Even if you've been reading the blog for only a couple of weeks now, or if you have the pleasure of knowing me in real life (modesty, begone!), you know I'm a big fan of food Breakfast.
However, on weekdays, even managing to throw down a Nature Valley bar (um, no) and a glass of milk (plain milk=hell, NO) is a luxury and a half. And nobody wakes up in time for breakfast on weekends. So what is the point of all these breakfast recipes, you might ask.
I'll tell you.
If you've ever been stone-broke, and you're obligated/bullied/coerced into giving someone a surprise, nothing beats Breakfast in Bed^(Trademarked). There's something decadent about waking up to a steaming mug of English Breakfast, Spanish omelettes and a stack of pancakes drenched in syrup. With a random roadside flower to top it all off.
Whether it's for the cousin who begs you for "fancy breakfast" in exchange for unlimited access to her Body Shop's Coconut Lip Butter. Or for the mum who gets off kitchen duty for just one day in the week. Especially if you're a guy, cooking for a girl (note: even if you can't cook very well, throw in some chocolate and it'll go from unedible to amazing).
Today, you can see how I made traditional French crepes. You will need a crepe pan for this, but you can totally make it in a saucepan/dosa tawa that isn't totally flat.
Use these crepes as blank templates, like you would with bread or brownies. Spread them with Nutella, serve with whipping cream, honey, whatever suits the pampered-person-of-the-day's fancy. You can even use them as savoury crepes, filling them with cheddar, sausages or even for Asian seafood rolls!
But. They taste pretty great the French way, hot off the griddle with a squirt of lemon juice and a dusting of powdered sugar. Yum.
Believe in breakfast. Eat it. I do, since it's the closest I get to being a champion of any sort.
French Crepes:
Ingredients:
1/2 cup flour
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
1/8 teaspoon salt
zest of half a lemon/orange
1 tablespoon butter (melted)
Method:
Mix everything in a bowl.
Heat a crepe/non-stick pan over medium. Add a pat of butter.
Spread it around with a tissue.
Pour in 1/4 cup of the crepe batter.
Immediately swirl so that the batter spreads over the entire circumference of the pan.
Cook for around 2 minutes.
Add some butter along the edges so it'll be easy to flip it.
Flip it over (I used a spatula). Cook for another minute.
Tip it onto the serving plate.
Use whatever is fresh and in season.
Mahableshwar strawberries and Malta oranges are yummy.
Simply chop up a cup of strawberries and soak them in 2 tbsps orange juice and 1 tbsp white sugar.
Serve with greek yogurt, cream cheese or whipped cream. Sweetened, of course.
Add bananas, peanut butter, honey, whatever your tastebuds adore.
Maintain a minute of mournful silence (for the absence of Nutella. Goshdarnit) and dig in!
Bon appetit, mes amours!
However, on weekdays, even managing to throw down a Nature Valley bar (um, no) and a glass of milk (plain milk=hell, NO) is a luxury and a half. And nobody wakes up in time for breakfast on weekends. So what is the point of all these breakfast recipes, you might ask.
I'll tell you.
If you've ever been stone-broke, and you're obligated/bullied/coerced into giving someone a surprise, nothing beats Breakfast in Bed^(Trademarked). There's something decadent about waking up to a steaming mug of English Breakfast, Spanish omelettes and a stack of pancakes drenched in syrup. With a random roadside flower to top it all off.
Whether it's for the cousin who begs you for "fancy breakfast" in exchange for unlimited access to her Body Shop's Coconut Lip Butter. Or for the mum who gets off kitchen duty for just one day in the week. Especially if you're a guy, cooking for a girl (note: even if you can't cook very well, throw in some chocolate and it'll go from unedible to amazing).
Today, you can see how I made traditional French crepes. You will need a crepe pan for this, but you can totally make it in a saucepan/dosa tawa that isn't totally flat.
Use these crepes as blank templates, like you would with bread or brownies. Spread them with Nutella, serve with whipping cream, honey, whatever suits the pampered-person-of-the-day's fancy. You can even use them as savoury crepes, filling them with cheddar, sausages or even for Asian seafood rolls!
But. They taste pretty great the French way, hot off the griddle with a squirt of lemon juice and a dusting of powdered sugar. Yum.
Believe in breakfast. Eat it. I do, since it's the closest I get to being a champion of any sort.
French Crepes:
Ingredients:
1/2 cup flour
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
1/8 teaspoon salt
zest of half a lemon/orange
1 tablespoon butter (melted)
Method:
Mix everything in a bowl.
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| Chubby two-year-old hands are best for mixing. |
Do not overbeat, as you'll get gluggy crepes.
Spread it around with a tissue.
Pour in 1/4 cup of the crepe batter.
Tip it onto the serving plate.
If you're adding any type of filling, don't flip it.
Instead add in the filling on the uncooked side and fold the cooked sides over the filling.
Mahableshwar strawberries and Malta oranges are yummy.
Add bananas, peanut butter, honey, whatever your tastebuds adore.
Bon appetit, mes amours!
:D The familiar memory of breakfast in bed before you got popular and untouchable. That was the best birthday gift ever. Thank you. And might I add, I liked my candied apple filling the best. You truly rock everyone's bed. In a non-creepy way! Muahah!
ReplyDeleteAw. Thanks, Sarbs! For making up the bit about being popular, hehe.
ReplyDeleteI made you the Apple Pie filling, huh? You've given me an idea for another blog post!