Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) 2009
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Shrove Tuesday
It's pancake day or shrove Tuesday if you prefer tomorrow 24th Feb.
As some of you may know I live in France & although pancake day is celebrated in France they are not called pancakes, they are crepes & pancake day is "mardi gras" which literally translates as "greasy Tuesday" nice. They have for many years in France had restaurants called creperies. These are restaurants that sell unsurprisingly crepes. But with a difference.
The typical menu would be something like:
Starter- Jambon (ham in a wrapped up pancake)
Main course - BergerCrottin de chèvre chaud, salade, tomate (goats cheese, lettuce & tomatoe wrapped in a pancake).
Dessert -Crepe avec confiture au choix Abricot, fraise, myrtille, orange, framboise (pancake with choice of jam).
So as you see pancakes shouldn't be a big thing in France, but still the supermarkets are full of frying pans & lemons advertising "greasy Tuesday".
So tomorrow morning spare a thought for me, because at 7:05 the kids will be wanting a pancake breakfast.
As I say "there's nothing like a good crepe first thing in the morning". (please excuse any typos"
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