Making Waffles

For my birthday, my brother surprised me with a present of beer glasses and a waffle maker. I didn't grow up eating waffles and I've never made them before, so on Saturday I decided to try it out. I pulled up a few recipes from the Internet and then made mine with some experimental combination. I was surprised how well they turned out, fluffy, golden brown, and just delicious.

Here a few things that I have learned:
- Start making waffles before you get super hungry; they cannot be done in 15 minutes. Actually, it will probably be more than an hour to make four waffles from scratch.
- It is OK if you make more batter than you can use for one meal. The batter is supposed to be even better the next day, and it WILL take only 15 minutes to have the waffles ready.
- You can make one waffle at a time and eat it while it's warm before starting the next one. The one minute you'd have to wait to eat the second waffle is less hassle than trying to rush to make them all while at the same time realizing the first waffles are already cold and will have to be reheated.
- If while doing the above you feel unusually warm in the kitchen while, check your air conditioner. Using the griddle is not supposed to feel THAT hot. Chances are that someone in your household have accidentally switched the AC off. Cooking at 85 F is no fun.
- adding two spoons of mineral water to the batter helps with the fluffiness.
- Waffles with cream cheese and sausage are very yummy.
- You can split the batter into two bowls, and add extra sugar for the sweet waffles. The diced blueberries are great edition, chocolate chips too, but if you are going to use cranberries you better add extra extra sugar - they are just too bitter.
- There will be some mess and lots of dishes when making the batter from scratch. Again remember that the meal preparation is supposed to least more than 15 minutes.
- Waffles are spelled with two f's. After doing the spell check here, I misspelled them every single time. :)