I understand that in the US this is Groundhog day and many many folks were excited about it.
Well in France it's La Chandeleur .. aka lets stuff ourselves eating crepes day. With 70 millions folks in the country and maybe a third of them eating crepes today, lets face it you do not eat a crepe but a few (can you eat 1 Pancake only) 100 millions of those buggers have been or will be eaten already or will be during the week end.
Well I did my country proud and made a few.
For those interested, this pan if I am not mistaken is either 20 or 21 year old, was purchased at the BHV in Paris . Well purchased kind of, it was a nice sale, buy, send your receipt you'll get a full refund. I remember riding from my work outside of Paris in the RER to go buy it and then riding back out of Paris with it. Yeah Yeah Yeah, I was already cheap chum at the time.
Now the real question. Would you be a roller or a folder ?
I am a roller, fold the bottom of it to avoid than anything fold down and eat it up. My son is a roller too and got a few weird look at iHop for not using his knife and fork to eat his crepes.
Oh yeah I forgot we are among gentleman, while must recipe for grown up will call for Grand Marnier or Cointreau, wherever you are in the France, just spice it up with the local liquor ... Benedictine for this Man from Fécamp it is of course.
Of I almost forgot the recipe easy peasy
1/2 cup flour
1 cup whole milk
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla exract
1 tsp aged rum
The last two being optional but who are we kidding here.
Mix, let rest at lest 30 min and get flipping those crepes.
Ready to serve sugar, jam, nutela will get you to the right place or get the high road and booze it up
Well in France it's La Chandeleur .. aka lets stuff ourselves eating crepes day. With 70 millions folks in the country and maybe a third of them eating crepes today, lets face it you do not eat a crepe but a few (can you eat 1 Pancake only) 100 millions of those buggers have been or will be eaten already or will be during the week end.
Well I did my country proud and made a few.
For those interested, this pan if I am not mistaken is either 20 or 21 year old, was purchased at the BHV in Paris . Well purchased kind of, it was a nice sale, buy, send your receipt you'll get a full refund. I remember riding from my work outside of Paris in the RER to go buy it and then riding back out of Paris with it. Yeah Yeah Yeah, I was already cheap chum at the time.
Now the real question. Would you be a roller or a folder ?
I am a roller, fold the bottom of it to avoid than anything fold down and eat it up. My son is a roller too and got a few weird look at iHop for not using his knife and fork to eat his crepes.
Oh yeah I forgot we are among gentleman, while must recipe for grown up will call for Grand Marnier or Cointreau, wherever you are in the France, just spice it up with the local liquor ... Benedictine for this Man from Fécamp it is of course.
Of I almost forgot the recipe easy peasy
1/2 cup flour
1 cup whole milk
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla exract
1 tsp aged rum
The last two being optional but who are we kidding here.
Mix, let rest at lest 30 min and get flipping those crepes.
Ready to serve sugar, jam, nutela will get you to the right place or get the high road and booze it up
