1/23/11 Sunday: How to Flambe Apples video...very amature. Restful day
Happy Birthday Gramma!! Hope your day was wonderful!
I actually journaled notes from today but they are somehow missing from my computer and my brain can't recall things that happened 2 days ago anymore. :( So I'll just list what I can remember. OH! Nick made amazing crepes again and this time I flambeed the apples...see the video below, if you like. It's kind of funny because I sound like I have a severe lisp in the video due to the crappy recording device on my phone. Future videos will be with a better device.
Other notes: Rested all day. Forget what I ate for dinner. Stretched for about 45 minutes. No meditation, pranayama--5 minutes.
How to make the apples for crepe filling or pancake topping:
Place 2 TBS butter in a heavy pan. Add apples and then add sugar to taste. I like to use Turbinado sugar which basically just sugar in the raw. Unlike refined white sugar, turbinado is not bleached, it is lower in calories and many of the vitamins and minerals remain intact through the processing. White sugar has no vitamins or minerals.
I rarely use measurements and instead prefer to season to taste, which I recommend for this dish, but I will give you a roundabout measurement. About 2 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp cardamom, and freshly ground nutmeg (a half a seed. This grater in my picture is my favorite new kitchen item. I bought it to grate ginger, but I use it for everything--carrots, garlic and it grates nutmeg really well.
I actually journaled notes from today but they are somehow missing from my computer and my brain can't recall things that happened 2 days ago anymore. :( So I'll just list what I can remember. OH! Nick made amazing crepes again and this time I flambeed the apples...see the video below, if you like. It's kind of funny because I sound like I have a severe lisp in the video due to the crappy recording device on my phone. Future videos will be with a better device.
Other notes: Rested all day. Forget what I ate for dinner. Stretched for about 45 minutes. No meditation, pranayama--5 minutes.
How to make the apples for crepe filling or pancake topping:
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Peel, core and slice 4 apples very thin.
Place 2 TBS butter in a heavy pan. Add apples and then add sugar to taste. I like to use Turbinado sugar which basically just sugar in the raw. Unlike refined white sugar, turbinado is not bleached, it is lower in calories and many of the vitamins and minerals remain intact through the processing. White sugar has no vitamins or minerals. 
I rarely use measurements and instead prefer to season to taste, which I recommend for this dish, but I will give you a roundabout measurement. About 2 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp cardamom, and freshly ground nutmeg (a half a seed. This grater in my picture is my favorite new kitchen item. I bought it to grate ginger, but I use it for everything--carrots, garlic and it grates nutmeg really well. The video below shows how to flambe apples...actually it shows me documenting my first time flambeing apples...which is quite different. Basic instructions: after the apples are cooked you warm about 1/8 to1/4 cup of liquor, I used Plum Brandy, in a pot. DO NOT BOIL or the liquor will cook off. Then pour over the apples, you can let it sit for a minute to saturate the apples. Then light! The fire will extinguish when the liquor has burned off. It is fun! And the apples were AMAZING in the crepes with some blueberries and powdered sugar on top.
Please excuse the lisp, it's not me, it's the video phone!
Oh yummm! (Try moving the apples around while they're flaming- it'll get the liquor that's hiding and probably burn it off more quickly. Any time you and Nick want to come and make me crepes, let me know!!
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Nice, thank you! You will definitely have to try them sometime!
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