Pancakes

[fivemack]

Strong Cheddar, sliced thinly, as always works well in pancakes. Manchego cheese from Spain, despite its wallet-numbing cost, is much of a muchness; I'm sure there's some specific recipe for it, but I don't know what it is.

Corned beef is somehow bland unless there's extra cheese in the pancake; Sainsbury's Finest Stewed Steak works fairly well but could do with another vegetable.

The old favorite sugar-and-lemon requires more careful calibration of quantity than I can muster; I ended up with lemon syrup all over the newspaper. Apricot jam isn't bad.

That was supper. Atkins will be spinning in his grave.

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Yar-boo to Atkins, and what is wrong with lemon syrup? :-)

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

There is little wrong with lemon syrup, but the ideal substrate for its consumption is not the TV guide and quick-crossword page of the Manchester Guardian. And I have a regrettable level of decorum that kept me from licking the plate clean of the lemon syrup that had escaped the pancake and not reached the newspaper.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Thank you for these tips, which we'll be able to use when Transco arrive to reconnect our gas...

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

Melted cheese is the work of Satan. However, may I recommend cans of pie filling? Apple worked particularly well.

[helenbr.livejournal.com]

Apricot jam isn't bad.

As a new departure this year, I tried strawberry jam on some of mine. That was definitely a Good Idea.

For savoury ones, I had bacon mixed with a tomato/pepper/mushroom mush. That was also good.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

With more company, less lethargy and a second frying-pan I'd have tried to make butter-fried chopped mushrooms in cream sauce, which go more than merely superbly with pancake. But it was not to be.

[helenbr.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes, that sounds good. You could probably make that in a saucepan if you needed to rather than having to have a second frying-pan.

I've got quite into Greek yoghurt recently, as that allows one to eat more of that sort of thing without feeling so guilty about the cream, especially the low fat versions. Cream is required obviously for special occasions but the yoghurt can work quite well the rest of the time. Personally, I do tend to buy it and wait until it's getting towards, if not past, its sell-by date though as it doesn't have enough body otherwise (but I make no guarantees if you do that and it poisons you of course).

[(Anonymous)]

How about mushrooms, shallots and a cream sauce?
Half-man/Half-doughnut.

[(Anonymous)]

Tom,
it looks like to know whether you are alive or not I have to check your "fivemack"! Busy and tough period? I don't want to comment your jam and pancakes parties...I'm just trying to contact you!
Here I am, anonymous and in Plymouth and still thinking that follies are a funny idea... it sounds like I might build a pyramid in my house just because none in my family have not ever had one in the living room. Complicate sentence. I think it is not clear. Actually, I learnt a new word!
Would you mind to write again the February 8th and describe Plymouth as a fantastic and exciting place? Otherwise, none of our friends will visit me anymore!!!
Take care. Hoping to hear from you soon.
Chiara