The House of Pancakes

Today is Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Day as most people know it.  It is when people use up all their fat, butter , sugar and eggs as it is the last day before Lent when Christians traditionally give up rich food for 40 days.

So keeping with tradition, we have eaten pancakes!!  It doesn't really bother me to be fair but my boys love them.  Now normally I would stand there and cook up a batch to order, with the obligatory lemon and sugar......but this year I kinda cheated!

Marks and Spencer is a godsend, so we bought these yummy pre-cooked pancakes with a lemon sauce;

and then I saw these chocolate chip buttermilk pancakes and the normal buttermilk pancakes with a butterscotch sauce, and you just can't have pancakes without ice cream!!

Here's a picture of the boys with their's, Jack had seconds!!!

So there it was done, quick simple and not as much washing up!  They tasted okay too once warmed up, so maybe next year our new tradition will be shop bought ones, who knows! TTFN ~x~

Folksy Finds on Friday...

I've decided to try and commit to posting more often than I have been, I love looking at other blogs and have noticed that a few people post about items they find on Etsy, which has inspired me to create a new post each week called 'Folksy Finds on Friday' which will have a theme each week and be products I have found that I think are great!


So here's my first post, this weeks theme is........Door Stops!

1. Beach Hut Door Stop BH869 ~ £16.00 @  The Purple Beach Hut 
2. Ship's Cat Door Stop ~ £10.50 @ Millicent
3. Pink spot Millie mouse doorstop ~ £12.00 @ Heart and Sew Gifts 
4. Gene the buttontastic chicken doorstop  ~ £14.00 @ Swirly arts
5.  Scottie Dog door stop ~ £19.99 @ Kardsnmore
6. Pear Doorstop/Bookend ~ £12.00 @ Lily Sweets Handmade Treats

I just love the mouse doorstop, so cute but would not go down so well with my boys!  I think my favorite one is the buttontastic chicken doorstop called Gene! TTFN ~x~