In a moment (and there are many) of Lockdown 3 boredom, TLF decides it was time to dip a paw in a new cookery league. Yep, 51 years young and never made a pancake.
Pre-match signs were good. Team selection matched the recommended ingredients, and TLF had adopted a sensible approach for a debutant – cautious weighing and measuring and precision recipe following. She had even employed the ‘let the batter rest’ formation, which has served many a league winner well.
Sadly the pre-match plans went out of the window as TLF committed the schoolboy error of a frying lukewarm pan. All that effort only to see the first few attacks end up not in the goal but the food recycling bin. By half time, TLF was reeling and the pancake mix was bossing the game.
Nothing for it but to change it and bring on Mr TLF from the subs bench. Well the sofa. Yes he bought much needed heat but he also brought too much oil to the party and while there was some cooking going on it was not of a pancake shape. But as the second half wore on this new combination started to gel and the TLF managed to hit the back of the net. Or pan.
By the final whistle there were four savoury stuffed ‘almost pancakes’ all ready for the oven and what we are calling a blue cheese and mushroom pancake melange. An ugly victory maybe. But a victory is still a victory, especially when it’s edible.
Battered Fox
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Tasted okay