Crépes

Becca and Nick

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We were totally inspired by Jocie & Albin on this one and made very similar crepes with a few alternations. But, first things first.  What is cooking without my cooking beverage?  (This is a theme for me in case you haven’t noticed…)

Alright, back to the crepes.  We used a crepe recipe from the cookbook “How to Cook Everything”.  It was pretty good once we figured a few things out.  Our initial crepes didn’t go so well… but they got better as we went.

We filled the crepes with onions, mushrooms, sausage, and brie or parmesan, but funny story-  After we filled the crepes and folded them we were like, sweet all done, let’s eat!  Turns out we were supposed to bake them at 400 for 10 minutes… oops!  Oh well, they were still pretty good.

But, we must say, although the savory crepes were okay, the sweet crepes stole the show!  We filled them with Nutella and raspberries!  This time we followed the directions and actually folded them in quarters and baked them after filling them.  These were delicious!

This week’s cooking beverage was Great Lakes IPA!

Nick working on the crepes as I prepped the filling!

Filling the crepes! Perhaps a little too full…

Yep, this is when we thought we were done! Too funny!

This reminded me of Portland too!

So tasty!

Phil and Sarah

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I was impressed how easy this really was.  I was intimidated at first, but then it really wasn’t hard!

Stuff to make Crepes

Crepe batter

Naturally I subbed soymilk for normal milk cause well, it definitely won’t hurt Phil’s stomach to do the switch.  And the soymilk worked great, but I already new it tends to be a good substitute.

 

 

 

 

First time is not a charm

Getting better

Now I’m getting the hang of this!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were also inspired by Jocie and Albin and decided to do kale, mushroom, avocado and goat cheese or marscapone crepes.  Phil also added bell peppers to his.

Phil chopping up filling fixins

Saute’in

His and her cheese

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assembly time!:

Filling

A crepe!

With avocado!

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then of course, the most important part, the DESSERT crepes! We went with good old Nutella (except we used the Trader Joe’s brand because that’s where I like to shop – funny story, I went to TJs mostly for the purpose of getting “Chocolate Almond Spread” and then ended up buying a bunch of other stuff and forgot the spread! I remembered right as got in the car to go home.  So I went back and got it. Close call!) Where was I, right, dessert crepes.  Nutella and banana.  Classic.  Phil put some jam in his.  And then we shared a third and put some yogurt in it too.

Last time is a charm! I’ve got the hang of this now!

Yup. Crepes make Phil that happy.

mmmm… Nutella

Dessert Crepe fixings including powdered sugar!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusions? Crepes are fucking delicious.  And really not very difficult.  Why haven’t we done this before? We should do this again.

Galen and Chloe

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Crepes

Albin and Jocie

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For the crépe meal, Albin and I made Spinach, Artichoke, and Brie Crépes topped with honey glaze sauce.

When we used to make crépes we would use this flat spatula that Albin made in order to spread the batter in the pan. With this recipe from Pamela, the batter was thin enough that we could spread it by rotating and lifting the pan.

 

 

 

 

 So while Albin was cooking up all the crépe batter, I was heating the sauce and frying the ingredients that would make up the filling.

 

 

 

 

 

 Once all the pieces were ready, we assembled each crépe on the counter…

 

 

 

 

 

 

…folded them up…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 …and then heated them up again in the frying pan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We made several for each of us, plated them, and drizzled on the warm honey sauce.

 

 

 

 

These crépes were delicious, but also very decadent. We couldn’t finish all of them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

…because we had to save room for the dessert crépes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its hard to make crépes without making one with Nutella. Thank you Portland Crépe Lady for providing me with this particular weakness. : ) We decided to go with raspberry jam instead of bananas.

P.S. There is a new Ben and Jerry’s ice cream called “Thats My Jam” and its amazing! Half chocolate ice cream, half raspberry ice cream with chocolate chunks, and a raspberry jam core!

 

 

 

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