I'm French-Canadian. I only had pancakes on the rare occasions when my dad took my best friend and I to McDonald's for breakfast. Now that I have my own family it hasn't changed. Crepes are the weekend breakfast (and since I make a big batch) sometimes lunch and snack too. I've put the large recipe in parentheses but the small batch will make about a dozen if done right. The large recipe will make about twenty. Keep in mind that the numbers may vary depending on the size pan that you use.
Tools:
- mixing bowl
- whisk/immersable blender/hand mixer
- measuring cups
- measuring spoons
- saute pan
- ladle
- flexible spatula (to flip them of course!)
Ingredients:
- 3 Eggs (6 eggs)
- 1 cup Milk (2 cups Milk)
- 1 Tbsp. melted Butter (2 Tbsp. melted Butter)
- 1 Cup Flour (2 Cups Flour)
- 1/4 Cup Sugar (1/2 Cup Sugar)
- 1/2 Tsp. Vanilla (1Tbsp Vanilla) *optional*
Instructions:
1. Mix your first three ingredients and whisk/beat. By making this light and fluffy the crepe with light and fluffy! I use my immersible blender (it goes faster and when the guys are hungry I don't have time to procrastinate!)
2. Add sugar while still whisking.
3. Slowly add flour. Add it too fast and you'll get lumps which, while it won't really affect the taste, it makes them look wonky.
4. Add vanilla if you choose.
5. Preheat your pan. test it by dropping a drop of batter into the pan. Pan will be ready if it takes about half a minute to cook. On my stove it's a medium-low setting. Cooking with gas or an older stove may change this for you.
6. Take your ladle and scoop up batter. Now you can use a ladle or a measuring cup or anything else. It's just how I happen to measure the batter. The goal is to put enough batter into your pan to swirl it around so it covers the bottom of the pan.
7. Cook until the bottom is light tan and flip. The second side will not get as dark as the first. That's okay! It will take much less time too since the crepe at this point is mostly cooked through.
8. Repeat steps 6-7 until batter is gone!
Serve:
In our house almost anything goes. Maple syrup, maple butter, peanut butter, applesauce, jellies or jams and, when for lunch, ham and cheese is good too!
Jul 31, 2012
Jul 30, 2012
My Best Friend...the ER
Unfortunately yesterday I had to go back to the ER for the unknown abdominal pain that I was experiencing a couple weeks back. Another round of I.V., tests, and ultrasound and the doc comes up with the news that I have "sludge" in my gallbladder.
Is that a technical term? Yup.
It's what happens when you have a gallstone and it brakes up in your gallbladder. Sound painful? Sure is. Two Vicodin on Saturday night weren't enough to keep me from doubling up in pain. Prior to this incident I thought fiber was restricted to whole grains and fiber supplements. Sure I knew that fiber was in a lot of things subconsciously but I wasn't aware how much some had. For instance did you know that fruits and veggies eaten with skins (cherries, cucumber, tomato, apples, etc.) have lots of fiber? Loads! Unfortunately peanut butter (one of my favorite breakfast foods) has too much fat for me to eat at the moment even if balanced out with apples or something similar. So why the whole low/no fat?
If I remember things correctly: the gallbladder puts bile into the stomach to help digestion. Gallstones can occur when cholesterol mixes with the bile in the gallbladder. Fat requires more bile to help digest it and so if you have a gallstone or "sludge", bile trying to get from the GB to the stomach causes pain. Lots of it. Eat less fat...no pain. This is what I'm following and like I said, it's rough.
More news to follow soon...
Is that a technical term? Yup.
It's what happens when you have a gallstone and it brakes up in your gallbladder. Sound painful? Sure is. Two Vicodin on Saturday night weren't enough to keep me from doubling up in pain. Prior to this incident I thought fiber was restricted to whole grains and fiber supplements. Sure I knew that fiber was in a lot of things subconsciously but I wasn't aware how much some had. For instance did you know that fruits and veggies eaten with skins (cherries, cucumber, tomato, apples, etc.) have lots of fiber? Loads! Unfortunately peanut butter (one of my favorite breakfast foods) has too much fat for me to eat at the moment even if balanced out with apples or something similar. So why the whole low/no fat?
