MN cooking geniuses - I need your help! How would you make buckwheat crepes with a spinach and blue cheese filling?

[AdamAnt]

I had it at a cafe the other day and I'd like to be able to make it myself.

Any ideas?

I would steam spinach, then squeeze to get rid of water and chop up. I would make a cheese sauce with a roux base,then add spinach.

Sounds very nice.

Make ordinary crepes with Buckwheat flour. Cook spinach, drain it, squeeze dry, chop it and add it to a thick bechmel. Stir in crumbled blue cheese. Stuff the panckaes with the filling and bake in the oven. At a guess.

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what md aid

if you buy doves farm buckwheat flour recipe fro pancakes on bag.

i wouldn't.

that sounds boak.

Sounds delish. I would probably use frozen spinach but otherwise would do as MD and Carm suggest. Add a grating of nutmeg to the cheese sauce - complements spinach really well.

I am by no means an mn cooking genius but I'd suggest using a standard pancake recipe but with buckwheat and for the filling pan frying some crushed walnuts, maybe a little garlic and then stir in blue cheese and spinach until the spinach wilts.

OK, thanks! Will any blue cheese do?

Any blue cheese should be fine, so buy a cheapie one - no point in using the best roquefort.

Bluestocking - any reason for the frozen spinach? Or is it just easier (and equally tasty)?

TDWP - mmmm walnuts sound like a good addition.

Frozen spinach is just easier. If you buy fresh, you have to wash it really thoroughly or it will be gritty, and you have to buy about five kilos to get a measly spoonful of cooked spinach (OK, that's a slight exaggeration, but you get my drift) and frozen really is just as tasty once it's in a recipe.
I agree with the walnut suggestion - or possibly a few toasted pine nuts? mmm.

Thanks!