Basic Waffle Recipe

I love to try out new recipes no matter if they are ones I created in my head, ones I found on-line or in a cookbook. Over the years, I have tried recipes from a lot of chefs, one who seems to match my cooking style is Rachael Ray. As a mother, you've got to appreciate the concept of a 30 Minute Meal! Rachael Ray often says that her recipes are just methods. She encourages her viewers to take her recipes and make them their own. I "Lori-ize" almost everything I cook, tayloring the recipe to my families taste. I decided to combine these two ideas and what you see here is the result. Each week I'll create a meal based on a recipe and let you know what we thought. I will give you the original recipe and let you know how I "Lori-ized" it. Hope you enjoy Tasty Tuesday!

This week we decided to have breakfast for dinner! We made Alton Brown's Basic Waffle Recipe.

I followed this recipe exactly. I consider this more baking than cooking and baking is a formula that must be followed to the "T".

The waffles were... well alright. They were not crisp nor were they light and airy... my two choices of waffle textures. They were rather dense actually. The flavor seemed to be missing something. I'm not sure exactly what, but something. I almost think they weren't sweet enough, but I'm not sure that's exactly what was wrong. I think I prefer making Bisquick's waffle recipe to this one.

I will tell you that I like the concept of making a from scratch waffle and will continue to search for another from scratch waffle or pancake recipe and see what I can find.