If I remember things correctly: the gallbladder puts bile into the stomach to help digestion. Gallstones can occur when cholesterol mixes with the bile in the gallbladder. Fat requires more bile to help digest it and so if you have a gallstone or "sludge", bile trying to get from the GB to the stomach causes pain. Lots of it. Eat less fat...no pain. This is what I'm following and like I said, it's rough.
More news to follow soon...
Jul 28, 2012
It's The Small Things That Matter
It figures that as I come to write this post one of my cats decides it's time to be cuddly. Isn't that always the way? Any spelling mistakes or other weird keystrokes I blame on my feline typist.
So much has happened since my last post. We've moved into our new house and are trying to get the condo sold. It's been repainted an patched up like new so hopefully that will go soon. The new house was crazy. Wesigned on December 16th moved on the 19th or 20th...can't remember exactly...and hosted 20 people on the 25th. I'm still sane...somewhat. the basement is still unfinished and mostly a storage area though most of the boxes are gone. Pictures still need to be hung but we are slowly getting it all put together. My step-father has built us a roof over our east-facing deck so we can get more use out of it and has also added a wonderful outdoor shower to the back.
The lawn of our house and the general landscaping is leaving much to be desired. We have 4 Leech fields (on spetic system) in our back yard. It's a great level place to play for our son but the whole of it needs to be re-graded as we have standing water on one side and a sink hole over another of the leech fields. LESSON LEARNED: always do a hold back for radon sysem and landscaping when buying a new house.
Other than that I've found a part time/seasonal job at a local place and was doing well before a bout of God-Only-Knows-What has laied me low for the past 3 weeks. I've found out that I have a cyst on my ovary and slight inflammation of the small bowel. After nearly 10 days on my antibiotic I start developing localized rashes and swelling, so much so that I can't close my right hand to make a fist. Back to the doctors I go only to be told that I'm allergic...well *duh*. Now on a particularly nasty steroid that makes me warmer than usual, grumpy, and super tired. Stellar stuff.
On the up hand....and this is where the small stuff comes into play...I found out that someone who had visited my blog for my website (not this one) had sited it on a discussion board in Germany! I looked at it and I was thrilled! It made me super excited that someone had found the information that I had researched so helpful that they posted the link to my post elsewhere! *Happy Dance!*
On to nap time.....Zzzzz
So much has happened since my last post. We've moved into our new house and are trying to get the condo sold. It's been repainted an patched up like new so hopefully that will go soon. The new house was crazy. Wesigned on December 16th moved on the 19th or 20th...can't remember exactly...and hosted 20 people on the 25th. I'm still sane...somewhat. the basement is still unfinished and mostly a storage area though most of the boxes are gone. Pictures still need to be hung but we are slowly getting it all put together. My step-father has built us a roof over our east-facing deck so we can get more use out of it and has also added a wonderful outdoor shower to the back.
The lawn of our house and the general landscaping is leaving much to be desired. We have 4 Leech fields (on spetic system) in our back yard. It's a great level place to play for our son but the whole of it needs to be re-graded as we have standing water on one side and a sink hole over another of the leech fields. LESSON LEARNED: always do a hold back for radon sysem and landscaping when buying a new house.
Other than that I've found a part time/seasonal job at a local place and was doing well before a bout of God-Only-Knows-What has laied me low for the past 3 weeks. I've found out that I have a cyst on my ovary and slight inflammation of the small bowel. After nearly 10 days on my antibiotic I start developing localized rashes and swelling, so much so that I can't close my right hand to make a fist. Back to the doctors I go only to be told that I'm allergic...well *duh*. Now on a particularly nasty steroid that makes me warmer than usual, grumpy, and super tired. Stellar stuff.
On the up hand....and this is where the small stuff comes into play...I found out that someone who had visited my blog for my website (not this one) had sited it on a discussion board in Germany! I looked at it and I was thrilled! It made me super excited that someone had found the information that I had researched so helpful that they posted the link to my post elsewhere! *Happy Dance!*
On to nap time.....Zzzzz
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