Do you leave your Christmas decorations up through New Years? Or do you take them down right after Christmas?
I’m in the “leave them up!” camp. I think of the Christmas season lasting from the day after Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day.
Although, it is a little depressing staring a tree with no presents under it.
And mostly, this decoration debate is a way to justify why there is a reindeer in my waffle picture. I made these waffles weeks ago and didn’t blog about them before Christmas.
Oops!! I swear, keeping to a blog schedule and some semblance of consistency with blogging needs to be my New Year’s resolution.
And maybe making waffles every weekend should be a resolution. That sounds like a great one!!
This waffle recipe is a copy cat recipe from Waffle House’s pecan waffles. They are the BEST waffles that I’ve made to date!!!
Pecan Waffles
Recipe from Food Network Magazine–Dec 2011
Ingredients:
3/4 cup chopped pecans
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg
1 cup whole milk
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted & cooled
1/4 cup vegetable shortening, melted & cooled
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread pecans onto a cookie sheet. Bake about 5 to 7 minutes until toasted. Set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the egg, milk, buttermilk, and vanilla.
Stir the egg mixture, melted butter, and melted shortening into the dry mixture. Stir just until combined.
Preheat a waffle iron. Brush heated waffle iron with some melted butter. Ladle about 1/2 cup of batter onto your waffle iron. Sprinkle about 2 tablespoons of the toasted pecans onto the batter.
Cook until golden brown. Repeat until all of your waffles are cooked.
Serve immediately with butter and syrup.
To make eggs easier to peel, I put a small “pin prick” in the big end of the egg with a sterile needle or tool made just for that purpose. As soon as they are hard boiled, I put them ice over them. The eggs pull away from the shell.
I’ve read about the ice tip too, but never the pin prick!
Pecans cooked in the waffles-yes I am definitely in on that idea-yum! They look tasty.
When I have guests over, I leave my decorations up for awhile. However, If I go out of town to celebrate Christmas they come down right after I get back. Not sure why though-now you do have me thinking. Have a wonderful New Year!
Yummm! I love adding nuts to waffles, this sounds great!
Hmm.. we usually leave our Christmas decorations up through News Years, it makes everything more festive!
I just realized something: I never grease my waffle iron when I use it… not sure why it just never occurred to me actually.
Ah the one time I didn’t grease my waffle iron, the waffles totally stuck to it and it came off in crumbled pieces!!
I leave ours up through New Years too. These waffles look so delicious!
I love that this recipe is from Food Network Magazine. You KNOW it’s gotta be good! I love waffles…I love pecans…this sounds like a match made in heaven.