Bready or Not: Churro Waffles
This reprinted Holy Taco Church recipe produces waffles that are sweet, fluffy, decadent, and not the slightest bit healthy. CHURRO WAFFLES, people. These are hardcore churro.
This recipe is amazingly easy. As typed up below, it makes three big waffles in your waffle iron. Double or triple to feed a crowd or stash extras to freeze. You won’t need extra pats of butter on top, and you’ll probably need just a minimal amount of maple syrup, dulce de leche, or chocolate sauce. Heck, even dip these in something like Nutella.
Be crazy. Be churro-y. Dip your whole day in cinnamon and sugar.
First posted at the Holy Taco Church; modified from Chica Chocolatina.
Bready or Not: Churro Waffles
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 Tablespoon white sugar
- 2 shakes cinnamon
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup milk or almond milk
- 3 Tb unsalted butter melted
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Topping:
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 Tb cinnamon
- 1/4 cup melted butter
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder, sugar, and cinnamon. Melt the 3 tablespoons of butter so they can cool a few minutes. Preheat waffle iron.
- In a separate bowl, beat the egg with the milk, melted butter and vanilla extract. Pour the milk mix into the dry ingredients until just combined.
- Apply non-stick spray to the waffle maker. Use a 1/2 cup to add batter to the iron and close the lid. While the waffle cooks, melt the butter for the topping and in a separate bowl combine the cinnamon and sugar.
- Remove the waffle from the iron. Brush butter all over a side, then sift or spoon the cinnamon and sugar over it. Flip over waffle and repeat. Add more batter to the waffle iron and repeat the process.
- OM NOM NOM!
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Double release day: Chicken Soup and Galactic Games
This is quite a day, as I have two radically different stories out in radically different anthologies!
Galactic Games is my first time in a Baen anthology! Yay! These stories follow different sports around a central theme of the titular Galactic Games. My story is “Minor Hockey Gods of Barstow Station,” with a team of disillusioned human roller hockey players stranded on a very cold alien space station. The table of contents for this book just blows me away: George R. R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, Seanan McGuire, Mercedes Lackey… wow. I’m thrilled that editor Bryan Thomas Schmidt is letting me mingle with the big kids.
Meanwhile, my other book out today is Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Spirit of America. My story is one among 101 others, and is about my autistic son Nicholas and how we have learned how to celebrate the 4th of July in new, wonderful ways. This is one of those stories that makes me emotional because it hits me with a profound sense of homesickness. I guess the folks at Chicken Soup felt some of that vibe, too.
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Read MoreSunday Quote survived the convention (maybe)
Read More“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
~John Muir
Phoenix Comicon Schedule
Phoenix Comicon kicks off today! Yay! I’ll be attending events in downtown through Sunday. Here’s my schedule; days and panels are in bold:
Thursday:
Fantasy Draft League: 04:30 PM – 05:30 PM
Signing Lounge: Oliva, Wong, Aslan, Cato, Dunne, Brown, Sykes, Sigler, Messenger: 06:00 PM – 07:00 PM
Friday:
Signing Lounge: Becky Chambers, Beth Cato, James A Owen and Pierce Brown: 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Exhibitor Hall Signing: Becky Chambers, Beth Cato, Jody Lynn Nye and Joseph Nassise: 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Would You Lie To Me: 06:00 PM – 07:00 PM
Saturday:
Harper Collins Publisher Spotlight: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Bigger Isn’t Better: A Short Fiction Panel: 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Signing: Christopher, Cato, VanEekhout, Wyman, Nassise, Dunne, Sullivan, Dalton, Ochse, Navarro : 01:30 PM – 02:30 PM
Exhibitor Hall Signing: Cato, Beaulieu, Henry, Peck/Heckel, Hieber, Kowal and Sykes: 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
So, You Want to Write Steampunk?: 04:30 PM – 05:30 PM
Sunday:
When Swords Don’t Cut It: New Weapons In Fantasy: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
[note: I am not attending signings on Sunday.]
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Read MoreBready or Not: Crock Pot Green Chile Chicken
My slow cooker is my friend, and in this case my friend heats up some fantastically flavorful chicken that’s good in all sorts of dishes!
This recipe is a cousin to my Verde Pork Loin one. Both make a great protein for salads (my preference), tacos, burritos, casseroles, and likely all other sorts of stuff.
Don’t be afraid of the chiles here, either. I was for years. A standard can of green chiles is pretty mild and adds a punch of flavor. If you’re feeding people who can take the heat, by all means, use the hot version! We favor the Hatch brand because my husband used to live in Las Cruces, near the Hatch Valley; it’s good to support New Mexico products, in any case.
And yes, you can make this with chicken breasts or tenders, but there’s greater risk of the meat drying out. I much prefer to use boneless thighs in the crock pot.
Modified from The Perfect Pantry.
Bready or Not: Crock Pot Green Chile Chicken
Ingredients
- 3 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 16 ounces verde salsa
- 2 cloves garlic smashed
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 4 ounces Hatch green chiles canned, mild or hot
Instructions
- Cut the chicken thighs into thirds and place in a 4 to 6 quart slow cooker. Pour the salsa over them, followed by the garlic, cumin, and canned chiles. Give it a stir then pop the lid on.
- Cook on low for 4 to 5 hours; if the chicken was still a little frozen, cook on high for an hour or so to speed the process. Use a slotted spoon to remove chicken pieces, and shred or cut them into chunks. Place back in crock pot to soak in juice for another 20 minutes.
- Serve chicken on a plate, or in burritos, tacos, salads, or just about anything. Freezes fantastically for later dining.
- OM NOM NOM!
