Resistance was futile!

Another Sunday with too much time on my hands and as I am sitting at my computer, slightly bored with a daily jobsearch that is not going my way , I start browsing recipes on my usual French website. I've had my lunch and by that time I'm in sweet mode so straight to the dessert page for some sweet inspiration.

I've been wanting crepes for the past week but been resisting the urge cos I'm trying to watch my diet, lose weight or whatever misery women put themselves through...I exercised for 40 minutes in the morning so I manage to convince myself it's ok to enjoy a couple of crepes after dinner. Decision made! Now to turn this treat into what I can only think of as a diabetic nightmare I decide to team my crepes with an accompagnement and settle for salted butter caramel. I had always wanted to give it a go after all so now is the time. How wrong can it be after all? Sugar, butter, and cream...All well-known natural healthy ingredients guaranteeing cellulite will never leave my thighs for the next 10 years! At the time I'm happy though so who cares about the rest?

The caramel (and the crepes) turned out lovely but I must admit that, for me, nothing quite compares with jam or jelly in terms of filling. So reminiscent of my childhood in France when, on Wednesday afternoons when we were off school, my grandma would  make crepes for the family. We weren't allowed to eat them there and then; they were to be kept as a dessert to be enjoyed after dinner.The smell would get me out of my room and I would beg for the first one in the batch, the messed up one. I usually shared it with my younger sister in the kitchen where we would be standing by the stove, burning our fingers holding shreds of hot crepe.
In the evening the crepes would be reheated in the oven and enjoyed with whatever jam we had at home that week, strawberry, raspberry, rhubarb or if we were very lucky homemade redcurrant jelly. Happy days!
Now I'm gonna have to cycle hard for an hour on that damned bike of mine! The price to pay I guess when you pig out on 3 crepes after dinner!

Crepes (makes about 6 small ones):
200g plain flour
2 eggs
275ml milk
2 tbsp oil
a bit of vanilla extract or a pinch of vanilla sugar

Salted butter caramel
70g caster sugar
10cl single cream
40g salted butter
1 tsp of seasalt