Happenings of our lives

I made this recipe for Christmas morning.  Everyone was pleasantly surprised and it tasted really good.  You can search on how to make crystallized ginger on the web.  It was easy. This recipe came from foodnetworks website.

Ingredients
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons chopped crystallized ginger
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla
• 6 large pink grapefruits
Directions
Preheat broiler.
In an electric coffee/spice grinder combine sugar, ginger, and vanilla and grind fine. Halve each grapefruit crosswise and run knife around each section to loosen membranes. Arrange grapefruits, cut sides-up, in a flameproof baking dish or baking pan just large enough to hold them in one layer and sprinkle with sugar mixture. Broil grapefruits about 1 1/2 inches from heat until sugar melts and tops begin to brown, 10 to 15 minutes.
Serve grapefruits at room temperature.

From Backpacker.com

We took these backpacking and they were delicious! We rate them a 9.5 out of 10.

Plain Crepes

3 large eggs
1 1/3 cups whole milk
¾ cup unbleached, all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

Mix all ingredients together and blend until smooth. Pour ¼ cup at a time into a buttered 8″ skillet over medium heat. When the edges are noticeably crispy, flip the crepe. Lift the edge with a spatula, then flip with your hands to avoid tearing. Cook until golden brown. Let the crepes cool, then stack them (separated with pieces of wax paper), and put into a large zipper-lock bag. Store flat like a stack of tortillas in the fridge. Makes 8 to 10 crepes. Crepes last up to 3 days on the trail.
Banana Nutella Crepes

2 bananas
1 cup Nutella (a chocolate hazelnut spread)
4 crepes
1/2 cup walnuts

Pack bananas in your cooking pot.

In camp:
Spread approximately ¼ cup Nutella on each crepe. Peel and cut bananas lengthwise, using a half for each crepe. Sprinkle with walnuts. Roll up. Serves four for dessert, two as an entrée.