Happy Easter ... in HD

[Flack]

This egg goes out to TDarcos and all the entertainment he's given us over the last couple of weeks. Happy Easter dude!





Tomorrow morning I am cooking the family crepes using your recipe.

[Tdarcos]

Tomorrow morning I am cooking the family crepes using your recipe.

From viewing some other videos I discovered that one of the things you can do to get really thin crepes is to use a frying pan rather than a grill. Pour the batter in, moving the pan around and just barely coat the pan. You'll get very thin crepes as opposed to pancake-style.

[Flack]

I ended up using this recipe:

http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/basic-crepes/Detail.aspx

What I have found out about crepes is that nobody really likes crepes. People just like crepe toppings. I tried to get a video of my kids eating crepes this morning but all I got was footage of them putting cherry pie filling and pancake syrup all over overthing and then eating that.

[Tdarcos]

I ended up using this recipe:

http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/basic-crepes/Detail.aspx

What I have found out about crepes is that nobody really likes crepes. People just like crepe toppings. I tried to get a video of my kids eating crepes this morning but all I got was footage of them putting cherry pie filling and pancake syrup all over overthing and then eating that.

Great minds think alike, Flack. That is the exact same recipe from the same website that I used to make the crepes in the video!

[Flack]

I thought it might be. They seemed pretty similar, but I was in a hurry this morning and didn't want to have to watch the video again and write down all the ingredients and times and so forth.

[Tdarcos]

I tried to get a video of my kids eating crepes this morning but all I got was footage of them putting cherry pie filling and pancake syrup all over overthing and then eating that.

Flack, you've had kids and I haven't, but you seem to be totally clueless about an important part of a child's diet. A kid will eat anything if you put enough sugar - or sugar equivalent like syrup - over it.

Kids would eat fucking cardboard if you made it <s>chewy</s> break apart in milk so it could be swallowed, and put sugar on it!

[Flack]

Serving cardboard would take a lot less time than making crepes, even when figuring in the extra syrup. I may try that next year.

I know every kid is different, but when it comes to food, my kids are polar opposites. My son (9) will only eat a few foods, and on some days, he won't even eat those. He's one of those kids that wants a corn dog when we go to a Mexican restaurant. My daughter (5) will eat just about anything (she recently tried sushi with wasabi).

[Tdarcos]

My son (9) will only eat a few foods, and on some days, he won't even eat those. He's one of those kids that wants a corn dog when we go to a Mexican restaurant. My daughter (5) will eat just about anything (she recently tried sushi with wasabi).

For finiky eaters, you have to try to encourage them to try new things. Bribery may be useful. You give very small portions, enough to taste, you tell them to try it, if they don't like it they don't have to eat it.

Another way is to make something for yourself alone, and refuse to share it, and make them ask for some. If they don't, you've had an undisturbed meal. If they do, you've gotten them to try something.

Next time they beg for something is the time you use to blackmail the finicky eater. You buy it, you don't open it, you tell them that you're going to fix something at home, they have to eat all of it, they don't, then you take the item back and they don't get it.

I mean, I eat liver and onions; cabbage soup; broccoli (either with butter or with cheese); sauerkraut on hot dogs (this is the same as cabbage); and several other things because my mother didn't tell me they tasted bad, she just had me try them and if I didn't like them I didn't have to eat them.

I also like one thing my mother could not stand, after I saw it in a restaurant at a Kresge's (that's how far back it was), she didn't like it and thought I might not: a liverwurst sandwich. I tried it and I liked it. I think I was about 10 at the time which would have made it around 1971.

I don't like Vienna sausages (tried around 1995) and I don't like collard greens (tried 2008).