Tuesday, 8 March 2011

If your pancakes were flabby
And refused to flip
And broke up in the pan;
If you dropped the lemon quarters
Into the batter
(And no, that's never happened before).
If the second batch was even worse than the first
But you ate them anyway.
Because why waste them
When they could sit on your hips for the rest of the year?
If you said some rude words
That you didn't learn from Mary Berry
(Although you might have picked them up from Gordon Ramsay).
You could always join me
In giving up cooking. For Lent.
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12 comments:

  1. mary8 March 2011 at 21:25

    I've just looked at yours, Sue. Now I am upset!

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  2. Lucille8 March 2011 at 22:53

    Mine were a flipping disaster this year Mary. I blame Monty Don. Tasted OK though with homemade orange curd. I hope Sue is taking note of that bit.

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  3. mary8 March 2011 at 23:27

    Orange curd sounds far classier than mine were, Lucille. I always have my disasters with the easy things. I blame lack of concentration!

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  4. Mystica9 March 2011 at 01:59

    WE cut pancakes into strips, fry up onions and any left over mince meat or anything around add the strips fry it up a bit low heat add a beaten egg and eat the thing. Delicious!

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  5. mary9 March 2011 at 02:15

    That sounds good, Mystica. Though I think mine were too stodgy to be rescued!

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  6. rachel9 March 2011 at 12:09

    Mine were fine, being Delia's. I have cracked the problem of the sitting-on-hips: feed most of them to your cleaner, who regards them as the ultimate treat, and who reckons that hoovering the stairs burns off any surplus calories! I have two - the first (never a good one), and the misshapen last, made with not quite enough batter, and I just know as 'seconds' they are calorie-free.

    I've given up the experimental low-fat diet for Lent.....

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  7. mary9 March 2011 at 12:34

    I'm all right then, Rachel. I think the whole batch counted as 'seconds', definitely 'factory-damaged.'

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  8. Lucille9 March 2011 at 14:20

    I should never have strayed from Delia.

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  9. mary9 March 2011 at 16:16

    I make them up as I go along, Lucille, maybe that's the trouble!

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  10. Darlene11 March 2011 at 12:43

    I pondered pancakes but felt they would be too heavy after our perogie party...and made homemade fish and chips instead! Does that make any sense at all?

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  11. mary11 March 2011 at 15:29

    Darlene, you can write a chapter when I write my diet book. We obviously think along the same lines.

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  12. SmitoniusAndSonata15 March 2011 at 17:12

    Pancakes with built-in lemon slices ..... convenience food at its best !
    And as for fish and chips being the "Lite" alternative ? Makes perfect sense to me .

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