{"id":499,"date":"2010-02-26T16:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2010-02-26T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:10:34","slug":"furlough-day-crpes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/furlough-day-crpes\/","title":{"rendered":"Furlough day crêpes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I took a furlough day, to save money for the great state of WI. I am supposed to take 8 this year; 4 assigned and 4 of my own choosing. Today makes 6, and we have two assigned days coming up in April & May, so I’m done.<\/p>\n

I have a brunch on Sunday, so I wanted to get some prep and shopping done for that – they’re having spinach cr\u00eape gateau, rosemary roasted potatoes, cherry muffins and cinnamon scones, salad with reduced cider dressing, and fruit.<\/p>\n

To celebrate my furlough day, I did a few things I have not done in awhile. I went to the Y, and because I wasn’t at a good time to swim, I did 30 minutes on one of the skier machines. The machine said I only burned 80 calories, but it felt like more than that.<\/p>\n

While I was on the machine, the carpet & tile place called, and the tile for my renter’s bathroom at School Woods<\/a> was in – so I went to get that.\u00a0 Then I went to Costco and bought a couple of tubs of the organic lettuce that come from god knows where (actually, I am sure it’s CA, from one of the big farms, like Earthbound Farm<\/a>, that produces vast quantities of greens and is following the new scorched earth around the fields policy<\/a> that was decreed after the 2006 E. coli outbreak, that seems so totally anathema to organic), a tub of strawberries, ditto on origins, and a lifetime supply of boxes of Kleenex. And a big bag of Kirkland – Costco house brand – munch mix, with nuts and rice crackers and Wasabi peas, that’s really tasty – tho it probably won’t seem so by the time we’ve eaten to the bottom of the giant bag.<\/p>\n

I mixed up cr\u00eape batter and let it sit, while I went to drop off the tile, and stop by the co-op to get more frozen spinach, muffin papers, OJ, and a swell new stainless steel ladle that cost a mere $5 for dipping out the cr\u00eape batter.<\/p>\n

Then home to indulge in another thing I haven’t done in forever – make mass quantities of cr\u00eapes. I set myself up with 2 pans and my new ladle, and played the Incredible String Band. It seems somehow oddly appropriate – since I was doing something I had not done since the days of vinyl – that it took exactly one Incredible String Band record – albeit played from the mp3 version on my iPod – for me to make a 30-egg batch of cr\u00eapes. Back in my restaurant days, I think it was usually 36 eggs, but 30 eggs yielded 58 cr\u00eapes, a.k.a. almost 5 dozen, which should be just enough for 4 robust 9-inch cr\u00eape gateaux.<\/p>\n

Cr\u00eape Batter:<\/p>\n