I can’t believe that Christmas has come and gone already. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! Corby and I went up to the mountains in North Carolina since it is Walker’s year to spend Christmas with his dad 🙁 While we missed Walker tremendously, we had such a relaxing great time just the two of us. For your sake, I am going to break this up into two posts because I would just ramble and ramble and the post would be too long for anyone to read, and of course you don’t want to miss anything. So, the first night we got up to Linville, we made ham and cheese (yum) crepes. A friend had made these for us when we were in NYC a few weeks ago, and they were amazing- we had to try them ourselves. Our technique needs some working on, but they sure tasted good and were surprisingly easy. 
Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup water
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter, melted
ham
grated mozzarella cheese
Directions:
In a large bowl, mix together the flour and the eggs. Gradually add in the milk and water, and then add the salt and butter and mix until smooth.
Heat a lightly oiled frying pan over medium high heat. Ladel the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each crepe. Tilt the pan with a circular motion so that the batter coats the surface evenly.
Cook the crepe for about 2 minutes, until the bottom is light brown. Add in as much ham and grated cheese as you like. Loosen with a spatula and flip half of the crepe on top and then flip to cook the other side. Serve hot. This is where our technique left something to be desired as it is a little tricky. Make sure the frying pan is HOT.
These really were so easy and so good, and I think they come off as pretty impressive.
The next day, we went on a great hike down into the Linville Gorge to a swimming hole called Babel Tower- we didn’t swim. But it was so beautiful, and in the summer, it is a great place to go. There are several different places to jump off- very low places for me, and there is about a 20 foot jump which scares me to death, but is super fun for Walker. Here are some pictures. Tomorrow, I will post recipes about our Christmas day feast of Rommegrot and Canadian bacon strata and our hike up the profile of Grandfather Mountain- too fun!
