santalia
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Greetings Another good option for breakfast is waffles. i've always thought Krusteaz is the best mix for waffles, though you can use any mix or make your own mix. Serve them with butter, warmed maple syrup, fresh fruit, bacon and/or sausage and you have a wonderful treat. A nice subsititute for maple syrup is a blackberry syrup. If you take some blackberries (please buy frest at your local farmers market...the varieties that are best for this are olallie, siskiyou, boysen, and kiowa...the fresh and frozen bought at the supermarket are flavorless compared to these), and put them in a saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring most of the time, they'll juice themselves. You might want to mash them to help get the juice and pulp to release from the seeds. Next, run through a seive (fine mesh strainer) to get the seeds out. Return the juice to the saucepan and cook over medium heat. You'll want to bring it to a simmer then reduce the heat until it's simmering gently. While that's heating, take a tablespoon of cornstarch and mix with enough hot water to liquefy the cornstarch. Pour that into the juice before it begins simmering. Simmer the juice until it reaches the desired consistency - should not be as thick as maple syrup, but about 3/4 of that thickness. You can also add blueberries and/or strawberries to this. Another good breakfast is biscuits and gravy. To make a nice semi-homemade country gravy, fry some bacon till it's very crisp and crumble it. Pour off all but a tiny bit of the grease. Next, take a package of country gravy mix and add that to the bacon pan. Allow the mix to cook until it begins to take on a nutty smell (that will be the flour cooking). Next, add equal amounts of water and milk, stirring constantly with a wire wisk. Allow it to thicken and add the crumbled bacon. It will taste just as though you made it totally from scratch, instead of using a packaged mix. If you prefer sausage, you can use that instead of bacon, but most sausage isn't as greasy as bacon, so you might need to add some butter when you put the gravy mix in the pan. Hope this helps. Well wishes -santalia{JR]t
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