Never really liked pancakes, but thought I would be a bit creative to see if I can make them any tastier - anyone have any good fillings they want to share? I've got as far as various combinations of chocolate spread, melted chocolate orange, marshmallows, chilli powder, fruit...

We will be using Nutella as a filling in chocolate pancakes - normal pancake mixture but with a couple of teaspoons of cocoa powder thrown in. It looked like too good a recipe to miss.

Having said that, tomorrow is my late-work night, and tonight my husband has a company meeting, so in our household we are going to break with tradition and have Shrove Wednesday instead...

If you like coconut, this is what is often had for breakfast in Malaysia and Singapore. It's usually had with toast but is excellent with pancakes.

http://yinhomemade.blogspot.com/2010/08/ka...ut-egg-jam.html

Chocolate ice cream - the chocolatier the better - and sambuca....

Failing that, my preference is good old fashioned lemon and sugar .

Definitely chocolate spread. No boring lemon and sugar for me please.

Caramelised bananas (chop up and fry briefly with butter and sugar) + icecream

That looks good, it possibly won't happen tomorrow as no energy for trailing round looking for the leaves, but coconut might be a goer in some form.

Caramelised bananas - well fresh bananas give me pain, but cooked would be OK...

Tomorrow is my evening class night, and OH's choir night, so we have just had Shrove Monday.

Got to be chocolate sauce, although if I can manage more than one I may also have one with just sugar (I don't like lemon).

Years ago my Guide company did pancakes one night and one of the other girls had the strangest topping I have ever come across - undiluted orange squash!!

main meal pancakes
cheese, +/- bacon, +/-apples, +/- onions, +/- raisins, +/-pineapple, all cooked in the pancake rather than as a filling, +/-syrup on top

Any good supermarket sells Pandan leaves. I normally get them from Sainsbury as I love to make Pandan cake!.

Blackcurrant jam, and tons and tons of Jif Lemon

In some parts of London maybe - my local supermarket doesn't, and I'm in London. But I do work very close to Chinatown.

I doubt whether the local ones would sell them. My Sainsbury Local hardly sells anything and the things that they do sell are always more expensive than the main branch, so I prefer to do my shopping in the main store.

Either: traditional freshly squeezed lemon juice and sugar, or maple syrup (warmed in the microwave - be careful not to overdo it though!)

mmm that sounds good.

I like maple syrup... loads of it ... *slurp*


But we won't have any pancakes tonight because we're taking OH's car to the garage (10 miles away) for its service tomorrow and we don't eat dessert anyway


... but I suppose I could have them for lunch?

Yes, you could lottie. Go on. Eat pancakes.

I don't really like pancakes..... Might manage one, after that

You can put just about anything into a pancake!

That said, I still find lemon and sugar hard to beat.

You could and should I will almost certainly be having some in the canteen at lunch time (they aren't actually listed on the menu, but it does say 'pancake day'...if there are no pancakes, I shall not be happy!)

Boring old lemon and sugar for me (but must remember this year just how fast the caster sugar comes out of the shakey thing )

That settles it then

Actually I think I'll have two: I have some tuna-mayonnaise left over from yesterday so that would do one.. then I could add a little sugar to the batter and have another one with maple syrup (wish there was a 'yum yum' smiley )


Oh wait.... I'll need a recipe... ... any suggestions (bearing in mind I burn a boiled egg because my cooking is so bad )

Probably won't make them this year - after all, it's only so's you can use up the last of the eggs and flour in the house before the Lenten fast. (Lemon and sugar always tastes to me like battery acid and grit...)

Instead I shall enter into the spirit of the thing by wolfing down the last of the cake, the biscuits, and anything else non-staple to avoid temptation for the next few weeks. (And try not to buy any more when doing the supermarket shop later this week).

Hoping a bit of Lenten discipline will help shift the post-Christmas weight.....

But if I WAS making pancakes, I'm partial to a tin of morello cherries flamed with a bit of brandy and topped with icing sugar and whipped cream.

So I really shouldn't have gone out yesterday to buy 1/5 kilos of plain flour, half a dozen eggs and two lemons?

Hmmmm......me too!

Absolutely the best pancakes have to be mushroom stroganoff pancakes.

Dont suppose I'll get any at the Otley Chevin Hotel
If any of you Yorks forumites are making some , I'll be ove like a shot.

No, no, no. Shredded duck with chilli sauce beats that any day! My local Chinese takeway has a customer for tonight already!

Have a pancake party? By my reckoning you should be able to make about 50 pancakes with that lot (ok, you might need more lemons....)

Ta da!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/basicpan...swithsuga_66226

So easy even I can make them, and I once tried making a cup of tea without having boiled the kettle

Pancakes in Valhalla will have a variety of toppings - first couple will have lemon and sugar, then chocolate spread, then home-made blackcurrant and apple jam. Burp!

Breakfast lunch and tea I say.

Just had bacon and pancakes for brunch, planning on some more of some sort for tea.

Speaking of fillings, I do a sort of Yorkshire crepe suzette - filled with stewed rhubarb and topped with ice cream. Mmm.......

Pancakes were available in the canteen. Actually it was only one pancake per portion, but they were big thick ones folded up. I had lemon and sugar - there was also maple syrup available (and, while technically an accompaniment to the other dessert [Bakewell Tart], custard!)

We had pancakes on the menu at work today

Maple syrup!

I said Burp! but perhaps Boing! would have been more accurate - I spent most of yesterday evening on a sugar high <--- goes an awfully long way to describing it.

Smoked haddock and mushrooms in a white sauce.

Can't beat bacon, lemon juice and maple syrup ...mmmmmmm...

All at once?

Yup! Or just maple syrup and lemon juice if there is no bacon available. It's not as nice that way though!

I don't like maple syrup anyway, but combining it with bacon...ugh!!!

Like you can get honey-roasted ham, you can get maple-cured bacon. It is lovely With a squelch of lemon, and you have a bacon/maple/lemon pancake to bemuse your friends with

Exactly!

Bacon is always In fact so is anything that comes from a pig. Anything except bacon please.

Noooh..... Poor piggy. He's a foody hero.

Oh, not for me please. Any other meat except that. Yesterday I bought some nice venison sausages from Sainsbury. I'd never tried them before. Quite a strong flavour but very tasty.

Nothing wrong with bacon...it's the covering of it in maple syrup that I object to

Well..... local farm raises rare breed pigs and smokes and cures its own bacon. One of the options is a maple syrup cure. Another is black molasses - very good but it goes black as you cook it!

Very good sausages as well