Sundaes for breakfast

Blame sour milk for this. My husband make Belgian waffles to use up some sour milk. So we made some mammoth sundaes. For breakfast.

But we put lots of fruit on them.

Insta-lunch

I had no plan for lunch, so I whipped this up:

- 3 wegmans Belgian waffles that my father-in-law brought
- organic maple syrup
- Morningstar breakfast patties
- raspberries
- strawberries

Improved pumpkin waffles

We made a variation of PPK's pumpkin waffles today. Mine today aren't vegan because I used 2 tablespoons vanilla yogurt instead of soy yogurt.

I also substituted 1 cup apple juice for one of the two cups of soy milk.

I also added 2 cups oats.

My little one is eating them as fast as they emerge from the waffle iron.

Apple Sausage Waffles

For the gaufres:

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
  
• 2 cups milk
  
• 2.5 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder

They suggest ham, roquefort & fresh parsley.

I'm adding:

• dried parsley
• 2 chicken sausages with apple
• some cheddar (about a cup)

And tossing it in the waffle iron.

WOW! The best waffles ever! Cooked to a perfect golden brown in five minutes flat!

Converted from a French recipe:
http://www.supertoinette.com/recette/1924/gaufres-au-jambon-en-amuse-bouche.html

Holy Moly Peanut Butter

I haven't written in this blog since Friday?!? And the meal was one my husband made?

Yeah, we went out to eat, had dinner with my mom and ate leftovers so that seems right but Wow.

I'm having trouble getting my daughter to eat breakfast these days. So, today, I'm going to take some pumpkin waffles out of the freezer and concoct a peanut butter chocolate sauce for them.
Decadent. But I have to do something...

The original waffle recipe is:
http://angelfoodcooking.blogspot.com/2009/12/pumpkin-waffles.html
or you can visit the PPK online.

As for the sauce, I'll let you know later when I concoct it.

Let's see...
Decadent Peanut Butter Breakfast sauce
In a saucepan on low, melt:

• one tablespoon butter
• about two tablespoons leftover peanut butter and honey leftover from last week's sandwiches
• 1.5 tablespoons peanut butter
• 1 ounce Ghiradelli dark chocolate, 60 percent
  

Serve on waffles with sliced banana

Okay, so in the spirit of not wasting, I poured the

leftover sauce into a bowl, let it firm to an icing like consistency and have been spreading it on Oreos. Delicious.

Perfect Seasonal Breakfast

I served leftover pumpkin spice waffles from the other night, with my daughter's favorite almond sunset tea with (soy)milk and honey. And a clementine. Seems like a perfect seasonal breakfast. The tea seems to help my daughter's dry cough (even she remarks this is the case) and everything else just seems to hit the spot.

Pumpkin waffles?

My pumpkin waffle recipe comes from the Post Punk Kitchen, but my kitchen is in disarray. I have no eggs, milk or soymilk so even making a vegan recipe may be interesting... let's see where experimenting gets us...

The original (and delicious) PPK vegan pumpkin waffle recipe:

• 2.5 cups flour
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 2.5 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 2 tablespoons soy yogurt
• 2 cups soymilk
• 15 ounces pumpkin
• 1/3 cup oil
• 2 teaspoons vanilla

Mix with fork and prepare in waffle iron.

I doubled the recipe, and used a can of sweetened condensed milk and two cans of water instead of soy milk. It was what I had. I mixed wheat and white flour. I also used pumpkin pie mix and reduced the sugar.

Waffles for dinner

We had belgian waffles from the freezer, smoked bacon, and berry applesauce for dinner. We topped the waffles with real maple syrup and in some cases peanut butter. The house is running out of groceries, but it worked.

Gayle's Nana's Waffles

From Gayle:
"Now this took my mom a little work to perfect. The old recipe was a bowl of this and a handful of that. Of course it all depended on what you called a bowl.

• 2 c unbleached flour
• 4 tsp baking soda
• 2 eggs
• 4 T vegetable oil (the original recipe was lard, then Crisco, now veggie oil....progress)
• 1 3/4 cup sour milk (Plain milk will work, taste is different. Soy should work also.)

In an 8-cup bowl mix everything. Just dump it all it. Make a mess if you want to. You can't kill this recipe. Heat waffle iron. If not teflon coated, spray with cooking spray (or use old fashion butter...yum). Use the 2/3 cup measure and scoop out the batter. Makes a perfect round waffle. Remove when brown and easily lifted from iron. (Mine has a idiot light. Perfect every time.) Serve."

