Waffle Iron Cookie: Fail!!!

I started out with Nestlé Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and the waffle iron on a medium temperature setting.

I placed fairly flat average sized portions of cookie dough into the iron after giving it a spritz of cooking spray to make sure the treats wouldn't stick. I let the cookies cook for exactly 90 seconds.

They looked good, but simply wouldn't come out of the iron in solid pieces. They began to burn on the bottom. Fail!!!

It's possible you could use a cooler iron and let them cook a little less time and then pull the plug and allow the cookies to cool in the iron and harden a bit so you could pull them out easier. It may be that the store-bought cookie dough was the reason for the failure. In the end, it doesn't matter. This will be my first and last waffle cookie experiment.

Wafffle Iron Cookies

The following out of Fine Cooking Magazine. Waffle iron cookies. Erin is a doubter. I want to try it. Maybe Dad or Robert will give it a shot as well and report back to the blog.



"We don't have a waffle iron. It's one of those small appliances that's only good for one thing, and we don't eat that one thing often enough to warrant owning one.
But if we could use it to make cookies? Maybe we'd reconsider.
We saw this tip at Fine Cooking and were immediately intrigued. Crispy, chewy, thick oatmeal chocolate chip cookies baked in 90 seconds, just like a waffle." -The Kitchen Blog citing Fine Cooking Magazine referencing a cookbook called Dessert Express

One of the Drawbacks of Living in California...

We get an overdose of Pac-10 football. While almost all of the country gets Nebraska - Oklahoma on Saturday we get USC v. Arizona State. And the big local game? Sacramento State vs. University of California at Davis...

Double-Dipper Tofu Sticks!

My guess would be you don't get tofu coupons or recipe suggestions in the Sunday coupon sections in Arkansas and Nebraska! Frying it up and putting it on a stick is certainly a step in the right direction though.

A short tale at Twitter length.

Joe-Bob and Lisa met in Rome. They soon married. She sold her baby, and he used the money to buy a Maserati. Shortly thereafter, he took the car and left her alone forever.

Jack's Halloween Haul

This was Jack's first Halloween where he got to go trick-or-treating. We met up with our friends who live in a friendly neighborhood for that sort of thing (this nieghborhood would be high on Zillow's Trick-or-Treat Housing Index).

Jack's first house ever was interesting in that he really didn't know what to do exactly despite some of our coaching and practicing over the course of October. When the door opened he bolted through and proceeded to run through their kitchen and out into their living room. I finally caught him and escorted him back out where he scored his first piece of candy. He caught on quickly after a few houses and came home with the following:

By far, the most popular candies given out in this neighborhood were the Hershey's bar and the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. You can see he scored two "full sized" treats. Someone also give him a Pomegranate. He really don't know he was supposed to eat the candy so we didn't run into the problem of him trying to eat all of his candy.

Here's Jack and Granny walking along the route.

Here are Jack and his fireman friend Brandon heading for another door hoping for treats.

All in all, it was a good night and we all had a great time.

News Flash! Jack Goes Potty in the Toilet For The First Time!

Happy Halloween from Nebraska

Happy Halloween!

From Cali :)

Ready for the World Series!

Halloween 2009 - Spooky Photo Montage - Debut of Jack's Costume!!!

Halloween is upon us once again. We went to the same pumpkin patch as last year and Jack had a great time. He was old enough to ride a pony and climb the hay this year. Mom took him into the animal pen as you'll soon see!



Jack will be an elephant this year for Halloween. He tried it on again this morning and it just barely fits.



Trick or Treat?

Dreyer's Dibs Product

This review was going to start out as a positive. We've been enjoying Dreyer's Dibs all summer long - especially Jack. Even Kodak got his teeth on a few...


take careful note of description: "ice cream"

but.... :( now that Nestle owns Dreyer's you know what's coming next... yeap... no more ice cream... hello frozen dairy product. It's enough to even make a food-crazed beagle lose interest.

(click picture for better viewing of "frozen dairy dessert")

First Bryer's - now Dryer's. Ice cream fans - all I can saw is beware.