Creative Dinner Crepes (Bacon and Cheese)

Tonight we are making ricotta cheese, jack cheese and bacon crepes. We are also dancing in the kitchen while Peanut, OUR NEW ADOPTED DOG!!! watches with disdain. Simply put, peanut is NOT impressed.

 These crepes are a two person job for us because David is the Bacon Man and I am the Ricotta Cheese Girl. That doesn't sound right. Well whatever. I know how to home make ricotta cheese now and David cooks bacon. And Crepes. He has a crepe recipe that he has made for me once with bananas and chocolate and I devoured it, so we're making savory crepes (as the foodies would say). Besides that one time, I know little to nothing about crepes except that I will eat them. I will add the ricotta cheese recipe and link as well (it is also on the BFF Manicotti post).

Additionally, this weekend is Thanksgiving and we have some adventurous dishes (something with jersey sweet potatoes and a bacon covered turkey) and some not so adventurous (mashed potatoes with salt, butter, and cream YUMMM.) The original idea was to include bacon in ever dish, but then we decided that that might be a tad too much. So we're leaving it out of the potatoes, and one of the (THREE AMAZING) stuffings. I will blog it probably this weekend. We are also getting a tree this weekend (an early tree is a tradition of David and his family that I am more than happy to jump on the train for. We usually realize that we don't have a tree on the 22^nd or 23^rd. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I just love Christmas trees and would have one all year round if nobody would look at me funny and they sold them year round. But that's for Saturday. This is today.

To get you in the mood, a quote from David, “Crepes are like tortillas from France, so you can fill 'em up, and eat 'em with whatever you want.”

Thank you for painting that culinary cultural landscape for us David. Let's begin.

These recipes are in the order that we made them in the kitchen.

Ricotta by Charlotte

Ingredients:

4 C whole milk

1 C butter milk

1/3 C cream

more salt than you think, but in small doses

To Cook: Simmer in a pan for 15 minutes. Spoon the mixture into a cheese cloth lined strainer with a slotted spoon. I use the coffee filter thing from David's coffee maker to get the last bits in. Tonight I poured very hot water on my hand, so that was SUPER fun. So I will add this NOTE* don't forget that just because it looks like ricotta cheese from the refrigerator does not mean that it is cold like normal cheese. It is hot. As you spoon it in, have your salt shaker around to add little layers of salt as you go. We probably added ¾ tbsp total.

Bacon by David

Ingredients:

Bacon

To Cook: Place is frying pan and flip as necessary. Don't forget that after you take it out of the pan and put it on a plate lined with a paper towel, the strips will get a tad crunchier.

Crepes by David (if I ever start designing clothes, this is what my baby clothes line will be called)

Ingredients:

1 C milk

2 C eggs

1 tsp vanilla (We left this out of the savory crepes.) (Slash, we didn't have any in the house since I used it all for David's birthday cake and we haven't invested in a new bottle since then.)

mix together

add:

1 C flour

¾ C powdered sugar

¼ tsp salt

mix together

add:

3 tbsp melted butter

Mix it up real good.

To Cook: Pour a little in a greased, buttered or oiled pan, you can make big big crepes or little crepes. The batter should look like a runny (and maybe a little lumpy) pancake. Continue to cook like a pancake. The first one will always be a fail, so don't get discouraged! David also wants me to write that you should grease the spatula too (WHAT A SMART GUY).

Filling: These can be sweet for breakfast, sweet for dessert, or dinner like we are doing, depending on your filling. David has melted chocolate chips and sliced bananas before (SO good with coffee omg)

David suggests having one spreadable component to keep the dish from being too dry. This can be butter, melted chocolate, peanut butter, ricotta cheese, cream cheese, jelly, etc. Once this has been spread on the crepe, roll the crepe up and add whatever else you want to the top. A few topping ideas are banana, bacon, sausage, apples, ham, shredded cheese, peaches, the list is endless!

Thanks for joining us on David Night in the kitchen!

Lovesies, Charlotte and David