Pancake Day!

It was a Monday afternoon like any other - until the inimitable Ms Crusty came up with the genius idea of a couple of us heading round to hers for Pancake Tuesday (better known to traditionalists as Shrove Tuesday). Wikipedia tells us that, for Christians, this was the date by which all fats and cream had to be eaten up in preparation for Lent, when eating good stuff was forbidden until Easter. Something to do with Christ being lost in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights, so we all have to do without dessert too.

My personal view is that this was probably more a church dictate than one of Jesus' own (or even one from that womanhating Paul) - somehow ye olde Christos strikes me as more of an 'all foods in moderation' kinda guy.

But I digress. There was absolutely no moderation shown on Tuesday as we downloaded a recipe from the BBC, mixed up 4 batches of crepe batter and started flipping pans like pros. Some of the pans had pancakes in them - and some of the pancakes even made it back into the pan, cooking side down! A coupla vego savoury fillings and loads of butter, lemon, sugar and golden syrup later and the 6 of us were feeling rather bloated. But happy.

I'm still not convinced that anyone should give up chocolate for the next 40 days, but each to their own.

Me, I polished off my last King Sized Cherry Ripe from Melbourne today...