Eat Local!!!

Besides being trendy- it really does make sense to eat local and I'm a big fan!  Our dietician reminds us of this at every visit, her rationale: it keeps you from getting bored!! 

It's strawberry time around here and this weekend we picked some beauties! 

One time while looking for inspiration in the recipe section of Cambrooke's website (which, by the way, I LOVE because of the different ways you can search for recipes: by ingredient OR alphabetical by the name of the recipe), I saw this recipe for low protein Crepes.  Since then,  I've had this dream about trying to make crepes for the whole family.  Making things for the whole family is something I try to do whenever I can, especially weekend breakfasts when we have a more relaxed pace (in theory!!) and time to devote to making a nice big meal!   The crepes got me excited because with this recipe I could make crepes for everyone but for some reason I've been scared.  I mean, the idea of getting them out of the pan in one piece is pretty daunting not to mention CRUCIAL to the whole "roll it up fun" I imagined everyone in our family would love!   I could just picture us sitting around the table each creating our own yummy roll up!  I wondered how the low protein recipe would turn out.  I just kept coming up with excuse after excuse.  These beautiful sun kissed berries were just what I needed for motivation! After picking, we sampled a few (more like A LOT!) and got right to work!

 After all that worry, making them was a breeze AND Z gave them a thumbs up!!!  While the batter was chilling, the girls carefully cut up all of the berries! 

They were so excited to help in any capacity: they dumped ingredients into the bowl, mixed up the batter and of course were on any kind of berry duty, especially taste testing!

To my surprise, the crepes slid right out of the pan as I made one after another after another!!!

Before we sat down to eat, I weighed out some Cool Whip and berries in separate bowls and let Z go for it!  She loved the whole process, especially crafting her own roll and of course the Cool Whip part!

With an amazing amount of concentration she assembled her masterpieces and thoroughly enjoyed each one!  Can you blame her? I was so excited by all of the crepes, they came out of the pan so easily and rolled up so nicely, no cracks or anything!

We can't wait to make crepes again!  It was a dream come true!!  It was so much fun for everyone!  In the meantime I keep thinking about what else we could roll up in these besides other fruit (and perhaps some melted Cha-Cha's?!!)! If you haven't already, give them a try, you'll be glad you did!

Cheers!