{"id":2251,"date":"2011-12-30T19:12:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T03:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2011-12-30T19:12:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T03:12:30","slug":"birthday-crepes-the-gluten-free-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/birthday-crepes-the-gluten-free-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Crepes…..the Gluten-free Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Jon’s Birthday today. He is 38 years old now. Seems like yesterday we were 19 & 21; and getting married….so weird to think that we are getting closer and closer to 40. He was saying, earlier today, that he still feels 20 something. Age really isn’t that important, is it? I think it’s more about how you feel than how big or small your actual number is…<\/p>\n

We ran across the line today to pick up some groceries. I feel slightly bad that we are not buying local and yet…..right now, there is NO WAY that we would be able to feed our family for as cheaply as we can if we purchase a few things from the States. And right now….every penny counts. Literally, we are counting every penny and making each one count. <\/p>\n

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We have enough to cover the basics and that’s good. It’s tight, but we are doing okay!<\/p>\n

After we came home, Jon had to renew his driver’s license and he picked up the girls from my sisters place. They had been over for my nieces birthday sleepover… The day was pretty much a “run around” day and I was trying to figure out what we could do to celebrate a little. <\/p>\n

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Jeremy suggested crepes and seeing as I have a smokin’ easy gluten free crepe recipe that EVERYONE loves….I agreed.<\/p>\n

Most people should have these ingredients in their homes and this recipe is great for everyone.<\/p>\n

Gluten-Free Crepes<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

6 Tblsp Cornstarch (or Arrowroot Powder, if you’d prefer to not use cornstarch)
\n1 tsp baking powder
\n1\/8 tsp salt
\n3\/4 cup of milk (I used coconut milk)
\n1 Tblsp of oil (I use coconut oil)
\n2 eggs (beaten well – seriously….beat them in a separate bowl before adding them into the mix)<\/p>\n

Add everything together and mix well until all the lumps are broken up and the mix is smooth and runny.<\/p>\n

Heat up a small cast iron pan over medium heat and rub a little bit of oil onto the pan.<\/p>\n

When the pan is hot, pour about 1\/4 cup of batter into the pan and swirl the mixture around until the batter covers the bottom of the pan and looks like this…<\/p>\n

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Cook it for a few seconds (20-30???) and when it starts to lift away from the edges of the pan…then flip it over carefully and cook it on the other side for about half the time.<\/p>\n

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After it’s cooked, I flip it out onto a plate…..and it’s ready to be “fixed”…<\/p>\n

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I put some Strawberries and Cool Whip on mine. We had some left over Cool Whip from a Pavlova that Jon made for Boxing Day! Nothing like chemical whipping cream to really round a meal out.<\/p>\n

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Here it is….all wrapped up and ready to be eaten. The crepe is even strong enough that you can pick it up with your fingers at eat it…you know…if you are ill-mannered enough to do such a thing…..not that I know anyone who would do that…..<\/p>\n

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Doesn’t it look AMAZING! It tasted even better than it looked. I used cornstarch for one batch and used arrowroot for another and both batches turned out DELICIOUS, almost identical tasting crepes.<\/p>\n

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We couldn’t forget to include the only shot of the birthday boy getting his crepe ready to be eaten…..I think that he used Nutella and Cool Whip on this one…..I tasted and that is one heavenly combination.<\/p>\n

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Everyone ate until they were no longer hungry…….<\/p>\n

And now its the best time of the day….BED TIME for the littlest ones….YAH!<\/p>\n

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See how happy he looks about it…..oh, maybe I hadn’t mentioned it when I took this picture….actually, this one is typically pretty excited for bedtime……naptime, not so much, but bedtime is okay!<\/p>\n

ps. These are not “HEALTHY” crepes. There is nothing “whole foods” or even really nutritious to feed your body with these…but they sure do make a good treat for once in a while…and they are gluten-free and use really “normal” ingredients…..
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It’s Jon’s Birthday today. He is 38 years old now. Seems like yesterday we were 19 & 21; and getting married….so weird to think that we are getting closer and closer to 40. He was saying, earlier today, that he still feels 20 something. Age really isn’t that important, is it? I think it’s more … Continue reading “Birthday Crepes…..the Gluten-free Edition”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,15,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-food","category-gluten-free"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}