Pancakes of Persuasion

Today everyone is united by a love of pancakes. Troubles and sulks were swept away by excited topping choice debates, topping the headlines of every conversation I had and heard today. As we all know topping-choice is crucial, get it right and you are looking at pancake-perfection, get it wrong and you'll feel sick all day. So the stakes are high when it comes down to the wire and decisions must be made.

Personally I am an eccentric pancake-topper...I'll throw anything yummy in there. For my dinner this evening I had a cheese and bacon pancake and a cheese and more cheese pancake, followed by several sweet pancakes of increasing creativity. My toppings know no limits of sugar-content, heart-attack risk or calorie counts, it is Fat-Tuesday after all. However, amongst experimentation there is always room for a nod to tradition with a lemon and sugar soaked pancake. Unfortunately the traditionalist in me was forced to forgo such conventional toppings, due to the lemon-less-pancake-day-debacle of 2011. A lime had to suffice and I reckon its tastier.

What I love the most about this day is the warm swell of optimism and happiness that washes over everyone. As the sunshine and topping-chatter filled rooms around the country, I am certain spirits were flipped like a crepe into a sunny-demeanour. Because who doesn't love a good pancake?

No one. I have never heard them called too soft, too warm, too delicious, what could possibly be wrong with a pancake? As one of the most versatile of foods, you can have pancakes sweet or savoury, tiny or huge, for a snack or supper, scotch or crepe... The possibilities are as endless as...ok they're not quite endless but nearly.

I challenge you to find something negative about a pancake. Exactly, it can't be done. Pancakes, even mere conversations about Pancakes have the power to turn a terrible tuesday into "Mardis Gras" and with a name like that nothing can go wrong.

Who knew Eggs, Flour and Milk had such magical powers of persuasion?

I will leave you with my two favourite discoveries of the day;
Bunny's love pancakes too...

And more importantly Make Pancakes Not War...

Now bring on the Lent challenges...