Pancake Day

Happy March 4^th, Shrove Tuesday and if you are greedy like me, Pancake Day. I’ll be honest, I only realised Pancake day was today because it had been written all over websites I look through when I’m waking up. Something that I feel morally obliged to quickly share before I go into pancakes, is the video circulating around the internet of John Travolta introducing Idina Menzel on stage at The Oscars. She's played Elsa in Disney’s Frozen and Elphaba in Wicked and is hugely talented. The following video made me laugh so, so much and is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen (I spent a good half an hour replaying it which put me in a state of enlightenment). I won’t explain further, the 30 seconds below does itself justice.

The pancake excitement began after I had visited my new job, which went super well and I am thrilled because they’re pushing my start date back even earlier (no sarcasm, I need the money). I had this annoying excitement going on that I get on special occasions like Christmas or Halloween (my favourites). If the occasion means food, then the excitement moves into another league and basically, I'd told myself to be healthier a few days ago because I'm packing on the pounds and today was just a lovely excuse to do precisely not that.

Upon arrival back home, I found my musketeers and three of us got all the stuff we needed for our pancakes. We went for a ‘Traditional pancake mix’ from Betty Crocker, who does the tastiest ready-made icing which I really do recommend if you like to bake (her vanilla butter cream style icing is the best icing I've ever tried). Our treats to go on top were all unhealthy (who’d have thought) and we had syrup, strawberry sauce, lemon juice and ice-creams. One of the musketeers is Canadian, can you guess what he chose? 

Obviously it all went to shit once the pans were heated.  We produced some balls of uncooked batter, some of which we then dropped on the floor (adds flavour). The good ones we managed to make were either misshaped, soggy, burnt or really, really small. My sister Lucy's favourite one was very round, thin and crispy, like a small jellyfish left in the sun too long. Soon after making her small 'pancake' and holding its limp body in one palm, she got really freaked out and unfortunately it is now in a better place (the bin). This one looks like a slice of human brain. I would apologise for the terrible quality of these very dull photos, but an artist is only as good as his tools. 

The finished product was presented on a very expensive, plastic Kung Fu Panda plate that I bought on a whim in a sale. Luckily the pancakes all tasted okay with toppings on and we are now digesting them. It is safe to say that a lot more than one spoonful of sugar helped them go down. I felt really sick after my experience of Pancake Day this year and as I type, I am hoping this is due to my greed and not food poisoning. I hope that we can share many fatter, even more special occasions together. I think I will try and give up watching the John Travolta video for lent. I'd like to thank every single person who has taken the time to read my blog. I'm finding it so therapeutic and enjoyable and the most uplifting thing is hearing that others are enjoying it too. If I could make you all a pancake to show you my appreciation, I still wouldn't.