I've discovered that I suck at making waffles. Danard's mom gave us this old waffle maker thingy a couple months ago, which I hadn't got around to trying out. This morning I decided I wanted waffles for breakfast. I've never made waffles before. My mom used to make them when I was a kid. I'd watch her do it, so I didn't figure it would be that difficult. So I got out the waffle batter package, heated up the waffle maker, and went to it. It wasn't the batter that was the issue, it was the waffle making part that I had trouble with.

I put the mixed batter on the waffle maker, spread it around evenly, and then closed the lid. Okay...easy, right? Not so much. At least not for me. I didn't know how long I should wait before lifting the lid. This was my fatal mistake. I lifted the lid way too soon. When I did, not only was the waffle not cooked, but it came apart it a very uneven fashion. Some was stuck to the top, and some to the bottom. Which made what was supposed to have been a mouthwatering, golden brown masterpiece of a breakfast, ended being....well.... What it really looked like was a mixed up, mulched up pile of goo - half cooked, and half not cooked.

So, in my brilliance, I close the lid hoping that it might magically "heal" if it cooked longer. This was not going to happen. Danard saw what I had created and laughed his ass off at my expense. What was he to expect? I've never made the damn things before! He then told me that I had to wait until there was steam coming out of it, and I could see that the waffle inside was starting to turn brown. Which I did. And sure enough...the same mess showed itself when I finally opened up the lid again. It was a complete and utter disaster!

I managed to scrape the bits and pieces off the top and bottom of the waffle iron and proceeded to add butter and syrup. Dammit, if I'm going to go to that effort to make waffles, I'm going to bloody well eat them, no matter what they look like. They were cooked. They still tasted okay, but just wasn't easy to eat in pieces like that. Oh well...ya win some ya lose some.

I made another batch. This time I waited for the appropriate length of time, with the only mistake being that I put too much batter in the maker. Haven't had that one yet...I was too full after the first one to have more, so I'm not sure if it's cooked all the way through or not. I'll find out tomorrow...

Morgana

PS. The waffles I made, in no way, resembled the one in the picture at the top...