Nancy's Mom's Light & Crisp Waffles

I got this recipe off of Sweetpea Nancy blog. This recipe is so good.

Ingredients:

2 whole eggs separated

2 cups milk (or buttermilk)

2 cups flour

1 Tablespoon Baking Powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/3 cups canola oil

Preparation Instructions:

Beat egg whites until stiff. In a separate bowl, put remaining ingredients and beat on low with a hand mixer until moistened. Increase speed to medium and mix until smooth. By hand, gently fold in beaten egg whites. Pour 1/2 cup batter onto hot waffle iron. cook until lightly browned. Serve with your favorite toppings. Enjoy!

Granola Pancakes

For those of you who have Emilee's Granola recipe you need to try this!! Next time you make a batch when it comes out of the oven before it gets to dry through it in some pancake batter and make pancakes. SOOOOOO GOOOOOOD! I saw it on Diners Drive Inns and Dives, tried it, liked it:)

Yogurt Cream

Here is the recipe from Emilee's link for the Granola from below.

Yogurt Creme

1 1/4 cups of cream

1 1/2 cups yogurt. PLAIN, UNFLAVORED yogurt

1/2 to 3/4 cup brown sugar. It’s necessary.

Begin by pouring the yogurt into a bowl. Add in the cream. Don’t be afraid, my child. God made cows. Now, with a whisk, careful stir the mixture together, mixing well. Now begin sprinkling the brown sugar over the top. You don’t want any of it to land in a big clump. Now: DO NOT STIR THE MIXTURE. Cover the bowl with foil or plastic wrap. place the bowl in the fridge for several hours. We’re going to let the brown sugar slowly dissolve into the creamy mixture underneath. And in the process, there will be a little separation between the cream and yogurt. Don’t you worry your pretty little head about that.

And when you take it out, it’ll look something like this:

Don’t freak out! I know it looks a little funky. But just wait—open your mind for a moment.

When you’re ready to serve, wash whatever berries (or other fruit) you’d like to use. (Strawberries, blackberries, even grapes are delicious with this.)

Just throw some fruit into the container you’d like to use. Now, if you like things lumpy, funky, and strange, just grab a couple of spoonfuls of the cream mixture WITHOUT STIRRING IT FIRST.

And plop it right on top.

Granola

Here's the recipe I made. It's super easy, and always delicious.

7-8 cups old-fashioned oats
1 cup wheat germ
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup canola oil
1 cup honey
1/4 cup water
2 T. vanilla
2 tsp. salt
2 T. cinnamon
1 cup unsweetened coconut (optional)
Also optional: Almonds, pecans, sunflower seeds, or whatever kind of nut you like.

Mix all of the ingredients together (with your hands--do NOT use a Kitchen-Aid) and spread out on two greased cookie sheets. Bake at 325 for 20 minutes. Stir and bake another 15 minutes. Scrape the bottom of cookie sheet as soon as it is done to prevent sticking. Cool and then store in an airtight container.

My family loves this served with fresh berries, yogurt cream (which we make with half-and-half in an attempt to be not quite so naughty), and the granola on top. YUM! Best summer breakfast ever.

Creme Brulee French Toast

We are having this tomorrow after Stake Conference. It looks to me like a dessert,but my Mom is super excited about it. Her first experience with creme brulee was at Lauren's reception, and she thinks it will taste like that. She cut it out of the Deseret News. If you are interested in how it turned out call tomorrow. It is chilling in the fridge as I write.

Creme Brulee French Toast
1/2 c. unsalted butter
2 T. corn syrup
Bread sliced to cover butter mixture
5 large eggs
1-1/2 c. half and half
1 t. vanilla
1/4 t. salt
In a saucepan, melt butter, brown sugar and corn syrup. Pour into a 9x13 glass baking dish. Arrange bread pieces on top. Beat together eggs, half and half, vanilla and salt. Pour egg mixture over the top of the bread. Cover and chill overnight in the refrigerator. The next morning, bake uncovered at 350 for 35-40 minutes.

Homemade Strawberry Poptarts

So this recipe is really easy and quite delicious. It would be delicious with any type of preserves or even fudge topping to make chocolate pop tarts. I also like that you can individualize each pop tart if you wanted to. Yum!

2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour plus additional for shaping and rolling
1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
4 tablespoons ice water
12 tablespoons strawberry preserves (preferably organic homemade)
Powdered sugar
Fresh strawberries

Whisk 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons flour, coarse salt, and sugar in large bowl. Add butter. Using fingertips or back of fork, blend in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add ice water by tablespoonfuls, tossing until moist clumps form. Gather dough into ball. Divide in half; shape each half into disk. Wrap in plastic. Chill at least 1 hour.
Line 2 large rimmed baking sheets with parchment. Working with 1 disk at a time, roll out dough on floured surface to about 13x11 inches. Trim to 12x10-inch rectangle, then cut into eight 5x3-inch rectangles.
Arrange 4 rectangles, spaced apart, on each sheet. Spoon 1 1/2 tablespoons preserves in row down center of each rectangle. Top preserves with second dough rectangle. Using fingertips, gently press all edges of each tart to seal; press all edges with tines of fork to double-seal. Using toothpick, poke a few holes in center of top dough rectangle. Cover; freeze tarts on sheets at least 2 hours and up to 1 week.
Position 1 rack in top third and 1 rack in bottom third of oven and preheat to 375°F. Bake frozen tarts uncovered until golden, reversing sheets after 15 minutes, 25 to 30 minutes total (some preserves may leak out). Immediately transfer tarts to rack. Sift powdered sugar lightly over. Serve warm or at room temperature with fresh berries.

**I was too impatient to freeze it and it still turned out delicious :)

Best Healthy Breakfast

I am hoping to mostly be a beneficiary of this blog, since my cooking leaves much to be desired. However, here is an awesome breakfast--healthy, delicious, and--best of all for my family--PINK!

Oatmeal Parfaits
1 cup steel cut oats
3 cups water
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
32 oz. plain fat-free yogurt
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup half-and-half (or heavy cream, if you wish to be deliciously naughty)
frozen berries

Cook the oats with the water, salt, and cinnamon overnight on low in a crockpot. Mix the yogurt with the brown sugar and half-and-half and let it sit overnight as well in the refrigerator. In the morning, layer oatmeal, yogurt, berries. (We just do one layer of each in a cereal bowl, but it would be pretty with two layers of each in a tall glass.) When you mix it all up, it turns pink, so my girls call it princess food.

Variations: We've also done this with quick-cook barley or wheat bulgur when I don't remember to set the oatmeal up overnight. They only take ten minutes in a saucepan on top of the stove.