M'sieur Crepe Rides Again

I love crepes. They remind me of Paris, Virginia Beach, and my young adulthood during which time the height of dining elegance was dining at the Magic Pan. Oh, crepes. Oh, lovely dinner crepes stuffed with chicken and some creamy sauce. Oh, delightful dessert crepes stuffed with bananas or filled with chocolate. You are delicious. And like fondue, you came in during my teens and went out the door again until recently when I noticed a resurgence of these delightful foods turning up in magazines and menus. My fondue is the hit of the party. My secret - a loaf of french bread cut up in squares, and two boxes of Tiger Fondue heated up in the electric fondue pot I've had forever. What's my recipe everyone asks as they dig in. They need to know the secret too. It's so addictively good. I'm telling you but I never told them. It's a family recipe - I say instead with a modest smile. It really is a family recipe because this is just how my mom made our fondue all those years ago. I'm just glad they still make the stuff or I'd be bereft of a cherished family recipe.

When I got out of school and got my own place, I told my brother - just give me appliances for gifts. A fondue pot, some kind of cool electric sandwich maker, and a Sunbeam M'sieur Crepe Electric Crepe maker. That was a big one of my list. Yes, please. Get me a M'sieur Crepe, and make it snappy.

Poor M'sieur Crepe. He has spent a lot of time in a cabinet in our garage since those days, just waiting until this weekend. Lucky for him, my daughter has discovered that she likes to cook and she decided that she was cooking crepes last night. My job was simple - rescue M'sieur Crepe from the dark recesses of the garage. M'sieur Crepe cleaned up good as new but his instructions had gone AWOL. Luckily, about.com had the basic M'sieur Crepe instructions right there. It seems a lot of people have lost their M'sieur Crepe instruction book but held onto M'sieur Crepe himself. I am grateful for the about.com expert, Carroll Pellegrinelli, who had it together enough to be able to instruct the instructionless.

The crepes were a great success. Guess what? We're having them again tonight.

M'sieur Crepe is back with a vengeance.

Comments

[Margaret]

I have two electric crepe pans for class that dip into the batter, cook and then fall right off when you turn them upside down. It is quite amazing.