Why Pancakes? ?
Pancakes are traditionally a way of using up all the leftover rich foods before the start of the Christian period of Lent. Eggs, fats and milk based foods were all used up on Shrove Tuesday (a.k.a. Pancake Day) prior to the 40 days of fasting. Nowadays, whilst some people do still follow this tradition, the majority of people just tend to enjoy eating pancakes! 😀 ?
Pancake Recipes…
As Life Diet Health is a plant-based blog, we always avoid eggs and dairy milk… but we do still have pancakes! 😀 In fact, there are already 11 pancake recipes on this blog! These are our favourite recipes:
Universal Sweet or Savoury Pancakes
Pancake Toppings
The great thing about pancakes, is that you can literally eat anything with them! Yes, lemon and sugar on traditional crepe style pancakes is delicious, but so is fruit, chocolate, nut butters, custard, cream or jam (no, not jam, I’m not a fan)! 😛 Of course, you can have vegetables, cheese, or meat (or their plant-based alternatives) in a pancake, making it like a tortilla, enchilada or burrito! ?
and more toppings
Another great thing about pancakes is you can chop and change – have the first one traditional, then try chocolate and banana, or stir-fried vegetables, or even black beans and sweetcorn with barbecue sauce. You can also add flavours to the batter – try a spoon or two of cocoa powder, some grated cheese, pureed spinach or just throw in a handful of blueberries! ?
Toppings too complicated?
We think having pancakes is a great way to use up all those little bits of food to stop them going to waste! 🙂 We like to get everything out on the table, then let everyone add their own toppings or fillings!
Is there a pancake hack?
If you haven’t bought your pancake ingredients yet, please think about minimising your plastic purchases! Pancakes are really easy to make and much nicer than buying ready made (in plastic film), buying a ready made liquid mix (in a plastic bottle), or buying a box mix (in a plastic bag)! ? Plus, making your own is much more fun and you can have a pancake tossing contest! ?? ? p.s.: The juice of a fresh lemon?is also much more delicious than anything in plastic! 😛 Oh and before you throw the used lemon in the bin, use it to shine up your taps! ???⭐
Happy Pancake Day! ?
Are you having pancakes today? For breakfast? Lunch? Dinner? All three?
What are you going to have on yours? Drop us a line below…
Speak soon
Laurena x