Why have I not heard of this holiday before?? Apparently people in the states celebrate the gloriousness that is pancake day but I've never partaken until this year. In case you are also in the dark about the best holiday of the year, people eat pancakes the day before Ash Wednesday as a sort of feast before the fast of lent (and yes I do know that we celebrate Mardi Gras back home, but apparently here they do it with pancakes). Anywho, last week I saw a display in the grocery story advertising pancake day and since then the flat has been abuzz in excitement.
Today was the big day. All day I was looking forward to not only eating the pancakes but making them because I really do love to cook. We have 8 people in our flat and we had invited some other people to join in the fun and so there were a lot of hungry people to feed. I started to do the pancakes and some of my flatmates came in and were like, "we have some potatoes, we could cut those up and make some hash browns." and then another flat mate decided she wanted eggs so she ran to the small grocery right down the road and bought some eggs to scramble up. In the end we used two boxes of bisquick, half a dozen eggs and about 4 potatoes. The whole ordeal took about 2 1/2 hours to cook, eat and clean, but it was glorious. I haven't had that much fun in the kitchen in a while. It was so awesome to have everyone come together under the great banner of pancake love. And that is why it was so epic to blog about.
The end of pancake day 2009. Until 2010 : )
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