I don’t get many chances to make deserts. The following is a report from a weekend project I undertook while Heather was out of town.
Typically if I make deserts, Heather is out of town… same goes for bacon come to think of it.
In tying to find the recipe I used so I could write up this post I found the article that had gotten me interested in crepes in the first place here: Chicken-Broccoli Crepes. I probably could feed that to Heather, but somehow between the time I got it into my head that I wanted to try making crepes and the time I actually tried it, the healthy filling part had faded leaving me searching for something to fill them with.
I ended up settling on vanilla pudding and strawberries.
Before we get to the filling though, the actual crepes:
The actual recipe isn’t too important, all crepe recipes seem to be about the same, just flour oil and egg mixed aggressively and left to sit for a while in the fridge before cooking.
Speaking of cooking, I was worried about this part, because it has taken me a long time to get to the point where I make a passable pancake and these seemed like they would be less forgiving. As it turns out though, they are easier. Or at least, I found them to be virtually impossible to mess up.
After I made the crepes, it was just a matter of spooning in some pudding and loading the sliced strawberries. In hindsight I wish I would have made the ‘pie filling’ version of the recipe on the instant pudding box because what I made turned out to be too runny to really produce an attractive crepe.
I have been trying to work more on presentation, as that seems to be an area where you can take the same recipe but have it seem way better, just by having the finished result look amazing. I don’t know if I really go there with these… but I gave it a shot:
In a possibly related note, I have found that despite the fact that it sounds acceptable, Strawberry-vanilla crepes do not make a great Saturday lunch… or maybe I am just getting old. I suppose next time I should make up main course filling too, then fill half with something more substantial than pudding 🙂
-Jordan
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