Pancake day!

[Sara]

One of the best days of the year has arrived! :dance: Shrove tuesday/Pancake day!

I am obviously extremely excited to eat pancakes for breakfast, dinner and tea but was wondering if you celebrate this day anywhere else? And who is going to make pancakes today?

I'm lucky to have a bf who makes the best pancakes ever (except some crepes that I've had in France), so we're about to have savoury pancakes, then in typical Yorkshire style we're having cornbeef hash and pancakes for tea, and then sweet pancakes for dessert. And if I'm lucky, pancakes for supper...

Hope you're all having a great pancake day!

 

[Imeera]

HAPPY PANCAKE DAY!! Yummy! I love Pancake Day! We have pancakes for breakfast/lunch only traditionally with sugar and lemon, my favourite Never thought of pancakes for supper, sounds lovely! What other fillings do you have for savory pancakes?

 

[gisela]

Oh so it's today! I know of pancake day but didn't quite remember what it was and when.
We don't eat pancakes today but this:
(in Sweden)

(in Denmark)

 

[Sara]

They look delicious! What are they?

And for savoury filling Ben is having cheese and chicken, or bacon (he can't decide) and I was going to have crumbly cheese and roasted Mediterranean vegetables (cause I love them ^_^)

My favourite though, is cornbeef hash or vegetable stew ^_^ We have them on top for tea. But rolled up otherwise. And of course for sweet we have jam, syrup, sugar, lemon etc ^_^

 

[gisela]

The swedish ones are called "Semla" and is a wheat bun with a bit of cardamom in the dough. It's filled with marcipan and then whipped cream.
The danish one is a "fastelavnsbolle" and is more of a danish pastry with vanilla creme or jam and a bit of glaze on top.
They resemble each other but taste very different.

Yum you make me want to have pancakes now.

 

[Daimona]

Norwegians have the buns as they do in Sweden and Denmark as well (and even some German variations).

Pancake Tuesday is called "fetetirsdag" or "feittirsdag" (both will be directly translated as "Fat Tuesday") and traditionally eat food rich in fat such as salted pork/lamb (depending on where in Norway you live) and mashed rutabaga/yellow turnip, klubb/raspeball/komle/kompe (various names for different regional variations of potato dumplings), sausages etc.

Some also eat "rømmegrøt" (sour cream porridge) with dried meat.

 

[Imeera]

Norwegians have the buns as they do in Sweden and Denmark as well (and even some German variations).

Pancake Tuesday is called "fetetirsdag" or "feittirsdag" (both will be directly translated as "Fat Tuesday") and traditionally eat food rich in fat such as salted pork/lamb (depending on where in Norway you live) and mashed rutabaga/yellow turnip, klubb/raspeball/komle/kompe (various names for different regional variations of potato dumplings), sausages etc.

Some also eat "rømmegrøt" (sour cream porridge) with dried meat.

"Fat Thursday" I love that name xD Food looks so good! Gisela's too!! Mkaes me want to try it.

 

[Greek Bonfire]

Here in Chicago, Illinois, USA, we have the biggest variety of nationalities in the world! So we have all of the above plus we have a big Polish community which makes "poonchki" day, consisting of jelly rolls or any kind of filled pastry. It really is Fat Tuesday here - just take your pick!

 

[Daimona]

Pancake Tuesday is called "fetetirsdag" or "feittirsdag" (both will be directly translated as "Fat Tuesday") and traditionally eat food rich in fat such as salted pork/lamb (depending on where in Norway you live) and mashed rutabaga/yellow turnip, klubb/raspeball/komle/kompe (various names for different regional variations of potato dumplings), sausages etc.

And I'm quite sure my neighbour had salted pork with mashed rutabaga yesterday (because of the smell) when I got home after work and practice. :lol:

 

[Belly Love]

Oh... the following images just danced through my head: blueberry pancakes, sugar, syrup, banana-walnut, melted butter... aaaaand I'm on a diet

Steamed broccoli... yum... focus, flat abs, flat abs, flat abs... I want pancakes!!!

 

[Safran]

We don't celebrate the pancake-holiday, but the Russians do.

We have the "Swedish buns" that Gisela posted. Ours usually have a jam filling underneath the whipped cream. As for salty foods, we traditionally eat smoked meat, pig legs and green pea soup.

The tradition is to go sleighing downhill that day. And the longer your slide is, the better your linen will grow in the upcoming year. And as linen was the responsibility of women - this holiday was basically a good excuse for women to enjoy themselves sleighing down the hill!

 

[Daimona]

The tradition is to go sleighing downhill that day. And the longer your slide is, the better your linen will grow in the upcoming year. And as linen was the responsibility of women - this holiday was basically a good excuse for women to enjoy themselves sleighing down the hill!

Hey! I like that tradition!

 

[gisela]

We don't celebrate the pancake-holiday, but the Russians do.

We have the "Swedish buns" that Gisela posted. Ours usually have a jam filling underneath the whipped cream. As for salty foods, we traditionally eat smoked meat, pig legs and green pea soup.

The tradition is to go sleighing downhill that day. And the longer your slide is, the better your linen will grow in the upcoming year. And as linen was the responsibility of women - this holiday was basically a good excuse for women to enjoy themselves sleighing down the hill!

Fun to know! When I was in Finland they both had pancakes and went sleighing.
Or perhaps the other exchange students I hung out with had pancakes and the Finns went sleighing... Not sure.

 

[seona]

Mmmmm pancakes! I've spent a fair amount of time in brittany, I swear I nearly turned into a crepe lol. I just couldn't get into savoury pancakes unlike my b/friend, but then again he has Breton roots, crepes are in his blood lol!

Talking of traditions I remember a danish couple once making apple fritters around Xmas eve, I beleive that to be a custom?

 

[Jeanne]

All the pancake things sound great (and I just got a book about how to make all kinds of ebelskivers -- I'll be able to put that pan that my sister sent me a few years ago to more extensive use).

I've never celebrated pancake day (and never heard about it until this year), but we had a Mardi Gras party in my office yesterday, so we filled up on wonderful Cajun food.

 

[Sara]

Oooh, savoury pancakes are my favourites. It's quite common where I live to have pan cakes with stews, hash etc. I think though that because pancakes are made from batter which is what Yorkshire puddings are made of, we make them a lot more. We have pancakes all year round really.