As promised, or threatened, here is my ‘recipe’ for Chocolate Chip Cookie Waffles.

1 tube Pillsbury chocolate chip cookie dough

1 waffle iron

I set the waffle iron at medium heat, because I was guessing. I assumed the innards of the cookie wouldn’t cook if the iron was set at high so we went for medium heat.

Take about a handful of dough and place in a ziploc bag so you can soften it. The idea was to make it pliable enough so it would spread out on the waffle iron. The bag idea didn’t work very well as scraping it out of the bag proved to be rather messy. I should have take pictures of this part but my hands were too messy to handle the camera.

After abandoning the ziploc bag we took a plate and mushed the cookie dough on it. We spread the dough out to about an inch less than the size of the waffle iron in case it expanded.

Gently peel the cookie dough off the plate and place on the waffle iron. Close the waffle iron.

When cooking waffles the rule of thumb is that the waffles are ready when the iron stops steaming. This wasn’t the case with the chocolate chip cookie waffles as they put out a huge amount of steam. The cookie waffles smelled amazing and we kept checking them but no one had any idea if they were ready. After about five minutes of cooking time we decided they were ready.

Getting them out of the waffle iron was challenging at best. The cookie waffle was not unlike a regular cookie fresh out of the oven, it needs to cool before being removed.We couldn’t turn the iron off and wait for it to cool down because we had more cookie dough and there were at least three teenage boys waiting for the cookies.

I tried lifting them out with a fork but that just proved to be a mess. Eventually I just unplugged the waffle iron, donned some oven mitts and flipped the whole thing over while my son tried to coax them out with a fork.

I wouldn’t recommend making Chocolate Chip Cookies in the waffle iron. We couldn’t make them fast enough for everyone and the risk of getting burned was pretty high. The cookies were very good since the outer part was crunchy and the inner part was soft. Of course that could mean it wasn’t entirely cooked but since no one got sick I am pretty sure it was okay.

If there had been any cookie dough left our next experiment for alternative cooking would have been to cook them on the grill. Thankfully the boys ate all the cookie dough and it never came to that. We’d had fish the night before and they would have been nasty.

Our next waffle iron experiment will be to cook scrambled eggs with bacon in the waffle iron. The idea being that if we made two regular waffles and then the scrambled egg waffle they could be layered and served kinda like an Egg McMuffin, a rather large Egg McMuffin.

Do you have any waffle iron experiments?

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If you read Momma Mia Culpa you know that Meleah has been Doing Things Differently (DTD) for a while now. If you don’t read Momma Mia Culpa then you better get over there and start reading because Meleah is an awesome writer and she has one of the greatest families.

Last week Meleah was told that she had to stop doing things differently for a while. This saddened Meleah because she has worked so hard, making small changes in the hopes that they will add up to big changes. Jennifer was also saddened to learn that Meleah must take a break from DTD.  Jennifer decided to pick up the DTD torch while Meleah is forced to do things the same (even though Jennifer is not really sure that Meleah is doing things the same since she has been doing things differently for quite some time now and that might just mean that indeed she is doing things differently if she has to go back to doing things the same) because she loves Meleah with all her heart, even though she has never actually met Meleah, she feels as if they should have been sisters and were probably separated at birth or something.  Jennifer can easily see the resemblance between herself and Meleah.

Jennifer signed up to DTD on Facebook a long time ago but Jennifer has been really busy so she never totally DTD. And by that she means that she forgot all about doing things differently and just continued to do them the same.

But not today. Jennifer is determined to DTD at least for the next 6 hours or so. Jennifer would really like to commit to more hours but Jennifer knows she has a really short attention span and it is probably not likely that she will be able to DTD for a whole entire day. Especially not on a Saturday when there are so ‘many’ things that need to be done the same (though, Jennifer wonders if she were to mix things up a bit by say cutting the grass while listening to music  when she doesn’t usually listen to music while cutting the grass, qualifies as DTD). Jennifer will be doing things differently by making sure all the children on the block play at another parent’s house so Jennifer doesn’t ‘lose it’. Jennifer will also not be picking up after said children. Jennifer realizes that she says this everyday and then caves in and picks up after the children because she can not stand to look at her living room when it is filled with 300 Barbies.  Jennifer is quite confident that she can stick to her guns today because she has locked the children out of the house before the 300 Barbies were let loose on the living room.

