White Chocolate Crepes

White Chocolate Crepes

I love crepes. I always get them the first chance I get.  I found this easy recipe and decided to make some.  I have to say me and my family finished them in one day. They were so tasty.  The recipe below makes about 8 crepe if you use a crepe pan.  

Ingredients:

2 eggs room temperature3.5oz. cake flour2 tbsp. granulated sugar2 tbsp. melted butter250ml milk room temperaturea few drops vanilla extract


Directions
1. Sift the flour in a bowl. Add sugar and egg, and mix well with a wire whisk.
2. Add half the milk and melted butter, and mix well. Strain the batter to remove lumps. Then add the rest of the milk and a few drops vanilla extract, and mix until smooth.
3. Cover with a plastic wrap and leave the batter to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
4. Use a nonstick pan, or wipe the surface of the frying pan with a thin layer of cooking oil using a paper towel. Heat the pan on medium, pour a ladle full of the crepe batter into the pan, slowly move the pan in a circular motion to spread the batter evenly.
5. Cook the crepe until the edges begin to dry, then flip the crepe over and cook the other side for about 10 seconds.
6. Serve and enjoy. 

White Chocolate Crepes

Madeleines

Madeleines

I love Madeleines.  I might go as far as say I'm addicted.  I especially want to try making the ones in the picture: Poppy and lemon madelines.  I made some but I didn't have the poppy seeds. So, it was just lemon madelines.  

Ingredients:

3 eggs 

80g sugar 

80g self raising flour 

75g butter 

1tbs poppy seeds 

zest of a lemon 

• Melt Butter in a pan

• In a large bowl, crack the eggs and whisk together with the sugar, until all sugar is incorporated and the mixture become thick and light in color.

• Sift in the flour into the egg mixture, and fold in the poppy seeds. Add lemon zest and mix everything together.

• When the melted butter is slightly cooled, pour into the mixture and gently combine to make a batter.

• Lightly line a muffin tray with butter and flour

• Scoop enough to reach the top of your madeline pan.

• Bake in a preheated oven at 355f for 10 minutes or until golden brown.

• Remove from pan and serve. Enjoy!

Directions

My lemon Madeleines

Raven Boys Review

The Raven Boys 

             The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater is a about a girl named Blue Sargent, who's mother is clairvoyant.  Blue is told that the first boy she falls in love with will die if she kisses him. Every year Blue stands next to her mother at a ruined church yard where her mother observes the march the soon to be dead.  This year Blue observes one and is told that there are only two reasons a non-seer would see a soon to dead on that day, St. Mark's Day. Either the person you're true love or you killed them.

I liked the Raven Boys, but I don't think I ended up liking it as much as I wanted.  The characters were good but were frustrating a lot of the time.  I really liked the mystery happening but it took so long more than half the book was finished and we had yet to really deal with the mysteries so the pace was slow.  As for the writing, I'm still not sure whether I like Maggie Stiefvater's style.

This book felt at times as if everyone where physic even those that weren't suppose to be.  Sometimes someone would just be standing or respond to a question and the narrator would give you a page of explanation on exactly what that character was thinking.

I liked that the characters were flawed but I felt like at times it was too heavy handed.  I found these especially true with the character of Adam.

This felt like part of a book instead of a whole book on it's own.  This especially true of the ending.  To me, it seemed to appear at of no where and was not really explained.  For example the magic that appeared at the end killing someone.  Also what happened to Neeve?

Despite that I think I would recommend you read the beginning and the last part. Or maybe since this seems to be part one of a series but reading part 2.