Now Gayle will probably shoot me for dickering with her family recipe, but the whole point of making waffles this morning is to use up my sour dairy products purchased at Klein Farm early last week.

Angel's Banana Waffles
Ingredients

• about two cups farm milk, sour
• about one cup drinkable vanilla maple yogurt, also from the farm and sour
• 3 eggs (also from the farm and the only eggs I had left)
• 1 banana, ripe
• 2 heaping tablespoons baking soda
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1 1/3 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 2/3 cups unbleached white flour

Mine cooked in 2 1/2 minutes. The darkest one in the photo was in for five.

Gaufres

I needed a waffle recipe, as I wanted to try something different from my normal vegan waffles. So I started looking. All the recipes I found involved separating eggs and I thought to myself, "I'm not doing that." But then I came upon this bit of info that Belgian Waffles are a variant of the French gaufres... and suddenly separating eggs seemed like a good time.

Keep in mind, my whole point of making waffles is to use up the pumpkin leftovers from the other night, and my daughter suggested waffles. So, I selected this recipezaar entry as the winner:

"A recipe so authentic that I had to convert from grams and translate from French! These waffles are rich and delicious (don't bother with syrup!), and the basic recipe is from a Belgian friend of mine.
Ingredients
4 eggs, separated
1 cup granulated sugar, plus 2 tablespoons
4 cups all-purpose flour, plus 2 tablespoons
1 cup butter, melted, plus 2 tablespoons

Directions

Separate the 4 eggs, adding the yolks to the sugar and setting the whites aside for later use.

Add the flour and butter to the yolk and sugar mixture, first by stirring and then by working the mixture into a uniform dough with your hands.

Beat the egg whites until they are fluffy: when you lift the beater from the whites, soft peaks should form and then fall back, not holding much shape.

Crumble the dough and drop the pieces into the egg whites.

Stir by mashing the pieces of dough into the whites with a spoon, then stirring until a uniform consistency is achieved.

Heat up a waffle iron. When it is hot (but not too hot), drop the batter onto the iron in the desired serving size.
I usually get about 12 waffles roughly 4-5 inches in diameter from this recipe."

Of course, I don't follow the recipe.
I used four eggs.
Four cups unbleached white flour.
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup pumpkin filling from the crêpes
1/3 cup pumpkin syrup from the crêpes
2/3 cup butter

I think mine needed some more liquid and we didn't stir enough, because they came out extremely dense, yet they also rose.

I served with strawberries and lemon yogurt. As dinner.

Breakfast for dinner

It's been a hectic day. We started out the morning with a trip to the car dealership to get an oil change and an unexpected $450 worth of repairs. My daughter had some Peanut Butter Kids Crunch cereal from Aldi before we left. My husband packed some trail mix with yogurt covered raisins and dry cereal for me. My daughter ate most of it.

Lunch was leftover sicilian from the weekend. I love sicilian from Pizza D'oro. Not only is it a pizza I adore, but it feeds my family for three meals. Usually one dinner, the following morning for breakfast and the second day after for lunch. Plus a free two liter which we pretty much save for parties or mixers for alcoholic beverages. $17.

But dinner tonight was a real treat! Not only did my husband make dinner without being asked to... (Daughter had kindergarten orientation and we got home at 5 p.m.) but he made waffles. I added chocolate chips to the batter when he wasn't looking. And we cooked up some Morningstar vegetarian sausages. And then some sliced apple. With real maple syrup of course. The leftover waffles went into a freezer bag and there's another day's breakfast or maybe a lunch.

Waffles from the Betty Crocker Cookbook

2 eggs

2 cups flour

1/2 cup oil or melted butter (we used canola)

1 and 3/4 cups milk (we used soy)

1 tablespoon regular or brown sugar

4 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

Heat waffle iron. Beat eggs. Add remaining ingredients and beat until smooth. Pour into the iron and cook for 4-5 minutes.

Pumpkin waffles for dinner

Dinner last night...

Pumpkin in this form counts as a veggie in my house. This is one of those rare instances where we use the big dinner plates...

This is the pumpkin waffle recipe from Post Punk Kitchen.

www.theppk.com

www.theppk.com/recipes/dbrecipes/recipe.php?RecipeID=96

The 'sausage' is 2/3 of a Morningstar vegetarian breakfast patty. The ice cream is 1/3 of a Turkey Hill ice cream sandwich. I wasn't being cheap; we only had one ice cream sandwich and two sausages left. We drizzled a little pure maple syrup on the waffle and the sausage, but these waffles are so yummy you don't need it. The recipe made six Belgian waffles for me. We each ate one and I froze the rest. They'll be breakfast on some crazy morning.