Pumpkin Waffles - Queensland Pumpkin

Pumpkin Waffles

using Queensland Pumpkin

from the Waffles Cookbook

Ingredients

• 1 egg, separated
• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup oats
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1/3 milk
• 1/2 cup fresh pureed pumpkin
• 4 tablespoon butter melted and cooled
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts or pecans 

Directions

1. Beat egg white in a small bowl until stiff and set aside.  
2. Mix together dry ingredients and set aside.
3. Combine egg yolk, milk, pumpkin, and butter.  
4. Add to dry ingredients, mixing until just blended.  
5. Add nuts and fold in beaten egg white until just mixed.  Do not over beat batter.
6. Cook as directed on your waffle maker. 

Pumpkin Waffles - Queensland Pumpkin

Pumpkin Waffles

using Queensland Pumpkin

from the Waffles Cookbook

Ingredients

• 1 egg, separated
• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup oats
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1/3 milk
• 1/2 cup fresh pureed pumpkin
• 4 tablespoon butter melted and cooled
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts or pecans 

Directions

1. Beat egg white in a small bowl until stiff and set aside.  
2. Mix together dry ingredients and set aside.
3. Combine egg yolk, milk, pumpkin, and butter.  
4. Add to dry ingredients, mixing until just blended.  
5. Add nuts and fold in beaten egg white until just mixed.  Do not over beat batter.
6. Cook as directed on your waffle maker. 

Pumpkin Waffles - Queensland Pumpkin

Pumpkin Waffles

using Queensland Pumpkin

from the Waffles Cookbook

Ingredients

• 1 egg, separated
• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup oats
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1/3 milk
• 1/2 cup fresh pureed pumpkin
• 4 tablespoon butter melted and cooled
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts or pecans 

Directions

1. Beat egg white in a small bowl until stiff and set aside.  
2. Mix together dry ingredients and set aside.
3. Combine egg yolk, milk, pumpkin, and butter.  
4. Add to dry ingredients, mixing until just blended.  
5. Add nuts and fold in beaten egg white until just mixed.  Do not over beat batter.
6. Cook as directed on your waffle maker. 

Balancing Act

Balancing Act

Recent work - Cereal bowl and spoon with fruit

Cereal

Crisco is a great way to keep food in its place but using it totally grosses me out.  Something about not being able to get it off my hands gets me to wonder what is it doing to my body.  Crisco is nice for its color in that it kind of looks like milk but adding real milk on top of the Crisco completes the illusion.

This image is comprised of many layers.  The spoon was shot first with Crisco as the base holding the cereal and fruit in place, then a couple of layers of the spoon with milk in different places.  The bowl was added in much the same way, first the bowl with cereal but without milk, then a couple more layers of the bowl with the milk in different parts.  Also an overlay was used when shooting the bowl with cereal.

Adding milk is the tricky part, too much milk and the cereal flakes change their color and texture as they become soggy, too little milk and the image just doesn’t look right. 

I worked with Kimberly Colburn during this shoot. She is always my first choice whenever I seek a food stylist. With her help we are a team moving pieces of the puzzle around to create the most appealing final image possible. 

        

For this project I retouched the images myself but yes I do use a digital retoucher when needed.

Recent work - more images from cereal shoot

Oatmeal Crisp with Fruit

Recent work -breakfast cereal

Oatmeal Crisp with Fruit

olympic oatmeal - toppings

Olympic Oatmeal

Recent work - Olympic Oatmeal

Lunde's Breakfast

Olympic Oatmeal is something we ate in Switzerland years back, which we just loved.  Larry came up with a recipe and has made modifications to it though the years.  This is the one food we eat a lot of for breakfast.  I have talked about it with friends, so I thought it was time to post the recipe and share.   

Olympic Oatmeal 

for breakfast


very simple.  3 ingredients.
 
4 cups old fashioned oatmeal (uncooked)
3 cups apple juice
1 & 1/3 cups vanilla yogurt



Add to a bowl and mix.  Cover and place in refrigerator overnight.
Serve with toppings of your choice.

note non-fat yogurt doesn't react right with apple and oatmeal, watery and doesn't break the oats down.    And steel cut oats doesn't breakdown as well as old fashion oats. 

Apple Oatmeal Waffles

Apple Oatmeal Waffles

Ingredients 
1 egg
¾ cup all purpose flour
¾ cup quick oats
1 tsp baking powder
1/8 salt
½ tsp cinnamon
¾ cup apple juice
1 tsp honey
4 tbs butter or margarine room temperature
¼ medium apple, peeled and diced - microwave until soft
¼ cup chopped walnuts optional
2 tbs raisins optional

Mix together dry ingredients and set aside. Combine egg, juice, honey and butter. Add to dry ingredients, mixing until just blended. Add apple, nuts and raisins.

Makes about 2-3 waffles

Egg Bread

Egg Bread

I have a wonderful husband who made this for breakfast without asking.

Egg Bread

6 eggs
1/2 to 3/4 cup milk
3 slices of bread small pieces
Cheese
Vegetables (broccoli, tomatoes , peppers)

Mix all ingredients into a 2 Qt baking dish.
Let stand for 15 minutes

bake for 1 hour at 350 till firm.





Enjoy