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For the next challenge with my sister and my friend, Hibiscus Kook, to make a dish three different ways, and each of us trying something new, we decided on pancakes for pancake day today. Pancake Day, Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, whatever you want to call it, is the last day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent. Lent, being a period of fasting, prayer and penance leading to Easter in the Catholic faith, is traditionally a leaner period culinarily. Many know it now as being the period during which people tend to try to give up chocolate, but for many centuries it was, and for many it still is, a period when richer foods are given up until Easter. Shrove Tuesday was therefore a good time to use up eggs and fats which remained, and so pancakes became traditional in the UK. I had grown up celebrating the feat of Mardi Gras, but had never heard it called Pancake Day until I moved to Scotland for University. I was completely mystified, especially as no one could explain the significance of the pancakes, they were eaten for supper rather than breakfast, and most of my friends who celebrated pancake day were in no way religious and weren't going to be observing Lent or Easter. I still don't necessarily eat Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, and certainly eat them at other times of the year, but once in a while, it is a fun tradition to embrace. My sister's suggestion, therefore, of making Pancakes our next recipe to coincide with Pancake Day suited me to a T. Here are our three different Pancake Experiments, and a bonus Whipped Cinnamon Honey Butter recipe. For my friend, HibiscucKook's recipe for vegan pancakes on her blog, click here. Sahlep Pancakes by me Piggy Pancakes (AKA Hamcakes) and Whipped Cinnamon Honey Butter by my Sister

We had it meatless this time, but it could work really well with some little bits of bacon.

We tried a couple of variants - without the bacon, then with and finally with cured egg yolk grated over My favourite, though, was the final one in which we added a little crumbled bacon and the cured egg yolk If using, crispy fry the rashers of bacon. 3) Toss the sauce with the pasta, stirring in the pasta water If using, crumble the bacon and grate the cured egg yolk over the top. Salt and pepper to taste. The bacon and egg yolk of course added some richness, but without making the meal too heavy.

We put bacon over the top of this one, but really it would have been just as good without it. broccoli, chopped 2 tbsp butter 1 tbsp chutney (I used last year's Green Tomato Chutney) 6-8 strips of bacon Lay the bacon strips over the top and bake at 180°C for 25-30 minutes. This came out very tasty. Next time I would put the bacon on before the cabbage leaf lid though so that it can cook and melt into

but it worked, and in fact, it was the tastiest part (along with the bacon and the cheese and the peppers potatoes, grated 1 tsp thyme 1 tsp sage 1 tsp sumac 1 tsp Urfa Biber 1 ball mozzarella, sliced 1/4 c bacon Or none at all, although I really do hold with bacon in general) 1 tomme of fresh cheese (I used a tomme Add the red pepper and bacon and cook for a few more minutes until the bacon bits are cooked on the outside The bacon could be skipped for a vegetarian version of this.

milk oil for cooking For the filling: Roast pumpkin wedges Mushrooms, sautéed in butter Grated cheese Bacon The bacon could be left out for any vegetarians joining in this deliciousness, too.

of spinach 2 tomatoes 100g mature cheese (given where I live this tends to be L'Etivaz or Gruyère) Bacon Cube your bacon and slice your onion into rings.

apples, coarsely grated 2 courgettes, coarsely grated 2 onions 4 tbsp olive oil 1 tomato, sliced, 1 c bacon bits or ham 2 tbsp butter or lard (I save bacon fat whenever I cook bacon) 2 c chanterelles, chopped Fry bacon briefly until cooked through and beginning to brown. 2) Mix all ingredients except tomato and

Ingredients: 2 sweet potatoes, roughly chopped 2 large potatoes, roughly chopped 4 carrots, roughly chopped 1 bacon under cold water and the grate on the largest grater setting. 2) In a large pan or skillet, fry the bacon I would also add onions and garlic, to be fried up with the bacon at the start. It would also work as a vegetarian meal without the bacon, or even a vegan one without the cheese, although

my home made whey ricotta, some leftover (slightly spiced) stir fried veggies, the last of a pack of bacon Ingredients: 6 tbsp left over veggies 6-9 tbsp ricotta 3 eggs 6 rashers of bacon 3 thyme sprigs salt Place a ring of bacon around the tops of the ramequins using 2 rashers each then crack an egg into the The slightly spiced veg played well off the creamy whey ricotta, and egg and bacon is of course a classic