Waffles Are The Best

This morning I had brunch with my wife, daughter and mother in law. My son was hanging out at a friend's house, and we did not want to do much, so we decided on brunch. We usually make eggs, bacon, sausage and hashbrowns. Today my daughter and I decided we wanted one extra carb. She opted for pancakes and I had a waffle. Let’s discuss.

I do not indulge in waffles or pancakes much anymore, but when I do, I really go for it. So I had my eggs, a few small sausage patties and a little helping of hashbrowns. I saved my waffle for last. I also tried a few bites of my daughter's pancake. It was good. We both went pretty classic too. She did add fresh blueberries on top, but otherwise we both did butter and syrup. As I said, the pancake was good. But my waffle, it was wonderful. It was big and fluffy. It came out piping hot. The butter instantly melted and the syrup hit all the open squares that a waffle comes equipped with. When I went to cut into it with my fork, it easily split into the four triangles that a waffle iron offers when making them. It was simply exquisite. Each bite had the right amount of butter and syrup. The steam from the heat made it all the more delicious. It was tremendous.

After finishing it off, I sat there and contemplated whether this was the best waffle I had ever had. It was definitely up there. But I think the fact of the matter is that I just prefer waffles to pancakes. Pancakes are good and all. Don't get me wrong. But I feel like a waffle is made for anyone that is craving something a little sweet. The syrup and butter kind of slips off a pancake. You have to fork it and then dip it into the butter and syrup, and whatever else you like on your waffle, that is on your plate. With a waffle, it is all compacted in the little squares. You can also break it into four separate pieces and eat it like that, which makes it easier. I also feel like you can put better, more inventive ingredients within waffle batter to truly gussy them up if that is what you like. It is easier to turn a waffle into a homemade breakfast sandwich but breaking it in half.

Truth is that waffles are the better breakfast food. There I said it. I feel like I so rarely have them because of how hard it is to clean a damn waffle iron. But that is on me. Waffle irons are a total pain to clean. You have to really scour the whole thing, and even then you will probably miss a few flakes of batter here and there. Pancakes are easier to clean because you can make them in a simple pan. But maybe that is also what makes a waffle so enticing and makes it feel like a real treat. The work that goes into making waffles, and then cleaning up afterward, makes the food worthwhile. You really want to savor a waffle because of the trouble you go through to make them. Waffles are legit. They may be my new go to sweet breakfast treat. I just need to prepare myself going in for the cleanup job that awaits. But I also need to let myself enjoy how truly, truly exquisite a simple waffle can be.

One more time. Waffles rule.

Ty

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Ground Sausage Patties are the King of the Breakfast Meats

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Today I am going to come at you all with one of my hottest takes ever.

So, before I met my wife, I was not a big breakfast person. I didn't feel like eating when I got up. If I was hungry I'd always eat something that was filled with empty calories and tons of sugar, like brown sugar cinnamon Pop Tarts, or Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Don't get me wrong, I love those still, but honestly, they are absolutely horrible for you, and to eat them for breakfast, you are just asking for a bad day. I usually would just wait until lunch time to eat my first meal, and that was also a mistake because I ate far too much lunch, and did the same at dinner, and I would snack until midnight.

When I started to date my wife, and especially when we moved in together, she was pretty staunch about eating breakfast. I started to make sure that I was getting something in my body before I would head off to work. At first it was more of the same sugary nonsense. Then, I started to have breakfast shakes or smoothies. When the allure of that wore off, I started to navigate more towards savory foods for breakfast. Back when I was working a full time job, it was hard to get up and make eggs or something along those lines. I would opt for microwavable breakfasts then. I would get those scrambles or frozen breakfast meat or a bagel. Basically something I could eat on the road. Then, when I became a stay at home dad, I was able to make a proper breakfast for myself and my son, and then my daughter. When I was first at home, with just my son, he and I would eat oatmeal and some kind of breakfast meat. It was great to have a nice hearty breakfast with him.

Then, I went on my diet pretty soon after I started staying home, and I cut out the oatmeal and started to make eggs with whatever meat we had. My son loved it too, especially after his egg allergy wore off. Even now, with my son in school full time, my daughter and I have some kind of meat with our breakfast, and she will have cereal or oatmeal or pop tarts, and I will have eggs. I have also completely adapted to being a coffee drinker.

What I want to say today, to finally get to my hot, hot take, I think that ground sausage patties are, by far, the best breakfast meat in the world.

It is not even close for me.

Look, I have tried pretty much every variance of breakfast meat there is. I love steak, so I have had steak and eggs. Ground sausage patties are better. Bacon is a homerun with pretty much everything, especially eggs. Ground sausage is better. Canadian bacon and ham are excellent bacon substitutes. Ground sausage is better. And sausage links, be they ground or frozen, are okay, there just isn't enough. The great thing about ground breakfast sausage for me, I feel like I am eating a bun less burger for breakfast. I mean, how dope is that. I put a little American cheese on my sausage right near the end of the cook, and it melts so perfectly over the top. It is divine. I also love having it on the side of my 2 scrambled eggs because I can cut tiny individual pieces and combine the 2 for a perfect bite. I also like the ground, raw sausage because when you cook it, if you do it right, you get that great, almost burnt crust on top of the meat. It is like biting into a hot dog casing, which I also think is great. I also appreciate how salty the patty is as opposed to the link. There is more surface area for the spices to all blend together to give you a great salty and spicy bite. Links are fine, but they don't give you that perfect bite every time like a patty does.

I'm the only one in my family that prefers the ground patty to the frozen link. My wife likes the ease of the link. My son likes the fact that he can put away 3 or 4 links to 1 or 2 patties. My daughter likes how much easier they are to eat. But me, I'm perfectly happy waiting for the patty to be properly cooked so I can enjoy the deliciousness it brings. As I said, I have tried pretty much every breakfast meat, or meat substitute, or veggie option, but the ground sausage patty is, hands down for me, the absolute peak breakfast meat.

I know this my be divisive. I know people may think I'm weirder than they already do. I know I may get some heat for this. I don't care. This is my platform, and I am here to drop truth bombs on you all. Ground breakfast sausage is the best breakfast meat in the world.

There, I said it.

Ty

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