Cote d' Ivoire, we have to skip you for now - Croatia here we come
So we should be in Cote d' Ivoire (Ivory Coast) for our next trip, unfortunately we couldn't find any plantains that were ripe enough to make their pancakes. We did buy some in the hopes that they will be ripe enough for us to use in our next trip. For now we decided to skip Cote d' Ivoire and head to Eastern Europe, where we discovered Croatian palachinke. If you've followed our blog since the beginning, you might recall that we had palachinke in Albania as well. Croatian palachinke are similar in some ways to those in Albania in that they are crepes with cheese in them; however, the final step in preparing them makes them very different. In the final step, you bake the crepes; and these end up being much more like a blintz than a crepe. Here we go on our Croatian palachinke journey. You'll need the following to make your palachinke: For the crepes 1 1/2 cups of all purpose flour 2 cups of milk 2 eggs pinch of salt 1 tablespoon of butter, melted For ...