Shrove Tuesday

As in the day before Ash Wednesday whereon one should eat lots of sugar and eggs before you give it all up for Lent. Thus, the British Pancake (Shrove) Tuesday! I thought maybe we could celebrate in the traditional English fashion by running a race while flipping pancakes in a frying pan...(seriously, I saw it on the news today!) but we decided to just eat them this morning instead.  By the way, the British call them "pancakes" but the only ones I've ever seen look more like crepes.  Anyway, we found some Canadian maple syrup at the store and a typical elaborate pancake recipe to try. Also typically, I substituted a few ingredients... and omitted a couple others... oh well, our Shrove Tuesday still turned out pretty good ;)

these were a "light and fluffy" kind of pancakes,
using whipped egg whites.

I guess it would have been nice to get a couple shot of us feasting... but we were feasting.