A Post by Ceil: Free Wednesdays

I have definitely embraced the weekend day in the middle of the week. It typically starts Tuesday night with a gin and tonic and than expands to Wednesday morning when Andy and Miles get up and go to school and work and Lee and I sleep in. This morning we enjoyed a leisurely morning at home. It started out with both of us sitting in the living room around a beautiful fire that Andy built before he left for work. We did a little emailing and a little game playing on the computer and progressed to what should we have for breakfast. Lee’s immediate response was crepes. Well we didn’t have a crepes mix so we headed to the internet to get a crepes recipe and than headed to the conversion tables to translate into the metric system. Next we went into the kitchen to check for ingredients and had everything except butter. Hard to believe that there is no butter in this house but we have been trying to clean out the fridge and not replace things and the butter was consumed earlier in the week and not replenished. But Wednesday morning crepes are special and we needed butter.

We ,or rather I, got dressed and Lee got wrapped up in a blanket and we headed to the local Vival in Arthon – the friendly little grocery store smaller than most of the small grocery stores in New York City but big enough to know that butter was only a few blocks away. We melted our butter and whisked it into our flour, milk, salt and egg mixture. The recipe recommended you let the batter sit for an hour but we had no interest in that recommendation. We got our small pan and cooked up crepes.

The first crepe got a low review from Lee – it needs to be cooked more. With a little practice and focused attention to the amount of batter being poured into the pan we achieved thin and even crepes. Lee was off with the jelly (the Nutella has been gone for a few days and no plans to replace it until after Christmas) and the plate of fresh cooked crepes.

We will head into Chateauroux at noon to pick up Miles from school and head home for some cleaning, packaging and relaxing by the fire.