Today is Shrove Tuesday. I refuse to call in Pancake Day, or whatever they name it these days. I have been celebrating it since I came to England and spent a lot of time with the French community at uni, because the French students all celebrated it. It's funny: before that, I never really celebrate Shrove Tuesday, even when I was a good little Catholic boy. So today I will stuff myself with pancakes, drowned in maple syrup, because I'm from Québec and this is how we eat pancakes (that and sometimes molasse, but finding molasse here is kind of tricky). This is not how Wolfie eats his pancakes too, he is very fond of maple syrup, as I mentioned before. So anyway, do you celebrate Shrove Tuesday? If so, how?
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Shrove Tuesday
Tuesday, 16 February 2021
Wolfie and maple syrup
Today is is Shrove Tuesday and to celebrate on this blog I wanted to share an anecdote about it from last year. I shared it in a French post before, so if you think it sounds familiar, I am sorry. Anyway, as it is traditional, we made pancakes for Shrove Tuesday, something we will doagain this year. We usually have all sorts of things to pour on it: sugar, chocolate sauce and maple syrup, things like that As my wife is an Englishwoman, she wanted to serve Wolfie with the traditional English topping, which is sugar and lemon juice. Wolfie did not care one bit about it. When I made him taste maple syrup, however, he really enjoyed it and asked for more. I always thought sugar and lemon juice is very bland on a pancake, I am so happy that my son thinks the same and that like every good Quebecker, he knows that the proper way of eating a pancake is with maple syrup.
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Une anecdote sur le sirop d'érable
Je reviens un peu sur le Mardi gras, parce que j'ai une anecdote à raconter sur le sujet, que je trouve très amusante. Toujours est-il que lors du Mardi gras, ma femme a fait des crêpes. Elle en a préparé une avec du sucre et du jus de citron, ce qui est la manière traditionnelle anglaise de manger des crêpes. Moi, j'ai couvert ma crêpe de sirop d'érable, parce que c'est bien entendu la manière québécoise de manger des crêpes. J'ajouterais que c'est la bonne façon de manger des crêpes. J'ai donc offert à petit loup du sirop d'érable. Devinez comment il a préféré sa crêpe? Au sirop d'érable bien sûr. Ou "siwop d'éwable" comme il le dit. Ça m'a fait plaisir, de voir qu'il a bien un côté québécois et qu'il se manifeste comme ça.
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
A savoury pancake for Shrove Tuesday?
Today is Shrove Tuesday. I refuse to call it Pancake Day, however tonight, as it is tradition, we are going to have pancakes for dessert. Part of me would rather have a savoury pancake for main meal. When we go to Britanny (which may not happen anymore as my in-laws are moving back here), I had a lot of these, called galettes, basically buckwheat pancakes, and they were delicious. This one was a crêpe nordique or a crêpe norvégienne, can't remember exactly. Maybe it had different names at different restaurants, come to think of it. In any case, it had salmon, sour cream, fried egg ad I think chives. And it was filling, almost healthy and yummy. This is what I ate in most crêperies and this is what I wish I could eat tonight.
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
Les crêpes du Mardi gras 2019
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
Les affres du Mardi gras
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Mardi gras
Saturday, 2 February 2013
La Chandeleur
Je fête peu la Chandeleur, mais j'aime tout de même la souligner depuis qu'une amie française m'a expliqué la tradition française de manger des crêtes le deux février. Je ne suis pas particulièrement un amateur de crêpes en temps normal, mais autant en avoir envie le jour de la Chandeleur. Et j'ai des réserves pour demain en plus.


