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

[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).