Easy to Make Crepes

Oh my goodness, this is the most amazing recipe that Marci is sharing with us! She and I did a live Periscope crepe making broadcast this week. We had a ton of fun and let’s just say there was a lot of laughing involved in the 25 minutes that the camera was rolling. For some of you who aren’t familiar with Periscope, it is an app that Twitter owns, and it allows anyone to stream live broadcasts from all over the world. The taped sessions will stay up on your account for 24 hours. Marci was excellent in demonstrating to our viewers how to make crepes. Also the most important thing I took away from the demo is that crepes aren’t that difficult to make at all. In fact, I feel it is easier than pancakes… yes, I did make one last night, and it was a beautiful thing. And, I really can’t make a pancake to save my life. You have to try this recipe and, in fact, my husband who moonlights as a food critic (not really) gives this recipe a big thumbs up!

* A little side note about our broadcast is that we played music while making these lovely crepes. If you have the Pandora app on your cell phone you must play and listen to the “French Cafe” station, it is the best for ambiance for any weekend morning.

~ A Note About the Nester ~

When we were in France and my husband wanted to speak in French,

he struggled to come up for the word for “bill.”

So, unbeknownst to him he used the wrong word

when asking our waiter for a “poster!”

The waiter replied in clear and disgusted English, “WHAT!”

Let’s just say, that my husband didn’t break out his French for the rest of our trip.

A little extra fun information about the crepe:

According to Wikipedia, Crepe has a French origin, deriving from the Latin crispa, meaning “curled”. While crepes are often associated with Brittany, a region in the northwest of France, their consumption is widespread throughout the world. France has a national crepe day on February 2nd.

In the United States, we have the 49’er Flapjack which a sourdough crepe that gets in name from the pancake that was popular during the gold rush.