Pecan Waffles

My hubby bought me a waffle iron a couple months back and I love it. However, I am starting to get bored with the same old waffle batter I have been making. So this weekend I decided to try something a little bit different. I love nuts and by far my favorite ones are Pecans. I found an awesome Pecan waffle batter recipe from Foodnetwork.com. They turned out great. I am not going to lie the first one I made was definitely left in the iron too long and the nuts burned. Anyone who has burnt nuts before know the horrible smell and bitter taste of them. Once when I got the timing down right the waffles turned out great.

I also roasted some pecan and chopped them up and placed them in my butter syrup combination. My hubby is dying for some type of banana waffle. I told him I need to get the basic ones down first before I try the more advanced ones.

Waffle before the syrup.Butter and syrup with toasted pecans, so good!!

Best waffle ever. Cant wait to try some gingerbread ones around Christmas.

Eggs-n-Toast

My favorite thing to cook is breakfast. I don’t drink coffee so my pick me up is cooking something first thing in the morning and having it come out perfect. That is all the caffeine that I need. Because of our very very busy work schedules the weekend is the only time that I can really make a big breakfast and I am always looking for way to dress it up a little.

This weekend I made eggs –n- toast. I take my ravioli cutter that I use and cut the center out of the bread. It is pretty easy to make. You just place the bread in the pan like you would for grilled cheese or french toast and wait until it gets a little crisp on each side and then crack the egg into the center of the bread. Sounds more complicated than it really is. I then used the last bit of bacon from the farmers market will have to make sure I get there before it ends in November so I can stock up for the winter. This is a great recipe to try and you can creative by using different cookie cutters. For Valentines Day last year I used my heart cookie cutter.

Not the best picture I have ever taken but you get the general idea.

Halloween Whoopie Pies

I love fall (hate the cold weather) but love the leaves changing, the clothes and especially the holidays. I love Halloween; I just think it is so much fun. So to get the hubby in the Halloween spirit I made Halloween whoopie pies. They were a delicious moist chocolate cake and I made cream cheese frosting for the center. I then rolled the cookies in sprinkles so that they were decorated with black and orange on the sides to stay in the Halloween spirit. They were so cute and tasted even better.

Next time I make them I will double the batter recipe it only makes 12 cookies (remember each whoopie pie needs two cookies). They are just too good and my husband and I keep eating them there are going to be none left for lunch this week.

What the pies looked like when they first came out of the oven.

So I have tons of picutres of the cookies, I really loved them!! I have a Halloween party at work and I am thinking I will make them for the party because they are a definte crowd pleaser.

They just look so cute sitting on their cake tray.

LOVE THESE!!!

English Muffins

I was sick this week, and of course I could not sleep or sit still. I have never really been able to sit around. I am always doing something (much to the dislike of my husband). With the extra time on my hands I decide to try a recipe that requires a time commit. I decided to make my own english muffins. Like I said you are going to need some extra time on your hands. You have to wait for the dough to raise a couple of times before you can actually “cook” the muffins.

I was not happy with the muffins. I don’t know what I was expecting but they were a little flat. I don’t know if I did not let them rise long enough or if I handled the dough too much, or it may just have been because I was sick and did not read the recipe correctly. Who knows. I will be trying these again because I feel like they could be great.

Even with the english muffins not turning out exactly the way I wanted they still tasted great. If I was feeling a little better I would have made some orange butter to go with the english muffins. Once when I am feeling better I will attempt this recipe again. I am just way too stubborn to not get this recipe perfect.

I did not have a round cookie cutter so I used the top of a glass to cut my dough.

The muffins on the griddle. They toasted up so nice on the outside.

You can tell from this picture that the muffins were not as fluffly as I wanted.

They were still very tasty and was nice to have with a hot cup of tea.

Early Anniversary Gift

Happy anniversary. Well my “first” anniversary is not until December but it is getting colder and colder down here in DC so my husband thought I would be able to start using my anniversary gift already. I have wanted a Burberry Snood since they came out last winter. With trying to plan my church wedding, buying the house and work I just could not find the time I needed to go and shop at the store. So my wonderful husband decided to buy one for me as a anniversary. I love it. I was wearing around today (it was 70 degrees) and my husband REFUSED to go into the grocery store with me. He is just the best husband and now I am going to have to find something awesome for him. I love him so much and I am so happy I am with him!!

The bag my snood came in. My husband is not the best gift wrapper. I am going to try and use the ribbon and make a Halloween bow for Dexter. I am sure he will love that.

Here is my snood, it is so soft I cannot wait until it gets cold and I can wear it and not have people stare.

Candy Corn Cookies

I really enjoy the fall, the leaves changing color, pumpkins, cute sweaters, boots and candy corn. My husband and I both love candy corn. I don’t know if it is because you can only get candy corn for a couple of months a year or because it just reminds me of being a child, but I love it. I have been trying to work it in everywhere before the stores stop selling it. So this week I wanted to make some kind of cookies and incorporate candy corn. I could not find any type of cookies that used candy corn so I decided to make my traditional sugar cookies I make around Christmas and place candy corn on them. It was a great way to enjoy one of my favorite fall treats.

Just a simple sugar cookie made a little more special with some candy corn. Goint to miss this stuff when it goes away.

Blueberry and Pecan Scones

I love scones, I know some people don’t like them because scones can be too dry but, I found a recipe for scones that did not use too much flour. I hope that by limiting the flour the scones would not be as dry. I also went against what all the recipes told me to do and added fresh blueberries. All the recipes I looked at required using dried blueberries or some other type of dried fruit. I don’t like dried fruits I never have so I figured how different could they be by using fresh blueberries, you use fresh fruit in muffins so this should not be too different.

These scones are great; I added blueberry and pecans to mine. The scones were NOT dry; they were quite the opposite very moist and soft in the middle. They had a cake like texture to them. I loved them. I am so happy I went with the fresh blueberries. They only thing was the blueberries broke a little causing my scones to take on a light purple color to them. I thought it looked cute and I did not mind at all. I loved the pecans in the scones it gave them a nice sweet flavor. I will be making these again and trying to do a lot of different flavor combinations.

This is the only picture that seems to want to load today. My cutting is a little off but that does not matter becasue these taste awesome.