After promising Kay to use my Le Creuset pans lots after buying them, I made it my mission to use both the pans the first weekend after buying them.
To be quite honest, Kay always made our crepes with our old pan because he was better at it, so it had been about a decade since I made them myself. Still, he is going away next year and I wanted to master the crepes again. I told myself again that if he can do it, I can do it, so I picked out a recipe from Blackbird Bakery for basic crepes to wet my toes.
Spoiler alert, they were so good that I made them for both Saturday and Sunday breakfast that weekend. I even doubled the batch on Sunday, which is how I found out that I actually left out the last few ingredients in the batch on Saturday. Oops.
That might have added some difficulty to my first attempts. I won’t even show them to you because they were a little depressing. But after awhile in the kitchen and a few youtube videos later, I was getting pretty good at this whole crepe business! They were so light and paper thin with a beautiful taste.
The next day I went hog wild and decided to make a double batch so that I could really practice my technique. I also followed the recipe correctly and wouldn’t you know it, with the additional ingredients, there was actually a lot more batter in the first place before doubling the recipe!
I decided to follow the book’s advice and make a cinnamon and sugar variant with cognac instead of cointreau in the batter. 
After making each crepe, I brushed them in melted butter and sprinkled cinnamon and sugar before rolling up and sticking them in the oven to stay warm.
Just like pancakes, I started using two pans, although I suppose I do like my fancy crepe pan better. After they were done, I stuck them in an oven heated to 50ºC to stay hot until serving.
This was the pile of finished crepes and it was definitely way too much for the two of us! We stuck the rest in the fridge and ate them for breakfast on Monday. They were heaaaavenly leftover too! So sweet and moist.
All rolled up.
And a bite of rolled crepe. Delicious!
Yes, I do believe I will be making these a lot in my future!
Do you like crepes? What’s your favorite thing to put on them?
Even though we are all still pretty sad at times without my MIL, we found time to laugh and appreciate the time we have with each other. There is definitely a lot of love in this family.
I’m feeling a little more outnumbered these days, but I guess with six brothers, I should be used to that anyway, right? 🙂 Whatever the case, I am happy to be here!
The day went by all too fast and before we knew it, several hours had passed and it was time for my FIL and BIL to go home so that Kay and I could pack for Montenegro.
That’s when I came up with the brilliant idea of buying a 
The weather was so beautiful this weekend. Sunny, warm, but not hot, and with a cool breeze running along the hills sometimes.
After a short hike, we reached the climbing area around Mythen where there are several routes from 3a-7ish climbing grades. We stuck to the 3-4 levels to get used to doing it on our own.
Kay at the top of the second route above. Below was the view when I climbed up myself.
Some succulents growing near our last route.
The last route was actually pretty tough for us. Kay started first and got stuck at one point, and when I went up a little while later, I almost didn’t make it past the same tough point. But I kept thinking, “Kay can do it, so can I!” 🙂
Selfie at the top too!
Kay preparing the rope to abseil down.
View from up there looking down on 
It was pretty breathtaking.
I went down first and Kay followed. I am getting the hang of this abseiling by yourself thing.
In fact, abseiling might be one of my favorite parts of climbing. It sure is the laziest part. 😉
Back down again, Kay was pretty smiley. And handsome. Don’t forget that!
One last selfie and it was time to head back on the bike. The ride back down the curvy hill was certainly easier than the way up. On the way up, I felt like I was in danger of falling off because of the heavy backpack, but on the way down I just needed to make sure that I did not dive into Kay.
We are hoping that we’ll be able to get some more climbing done this summer, but things are starting to get tight. Only a couple more weeks until Kay is off for the army and weekends are filling up left and right.
