I did try a “savory” waffle recipe recently. It was made with cauliflower rice, bacon crumbles, cheddar cheese, chives, and flax meal. Topped with sour cream and chives. It was…interesting. I probably won’t make it again, though it wasn’t bad at all.
@dragonmom , Swedish pancakes are one of those things I make with no actual recipe. They are very eggy with little flour. I mix the flour with a little milk, add eggs, a little sugar and then more mil until it is the right consistency. I cook them one at a time in a small non-stick pan with butter. Stack them on a plate and sprinkle sugar on each one as I cook them
Made pumpkin waffles this morning for the first time ever (easy version with Bisquick and canned pumpkin) after reading this thread. Delicious! H just polished off the last one straight from the fridge–no butter, syrup, etc. I had forgotten that we even own a waffle maker, so this was a timely reminder.
Pancakes are good, but waffles seem more special.
I’m actually not a big fan of either waffles or pancakes (not a big bread/carb person generally), but during blueberry season I sometimes make blueberry pancakes that are more blueberry than pancake, more like a pan full of blueberries barely held together with a tiny bit of pancake batter. If I were to write it down as recipe, it would read “take a bowl of blueberries and add just barely enough pancake batter to lightly coat the berries.” Soooo good!
We grabbed waffle sandwiches at a place called Bruxie in Santa Monica and that might have ruined waffles for me, possibly the worst restaurant meal I have ever had. On my occasional carb-heavy days I much prefer pancakes to waffles. We have a half-white/half-wheat flour recipe that comes out really well. I also make the lemon soufflé pancakes.
Are the Swedish pancakes the same as aebelskivers (sp?)? Those are really good.
Waffles … unless it’s Pancake Pantry in Nashville. In that case, pancakes (sweet potato, preferably).
I forgot about ebelskivers! I have a pan (which clearly I don’t use a lot). They appear to be the same as Danish pancakes. Now I’m getting really hungry for pancakes or waffles, doesn’t matter which!
When I went to UT, there was a famous breakfast place that served gingerbread pancakes. I absolutely loved them.
Agree that both waffles and pancakes are wonderful, but I prefer waffles, with either Peanut butter and Nutella, or with fresh berries and whipped cream. My sister was given a restaurant quality crepe maker as a wedding gift. I don’t understand how she has that in her house, and yet she is 60 lbs lighter than me.
My DH drinks full sugar soda daily, eats bread and other refined carbs every day, and has a dessert most nights. He is slim, has perfect blood sugar, low BP and no health problems at present. Makes no sense to me other than to observe that he just really processes carbohydrates quite well and is metabolically blessed.
I was too…until I wasn’t. I was VERY slim without making a lot of effort until I hit about 45.