Culinarty

After experimenting with different ingredients to add to the crêpes batter, the banana crêpe turned out to be the winner when comparing: taste, looks and the batter’s behavior when cooking the crêpes.

What did I learn from trying to add other ingredients to the batter?

First of all, any new ingredient I decide to add, it should mix perfectly with the ordinary crêpes batter in order to get a homogenised smooth batter again (grated raw ingredients tend to get burned while cooking the crêpes and thus pretty much ruin the crêpe’s looks. Grated carrots or Granny Smith apples left small burned spots on the surface of the crêpe).

Second: I will never again combine carrots with ground cinnamon, especially if the carrots are really flavourful. That turned out to be a big no-no for me.

The cinnamon’s flavour is enhanced by combining it with icing sugar. I can hear you laughing you know! You probably already knew that, but I’ve discovered it just now. Yes, really !

From now on, when I will be adding other ingredients to the batter, I’ll make sure the batter’s thickness remains pretty much the same as the thickness of an ordinary crêpes batter.

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Ingredients for the chicken and sauce

• • 1 boneless and skinless chicken breast
• • 2 medium onions
• • 2 cloves of garlic
• • 1 large orange bell pepper
• • 2 medium tomatoes
• • 100 ml / 3.4 floz sour cream
• • 5 Tbsp sunflower oil
• • 1 tsp sweet smoked paprika
• • 1/3 cup parsley leaves, finely chopped
• • 1 Tbsp cornstarch
• • Fresh ground pepper-mix (black, white, red and green) - to taste
• • Salt – to taste

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Sweet cheese balls are a lifesaver when you don’t have much time or energy to make a sophisticated and complicated dessert. They aren’t just tasty and easy to make, but they’re also considered to be a healthy dessert choice.

If you are extremely weight-conscious, you can remove the sour cream/crème fraîche from the ingredients and sprinkle these cheese balls with just a little bit of icing sugar. They will still be delicious.

And because it’s been quite a rush these days and I still am in a hurry, let me cut right to the chase :).

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My mom would only eat milk and cereals if it were for her. Maybe that sounds a little bit strange but when you come to think about it, I can see how that makes sense. Like her daughter she gets hungry more often than other people, unlike her daughter she gets up very early in the morning to go to work. So when you get up in the middle of the night to go to work you’re not really in the mood to make pancakes, you cannot make pancakes at work, when you come back from work, exhausted you don’t feel like making pancakes either. Milk and cereals: fast, taste ok , and nutrients that suit her needs.

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