Where did my infant go?

Channeling my inner "Chopped"

It has been a busy day.  I completed an eight hour work day, ran a quick errand and then came home to my handsome husband and our spirited little girl. They were eager to know what I had planned for dinner and were thrilled to know that tonight would be bacon and waffle night.

But there was a problem.  I had the dry ingredient in the bowl when I suddenly realized there was no sugar. There are such things as a savory waffle, so I just moved on. Then as I was setting up the bowl for the wet ingredients I remembered that we had no milk. I scanned the refrigerator and my eyes landed on a container of coconut milk (I have health food moments that never quite work out, and luckily one of those moments was recently). I was on the fence as to whether it would work, then in the back of my mind I heard Ted Allen say "and your basket contains coconut milk, flour, eggs and butter." I could do this, I could make this work. I whisked and blended and at the last minute I decided a tablespoon of corn syrup would do in place of the sugar, and bing, bang, boom the "Cocowaffle" was born.

I have a nice new waffle iron that my parents gave me for Christmas, and I learned fast that this batter was going to take a bit longer than a standard waffle batter.  The first one out actually became dog treats because it was a bit underdone. I could also imagine Jeffery, Amanda or Alex commenting on the texture. I would have been chopped for sure if I had served that to the judges.  Luckily my judges were friendlier and more forgiving. They also ate every last one of the them and were full.  It is not exactly $10,000, but it was still a win just the same.

The Cocowaffle

1-1/2 cups of flour
1 Tbs. baking powder
1 Tbs. sugar (or corn syrup if you are out of sugar)
1/2 tsp. salt
3 eggs
1/2 cup melted butter
1-1/2 cups coconut milk

Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl, whisk to mix and set aside. In a small bowl beat the eggs and milk together. Then pour the wet mixture into the dry, then add the melted butter and mix until well incorporated. Pour 1/2 cup mixture into hot waffle iron and cook until no longer steaming or you have a nice golden brown across most of the surface. (I usually add the butter at the last because I microwave it and don't want to add hot butter to the eggs and milk. Perhaps I should try it and make a "Scrambled Eggawaffle.")

I always prepare some sort of protein to go with this for my husband, and tonight it was bacon. For my daughter I gave her a little measuring bowl of syrup to dip her waffle triangles into.  It is a very simple supper, economical and who doesn't love breakfast for dinner?