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| Think of all the leftovers from your week's shopping. What is left in YOUR fridge? Well, how about using those leftovers to save you money and reduce the amount of waste your household produces? Don't just throw away leftover food, use it to make a special pancake this Shrove Tuesday. We asked you to come up with some great new pancake recipes using leftovers, for a chance to win £150 worth of kitchen equipment from Lakeland. The competition is now closed, but the best recipe judged by us on Pancake Day (Tuesday 16th February) will be the winner. Check out some of our favourite recipes at the bottom of this page.
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| Three reasons to save more food... • It is estimated that 8.3 million tonnes of food and drink waste is generated by households in the UK every year! • The average throws away £480 of avoidable food waste every year. This rises to £680 for households with children! • Avoidable food and drink waste produces 20 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. If we stopped wasting this food, it would have the same environmental impact as taking 25% of the cars off our roads.
Find out more ways to reduce food waste at www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/yorkandnorthyorks.
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Our favourite entries...
SUE HOBSON (WINNER!)
We had a great time as a family this morning creating a pancake with the leftovers from our fridge.
My daughter, Jasmine, aged 3, LOVED creating the monster face and posing with monster munch on her fingers.
If e-mail could carry sound you'd hear a fantastic RAAAAAAAAAAAAAH as well!!
The recipe is as follows:
For the pancake itself:
1 egg
250 mL milk
4 oz flour
For the monster face topping:
1 carrot (nose)
2 mushrooms (eyes)
1 cherry tomato (eyes)
1 slice of ham (mouth)
grated cheese (hair)
2 slices green pepper (eyebrows)
Jasmine shared the pancake with her younger brother Charlie. It made a refreshing change to sticky sugar and syrup and they both really enjoyed it.
thanks for the idea!
SAMANTHA ARMSTRONG
PIZZA PANCAKES:
Ingredients:
1 small onion
½ red pepper
½ green pepper
Some grated cheddar cheese
Pancake batter (100g plain flour, 1 free range egg, 250ml milk)
½ teaspoon oregano
Black pepper
Butter and olive oil for cooking
Method:
1. Chop the onion and peppers, lightly fry in a little olive oil.
2. While the vegetables are frying mix the pancake batter adding the oregano and a little black pepper.
3. Once the vegetables are cooked, transfer to a bowl.
4. Put a small piece of butter into the frying pan and melt.
5. Pour enough batter onto the butter to cover the base of the pan. Immediately sprinkle on a spoonful of vegetables.
6. When golden brown underneath flip the pancake. Once back on the heat sprinkle a generous handful of cheese over half of the pancake and using a spatula fold the pancake in half.
7. Once the bottom half is golden brown turn with the spatula to cook the other half.
8. Serve on their own or like us with sausages.
MELANIE CLARK
Stewed/cooked apple
Raisins
Cinnamon
Whipped or clotted cream
SIMON BLIGHT
Vanilla ice cream
Maple syrup
Pecan nuts (chopped)
Chopped banana
JOANNA BLAKE
Take leftover cake (usually after some kind of celebration) - mushed up with a fork, add ice cream and sauce and fold the pancake!!! Deeeeeelish!!
MAGGIE LAWTON
A sweet pancake dish that is very versatile and really scrummy is a variation on baked alaska:
Lightly grease a baking tray or dish. It can be round or square, but only an inch or so deep.
Line the dish with pancakes by overlapping them aroung the edges of the dish and into the base. Then ensure that the base is completely covered. You can spread butter, syrup, jam or whatever you have available beteween the overlapped layers (I have used chocolate spread sometimes).
Fill the centre with whatever fruit you have available. One good filling is frozen grapes and blueberries. If you have any ice cream, chop it into small pieces and make sure it is frozen as solid as posible, then add to the dish.
Cover with meringue made from egg whites and caster sugar, making absolutely sure that the meringue forms a seal around the edges of the dish and that there are no gaps in the top of it.
Place in a hot oven for 5-10 minutes until meringue is browned on top.
Serve immediately.
Note - if there are any leftover pancakes after lining the dish, you can layer them between the fruit / ice cream / meringue.
