February 9, 2009 at 11:07 am · Filed under breakfast
I scoured the internet for vegan waffle recipes, the recipes I came across seemed doomed for failure more often than not. Some successes, many failures. The traditional waffle recipes out there are just too egg-y tasting for me, and sorry, but eggs are just sort of weird. I broke out my favorite cookbook and set out to veganize her waffle version. I am happy to tell you it took little fiddling and the waffles are light, fluffy, not too filling and full of Omega-3, WIN! You’re going to need a waffle iron of some sort. This is mine and I LOVE it, not that I have tried any other waffle maker, but this one works every time.
Vegan Buttermilk Waffles
makes 4-5 Belgian waffles
In a small bowl mix 3 tbls ground flax + 9tbls of water (1/2C + 1tbls) That there is your 3 eggs, promise! Set this concoction aside.
In a liquid measureing cup, measure out 1 1/2 cups of rice milk (or whatever milk you want) + 1tsp apple cider vinegar - and that would be your buttermilk. Set it aside.
In a medium bowl mix:
2 cups flour (I have tried all-pupose and spelt, both work but you need a bit more than 2 cups if using spelt)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
To your milk, mix in:
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup of safflower oil (or any light oil)
Use a fork to slowly mix the wet into the dry (including your flax mixture) lumps are your friend, don’t over do it.
Ladle onto your lightly oiled waffle iron and cook per your devices recommendation. We like ours on the toasty side.
I’ve been digging Agave Syrup for my waffle, but maple is obviously delicious as well.
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This is a perfect cold-wet-blustery weather recipe. Waking up to the smells of cinnamon is nothing short of bliss. Have you heard of oat groats? It’s the whole oat and they look like this:
I get them in the bulk section at my local health-food store.
1 cup oat groats
1 3-inch piece of cinnamon stick
pinch of salt
4 cups water
1 apple peeled and chopped (optional)
Throw all this in your crock-pot and turn on low before heading to bed. Last night I started mine around 10pm and it was perfect by 6:30am, and judging by the dirty bowl in the sink, possibly even by 5am when my husband had a bowl before work. You can cook this on high as well with similar results but be warned your porridge will burn to the sides of your crock-pot, the innards will be fine though.
You can obviously add what ever you want to this. I like mine simple with a little maple syrup. Some other ideas: dried fruit, sliced banana, berries, butter, sugar, molasses, honey, toasted nuts….kitchen sink.
If you have leftovers, use them as a thickener for soups.
We got out of the house today and hit South 47 Farm, it was fabulous and full of good farm smells. We went mostly for the raspberries.
Owen ate his weight in berries, easily. The raspberries apparently gave him super powers too
Some goats tried to befriend us only to steal our berries.
And berries!
better than store bought berries hands down. So we had a berrylicious day, raspberry pancakes for dinner and I made blueberry corn muffins again, this time with fresh blueberries.
I prefer big breakfasts for dinner. Eating a big breakfast makes me feel frumpy, sluggish and like I am recovering from a hangover. Give me some pancakes, toast and FAKE sausage for dinner and I’ll ask for seconds. I do eat eggs on occasion, more often I eat a tofu scramble, but I have issues with eggs on the whole. Something about eating a chicken period just rubs me the wrong way, understandable, right? I bought an illegal amount of strawberries recently and thought one way to use a bunch up would be pancakes…
Behold! Pure maple syrup! and NO! I don’t hull my damn strawberries, what a waste of berry!
The beauty of breakfast foods is that they all go good together, maple syrup on your sausage? no problem, oh look! egg got on my pancake, no biggie!
I don’t know what my deal is with taking photo’s half way through eating lately, hopefully that isn’t making anyone gag. Is it similar to eating with your mouth open? I hope not, not much worse than bad table/virtual food-ery manners.
