On Being Our Own Weekend Guests
I don’t know about you, but when I have weekend guests over, I enjoy planning something special for breakfast. Unlike our usual breakfasts that are grab and go items such as cereal and fruit, breakfast becomes a more leisurely meal with food to savor and long conversations. When we visited my sister-in-law a few weeks ago, we didn’t eat breakfast until later in the morning because the bacon needed frying and the pancakes had to be cooked. We had a delicious, sunny time together lingering over the food, our conversation, and the coffee.
Over this weekend I was inspired one morning to make waffles from scratch and use up the fresh berries in the refrigerator. As Joe washed my car, I took my time preparing a breakfast as I might for weekend guests. When we finally gathered at the breakfast table, it almost felt like we were our own weekend guests.
How often do you enjoy leisurely breakfasts with your family?
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I enjoy waffles from time to time but it has always puzzled me on who or when or why the waffle iron was invented? What were they thinking before they tasted a waffle? I don’t think the waffle iron was intuitive and I don’t think it was particularly easy to make the first waffle iron. Do you have any clues?
What a great way to start a weekend. I could almost taste that waffle.
Ah, the history of the waffle goes way back to ancient Greece where they started out as flat wafers, hence the name waffle, They progressed through the middle ages, were mentioned in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, were brought to the U.S. by Pilgrims and were finally produced en masse in the late ’30s. You can read the entire tasty story at “Time” magazine’s site: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1941724,00.html
Too bad I couldn’t send one to you.
The waffle iron was probably one of the most popular gifts to give a new bride. Everybody got a waffle iron for a shower gift back in the 50s and 60s. They ranked up there with a laundry iron as a must have item for the new bride. My waffle iron is long gone, but I still have a steam iron!
I was married a bit later than that, but I think my waffle iron may have been a shower gift too.
If I were you, I would have kept the waffle iron and given away the steam iron!