Hi there,
Apologies. Despite it being Half Term, I've been busy doing house things. Despite this, the house is still rather messy! We've got some things organised though.
On Tuesday, we made a trip up to London to Chiswick to look at sofas, which I mentioned in my last post. On the way back, we went to CBC's Brother's flat for Shrove Tuesday.
When we arrived, we found that his brother and partner had decided to make a whole pancake meal out of it! And they were having a competition with the mains!
Up first was this Japanese pancake which incorporated onions, sweetcorn, mushrooms (yuck) and sausage into the batter. It was topped with this sauce which was a combination of Soy, Mayonnaise and Lee and Perrins.
This one was toasted hazelnuts, chocolate nibs and sugar and was very hilariously described as "Cereal without the milk in a pancake".
Alas, at this point, we had to rush off to get home because there are irritating engineering works in the evenings on our line home meaning there are no direct trains after 9.42 from Stratford. It is highly vexing since there are also engineering works EVERY weekend meaning a journey takes over double the time it should. That's the reason that we had a deficit of lemon and sugar pancakes. After we went, apparently, pancakes with maple syrup and blueberries and jam etc and fruit were consumed!
It was a lovely evening and a very different approach and I was so grateful for the effort of our wonderful hosts but if I am honest, I'll just take a stack of Lemon and sugar please!
How did you spend your Shrove Tuesday?
xx