She probably only said that because I made her eggs for a snack and then we baked banana bread.
I’ve been on quite a baking tear lately. Evie loves to do it, measuring, dumping, mixing, and it’s something that can pretty easily eat up a big chunk of our day (in a good way). And the best part is, you actually have something to show from it! Something delicious.
So, after our excellent trial of making some Halloween cookies, Evie and I took it to another level. We started by making banana bread on Friday. Then, on Sunday, we made waffles in the morning, followed by oatmeal raisin cookies. Finally, I took on my most ambitious project yet, making homemade spinach/chicken/bacon calzones from scratch (meaning using the bread maker for the crust).
The calzones were a lot more work than I was expecting, perhaps cooling my ardor for baking a little bit. They turned out good (despite Sara’s efforts to sabotage my recipe), but I’m not sure it was worth the effort. Still, I think I will try to think of baking as a fun activity to do, like going to the park, or doing a craft project. My mom is an excellent baker, and when I was growing up, I remember that we almost always had some sort of baked desert lying around somewhere. That is something I remember fondly from my childhood.
Finally, since we were talking about my waffles and all, Sara and I were having a little debate. Obviously, we will settle this like adults, with a web poll. The results of this poll are final, and cannot be questioned in any way.
Shane Halbach 
I responded “Of course!” to your quiz, but I must say that more so than syrup, every square must have atleast a tiny dab of butter.
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I don’t pour ANY syrup on my waffles. I instead utilize the “dunk method”. So I half-way agree with you on the every square bit since dunking each bite in syrup I believe would give you the same syrup intake. I haven’t verified this scientifically.
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I put syrup in both sides of squares.
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What about none of the above? I settled for “of course,” but, truthfully I love deliciousness, especially on my waffles, but I don’t feel like I have to fill up every square to get it. Although, once the waffles/pancakes soak up the syrup, I do tend to add more.
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Syrup?! You crazy American. Brown cheese! Now that’s what you put on a waffle!
*kidding* Lucas can eat his brown cheese waffle like a real Norwegian, but I’ll pass. 😛
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And my reply somehow ended up nested. Oops.
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Continuing to enjoy your completely unbiased surveys. And it should be mentioned that I do think it should go in every square–but not overflowing from every square like some people in our house! I had Evie dip–she likes dipping things, plus the syrup doesn’t disappear so she isn’t continually asking for more.
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The results of this poll are final, and cannot be questioned in any way.
Just admit you are an enemy to deliciousness…
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I totally agree – each square needs to be covered with syrup, but not so there is a pool from bottom to top in each one.
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For the record, I didn’t put *that* much syrup on. Some of the squares in the middle were overflowing, but that was to average out the ones on the side that didn’t have much in them!
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Er…I mean, whomever the fictitious person is who takes that side of this unbiased poll!
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By the way, congratulations on your second comment…your other comment was in July of ’08. You’re not quite averaging 1 per year!
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Butter is way more important than syrup, and if you waste too much time, the waffles are cold anyway and then I wouldn’t eat them at all.
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Syrup or jam, every hole must be filled. The waffle is only a carrier for the sugar delivery.
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It should be noted that while I voted “of course”, I don’t ususally put syrup on my waffles at all but prefer bananas (or some other fruit) and whipped cream. Being the obsessive person that I am, I would have to fill in each square with butter or syrup or whatever. (Honestly, I’m still beaming over the “my mom is an excellent baker” comment. I ran to tell Ron, but he was asleep!)
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