Day Five

Unfortunately, I slept through my 10:00 a.m. class today. Not good. Fortunately, this gave me extra time to make waffles!

Day Four - Buttermilk Again

Day Five waffles. Great texture!

Andrew, eating a waffle.

Recipe

• Doubled Day Four Recipe
  

Yield: 7 waffles

Results: Strangely, today's batter was less viscous than yesterday's. Also, didn't taste quite as good. Added a little too much salt. Nevertheless, the waffles had a good "hearty" texture to them.

I'm starting to grow a little tired "plain" waffles. I think, starting tomorrow (Thanksgiving Break is going to foul this up... I know), I'm going to start finding some better ingredients in my waffles, including shredded coconut, walnut chunks, blueberries, etc.

Also, I think adding some egg white to the waffles would help their consistency.

Days One through Four

Here are the recipes and results for my first four days of waffle-making!

Day One

Recipe

• 1 cup. generic waffle mix ** (Honeyville Farms brand. 7 lb bag)
  
• 1.5 cups. water
  
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
  

**Make your own waffle mix:

• 2 cups flour, all-purpose
  
• 1/4 cup sugar
  
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  
• 1 tsp. baking soda
  
• 1/2 tsp. salt, fine
  

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Yield: 4 waffles

Results: A very generic tasting waffle. Rather dry, on the inside. Apply lots of butter and syrup to these ones!

Day Two

Waffles. Day Two.

Recipe

• Follow Day One recipe
  
• Add: 1 tbsp. cinnamon, ground.
  
• Add: 1 tbsp. cooking oil
  

Yield: 4 waffles, with a slight cinnamon taste

Results: Still rather dry and generic tasting. Cinnamon adds nice flavor, though. Tastes like a pancake ... in the form of a waffle!

Day Three

Waffles. Day Three.

Recipe

• Follow Day One recipe
  
• Add: 2 tbsp. butter, melted.
  
• Add: 1 tbsp. cooking oil
  
• Add: 1 tsp. salt, fine
  

Yield: 4 waffles

Results: Better waffle. Less dry than previous days. Doubled recipe and left extras for roommates.

Day Four - The Buttermilk Discovery

Waffles. Day Four. Now with the
power of buttermilk!

Recipe

• Follow Day Three recipe
  
• Subtract: 1/2 cup water
  
• Add: 1/2 cup buttermilk
  

Yield: 4 waffles

Results: Batter "chunkier", less runny than previous days. Waffles have more texture and markedly better taste. Still not quite good enough to eat plain, but tasty.

A Waffle Vigil

There shall be waffles!

In the wake of OiNK's unfortunate demise, I have been hopelessly bereft of new music. Yeah-- I could buy music but ... I don't quite remember how to do that. And-- why start now? And yeah-- I could download music from another torrent tracker. But ... ilk. Mis-named, low quality, and the endless, thankless leeching ... Frankly, I'd rather not.

But, as a phoenix from the ashes, a successor has risen from OiNK's crumbled ruins. And that successor's name is ... Waffles. Yes, Waffles. Like Lollerwaffles, but more like the round grids of goodness, and less like lollerskates. Waffles.fm, to be precise. Unfortunately, like its predecessor, Waffles is invite only. And I can't get a fricken invite.

Now, for former OiNK users, there's an email address where you can send proof of your OiNK membership to get an OiNK invite. Unfortunately, as of a week ago, that email address was flooded with 8,000+ emails. I may actually get an invite some day ... but I'm not holding my breath.

Instead, I've taken to lurking on #waffles.fm-chat (on irc.p2p-networks.net). Waiting, and hoping.

In the mean time, I've started a vigil. A waffle vigil, to be precise. Here, brave world, I make my decree:

Until such a time that I am a Waffles.fm member in good standing, I shall eat waffles for breakfast. I shall eat waffles only, at the exclusion of all other breakfast foods. I shall not eat bagels, not shall I eat granola, nor Poptarts, nor oatmeal. Waffles, and waffles alone, are to be my source of breakfast nourishment and sustenance.

My hope is that my daily communion with waffles will bring me good fortune--and bring attention to the plight of the many thousands of us dispossessed--without invites, and without homes for our daily music fix. Hear me, oh gods of Waffles! Listen to my plea! Take my daily offering of WAFFLES, bless and consecrate it, and bring a manifold blessing upon all of us who wait!