Pancake Day

[samvara]

Crepe style and 'mountain' style

Much happy pancake eating was achieved, much kudos to maharetr for the fabulous batter and slaving over hot stove. Thank you to ALL for the massive fruit contributions. Had a lovely day chatting, batting balloons around, eating, napping, talking books and generally enjoying the company of some damn fine people.

Various pics uploaded which may be found if the above picture is clicked on.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

it was a damn brilliant day. thank you thank you thank you :)

we all had fun

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

Yay, pictures! I swear to god, y'all could not be cuter if you tried. *loves*

Also, it's a bit weird for me to realise that 'pancakes' is apparently one of those words that does not translate across international borders -- what y'all had was very much what we'd call crepes, as pancakes here are less eggy, thicker, and made with what is essentially a quickbread batter. There shall have to be a pancake comparison, sometime. In the name of fostering cultural understanding, you know.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Good. Me too.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

That's why I love them; the cuteness. I added LJ names for convenience.

Yups, I would call them crepes too - pancakes tend to be a lot bigger. I think this was just classic Aussie tendency to use the less classy term.

[grins] Serious pancakes make good stacks and can be high and fluffy and absorb astounding amounts of maple syrup. We're talking about making waffles next.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

'biscuits' is my favourite word if we're talking about different meanings. Biscuits here are what you call cookies.

Though I do tend to associate big round bikkies with the word cookie, from an early childhood of watching the cookie monster on Sesame Street *g*

[sarren.livejournal.com]

YUMMY!!!

Smooshes to Wobo and Maharetr for the organisation and cooking of yummy food!

Also, lazing on a couch batting balloons around ranks as a fabulous way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I think of biscuits as boring things you dunk in tea and cookies as the interesting ones.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

The ones Zebra cooks I think of as cookies, cos they look like cookie monster cookies...and because she calls them cookies in her cute American accent *g*

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Definitely! Nice cookies too. ascetic_hedony is making scones to put the remaining berries on so the house should smell very nice soon.

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

<3

Oh, good. I feel better knowing that this was not one of those words that ambush me.

Waffle day! That's excellent. You guys should just, like, have breakfast parties all the time. Though thinking about that, it seems to happen with a fair frequency anyhow, so maybe nevermind.

[vegetariansushi.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, biscuits is one of the ones that's pretty well known here. Inexplicably, even some of our packaged cookies come labelled as biscuits. It's sort of interesting to me that after 200 some years of being all 'what? we can totally spell things however we want, y'all shut up', America is slowly bowing to the British mode of spelling (and word use) again. My Target has a 'glamour' department; AP style now eschews the Oxford comma; in the last two or three years all our 'cell' phone stores have shifted over to 'mobile'... I can't explain it. Even books that ten years ago would have had an American editor who changed spellings and the like are now being released in the same format that they are elsewhere. Sweaters are being referred to as jumpers in ad circs. It's quite inexplicable to me, to be honest -- I can't say that I don't approve, as I have fantasies about a more or less unified English language, but I find it a bit odd, especially given the current political zeitgeist of AMERICA YAY.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Now we have a house you an entertain in things are looking up for regular informal social stuff.

Yay!