Jennifer is inviting all of you to do things differently too. Jennifer, nor Meleah, does not expect anyone to make drastic changes because they just don’t work. Jennifer invites you to try to make one small change today and build on that success. Jennifer also invites you to post about DTD on your blog so that Meleah doesn’t freak out because she can’t DTD for a while longer.

Jennifer is now going to put on her ‘outfit’ and go outside and walk around the block 6 times in a row for the first day in a row.

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I was all set to talk about Canadians today but I got stuck in traffic so my Canadian post will have to wait until Monday.

I love Def Leppard. There is no better band to rock out to in a car or anywhere you can play the music really loud. With arm or without these guys can rock. I went to several of their concerts back when they first started touring, before Behind the Music, the drugs and break ups. I saw them open for Queen, one of the most awesome shows I have ever seen. I can’t remember who I went to these concerts with but I know I have never stopped loving their music.

I went to visit my mother this morning.  Normally a 40 minute drive one way. It’s a 40 minute drive one way because I take the path least traveled and go all around the metro area.  I probably add 10 miles to my trip this way but I can drive 70-80 mph the whole way.

As most of you know I live in St. Paul. People from St. Paul don’t usually go to Minneapolis unless the have to. There aren’t that many good reasons I can think of that would warrant my need to go to Minneapolis except to visit my mother. My mom lives in a suburb clear on the other side of Minneapolis, which means that Minneapolis is smack dab between where I live and where my mother lives. I can’t avoid it, I have to go through it. Which is why I visit my mother after rush hour.

On the way back I decided that I was wasting a lot of gas trying to avoid Minneapolis so instead of going around it I decided to take the crosstown, highway 62, which goes right through the city I have been trying to avoid all my life. The crosstown was built to get people from one side of town to the other quickly.  It has never been my experience to get from point A (St. Paul) to point B (Minneapolis) quickly using the crosstown because as long as I can remember the crosstown has been under construction. However, because I don’t actually drive on the crosstown I really have no way of knowing if it is under construction. It might have been years ago, the last time I drove it, but there is really no way for me to know. So I decided to take the crosstown which should have reduced my trip from 40 minutes to maybe 15.

I don’t even know why I am typing all of this out for you. Just watch the video.

I’m sure the Canadians don’t have this kind of traffic.

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I’m going to give up carbohydrates. I’m going to give up my precious carbs for a week.  And I am going to document it here.

I have to. Bathing suit season is still far enough away that there might be some hope for me.

I also have to because I ate the most ginormous waffle today and I don’t think I could look at another carb for at least a week.

I realize that this means no chocolate and no bread.

It also means no wine.

I might be a little crabby.

This whole giving up of the carbs thing is definitely doing things differently, and I have vowed to do things differently even if I said I would only on a whim. There are DTD (doing things differently) police and she makes me a little nervous. If you want to try your hand at doing things differently then head over to Mommamiaculpa where Meleah (see, I am spelling it right finally,which is also doing things differently) will educate you on the whole process. Once you have familiarized yourself with the whole procedure then you can join the Facebook group for DTD. One rule, which I am breaking because I forgot and I am still too full to go back and change everything now, is that when talking about DTD you must write in the third person.

If everyone is still alive after the week, I might just do it another week.

I fully anticipate there will be wagers on how long I can last.

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I didn’t realize this until I ran out of it. I haven’t had a diet coke in over 24 hours and I have a massive headache and I am really tired. I have tried coffee to perk me up but that just gets me too jittery. This sucks. I could run to the store to buy some but frankly I want to know how long I can go before the monkey starts screaming. I can also use this as the excuse for why I am so cranky. It’s really hard to find anything even mildly amusing to say when you are going through withdrawal.

* an hour after I posted this I was out of the game. I felt like Kramer.