La Chandeleur - jour de crêpes

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuWkJONW68n_-ueRVuYJ9qsDCYnR_F1h_WNKb5rW7nuGcLpcYQ1w33lvBiQwSonNDO594oGiKGq4A3VbqGa6muSLaMmaBAqZ8s6xfo1fkKxd1IK2fSKgiEVF_ycwoJ8gzbCFpVcFppIU/s1600/2012+Oct+8+Monday_133DSC_9244.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuWkJONW68n_-ueRVuYJ9qsDCYnR_F1h_WNKb5rW7nuGcLpcYQ1w33lvBiQwSonNDO594oGiKGq4A3VbqGa6muSLaMmaBAqZ8s6xfo1fkKxd1IK2fSKgiEVF_ycwoJ8gzbCFpVcFppIU/s1600/2012+Oct+8+Monday_133DSC_9244.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Crêpes for la Chandeleur</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fête des Chandelles </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(Candlemas in English)  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Today is Candlemas, 2 February, and it is celebrated in France with crêpes.</span></div><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yesterday I made crêpes with a seven-year-old </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">and an eleven-year-old (supervised by a wild puppy).  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">You hold a coin in your left hand and flip the crêpe pan in your right.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you can catch the crêpe, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">it means your family will be prosperous for the rest of the year, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">such is the legend.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you drop it, the puppy will eat it and you start again</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pictured above are savory wheat crèpes </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">from Crêperie Plougastel which are delicious.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">My helpers and I made the same basic recipe </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">of milk, flour, eggs, butter, and a small amount of salt and sugar </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">that I have been making since I first learned to cook.  </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">We will have garlic shrimp crêpes with a bechamel sauce. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">(miam-miam)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Crêperie Plougastel</span></span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></i></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">47, rue du Montparnasse</span></span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></i></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75014, Paris</span></span></i></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div>

La Chandeleur - jour de crêpes

Crêpes for la Chandeleur Fête des Chandelles (Candlemas in English)  Today is Candlemas, 2 February, and it is celebrated in France with crê...

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Les choristes de Noël

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqhj64WP9QT-Rzjng0oqQRpq9u9OigD8FjNhXuQb2G3euEXhxWiqmg7A44k-Ah9GLwnqZR_Q148TvnrNqqj-y_e3RzWG7m5l6g_hzc04PojE_Cop4J4cKLzBZRL41wzgpKwUddaIcwbH4/s1600/2007+Dec+8+DSC_0325.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqhj64WP9QT-Rzjng0oqQRpq9u9OigD8FjNhXuQb2G3euEXhxWiqmg7A44k-Ah9GLwnqZR_Q148TvnrNqqj-y_e3RzWG7m5l6g_hzc04PojE_Cop4J4cKLzBZRL41wzgpKwUddaIcwbH4/s1600/2007+Dec+8+DSC_0325.jpg" width="424" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Carolers</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Each December 8th the churches of the Left Bank </div><div style="text-align: center;">gather in the 5ième to sing the French Christmas carols </div><div style="text-align: center;">carrying candles through the streets.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We have joined them on several occasions </div><div style="text-align: center;">after evening services at Saint-Nicholas du Chardonnet.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">bon dimanche</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Celebration of the Immaculate Conception</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Saint-Nicholas du Chardonnet</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75005, Paris</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">  </span></i></div>

Les choristes de Noël

The Carolers Each December 8th the churches of the Left Bank  gather in the 5ième to sing the French Christmas carols  carrying candles thro...

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