Gingerbread Waffle Mix

It happens about twice a year…

Life becomes overwhelming.  It seems that everything that I do has a convergence of deadlines or requires extra time and it becomes literally impossible to get it all done.  I can only go so long on four to five hours a sleep a night before something has to give.  Unfortunately, what has taken the back seat lately is our posts here.  I am better about disappointing myself than I am other people, so I met all of my obligations to others leaving no time or energy for my work here.

Most of the time, Tracey and I are able to cover for each other when one of us is feeling overburdened by life, but her household was hit hard by they flu, first Harry and then Tracey.  She has been down and out for almost two weeks.  No fun!  Thankfully, because we are the bosses of ourselves, we simply gave ourselves permission to take a break.

Tracey and her family are on the mend, and I am whittling away at my obligations.  Things are settling down and we are both working our way back to a normal rhythm.  Thank goodness!!

In addition to not writing blog posts, I also have not been doing much cooking or baking of any kind.  Dinners at our house have been whatever I can cobble together from the bizarre assortment of ingredients in my pantry or that I can pull from the freezer and toss into the microwave.  It’s been a sad existence in our food world!

One night as I was digging past the assortment of partial boxes of different pastas lining the pantry shelf, I spied a King Arthur Mix for Gingerbread Waffles that I bought back before Christmas.  It may be springtime.  And gingerbread may be a holiday flavor, but it is what we had for a springtime dinner not too long ago.  I didn’t want the mix to go to waste!  And they sounded really good at the time!  The gingerbread flavor was just the comfort food that I needed.

I did, however,  buy it so long ago that King Arthur isn’t even selling it right now.  I’m hoping that it makes a return next winter because the waffles are really good!

To the mix, milk and butter are added.  The waffles are then cooked according to the instructions for your particular waffle iron.  I like my waffles crispy on the outside so I cooked them about nine minutes.  This mix made twelve 4″ waffles.  And just so you know, they freeze and reheat well in a toaster oven.  We may have had them for more than one dinner recently. 🙂

We ate our waffles with the traditional butter and maple syrup, but during our meal, I told Weber that I bet they would be awesome with some vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt and caramel sauce.  If you wanted to add a healthy touch, a little fruit with this dessert mix would probably also be super good!  I’m looking forward to the return of the gingerbread waffle mix next winter so that I can put the dessert version to the test!

I am traveling quite a bit over the next two weeks, so Tracey is on her own here next week.  We’ll be back together and on our regular schedule starting the week of April 15th when we’ll be sharing some new cake recipes.

Thanks for following along with us on our mixed up journey through life!