Wild Rice Crepes with Chickpeas, Potatoes, and Spinach

We had this for dinner tonight, and it was devoured by everyone at the table.  The recipe I used came from here, but I made a few changes to use what I had on hand.

For the crepes:
1/2 cup wild rice (uncooked)

12 oz rice milk
4 tbsp water
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt

Cook the rice first.  (I cooked extra so we can have wild rice burgers tomorrow).  Combine wild rice and 2 cups of water.  Bring to a boil.  Reduce heat and simmer with lid on for 45-50 minutes.  Drain and set aside to cool.

For the crepes, combine milk, water, flour, and salt in a blender or mixing bowl.  Chill in the fridge for at least an hour.  Then mix rice into crepe mixture.  Heat a non stick crepe pan/small skillet and lightly coat with oil.  Pour about 1/2 cup of crepe batter at a time.  Flip one time.  The skillet I used is rather small, and I got 7 crepes out of the batter, although the first was a total flop.

For the filling:
1 large potato
1/2 can of chickpeas, drained and rinsed
1/2 chopped onion
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 cup spinach (I used frozen spinach, thawed)
Olive oil
Salt, pepper to taste

Peel and cut potato into small chunks.  Heat oil on skillet and add potato for several minutes (7-10?), followed by the onions, salt, and pepper.  When potatoes are tender enough, add chickpeas and garlic.  Add spinach until just wilted.

Place a large spoonful of filling in the middle of a crepe and roll up.  Spread heated marinara (or any type of sauce, really) over the top.  Enjoy!

In the future, I would like to try to make the crepes ahead of time and freeze them.  It took awhile to make all of them, as I could only go one at a time.  Also, the original recipe used mushrooms instead of potatoes.  I think you could probably use just about any vegetable that suited your fancy.  This would be an easy recipe to make gluten-free as well; just use a gluten-free flour (rice, corn, etc).

Today

I'm eating Papa John's pizza as I write this.  Yep, it's been one of those days.

Brooklyn's been sick for a few days with congestion and a fever of 102.  Her temp had dropped late this morning, and I was starting to think she was on the mend.  Then this afternoon, she took a turn for the worse.  I called the doctor and was waiting for them to call back.  While I was waiting, Brooklyn turned very pale, became blue around the lips, and started shaking.  Panic city for this mama!!  So I called 911 for the first time in my life.  I kept second guessing if I should have called 911, but I didn't want to wait around for her to stop breathing or something!  Morgan's daddy, Joe, was the first to show up at our house.  :)  Her color was starting to return, even though she was super lethargic.  We decided to just take her to the doctor ourselves, as she didn't seem to be in immediate danger.  While we waited to get into our appointment at McFarland, we took Brooklyn to see Dr. Michael, our chiropractor, who is always helpful and supportive.  By the time we arrived at McFarland, Brooklyn's temp had spiked to 105.  Yikes!  They determined that it was not an ear infection, meningitis, strep throat, etc, but a virus.  Darn viruses.   Oh, and today's earlier "event" was probably a fever seizure.  So that's neat.  If she gets worse overnight (vomiting, higher fever, etc), then we're supposed to bring her to the ER.  Needless to say, we just ate a bunch of pizza from Papa Johns.  I guess that's what we do when we get stressed.  Some people have a drink, some people work out.  We?   Eat cheese.

Oh, and in other news, Jack told me this today:

"I'm a movie painter.  You know 'bout that job, Mom?  Movie painters put movies on...in the SUMMMMER!!"

I think he might have had a seizure today, too.