Crepes

Hey there,

So dinner tonight was an experiment for me.  I've never made crepes but I always see them on the Food Network and I decided tonight...sure why not? Let's give it a go.  I was pretty impressed with the end result.

Recipe adapted from the Weight Watchers cookbook I have...soo if you do make these at least they're healthy =) 

Ingredients:

Crepes:

• 1/2 cup of flour
• 1 cup of milk 
• Dash of Nutmeg
• Dash of Salt
• 2 Eggs

Filling:

• Whipped cream cheese (about half cup)
• 1 tbsp of milk
• Peanut butter (if you're feeling adventurous)
• Arugula or Herb mix (about 1 cup)
• Black Forest Ham, deli cut
• Garlic Salt for Taste

Directions:

1. Whisk all the crepe ingredients together in a bowl until batter is smooth (little to no lumps)
2. Pour mixture into a measuring cup for easy pouring and let sit for about 10ish minutes
3. Over medium heat, spray a 6" nonstick skillet/omelet pan with Pam and allow pan to heat until a drop of water sizzles (you can use whatever size pan I just used the smallest one we had)
4. Pour about a 1/4th of a cup into the pan and move pan around until batter coats the bottom.  Allow this to cook about a minute or until the crepe is easy to move around then flip.
5. Cook the other side about 30 seconds

For the cream cheese filling:

1. Mix the cream cheese, garlic salt and milk together until smooth

So since I had a smaller pan I made about 10-11 crepes. For each crepe I spooned a little bit of the cream cheese mixture, then a slice of black forest ham and some herb mix (from HEB, has arugula, spinach and some other greens) and folded it into thirds into a delicious crepe.

Henry had the brilliant idea to add peanut butter then the cream cheese and all the other ingredients...it was pretty awesome but if you are not a fan of peanut butter or you aren't a fan of peanut butter and cheese then don't try this.

Over all a nice dinner. Yum

-Julia

Healthy Pizza Appetizer

So anyone who knows me (Henry), knows that my all time favorite food is pizza.  I could eat pizza breakfast, lunch, dinner and for the two snacks throughout the day.  But of course I did that, I would weigh even more than I do now (insert your own imaginary really heavy weight here because I'm not tell you how much I weight), so I decided to make a pizza appetizer that was a bit healthier.

Ingredients
  12 inch flour tortilla
   1 frozen triangle of mozzarella sun-dried roasted tomato basil laughing cow cheese
   6 basil leaves
   6 cherry tomatoes halved

Sauce:
   1 small tomato, diced
   2 teaspoons of freshly diced garlic
   1/2 Tbsp butter
   1 Tbsp of extra virgin olive oil
   1/2 tea dried basil
   1/2 tea dried oregeno
   1/2 tea dried rosemary
   1/2 tea dried thyme
   1/2 tea cayenne pepper
   1/2 tea paprika
   1/2 tea fresh ground black pepper
   1 pinch of kosher salt
   1 tea local honey

Procedure
- Preheat oven 405 degrees F
- In a small sauce pan, over medium heat add melt butter and add olive oil
- add garlic and saute until just slightly brown
- add diced tomato, mix and bring to slight broil
- add all rest of the dry ingredients, mix
- turn down heat to low to med-low and reduce to sauce to by 2/3
- add honey and stir to incorporate
- On the tortilla, ladle just enough sauce to cover
- quickly shred frozen laughing cow cheese to just cover the sauce
- add basil leaves and top each leaf with two halves of tomatoes
- bake in over for 5 minutes.
- Enjoy.