When I want to feel I’m eating a fancy brunch, I make crepes.  They’re super easy, very versatile, and since they aren’t something most Americans have grown up eating they seem more lavish than other breakfasty brunch foods.  Note: if you are feeding English people this will not work, as crepes are their standard pancakes.  Which means they have crepe stands in major cities where you can just walk up and get a fresh, delicious crepe for lunch or something.  Dicks.  Why the fuck did that not come over on the Mayflower?

Ingredients: (this amount feeds two adults)

• 1 cup flour
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup milk/dairy substitute
• 2 tablespoons butter/oil
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Ingredients!

Tools:

• mixing bowl
• whisk
• 1/4 cup measure
• low edged pan (ideally small)

The perfect crepe pan.

1. Whisk flour and eggs together.  They will clump.  This is fine.
2. Slowly add water and milk to eggs and flour.  There will be much less clumping, but still a few lumps here and there.  This is not considered perfect for a crepe, but I like the texture so I keep them in.
3. Melt butter.  Mix salt into butter.  Pour butter and salt into the rest of the batter and stir.
4. Set the stove to medium and wait to put batter in until a little water flicked in sizzles on the pan.  I never have to grease my pan due to the butter content in the crepes themselves, but if you want to do so sparingly.
5. Use the 1/4 cup measure to pour batter into the pan.  Then pick up the pan and slowly move it so that the thin batter coats the entire bottom surface. Replace pan on stove.
6. When the edges of the crepe curl up, flip it.  The second side will take roughly a minute or two to cook.
7. Place finished crepe on a plate and repeat steps 5 and 6 til you use up your batter.  You can stack finished crepes right off the stove as they won’t stick together.

A finished pile of crepes.

Now comes the fun part: what will you put inside them?  My giant sweet tooth means I always have at least one jam and nutella as an option.  Anything that goes on toast well goes in a crepe.  Fresh fruit and nuts also work well.  If you want to go savory get some shredded cheese, meat, veggies, or cooked eggs.  Cheddar, apples, ham, and a fried egg is one of my favorites.

Nutella, Strawberry Jam, Crystalized Honey, and cooked down grapefruit were the options today.

Fill, roll, enjoy!

Le Om Nom Nom!