Shrove Tuesday, Pancake day and Mardi Gras

So I think most people associate France with pancakes, crêpes or galettes. Galettes are very much associated with Brittany and are made with Buckwheat or sarrasin flour, which is gluten free. Crêpes tend to be made with farine de froment, wheat flour, which I can’t eat. Today being Shrove Tuesday I assumed that the French would be eating piles of crêpes or galettes. However it would seem not.

Shrove Tuesday is known in France as Mardi Gras, or fat Tuesday. Similarly to other parts of the world items are used up before the beginning of Lent. However unlike much of the rest of the world the food is focused around fat but not pancakes. We however, will will be eating galettes this evening. I have decided that we will be having a three course evening meal, using galettes for each course, two savoury followed by one sweet. I shall try to remember to take some photos, cheese and tomato, followed by sweet potato, sausage and spinach and finally jam or honey.

This morning I came down to Mabel having had an upset stomach. I won’t go in to too many details, suffice it to say that she has developed a taste for cat poop and her stomach hasn’t. So cleaning up set everything back today. I’d love to say that I wrote my lists, prioritized and got organised. Unfortunately not. I am working on a quick cardigan for me given that I have left my poncho in the UK. I will have to put it aside tomorrow and get on with the jumper.

Until tomorrow…