Seeing my wife, Mara, overly engrossed with a TV show called "The
Naked Chef", I commented, "The food looks yummy. But why is the cook not nude?"
She looked at me with utmost scorn and said, "They call it that because the bloke uses simple ingredients."
"Oh!" I picked up the remote.
Mara snatched the remote from my hands. "What are you doing? He'll be making Belgian waffles next!"
Now, Belgian waffles are my favorites, and learning how to make them is one of my simple dreams in life. I fell in love with these sweets the first time I tasted them in Brussels. I think people started making them a year after
Belgians became Christians.
Starbucks also sells waffles in strawberry and chocolate variants. They do taste good, but I'm not sure if they're from Belgium. I watched silently as the Naked Chef demonstrated how to make my favorite breakfast. According to him, waffles are "crisp raised cake baked in a waffle iron, a hinged metal griddle with a honeycombed or fancifully engraved surface that allows a thin layer of batter to cook evenly and crisply." Everything went fine, but I was a little confused because he insisted on giving ingredients in ounces and pints. Personally, I think it would be easier to move to Europe.
