“Comfort Food for the Mind, Body, and Soul”: HOLIDAY WAFFLES WITH VANILLA CREAM SAUCE

Try it!  This strawberry dish is delicious!

 

By Sharon Fox

 

WAFFLES 

(makes about 4 – 5 round 

waffles)

1 1/4 cups flour

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 egg and

2 egg whites – save yolks for sauce

1 1/2 cups buttermilk

6 tbsp oil

 

Preheat waffle iron. Mix dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Add buttermilk, oil and eggs; mix until smooth (with hand held mixer). Spread onto hot waffle iron. (leave room around edge for batter to spread) You may want to spray or wipe the Teflon with an oily paper towel, just before cooking the first waffle. It should be fine then until the next time you use it.

 

VANILLA SAUCE 

 

2 cups milk, divided

2 (rounded) tbsp flour

2 tbsp. sugar

1/8 tsp. vanilla powder or 1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 egg yolks

 

In a small pot, heat 1 cup milk until it begins to boil. (med heat) While you are doing this:

mix dry ingredients, add just a little of the 2nd cup of milk, blend the egg yolks in well, and then the rest of the milk. Just before the milk in the pot begins to boil up, stir in the sauce and stir with whisk until the sauce begins to cook and thicken. Done!

 

RASPBERRY SAUCE

 

I buy half a flat of raspberries when they’re in season, put them in a blender and measure them out. For each cup of berries I mix in 1 cup of sugar. Stir that for about 5 minutes and let it sit for a few hours. Pour into small jars and freeze. Thaw just before serving. Keeps a week or two refrigerated. Cut up strawberries mixed with a little sugar are also a great topping.

 

Sharon Fox is the author of COMFORT FOOD FOR THE MIND, BODY, AND SOUL and she has a series of eBooks for Kindle. 

She’s also Food Editor for several online magazines and host of a new TV show based in Atlanta, GA “The Healthy Living Show”

For more information please visit her website:

http://www.goodcookin4u2.webs.com/ 

Grab her books AND eBooks at: www.amazon.com/Sharon-YXFVY/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1

This was printed in the April 21, 2013 – May 4, 2013 Edition