As an adult, breakfast for dinner is definitely awesome. It's an easy thing to put together if you* want to invite people over, it's novel enough to be appealing yet easy enough to be quick and fairly cheap. (If you're buying fancy local humanely raised guilt-bacon, like me, you may need to add scare quotes around "cheap." However, and I suppose this shouldn't be surprising, this was probably some of the best bacon I've had.) Fancy glassware can be used to serve orange juice, which is delicious, and waffles are a treat for the waffle-iron-less. Waffles are also incredibly easy to make, even when you have a very finicky waffle maker with no timing element, a tendency to get hotter the longer it's on, and an undeniable bent toward destruction. Even slightly over- or underdone waffles are delicious.
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[/caption]I don't really have a point. It might have something to do with "night coffee isn't a great idea, and now I'm writing this at 12:30 am instead of sleeping." Also, if you're going to do breakfast for dinner, a dishwasher is a very nice thing to have.
The only bad thing about breakfast for dinner as a social event is that you'll probably have to eat in the dining room, as opposed to the breakfast nook (if you have a breakfast nook). This ties into my earlier post about houses, though...breakfast nooks are delightful. Not a dealbreaker for a kitchen, but an unexpectedly delightful bonus.
*I have no idea why I'm writing this with a prescriptive bent. Obviously, I am talking about myself. I do appreciate any opportunity to use my fancy glassware. And my waffle maker is obnoxiously tricky to use. It makes a lion, an elephant and a clown. The clown is the smallest, and always ends up a little burnt, like the bucket brigade didn't quite make it in time.
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Okay, serious question: Waffles seem like a hassle to me because of, like, mixing. (And I guess I make Joy of Cooking waffles, not box waffles, but even so - that was an obviously ridiculous statement.) I feel like there should be a way to make that easier? Like, keep the dry part pre-mixed, and just add milk at the last second, so you can make two waffles at a time, instead of a thousand waffles? (But egg? Maybe...fake-egg? Or dry egg? Is there such a thing as dried egg?) Or keep liquid mix in the fridge at all times? But how long does that keep? I feel like Alton Brown can solve this for me? What I am saying is: sometimes I want ONE WAFFLE.
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Also get a toaster! Geez!
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