Comfort Food and French Crepes

Our God is a God of comfort, and as we go through life we need to be vulnerable and share our story's. God will always use our experiences to further His kingdom, and you never know how your story will influence/impact those around you! 

 2 Corinthians 1:4 says, "...who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God."

When we go through life, go through life's hard we have a God who comforts us. But as 2 Corinthians says, as he comforts us we should be comforting others. We need to be opening our hearts and homes to others and sharing our stories so we can walk along side our friends, empathize with them, and ultimately help how only WE (you) uniquely can. When we are vulnerable and share our troubles and stories, we have no idea the impact it can have on another. Someone else may be going through the exact same situation, already has, or may experience something similar in their future. What a difference WE can make for HIM with a little conversation over comfort foods...

While growing up, and even now I like to bake/cook when I am stressed. I'm not talking fancy meals or something grande; I'm talking chocolate chip cookies, pancakes, and believe it or not crepes. Can you tell I have a sweet tooth? Anyways, I remember many a Saturday mornings when garage sale season would hit and on the occasion we were hosting a sale I would pull our my mom's 1970's (it was a wedding gift) crepe pan and whip up a batch of crepe's, homemade whipped cream, and sliced strawberries and serve them to my family. No, I never attempted to sell them, I ate them and dished it out for my grandma Jeanne, who was usually around and my aunts, mom, and any relative that popped over to help or scour the sale. 

It was comfort food. It is comfort food even now, as I think of all of the times I would make these for French class, garage sales, friends were over, just because I was stressed and wanted to eat something fancy...So here's the recipe and hopefully you can try and make these, too! 

Crepe Recipe 

(If you don't have a crepe pan you can pour batter in a frying pan)

1 1/4 C Flour

pinch of salt

3 eggs (beaten)

1 1/2 C milk

2 Tbs melted butter

Blend in blender or using mixer until smooth. 

Use hot crepe pan and dip pan into batter and cook until lightly browned. 

If you're using a frying pan, pour a small amount of batter into a heated pan and "swirl" around to get batter around pan so you have a thin 'pancake'. You can flip if you prefer, but it's not needed. 

Fill with your desired filling (sweet or savory) 

**Nutella, cinnamon/sugar, whipped cream and strawberries, bananas and caramel

**ham/cheese, eggs, cheese, butter, 'pizza'

My mom and aunt recently introduced me to a banana caramel filling that is amazing, recipe coming soon!