Time for another cooking thread: Crépes

Skybird · 02-25-19, 04:48 PM

We had a thread on Pizza. Steak. Pommes Frites. Bread - did we had a bread thread? I am not certain, I dont think so, maybe we need a bread thread as well. Waffles? Did we do waffles? I kill for Belgian waffles, never get between me and my waffles if you are not in a suicidal mood. But for the time being, my new passion, since ten days or so: crepes, which effectively are pancakes, just thinner. Though I suck at making them as thin as they should be: thin like paper, so top speak. My technique serves better for plastering foxholes in the street surface.

I do like sweet pancakes as - indeed thicker pancakes, but then only with sugar and citrus juice. I know that banana with nutella and banana with honey is very popular with many folks, I tried them, and found it awful, warm banana just is not my taste. And for fruits like cherries with cream or vanilla, I prefer already mentioned Belgian waffles, I do not do crepes in a sweet style anymore, it snot my thing. So, crepes for me automatically implies: savoury (? = "herzhaft") crepes, not sweet.

The following are my three currently favourite recipes. I have not read them, but I cannot imagine I am the first man on Earth getting to these mixes of ingredients, so although I found these by myself I do not claim authorship and credit for them. By taste they work extremely well, you can trust in that. Just the chef needs quite some more practice in handling the dough...

It looks so easy and elegant when you watch videos about street stands preparing crepes, but it is quite a bit tricky indeed, I found, and I have not found my working technique so far. Any tips on that are welcome.

If you like crepes and have favourite recipes, share them here. This is the non-Pizza, non-Steak, non-Pommes Frites/Chips/French Fries but the Crepes-thread!

JU_88 · 02-25-19, 05:06 PM

Thanks Sky, I will certainly watch it when I'm less full of pizza and whisky and am able to look at food again..

Mork_417 · 02-25-19, 07:08 PM

Those look really yummy!

Rockstar · 02-25-19, 07:15 PM

I make sweet crepes a lot for breakfast. I use a hot berry or apple compote most of the time. Prevents the batter from cooking so long that I cant 'roll' it up.

Never been a big fan of arthropods as an ingredient in any recipe. But I will try one of the other savory versions this weekend, makes me hungry!

Another breakfast favorite is Ojibwa bread, but that's another topic.

Skybird · 02-25-19, 07:48 PM

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Never been a big fan of arthropods as an ingredient in any recipe.

I thought you just call them "shrimps"...?

If I would call them arthropods, maybe they would not taste me good anymore, too.

Would feel guilty of wiping out some an alien space civilization by accidentally eating it.

Use tuna, if you do not like shrimps. Or something else fishy. The salmon spread/sauce is the dominant frutti del mare taste in the third recipe anyway.

Rockstar · 02-25-19, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

I thought you just call them "shrimps"...?

If I would call them arthropods, maybe they would not taste me good anymore, too.

Would feel guilty of wiping out some an alien space civilization by accidentally eating it.

Use tuna, if you do not like shrimps. Or something else fishy. The salmon spread/sauce is the dominant frutti del mare taste in the third recipe anyway.

The day I found out cockroaches are in the arthropod family. Was the day I stopped eating the sea going kind of cockroach they call shrimp. Greens, cheese or blueberries will do just find in my crepes thank you. Bon appetit

Eichhörnchen · 02-26-19, 04:52 AM

I'm glad there are no squirrels in it this time

02-25-19, 04:48 PM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,613 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Time for another cooking thread: Crépes We had a thread on Pizza. Steak. Pommes Frites. Bread - did we had a bread thread? I am not certain, I dont think so, maybe we need a bread thread as well. Waffles? Did we do waffles? I kill for Belgian waffles, never get between me and my waffles if you are not in a suicidal mood. But for the time being, my new passion, since ten days or so: crepes, which effectively are pancakes, just thinner. Though I suck at making them as thin as they should be: thin like paper, so top speak. My technique serves better for plastering foxholes in the street surface. I do like sweet pancakes as - indeed thicker pancakes, but then only with sugar and citrus juice. I know that banana with nutella and banana with honey is very popular with many folks, I tried them, and found it awful, warm banana just is not my taste. And for fruits like cherries with cream or vanilla, I prefer already mentioned Belgian waffles, I do not do crepes in a sweet style anymore, it snot my thing. So, crepes for me automatically implies: savoury (? = "herzhaft") crepes, not sweet. The following are my three currently favourite recipes. I have not read them, but I cannot imagine I am the first man on Earth getting to these mixes of ingredients, so although I found these by myself I do not claim authorship and credit for them. By taste they work extremely well, you can trust in that. Just the chef needs quite some more practice in handling the dough... It looks so easy and elegant when you watch videos about street stands preparing crepes, but it is quite a bit tricky indeed, I found, and I have not found my working technique so far. Any tips on that are welcome. If you like crepes and have favourite recipes, share them here. This is the non-Pizza, non-Steak, non-Pommes Frites/Chips/French Fries but the Crepes-thread! __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 02-25-19 at 05:17 PM.

02-25-19, 07:08 PM	#3
Mork_417 Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: DB-15 Posts: 851 Downloads: 263 Uploads: 0	Those look really yummy! __________________ Heading to AM49.(U-553)

02-26-19, 04:52 AM	#7
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,381 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I'm glad there are no squirrels in it this time __________________

02-25-19, 05:06 PM	#2
JU_88 Silent Hunter Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 3,803 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Thanks Sky, I will certainly watch it when I'm less full of pizza and whisky and am able to look at food again..

02-25-19, 07:15 PM	#4
Rockstar In the Brig Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Zendia Bar & Grill Posts: 12,614 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I make sweet crepes a lot for breakfast. I use a hot berry or apple compote most of the time. Prevents the batter from cooking so long that I cant 'roll' it up. Never been a big fan of arthropods as an ingredient in any recipe. But I will try one of the other savory versions this weekend, makes me hungry! Another breakfast favorite is Ojibwa bread, but that's another topic.