Pancake Supper

Our Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper went well, if not exactly according to plan.

Our expert pancake flipper wasn't able to make it after all, so a couple of others of us had to punt. We started trying to cook up the sausages and pancakes a bit before 5, so as to be ready when Evensong ended and everyone came downstairs to the Parish Hall.

But we were having a lot of trouble with the electric griddles. They just didn't seem to get very hot, and substituting other griddles (we seemed have several around) didn't make matters better -- in fact, some didn't even seem to work. It took a little while before we realized that a circuit breaker had popped. Oops.

A bit of juggling outlets and five breaker resets later (note to self: we need to map out which breakers serve which outlets in the kitchen), we had two working griddles and were well underway with blueberry and plain pancakes when the service ended. In short order we were done, and after a blessing by Fr. Daniel all sat down for supper.

Except... we weren't done after all. More people arrived over the next hour -- in part one can thank Seattle traffic for this, and some visitors got directions turned around so they were way off in Monroe instead of Wooodinville! So we wound up firing up the griddles and pan again, making up more batter and serving up more and more pancakes and sausages.

We had plenty of volunteers for cleanup (fortunately for me, because jet-lag exhaustion was setting in by then); the kitchen was almost standing-room-only at times and in short order, long after our planned closing at 7:30, the place was clean.