We try to sleep in a bit on the weekends, but sooner than we might like, our girls walk in and exclaim that they're hungry. After quickly debating what we wanted to have for breakfast and coming to no consensus, I stumbled my way into the kitchen to see what I could scrounge up that wouldn't make the natives revolt in protest.
Since the invading little people wandered off during my time of isolation in the pantry, I came to the epiphany that I did actually have ingredients to make something. So I decided to surprise my hubby and girls with a yummy breakfast of waffles. I had the flour, eggs, milk, and baking powder - all I needed to find was our oft not used waffle maker. After I had rummaged through the cabinet of every other kitchen device we own that goes unused for far too long during the year, I managed to find the long lost waffle maker stashed behind the ice cream maker, the bread maker, and the sandwich maker.
Curiously, I pondered the naming of these items as these devices haven't actually made anything without my having something to do with the process. I mean, if I'm the one that actually making the waffles, the ice cream, the bread, and the sandwiches, then these bits of kitchen machinery are in essence just meal finishers - the final touch.
Anyway, I got out all my ingredients and took a look at the recipe. I replaced the flour with whole wheat white flour - easy enough. I did not want to put 1/2 a cup of oil into my waffles so I went into the fridge and retrieved some natural applesauce. Funny how they have to call it natural applesauce to say that they haven't added any additional sugar to it. Why would anyone add sugar to applesauce? The stuff's sweet enough as it is!
About halfway through the waffle-making process, I went into the fridge again to find some syrup to go with this waffle breakfast delight. I knew there was maple syrup in there somewhere but due to the bulging contents which always seems to brink on the edge of teetering off a shelf and onto the floor, I saw that I'd have to do some spelunking. Woah! And what do I find???
This.
What was I thinking? Did I even buy this rubbish? Look at all the crap that's in that bottle. If I bought it at all (which remains to be determined), it must have been YEARS ago. Or more likely, someone visiting picked it up to contribute to pancakes or something. I don't even...
So after tossing this bottle of stuff into the trash bin (after taking pictures, of course!), I dug further into the box of cold and came out triumphant with this!
There we go, now that's more like it! Only one ingredient. 100% Pure Maple Syrup. And with this amber ambrosia, we delighted in waffly goodness.
No waffles were harmed in the making of this post. I promise! And no, this isn't a paid post by Coombs Family Farms - although you SHOULD support family farms and demand nothing short of pure maple syrup for your breakfast confections. If the manufacturers of Hungry Jack come knocking at my door, I'll be sure to send them to the person who brought that bottle into my home. Once I investigate out who it was.
I looooove waffles, way more than pancakes. It's definitely the texture! I just don't eat them often (don't have a waffle maker), and don't often order them when I eat breakfast out cause the syrup they serve isn't real maple syrup. You know...the corn syrup you showed in your post. Way to serve the good stuff. It's making me hungry! :)
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