Happy Pancake Day! Pancake Day, also called Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras (which is French for “Fat Tuesday”), is the last day of feasting before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. It’s called so due to the tradition of eating pancakes on the day. This tradition comes from a time where any rich foods were eaten on the day before Lent, and fasting begins.
Whatever your religion – today is the day to Love Eating Pancakes and Love of Pancakes is our inspiration for our 17th blog during #FebruaryMonthOfLove.
For this Pancake Love blog in our continuing series – we are gonna shake things up a bit. If you look to our previous 16 #FebruaryMonthOfLove posts you will see that our usual blog format is to look for some significant Love event in History on this dayand then build to a present day celebration. But, not today. On this day, bursting with Pancake Love – we created a Top 10 Why I love Pancakes list …drum roll please….
Top 10 Why I love Pancake List
- #10 – they are easy to make! – whether you make them from a mix, or whip up a batch of your own, they use simple ingredients that you have on hand – flour, eggs, milk, baking powder, sugar, oil. It doesn’t get much simpler than that
- #9 – they cook up fast! – After you have combined the ingredients together just pour them on a heated pan, and they cook up in about a minute. I don’t know of anything (unless it’s deep fried) that cooks as fast as that!
- #8 – You can eat them at any meal (breakfast, lunch or dinner) – There are a few foods that you can make as a meal any time of day. Pancakes are good at any time of the day – they can be a main course, or a
- #7 – You can make them in almost any flavour you can think of! – Whether it’s chocolate chip, cheese or savory or just about anything – there are virtually no limits to a Pancake Flavour. And, you can top them with anything – think beyond the traditional syrup – go for whipped cream, peanut butter – make a sandwich out of them. The possibilities are endless.
- #6 – You can make them in just about any shape!. Put the mix in a squeeze bottle and create a shape via PanCake Art – or, take a cookie cutter, and press out your shape. Anything you can imagine
- #5 – They are synonymous on a weekend breakfast with Family Fun! Everyone has memories of a big pancake breakkie hanging out on the weekend!
- #4 – They be manipulated. You can roll, them, fold them, stack them and of course you can cut them with a knife and fork.
- #3 They are inexpensive to make, and have raised tons of money for many causes – how many fund-raising pancake breakfasts have you been to! Everyone loves to eat them, and to make them – they are a crowd pleaser – and give us a great reason to gather friends who support a meaningful cause to raise money and eat a hearty breakkie
- #2 They last a long time. Make a big batch of pancakes, and you have leftovers. No worries, they will be yummy the next day. You can freeze them and just pop them in the toaster.
- #1 – They have a Holiday Named after them! How great is that – do you know of any other food that has a Holiday named after them? I don’t think so!
There you go! That’s my top 10 Pancake Love List – h0w does it compare to yours? I bet you have more reasons!
So, let’s make some Pancake Love Happen on February 17, 2015 -Please come to the Free Pancake Dinner on Feb 17th , 6:30 – 8:00pm at the St Matthews Anglican Church with Nell Bradshaw & Natasha Varjacic of Homeward Reality. Nell and Natasha is our Mother/Daughter Real Estate dynamic duo with more than 25 years experience serving buyers and sellers of Toronto Real Estate. Living and working in the heart of the Riverside district Nell and Natasha are active contributors to the community. They support many local charities, and host Annual neighbourhood events like a Spring BBQ , Halloween Pumpkin Patch and Easter Egg Hunt from their office at 807A Queen Street East (conveniently located across from Jimmie Simpson Park). Today, they also hosting their annual Free Pancake Dinner 6:30 – 8:00pm at the St Matthews Anglican Church. Please show your pancake love and come on down.
Stay tuned for Day 18 of #FebruaryMonthOfLove.