Waffle Maker Round 2

So I don't know if you remember my post about the Krups Waffle Maker from a few months ago but I vowed to return it and just this past weekend finally made it back to San Marcos and did in fact return it! I found another waffle iron comparable to the other in price and though it wasn't the cutest on the outside, is AMAZING! It makes the best waffles, we LOVE them. So anyway, once again, it never hurts to ask and see if someone will return something you weren't satisfied with!

The brand we now have and like is Chef's Choice and I believe this is the link.

Eleanor's Feast Day

Eleanor's first name is of course not biblical though we once heard that she could someday make her name a "saint's name" :) Anyway, we wanted her to have a biblical or saint's name somewhere in her name which was why we named her Eleanor ANN. We choose Ann after St. Ann, Jesus' grandmother, the Virgin Mary's mother. We also choose that name because St. Ann is the parish where we were married.

St. Ann's feast day was on Tuesday, July 26th. I knew I wanted to take her to mass on her feast day and wanted to start that tradition of her special feast day celebration and then when I realized our parish was going to have a mass to celebrate we decided to go to that. It was even more special that St. Ann Parish asked that we honor our grandparents that day (because St. Ann is Jesus' Grandma and our heavenly grandma) so we went with Eleanor's Marmi and Pop Pop and honored them and all our grandparents.

Eleanor made a special sign for her grandparents to tell them she is thankful for them on St. Ann's feast day as well. She didn't really understand what I meant when I asked her to hold it out though haha!

I also found a few cute ideas for celebrating the feast day after the fact on one of my favorite Catholic cooking blogs! http://catholiccuisine.blogspot.com/2009/07/our-heavenly-grandmother.html and http://catholiccuisine.blogspot.com/2009/07/our-heavenly-grandmother.html. Next year we can make her day even more special! :)

Krups Waffle Maker F654

So I decided to finally use the waffle maker we got well let me re-phrase I bought us, for Christmas. I had wanted one since we registered for our wedding but couldn't find one we liked. When I made my Christmas list I had decided I would get a waffle iron but of course decided quickly on one that was on sale when MEA and I were outlet shopping and didn't research first.

What drew my attention to it was that it made HUGE waffles and had nice deep pocket holes for the powedered sugar to fill up. I didn't check EVERYTHING on it though for what I wanted...

When I opened the box I noticed my first dissapointment - the plates don't come off!? My parent's OBG waffle iron has removable plates that can be washed so you literally don't have to submerge the waffle iron in the sink (not that I would...). This one didn't...oh well I decided I could get over that...THEN I was reading the directions and learned that the lights that switch on and off and (on my parents' waffle iron) tell you when the iron is hot enough and then when it is ready for the waffles to be done, on this iron just tells you the temp. You have to time yourself 4 - 6 min. WHAT?! Fine, I decided to get over that as well and move on...

When I finally decided to try out my waffle recipe (Pioneer All Purpose Biscuit Mix, add and egg and some milk ha) much to my dismay, the waffles wouldn't come out! It wasn't that they were sticking to the majorly teflon coated plate, it was that the holes were so deep that the waffle was getting stuck. I don't know what else to say except that I am NOT a fan of this iron.

From what I can remember in working with waffle irons, the waffles are supposed to just lift right, not need to be PRYED off the iron.

SO I bought this in November and am hoping that maybe whenever it is that I go back to San Marcos to the WS Outlet that they will take it back. If not, garage sale?