Moby Waffle! The Hunt For The Perfect Breakfast Treat Recipe
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Moby Waffle! The Hunt For The Perfect Breakfast Treat
Call Me Ishmael, (not really) but ever since I bought my first waffle iron, and the good people at Tropical Traditions sent me a complimentary bag of their organic gluten-free coconut flour to try, Sunday has become waffle day around our house and I've got a new appreciation for crazy-ass Captain Ahab and his OCD jones over that big 'ol bag of blubber, Moby Dick.
For the first time, high school English teachers be damned, I got him. I mean I really got him! That combination of stubbornness and one track mindedness (is that even a word?) possessed me, and I was going to - do you hear me - GOING TO make those waffles work!!
Last week the waffles looked…
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