« How's Jen coping? | Main | Decision: Prince »
March 9, 2005
New favorite holiday
Yesterday I celebrated Shrove Tuesday for the first time. It is a religious holiday in England on the day before Ash Wednesday -- an occasion when people in the olden days would use up the food (eggs, milk, fats) in their houses that they were going to give up for Lent. So the tradition of Shrove Tuesday, and the reason it is my new favorite holiday, is to eat lots of pancakes!
Since Mark didn't mention this holiday until a few days ago, and we didn't want to wait almost a whole year, we decided to celebrate the one-month anniversary of Shrove Tuesday. Mark made highly delicious English-style pancakes for Rebecca, Kyle, Christopher and me. English pancakes are like American pancakes, but thinner... you roll them up with lots of powdered sugar (lots and LOTS if you are Mark).
The other part of Pancake (I mean Shrove) Tuesday is that you're supposed to have pancake races. We didn't have time for that, but we did have a raffle. Lucky winner Kyle got a pack of whole wheat pita bread, courtesy of Ted and Naomi!
Posted by emily at March 9, 2005 2:12 PM
Comments
I like the sound of this holiday.
Please have Mark point us to online videos of these pancake races, unless they involve Paris Hilton or something. I will repay you with bread pudding next year!
Posted by: hal at March 9, 2005 5:44 PM
I feel that Mark would want me to point out that, instead of powdered sugar, you really should top these "pancakes" with caster sugar... basically a finer ground up version of granulated sugar.
Also, he flipped the pancakes over by tossing them into the air and catching them all with the skillet. That was hot.
Posted by: Kyle at March 9, 2005 11:21 PM
finally you update the blog!
Posted by: tedt at March 11, 2005 11:19 AM
If pancake day is a religious holiday then I'm Christ's podiatrist. In the Johnson family, it's just about the caster sugar, with pancakes and lemon juice.
Posted by: markj at March 17, 2005 6:44 PM