I have never been one to let anyone tell me or dictate what I can or can't eat for breakfast. "Recalcitrant." That's a really good word to describe me. So, why not have dark chocolate hot fudge on orange cinnamon Belgian waffles for breakfast? I mean, most weekday mornings consist of a customary round of fruit (honeycrisp apples, as of late) mixed with skyr and generic honey nut cheerios, so I reserve my rights to serve up something extra splendid for the weekends. So there.
These waffles are yeast based, which lends them the perfectly nice crisp on the outside that I really like about Belgian waffles (and why I prefer them to the standard leggo-my-eggo variety), and I sprinkled a bit of pearl sugar in during cooking, just for an extra sweet kick. The orange flavor is strong, and the cinnamon flavor is mild, but, of course, the show-stopper is the thick, dark, melted-ganache-like hot fudge drizzled all over. You really want to splurge and use the best chocolate and cocoa powder you've got for this one, because really, you won't regret it!
In other news, I must apologize for being more absent from this blog, the food blogosphere, and the twitterverse than I would like lately. I feel so out of the loop. Thankfully, my life has managed to settle into a routine again, but it's basically one where I'm madly scrambling to keep up with the 100miles-per-minute brilliance of the two chairs of my dissertation committee while still trying to keep my wits semi-about me--scrambling, trying, and probably failing pretty miserably, to be perfectly honest. So in the midst of all this, there hasn't been much brain power left in me to even tweet about anything remote interesting, much less be in the kitchen or behind the camera or blogging away--sadly! (I miss you, my foodie friends!) But, at the very least, on the weekends, there are waffles....
...and chocolate. Please don't forget the chocolate.
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