Birthday breakfast!

Hello hello!

So on Saturday my wonderful Sara became 28 years old! (So old!)

And the best way to spoil her for me is of course with food. (Also the 4 day trip to London, but whatever).

So for breakfast we had Blintzes! Which I had never tried making before or heard of but that are apparently very popular in New York...

Basically stuffed and wrapped pancakes with raspberry sauce...

So first for the pancake dough we need (For about 2-3 people)

2 Large eggs

½ cup of milk

½ cup of white flour

½ tablespoon sugar

pinch of salt

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

1 tablespoon cold water

a smudge of vanilla extract.

Mix this with a blender or with a whisk thoroughly!

Then let sit at room temperature and do the filling:

Mix the following:

1 cup ricotta cheese

1/4 cup cream cheese or mascarpone.

½ the zest from one lemon

pinch of salt

½ tablespoon of powdered sugar.

1 large egg.

Then make the crepes. About 1/4 of the batter a time in a well oiled pan on medium/high heat. The crepes should be large and quite thin (Like Swedish pancakes)

Keep making until batter is gone.

Then let pancakes cool and then put some filling into the crepes.
This video shows how to do it nicely and easily: https://youtu.be/XhQU7gWTemM?t=107

I'm not very delicate or good with details so I struggled a bit :D

After all are wrapped put oven to 160 degrees celsius and brown the Blintzes in butter in the pan, until they are a golden brown.

Then pop them into a lightly buttered oven proof pan and pop em into the oven for about 12 minutes...

And while we wait for that we can make our raspberry sauce!

For 2 people I used about 100grams of rinsed raspberries and about 1 tablespoon of sugar. And just let that come to heat on medium and then strained all the seeds and pulp away. Took me like 10 minutes and was lovely. Not too sweet and not to tart either.

Such a lovely color!

Plate and serve! With some fresh raspberries and blueberries and blackberries if you got em! (I did not...) and sprinkle some powdered sugar.

We also went crazy and covered one extra each with nutella ;)

Really nice breakfast that requires some work but really has a "wow factor" I made the Blintzes the day before and browned them and popped them in the oven the day after for breakfast. Worked really well so you don't need to make everything in the morning :)

Sara was mucho happy! :P

And the recipe is borrowed from:
http://foodwishes.blogspot.se/2015/04/cheese-blintzes-in-new-york-state-of.html

http://foodwishes.blogspot.se/2015/02/fresh-raspberry-sauce-easy-and-effective.html

With slight modifications of my own... But Chef John is amazing!!!

Cozy time:

Also gotta show a quick pic of our cozy dinner that evening:

10 kinds of salami

3 kinds of brie

crackers

blue cheese

fig marmalade

garlic mayo

Slovenian wine

daniels special orange cocktail

alive tapenade and some more stuff.

Really good charcuterie board!