Making crepes, have you ever made any? Have you thought about the ways crepes

@writersedge (22563)
United States
March 28, 2011 10:53am CST
can save money and the way they can cost money? Positives and negatives for you? On the positive side, if you only have some flour and some eggs, but no baking powder, baking soda, or yeast, you can make a few crepes, fill them, pour something over them or shred something over them and you've found a frugal way to make some food. I also like the idea because the 1st two leavening methods add salt. The 3rd one people often use salt, too. But often people can forgo salt for crepes. On the negative side, you usually need a blender or a mixer plus electricity and a strainer (unless someone has ideas around all this). People often have to dedicate a pan to it or they buy one, but you don't have to. So have you made crepes? What positives have you noticed? What negatives have you noticed? I was watching, "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives," with Guy Fieri the other night and this place had all kinds of crepes even a crepe cake. I have a crepe cookbook, well 1/2 creps and 1/2 omelette cookbook. It's kind of cool. I think my biggest problem is that my stove isn't level for omelettes or crepes. I'm going to have to find a way to level it again. The desert crepes with bananas and walnut filling sounds the best to me. If you have never made a crepe, would you like to? If you have, what kind(s) have you made? Do you order them when you go out? I haven't really noticed them on the menus up here. We have a Quiche restaurant here. Everywhere seems to have a breakfast omelette, but I haven't seen crepes. Does anywhere near you have them?
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
28 Mar 11
I have made them, but I used my daughter's crepe maker rather than a pan. It was great for making blintzes, even though I was the only one to eat them..lol Blintzes are filled with a cream cheese and other ingredients I can't remember right now since it has been a couple years.. I don't remember having to use a blender though, I just hand mixed it..
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
28 Mar 11
The crepe book I have has a blintz section. Just folded differently and slightly different ingredients. Both the recipe book and the tv show said to use something that can get them very smooth and to put them through a strainer. Otherwise the batter wouldn't be thin and non-lumpy. I've gone places and they've had blintzes on the menu. Can't remember where. Not locally, but other places and I've bought them in our freezer area in the store before. Good change of pace. I don't mind eating them once in a while.
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• United States
28 Mar 11
I've never had them frozen, but I did have one at the International House of Pancakes a couple months ago and it was sooooo good...Now I am hungry for one...
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
29 Mar 11
We don't have an International House of Pancakes.
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@marguicha (223109)
• Chile
29 Mar 11
I love crepes but I don´t make them as often as I make an omelette as I live alone. I make sweet and salty crepes. As a dish, I like to fill them with a spinash cream, roll them and pour white sauce over them, pleanty of parmesan cheese and butter and heat them before serving them. The dessert I most like are crepes Suzzette. They have orange and kirtsh and it is flambé. I love the fire dancing in the pan just before serving it! I don´t go to a restaurant to eat them because I only dine out invitd and it is for diner. So I make them at home. I don´t dedicate a pan for them, but I use my best one of a certain width. It´s teflon so it doesn´t stick. My stovwe is not level either but I hold the pan in my hand while making the crepes and move the pan so the batter goes where I want it to.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
29 Mar 11
Really good response.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
30 Mar 11
You'e welcome. You went for it and answer many of my questions plus put a little of yourself into it. So I figure that you should get it. Thanks and take care.
@marguicha (223109)
• Chile
29 Mar 11
Thank you and thank you for giving me best response. I love to cook! Happy posting!
@MAllen400 (829)
28 Mar 11
I love them sometimes known as pancakes. I must admit that my favourite ones are apple. half way through the cooking peel and cut an apple into slices and then add to the mix which is cooking. They are absolutely delicious. try it
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
29 Mar 11
Pancakes are thick, crepes are thin, very, very thin, like paper. Pancakes need leavening, crepes don't, they are mostly just flour and eggs. I will try that idea with pancakes some day. Crepes, maybe I'll fill and fold with applesauce, that's an idea.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
30 Mar 11
Really? Pancakes here are thick, very thick. If someone said they wanted a pancake and you gave them a crepe, they'd be either confused or disappointed or both.
29 Mar 11
We make the pancakes thin as well and with just flour and eggs but cook them in melted hot oil.
@topffer (42156)
• France
29 Mar 11
I make some crepes for Candlemas. It is a tradition in France. There is an area -- Brittany -- where you can find more crepes restaurant than pizzerias. They are made with buckwheat flour for the salt crepes for the dishes and with wheat flour for desert crepes and you generally drink cider with them. Quiche is a specialty of Lorraine, on the opposite side of France.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
29 Mar 11
My people came from Trois-Rivieres in Canada (no accent marks on my keyboard, it's not an international keyboard, used to have one when I had more money). We haven't traced back to Europe. Just back to Canada, I'm 3rd generation USA. Now that I know that crepes ae a tradition on Candlemas, I'll try to remember to make them at that time. I've always liked buckwheat flour, mostly for pancakes. I bet they're wonderful in crepes. I can't have salt. My blood pressure goes crazy when I have salt. Only when I eat seafood does my blood pressure stay normal. We had a show here about Quiche and I think they were at a farm. It looked wonderful. I like quiche Lorraine. But I like vegetarian quiche the best. Thanks for dropping by, it's nice to hear from France. I went there in the mid 1970s. Haven't been back since, but I'd like to visit.