It all started one fine Sunday afternoon...
What is IT you say? Well, IT is the incident of the "
Flaming Crepes".
Matthew R Hodge was being a wonderful, loving husband by offering to make us lunch. When he asked me what I wanted I said, "Ham & Cheese Crepes". And even though this gourmet sounding food (which I make relatively regularly) was daunting to him he said, "OK!"
I let him off the gourmet hook and told him there was a Greens Packet of pancake mix in the pantry and he went to turning the packet into crepes! (Well, done sweetheart!)
Anyway, this crepe mixture was sticking, scorching and being genrally cantakerous so the first crepe ended up being discared as a small heap of crepe fragments. Trying to get this lovely crepe out of the pan and onto the plate took some maneurving and one piece fell down into the stove tray.
Okay that's fine...happens all the time around here.
That is until Matt asks me to help so I'm standing there trying to get this crepe to cooperate when we smell this nasty burning smell. I lift up the fry-pan and what do I see but a small flame shooting up from the stove tray! That piece of crepe is burning!! We both watch it for a few seconds thinking it will burn out but NO the flame only grows larger and more insistent that it would like to burn down our kitchen....OH NO YOU DON'T YOU LITTLE FLAMING CREPE!!
I quickly grab a glass from the sink, fill it up with water and wildly throw the water onto the flame...with a sizzle the flaming crepe stops flaming and becomes the water-logged, blackened coal it should be. The water boils up rather quickly in such a heated environment and we can get back to the task of making lunch...
What a lovely lunch! :) Lol...it did taste nice although from now on we stick with our home-made crepe batter and leave the Greens Pancake Mix to grow mold in the pantry.
THE END
P.S. To those of you who like cooking I've recently posted a recipe for apple pie that doesn't use apples....check it out it does actually work!!
