Showing posts with label quick and easy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quick and easy. Show all posts

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Crepes for breakfast, lunch AND desert!

All I craved while I was pregnant was crepes. I made them every weekend, so now it's a tradition. The best part is that they will refrigerate/freeze really well. So I'd keep them on hand throughout the week, and serve them for lunch or dinner (with chicken, rice & salsa) and then for desert (helloooo bananas, chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream!)

Super easy (hey, that's my thing!) ingredient list:
1 cup unbleached flour
1 tbsp raw sugar
1 cup milk
1/3 cup water
3 eggs
3 tbsp unsalted butter
1/4 tsp salt

Directions:
Heat nonstick griddle pan until VERY hot. Mix batter ingredients in food processor and blend until smooth. Pour crepe batter into middle of the heated pan, and roll the pan until the batter gets flat. Wait for air bubbles to appear consistently throughout crepe, and flip with a wide spatula (usually takes me under a minute).

As soon as you can loosen the crepe by rocking the pan, it's done (it should slide right off).

NOTE: don't do anything else while these cook. This is a very fast process, and if you get distracted, your crepes will burn. I cooked the whole batch in less than 5 minutes. So I recommend you cut up all your fruit/toppings before hand.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Panko Salmon


This is nothing special, but it's very easy and quick! I had a little help from my friend Trader Joe. I kinda winged it on this recipe, and there are lots of opportunities to vary the salmon (add toppings, sauces, etc.)

Ingredients:
wild salmon
1-2 cups Trader Joe's panko crumbs
Seasoning salt
frying oil
1-2 eggs, beaten

Directions:
Heat oil in frying pan. Beat the eggs in a wide bowl, and fill another wide bowl with Panko crumbs/seasoning mixture. Coat salmon pieces thoroughly with egg batter on both sides, and then transfer to the Panko mix and coat thoroughly on both sides. Add salmon pieces to hot frying pan, and cook until one side is browned. Flip, and cook until the other side is browned and fish is no longer pink (or however you like salmon) : )

Like I said - SO easy!! I served this with Jasmine rice, steamed aspargus and topped it in low-sodium Soy sauce. That's it!!