Every Valentine's since 2011 or so, I've been making Nutella and fruit crepes with homemade whipped cream. I've mastered the crepe making technique with my pan: pour about 1/3 cup of batter and rotate the pan around quickly until the surface of the pan is covered. If you feel you need to buy an actual crepe pan to make crepes, by all means, go ahead. Just remember, the pan doesn't make the crepe, you do and I really don't think its necessary to buy a single use pan such as a crepe pan to take up space in your cupboard. Speaking of useless kitchen items and kitchen consumerism....that's another blog post.
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| Fondue Fail and Crepe Success |
After our crepe brunch was over, I ran a few errands such as picking up a savignon blanc for the cheese fondue. Oh, and here is the so called "recipe" I used. I slowly added the cheeses of very low heat and whisked constantly before adding a new handful of cheese...the results: clumps of cheese that just clumped together at the end. I'm going to blame half of myself and half the recipe. Next time, I'm going to refer to the professionals at Food Network or at least YouTube a professional chef making fondue. I was incredibly peeved to say the least. Fortunately, the rest of dinner was good; we just couldn't dip any it into the fondue clump. Otherwise, these were the sides: marinated steak bites, roasted broccoli and cauliflower and roasted garlic potatoes.
The plan earlier was to also do chocolate fondue. After having a rich brunch and quite the filling dinner, we just could not see ourselves enjoying rich chocolate fondue. I do have all the ingredients for chocolate fondue and all the sides...maybe tonight. We'll see.
Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine, and by that I mean, enjoyed good food and chocolatey goodness <3.
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