Hey! You got poppy seeds in my waffle...you got waffle in my poppy seed...
Since my day starts early and often ends late, I have to make breakfast count these days. I want a meal that tastes great and that will fill me up for a while.
I have always loved waffles and passed that taste along to my kids who also inheirited my quirk of having to fill every square of this breakfast food with syrup.
In an effort to save some calories here and there, I've been looking for ways to add flavor so I don't have to add syrup.
On a recent out of town trip, I had Lemon Poppy Seed mini-muffin while I was waiting for my waffle to cook at the hotel's all you can eat breakfast. I suddenly remembered that old peanut butter cup conmmercials where two people run into eachother and combine their chocolate and their peanut butter accidentally.
"Wouldn't it be great", I thought, "if I could combine the lemon-poppy seed flavor with a waffle?"
And why not? Try this breakfast that's so tasty, you won't have to add syrup. (I dusted mine with a bit of powdered sugar for its modeling debut, but - really - it needs nothing to make it taste any better than it does.)
Lemon Poppy Seed Waffles
2 cups of flour2 tablespoons of baking powder
1 tablespoon of brown sugar
1 pear, peeled, sliced and pureed in the blender
2 tablespoon of olive oil
2 tablespoon of lemon juice
1 cup of water
4 tablespoons of poppy seeds
- Mix the dry ingredients together.
- Add the liquid ingredients and beat together well.
- Cook in a well-greased waffle iron for 5 minutes or until the steam stops coming out of the waffle iron.
