Valah here.

Today, for the first time ever, I made crepes.

Why has this taken me so long?? Crepes are quick and easy and really tasty! Somehow I have been intimidated by their thinness, their delicacy. But there is really nothing to them, they are as easy as pancakes (except for the fact you need to make only one at a time. At least, for the foreseeable future, I do).

Since France was in the World Cup final, we decided to make something French for breakfast (because I have no idea what a classic breakfast in Croatia would be, and the idea came to me too late last night to do much research or shopping). Last night we bought croissants to do a sort lazy-cooking idea of an American-French brunch sandwich, but store-bought croissants was really cheating, so I made a batch of batter for crepes last night and made them up this morning.

I used Alton Brown’s Crepe recipe, which says it makes 17 – 22 crepes, but I used 1/4 cup batter per crepe and a somewhat too-large pan, so I ended up with about 10 crepes (not that there were holes in them or they were too thick, they were just big). That was fine, since there were 4 of us eating, and we filled the crepes with ham and/or turkey, brie and/or gruyere, and a touch of Dijon mustard. 2 Crepes each was all we could eat.

The first batch of crepes went so well, as soon as I finished cooking them I decided to try Alton’s sweet crepe adjustment to his recipe. After the batter had its hour of rest time, I used a smaller pan and a 2 TBSP measure and made up the second batch. This made a batch of crepes that fit the number the recipe said it would make. For the liqueur the sweet version calls for I used Irish Cream (it was the only liqueur I had), which gave a pleasant and subtle flavor to the finished crepe, and complimented the whipped cream and fresh raspberries (from my garden!) that I filled them with.

Maybe it was France’s victory that made them taste so good, but my first attempt at crepes was a resounding success! Now I want to try making more things!

Any suggestions for what Raven and/or I should try making next?