Crepes for tea!

Neil loves to cook new dishes and he knows one of my favourites is a stack of American Pancakes with fresh fruit and cream. A few years ago we visited Calgary in winter (and it was nothing to do with skiing - but that's a whole different story) and stayed in a guest house near town. The Lady of the house was away for the weekend and had left us in the very capable hands of her parents. They were a lovely couple and rather than leaving us in the breakfast room, they invited us into the very large kitchen so we could chat while they prepared our breakfast.

A stack of Pancakes with lashings of maple syrup.

Neil got talking about finding a good pancake batter mix and they told us the secret was a mix of flours. Since then we have used their recipe and have good American pancakes frequently.

For a change tonight, Neil decided to have a go at Crepes Suzettes. Completely different to our normal pancakes, crepes are incredibly thin and delicate. We had plenty of fruit in the house as Sainsbury's have started doing a multipack of strawberries, raspberries and blueberries and I'd picked a pack up earlier this week.

We brought some cointreau(ish) drink back from Spain with us which had cost us about 7euros for a litre from a local Bodega near Pulpí and Neil made a tasty sauce to pour over the crepes.

And so tonight, this was on our dinner table.

And they were absolutely delicious - 3 of our 5-a-day and weeks worth of calories!

And that's before we've poured the fresh cream on.