Waffle Maker FTW!
- Breakfast
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16 Apr 2011
Fat, fluffy, crispy, luscious wafflicious goodness.
Chelsea Waffle with Cashew Cream
I’ve never made a waffle in my life. Breakfast is my favorite meal, and I’ve made pancakes many times (I’m not very good at it), but never waffles. Considering how much I enjoy pancakes, and how rarely I make them due to the hassle and my lackluster flapjack flipping skills, it finally hit me that a waffle maker might just solve this dilemma.
I picked up this Proctor Silex Morning Baker Belgian waffle maker on Amazon. $26. Cheap. Good reviews. Sounds good to me!
LOVE it. Love it love it love it. The thing is foolproof. Perfect waffles on my first try, and virtually no clean-up. Now, THAT’S my kind of appliance!
My inaugural waffle recipe came from – guess who – my favorite vegan chef, Isa Chandra Moskowitz. I used the Old Fashioned Chelsea Waffles recipe from Vegan Brunch, with whole wheat flour and maple syrup instead of barley malt syrup.
Topped with Sweet Cashew Cream (also from Vegan Brunch) – oh, the joy of that sweet scent of vanilla wafting around these waffles….
The recipes were a win. The waffle maker was a win. I’ve got so much winning going on – just call me Charlie Sheen! Or not. That man has a few issues.
Posted: April 16, 2011 at 11:44 am
{Tags: blueberry, cashew, strawberry, Vegan Brunch, waffle}
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Four Corners Oatmeal
- Breakfast
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04 Apr 2011
How do you jazz up a gloomy, blustery day – one that comes on the tail of the first 70 degree day of the year?
With a fantastic bowl of oatmeal!
4 corners oatmeal
Four corners oatmeal, even!
Kiwi, raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries, topped with Justin’s maple almond butter on a bed of whipped banana oatmeal. (I make my oatmeal based on Kath’s oatmeal). I swear there’s actually some oatmeal under there!
It’s supposed to warm back up into the 50′s tomorrow here in Chicago. What’s your go-to breakfast on a cold, blustery day?
Have a great one, everybody!
Posted: April 4, 2011 at 11:53 am
{Tags: blueberry, kiwi, oatmeal, raspberry, strawberry}
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Double Decker French Toast
- Breakfast, Recipes
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01 Apr 2011
This, my friends, is a vegan recipe that I declare is better than the “original” – and this is no April Fool’s joke!
Double Decker French Toast Plate
The Magic Brown Truck Fairy stopped by yesterday and dropped off a new cookbook – Vegan Yum Yum. I’m a fan of the blog, and finally decided to break down and get the book. As I poured through it last night before bed, I had visions of wonderful breakfasts dancing in my head.
I had some surprise good news on the scale this morning – I’ve officially lost 100 pounds since December 2009 – so I had even more reason to make a special breakfast today!
It was a bit of an adventure making this French toast; it was my first time cooking with a cast iron skillet. Needless to say, my first few pieces weren’t pretty! (That won’t stop me from eating them!) I got better at the timing and the flipping as I went along, but it’s still probably a good thing that the French toast is mostly hidden by fruit.
My only complaint about Vegan Yum Yum is that some of the recipes have a lot of things that I try to eat only in moderation – margarine (i.e. Earth Balance), all-purpose flour, etc. So I decided to try to health-up the Stuffed Banana Berry French Toast recipe, and dare I say, it turned out wonderfully!
My modifications from the original recipe were to use almond milk instead of soy milk, agave instead of sugar, half whole wheat flour/half all-purpose flour instead of all all-purpose flour, and to add some ground flax seed. I also used nonstick cooking spray instead of margarine to grease the skillet.
It rolls in around 427 calories (you could lay off the fruit some to drop that number, but this is pretty much my standard breakfast, in the 400-600 calorie range).
One last note: if you’re still soaking your pancakes, waffles, and French toast in fake maple syrup (I’m lookin’ at you, Aunt Jemima!), for the love of whatever you love, stop it! Get yourself a bottle of real, 100% pure maple syrup. It tastes ridiculously better, and is – must I say it – real food, instead of a bottle full of chemicals. And you won’t need to drown your poor breakfast to enjoy it. Just a drizzle will do, because it’s so naturally sweet!
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Posted: April 1, 2011 at 1:59 pm
{Tags: banana, blueberry, bread, Recipes, strawberry, Vegan Yum Yum}
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Purple Smoothie!
- Smoothies
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27 Jan 2010
This morning’s smoothie concoction was PURPLE thanks to strawberries and blueberries!
Tip: stick to 1/2 cucumber. I tried a whole cucumber in the smoothie today (along with 2 carrots, 3 strawberries, and a handful of
blueberries, plus vanilla soy milk and vanilla protein powder), and I could taste the cucumber. Good thing I like cucumbers!Have a great day, everybody!
Posted: January 27, 2010 at 1:54 pm
{Tags: blueberry, carrot, cucumber, Smoothies, strawberry}
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