crepe-in' around

i can't even remember if i've made pizza dough from scratch before. i typically just buy the premade dough at fresh & easy and go from there. but you know me - i'm all about doing stuff from scratch as much as possible these days. and so i found a fairly easy recipe online, mixed it up, and ended up with this happy little mound:

it was a hub-less dinner, so i let the teen pick the toppings to go with my leftover marinara sauce.

looks pretty good, yes?

it baked up all nice and gooey in our little oven (as usual, i'd halved the recipe).

last year, i got a wild hair up my ass to try making homemade crepes. i think it was around the time of experimenting with copycat IHOP german pancakes. plus, i have fond memories of watching my mom make yummy crepes when i was little using a cool little one-use-wonder kitchen tool, made especially for cooking up light, thin crepes. and so i turned to my friend amazon and found a great deal on a crepe maker of my very own - only $20, with free shipping. yay!

and then it arrived, i shoved it into a closet, and promptly forgot all about it. well, sort of. i always knew it was there, but i was just that lazy. heh. but then after last week's trip to the americana and snacking on a simple crepe smeared with nutella for $6, i decided it was time to bust it out.

i found a recipe i'd bookmarked ages ago for the crepe batter, gave it a spin in my "food processor," and stuck it in the fridge to let the flour get all coagulated and stuff. an hour-ish later, i poured it out into a shallow plate and fired up the crepe maker.

when it was ready, i carefully dipped it into the plate of batter.

so easy! and it cooked up in a matter of minutes.

obviously, i need practice. and maybe a thicker batter. they may not look pretty, but they sure did taste yummy.

and it was a hell of a lot cheaper than $6. hmph.