4.14.2010

Breakfast for Dinner: Lavender Nutella Crepes

It was breakfast for dinner at CEC this week as we dug into gluten-free crepes filled with all manner of loveliness!!

We started with glasses of sweet Spanish wine with red-pepper hummus, chips and a platter of wafer-thin, salty capicola.


 Cameron fried up a whole mess of bacon and more capicola, and oooeee, that platter was picked clean in no time flat! :-)


Then it was time for the crepes, piping hot off the griddle where Michael and Selwyn were busy pouring batter and flipping crepes as fast as they could. 

We had all sorts of delicious fillings, from Cameron's Icy Peanut Butter Banana Mascarpone...


...to Kat's food grade lavender buds and...


 ...orange blossom honey.


We slathered some with Deb's Nutella and Toby's bananas...


 ...and others with Toby's strawberries and my fresh goat cheese.


I loved every configuration but I think my favorite was Nutella with lavender. Like chocolate perfume! :-)

Darren ended our feast with frosty glasses of the limoncello we made last week...but I'll tell you all about that another day. :-)

Gluten-Free Crepes

Darren had Pamela's Gluten Free Pancake and Baking Mix, so Michael used it, adding vanilla and sugar.

Cameron's Icy Peanut Butter Banana Mascarpone

Ingredients:

1 cup Smooth Peanut Butter
2-4 frozen bananas
Small tub mascarpone

Directions:
  1. Blend everything together in a food processor until smooth. 
  2. Spread on crepes or eat right out of the bowl.

28 comments:

  1. What a great idea! I love crepes and haven't made them in awhile. I might use this idea for a bridal shower I'm throwing in May. What a perfect dessert.

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  2. You are quite a pro photog. I wish you could photograph my dishes. They would look so much better. The meats look amazing. Especially right about now for lunch! Cheers!

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  3. Wow, how decadent! Creamy, cold, peanut butter and banana? Amazing! I am going to hav eto try that. I bet it would be great just spread on toast too. Yum!

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  4. Ohh, they would be perfect for a bridal shower, Deanna! :-)

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  5. Oh, thank you, Lazaro! I just have a small point-and-shoot, but I do my best. :-) You just made my day. :-)

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  6. Yes, dear Cozy, it is UTTERLY decadent! :-) We dipped pineapple in it, spread it on crepes, and then he made us another batch just to eat out of little bowls. Delicious!! :-)

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  7. My stomach is growling so loudly right now from those pictures! WOW.

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  8. Mine too, Valerie! I want everything! Now!! :-)

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  9. Oh.My.God. Lavender Nutella Crepes? Holy yum!

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  10. I know, Lauryl!!! Isn't that ridiculously heavenly? :-)

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  11. Oh my...everything is super delicious ...i love crepes and wanna make some soon ,infact was jus reading up a bit about crepes the other day befor i venture into my first crepe:-))
    All the fillings are gorgeous too....

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  12. Oh, that's great, Sugar Plum! I will look forward to reading about your crepe adventures. :-)

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  13. I'm MOANING at the thought of that mascarpone. It must have been mindblowing! A whole meal of breakfast for dinners...can't get any better than that.

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  14. Oh Joanne, it was pure peanut butter BLISS! You would've LOVED it! :-)

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  15. Hehe now a breakfast like that would get me up at 5am! :D

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  16. Oh goodness. I could do with a nutella and banana creppe right now!

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  17. You've got that right, Lorraine! :-) Especially if someone else made it, eh? :-)

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  18. I agree, Amy! They're completely marvelous. :-)

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  19. oooh! yes i am all for having breakfast for dinner! love nutella and bananas together! can i come over please?

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  20. Oh gosh, everytime I read what you guys whip-up I'm sooo envious.

    yumo,
    xoxo

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  21. Oh my! Someone said the magic words: lavender & Nutella. Good god, I'm so all over that this weekend!

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  22. Of course, dear Meeta! I'd love to have you over! You can have the second squishy armchair and we'll eat crepes and visit like crazy. :-)

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  23. Aw thanks, DJ! I'd love to have you join us. :-) We'd totally share!

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  24. I'm so glad, Duchess!! :-) Yeah, it pretty much rocked my world. :-)

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  25. Oooooh yum... just give me the bacon and capicola!!!

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  26. I know, Fifi!! It was a little bit of heaven eating all that salty meat. :-)

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  27. This is pure nirvana Krista...gimme Nutella and lavender pancakes for breakfast & I'll do the dishes!! WOW!!

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  28. Oh, you've got yourself a deal, Deeba!! :-)

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