First pancake of the batch came out OK. This isn’t normal - something bad is clearly going to happen later.

@ghost_bird never made Polish pancakes before but usually making crepes the first one is a sacrifice to make sure the rest come out okay. Please don't short mysterious dark forces a pancake, it can't end well.

@Murkrow These are regular crepes, which is why I’m worried. Maybe I’ll make the last one a sacrifice to the Pancake Gods...

@ghost_bird maybe they'll just take one at random from the middle of the batch

@Murkrow (The proper Polish thing is little mushroom-filled dumplings to go in the soup. This is my mother’s Anglo-Polish Christmas Eve cooking.)

@ghost_bird god I love cultural fusions! Mushroom pankakes sounds like the best of both worlds tbh - I don't know about everywhere else but here it's not Christmas until you've had a hot pancake or waffle to stave off frostbite at the Christmas Market

Pancakes filled and folded. Next: peel beetroot and celeriac for soup. Then I’m into the home stretch - just the fish and potatoes. (Should be carp but I couldn’t be bothered this year. Salmon with a nice cream-and-herb sauce.)

Soup is on. My hands are parts of the kitchen are stained with beetroot, like an unconvincing stage murder.

@Fritillaria2 My choice of emoji is sadly limited.

@ghost_bird It is sad, indeed, but amusing in this case. 😊