Culinarty

Ingredients for 4 toasts

• • 4 wholegrain rye toasts
• • 1.7 oz /50 g low fat farmers’ cheese
• • 1 tsp fresh dill – chopped
• • 1 handful /3 Tbsp of celery root (cut into) sticks
• • the juice of half a lime
• • a few/ 1 Tbsp of beet (cut into) sticks
• • 4 half an inch thick eggplant slices
• • A drizzle of olive oil
• • Freshly ground pepper mix (green, red, black and white)
• • A few shreds of red cabbage

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Ingredients (serves 2)

• • 4 eggs
• • 1 ½ Tbsp fresh dill – chopped
• • 1 tsp herbes de Provence
• • 1 Tbsp fresh parsley – chopped
• • 15 cherry tomatoes
• • 50 ml / 1.7 oz milk
• • 4 spring onions (or scallions)
• • 1 large orange bell pepper
• • Salt –to taste
• • Fresh ground pepper-mix (black, white, red and green) - to taste
• • 2 Tbsp grape seed oil

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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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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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