This is our friend Jared.

He went to High School with us.  In High School he was pretty good friends with Dave and his brother. I knew his younger sister better. He was snoopy in a play once. He was Dave’s roommate for awhile. In fact, he used to live in Bridget’s room – that’s kind of weird to think about. Oh, and now he works with Dave at DuPont.

But one of the coolest things about Jared are these crepes that he makes. They are pretty yummy. . .

It’s become kind of a conference weekend tradition to dine on Jared’s crepes. It usually doesn’t take too much convincing to get Jared to come over and cook them up – but there have been a couple of conferences where we’ve had to make “crepes-ala-Jared” without Jared. But Jared always does a better job.

This past weekend we were privileged to get the crepe master himself. And he was kind enough to agree to be featured on this blog (if only for a place on the Sweet Pork tasters panel).  In any case, I now give you “crepes-ala-Jared”:

Crepes-ala-Jared

1 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 Tbsp. vanilla
2 Tbsp. melted butter

Mix dry ingredients and eggs. Gradually add milk.

Add butter and vanilla, mix until smooth.

Let sit 1 hour.

Heat crepe pan. Coat with butter. Pour about 1/4 c. batter onto the pan and rotate the pan to distribute evenly. Turn crepe at desired done-ness.

It should be noted that a frying pan will work if there is no crepe pan available, but it does make things more difficult. You can fill crepes with just about anything. Jared’s favorite is ham and swiss. Last weekend we also did chicken and cheese, sweet pork, and strawberries with cool whip. I even had icecream filled crepes once, with hot fudge over the top. The sky is the limit, get creative.

Just for fun, here is one more picture of Jared cooking the crepes. Both of the pans being used are crepe pans, in case you were wondering. There are all kinds of crepe pans available out there – including some crepe makers where you actually dip a heated ‘pan’ into the batter and flip it over to cook – my roommate had one of those. I’m sure Jared would have some firm opinions on the type of pan to use. I think his was cast iron. Mine is the cheap-o version.

In any case, make some crepes. I’m sure you’ll enjoy them.