Rubbishy Cookery

  As mentioned in an earlier blog post (Recipe #11), you can waffle just about anything. And yes, you can use the word waffle as a noun and a verb. At least here, at Rubbishy Grammary. Ingredients: As you can see in the above photo, the only ingredients are leftover buttery mashed potatoes and a seasoned waffle iron. If your leftover mashed potatoes aren’t buttery, or your waffle iron isn’t seasoned, you will also need oil. If you want to get extra fancy, you could also add some sautéed chopped onions. I wish I had thought of that earlier. Oh well. Next time. Directions: Preheat your waffle iron, green light means go: Add your cold leftover mashed potatoes to the hot waffle iron: And waffle: Until hot and golden brown: And that’s it! Serve as is, or make it a proper breakfast with two over easy eggs and hot sauce: So good!

Apparently this is similar to a coffee beverage that was trendy during the pandemic, providing comfort and joy to many folks during a dark time. I, being tremendously untrendy, was unaware of this.  I think of this recipe as the café au lait  introduced to me in 1991 in Nice, France, by my Canadian friend who was living there as a poor exchange student. She drank the caffeinated version of this daily with her baguette  and croissants . I thought she was wonderfully sophisticated and chic, and fully trusted her knowledge of all things French. Take all of this with a grain of sel , however, as my friend, although fluent in French and living La vie française, also confessed to me that she missed Tim Hortons coffee. Insert le eye roll. Ingredients: Directions: Pour some whole milk into a cup of choice. I am using a homemade pottery café au lait  cup: Microwave on high for about 2 minutes, so that the milk is steaming hot: Add a teaspoon or so of sugar and about two teasp...