mixtures by thickness than weights, because of the difference different sized eggs can make.

Mr Oliver recommends 125g flour, 3 large eggs, a heaped tsp baking powder, a pinch of salt and 110mls milk. I use those and tweak as appropriate.

segadreamcast

I did some thick blueberry ones tonight - have to admit, after a shaky enough start (first time making them entirely from scratch), they were rather good!

Never tried blueberries before - I must admit, it's fun trying to eat them, kinda like pancake minesweeper...!

xzanti

I tried to make them using batter and they stuck to the pan went up to Superquinn to get some hot ready made ones and they'd stopped making them.. So I ended up buying some pre-packed fruity crape things that tasted rotten So all in all my Pancake Tuesday was a disaster..

tSubh Dearg

Dear Shabs, Pour vous!

Pancake before being eaten

tSubh Dearg

Talliesin eats pancakes! Note the cheesey goodness.

monkeyfudge

Oh... only found this thread now....

NoelRock reminded me of pancake tuesday last night when we were recording the podcast... I'd completely forgotten.

Wasn't much in the humour for pancakes today actually... only had the two of them.

I like mine plain.. Is that wierd or anything?

BuffyBot

Made some, but totally forgot to photograph them as I was too busy eating them. Instead of lemon/sugar, I tried honey and lime..and it worked out quite tastylicious

Chris P Duck

I had 6 pancakes last night.

Definately the weirdest one I ate was one the one I put peppers, onion, shredded lettuce, brown sauce and a bit of sugar. As disgusting as it sounds it was actually really nice.

One of my other pancakes i put smarties ice cream in it. All the rest was just butter and lemon

dudara

Made pancake batter last night, and grilled a load of rashers. I then made a cheese sauce, a creamy mushroom with nutmeg mix, and a spinach and ricotta filling with smoked salmon. I just love pancakes with bacon and maple syrup!!

I had planned to carmelise some apples and make a cinnamon raisin sauce to accompany it, but we were too stuffed after all the savoury pancakes!

Shabadu

Good going tSubh! Alas, I attended a last minute pancake party last night, so no pancake photos for me yet. However, I made a load of batter which I must use tonight. dudara- they sound lovely, as does the smarties icecream one.

At the party, many leaps were made in the development of a creme egg, tequila and ice-cream pancake.

tSubh Dearg

It was a tough assignment I tell you. Do you know how difficult it was to get him NOT to eat the pancake for 2 mins while I took a picture?

babaduck

We ended up having ours with

(a) Stewed apples with cinnamon and Creme Caramel Baileys
(b) Apples with bashed up mini-Flakes

No complaints!!!!:D

Stench Blossoms

I'm so sad, I didn't get to have any pancakes yesterday.

I think i'll have them tonight instead with some butter sugar and lemon!

TerrorFirmer

I had two, both covered with homemade hot chocolate sauce, and filled with After eight mint choc chip Ice cream.

Was rather good!

Talliesin

tSubh Dearg wrote:

It was a tough assignment I tell you. Do you know how difficult it was to get him NOT to eat the pancake for 2 mins while I took a picture?

But it was smelling nicely of pancake, cheddar and parma ham, what did you expect from me?