Waffles!

The day after my habitat for humanity work day, I decided to have a very lazy Sunday morning, complete with waffles. Yes, that's how far behind I am in posting recipes. Whoops. 

Of course, the obligatory line up of ingredients: 

1 3/4 cup Flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 egg yolks
1 3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup canola oil
2 egg whites

Just six ingredients! The less the better for me!

First thing is to combine the dry stuff, like the flour, baking powder, and salt, in a rather large bowl. I tend to always make a huge mess when flour is involved, so the bigger the bowl, the less the flour has a chance to run away. Before moving on to the wet stuff you're supposed to make a 'well' in the middle of the dry stuff. Well, I used such a big bowl that the piled up flour on the sides was barely half an inch high....not much of a well really. 

I don't have one of those nice egg separators, so I had to separate my eggs by hand, which I have to say, I did marvelously well! The egg yolks get beat up a little bit and then combined with the milk and the oil. Pour this wet mixture into the well in the flour bowl. Then mix it around gently. It's good to be clumpy. 

Then you're supposed to beat the egg whites until they have stiff peaks then fold them in nicely to the batter. Note: I don't own an electric beater, so I had to do this all by hand. Needless to say, I got to barely soft peaks and said "screw it" and folded in the egg whites anyway. I think the waffles turned out fine anyway. 

While all the above is happening your waffle iron should be heating up, so that by now it smells like it's on fire or something. Then pour that batter in! I'm really bad about pouring in too much at a time, so I really made the effort to put in less this time. This is the first time I didn't have any batter spill over the edges of my waffle iron! Success! 

 I was zooming fast to get this picture taken because I didn't want the bottom of the waffle to cook a whole bunch more than the top. 

My waffle maker has this light on the bottom so that when you flip it over, it turns on when you should take the waffle out. Which is really nice so I don't under or overcook my waffle, which I would do every time without that special light. 

 MMMM. GLORIOUSNESS. 

I cooked up some veggie sausage, slathered on some butter and syrup (even gave it a dash of powdered sugar), and topped off the whole meal with half a grapefruit. It was phenomenal.