Have a Crepe-y Day!

 Need something wonderful today? How about Wonderful Ways to Prepare Crepes & Pancakes (Jo Ann Shirley, 1979)?

How wonderful are the crepes? It depends on your definition of "wonderful," I suppose. If you think of "wonderful" as being decadent, then some recipes will fit that idea. How about a luxurious four cheese crepe with sour cream?

I'm sorry. I mean a "Chinese-Beef Crepe." (I have no idea how this got labeled as "Chinese," what with the four cheeses. There's not even the whisper of soy sauce that was often enough to make old cookbooks label something as "Chinese.")

If "wonderful" in your book is a bit more health-conscious, some recipes fit that idea too-- at least, to an extent. 

I'm not sure how helpful using skim milk will be if the batter also has more than an ounce of butter in it, but at least you can enjoy the lovely design on the edge of the page. (Every page had this edging! I just didn't usually copy it.)

If you want a bit more fiber in those crepes, there's Bran Crepe Batter (which has slightly less butter than the skim milk variety).

To split the difference between healthy and decadent, here's a sweet/ savory/ pork fatty combo dropped into a veggie layer.

I'm just confused by the "mashed summer squash" component. How well would summer squash mash? It seems like a creamier winter squash like a delicata would work better for a mash, especially one flavored with maple syrup.

Of course, if you want a crepe with some of that good old inexplicable mid-century flavor, I've got that too. If the ham banana rolls with cheese sauce are just a little too much, how about some simple Ham and Banana Crepes?

The cubed ham and diced bananas will give you an ambiguous enough shape that you can maybe deny that you're eating that cooked-banana-and-ham combo, especially if it's mixed with the cheese sauce and all wrapped up in chic crepes. Why it's not something better-- like plain old ham-n-cheese or sweet and fancy bananas foster-- who knows? It's just good '70s recipe weirdness in all its glory-- especially if you swap out the basic crepe wrapper for a bran or skim milk model...