Waffles: From Morning to Midnight

by Dorie Greenspan

A collection of sixty waffle recipes features instructions for making dill waffles with soft scallion cream cheese, spicy ricotta waffles with roasted red pepper spoon bread, and rhubarb waffles

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

128 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1993

About the author

Called a culinary guru by the New York Times, Dorie Greenspan is the author of the James Beard Awardwinning Baking: From My Home to Yours, which inspired the creation of the online baking community Tuesdays with Dorie. She has been passionately involved with French food for the last three decades. With Pierre Herm, she wrote Desserts by Pierre Herm, winner of an IACP Cookbook of the Year Award, and Chocolate Desserts by Pierre Herm, winner of the Gourmand prize for best cookbook in the English language. Greenspan won both an IACP and a James Beard Award for her Baking with Julia. She is also the author of Paris Sweets and The Caf Boulud Cookbook (with Daniel Boulud). Inducted into the Whos Who of Food and Beverage in America, she is a contributing editor to Parade magazine, writes regularly for Bon Apptit, and is a frequent guest on NPRs All Things Considered and The Splendid Table. Greenspan lives in New York City, Westbrook, Connecticut, and Paris."

Reviews

[Rob · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are going to get someone a waffle iron as a gift, have your significant other (or some other close friend) give this cookbook as the companion gift.

Let's assume that you have been given the waffle iron as a wedding gift. You exclaim a joyous thanks; after all, you love waffles. (Who doesn't?) But after making a batch or two during your honeymoon week, it goes back on the shelf. Who has time to make waffles for breakfast that often?

This book breathes new life into that waffle iron. Dozens of recipes that go beyond the heated gridded griddle cakes. Potato-based waffles with green onions for a weekend lunch, curried waffle club sandwiches, scallion waffles with a sesame chicken salad... Awesome stuff you probably would not even consider on your own. Suddenly your waffle maker use is up 300%! You tell your friend all about how you use the waffle maker all the time now. For all kinds of meals. You have a post-honeymoon housewarming party and serve up a chocolate-based waffle that then gets diced and dipped into the sweet cheese sauce in the fondue pot (the other wedding gift you insisted on and now don't know what to do with). Everyone is happy.

Now if only someone would tell you how to easily clean a waffle maker, you'd be all set.

(CLOSING NOTE: this is another one of those cookbooks that would have been much better served by the addition of some pictures....)

[Julia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the french toast waffles.

[Stefanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not usually one to review cookbooks, but I acquired a copy of this one at the beginning of the pandemic and have been turning to it for cooking inspiration throughout (I've never used my waffle iron this much!). It's been a delight, delivering every time. I have not made any of the savory varieties, as that's not usually what I'm looking for from waffles—I definitely stick to the sweet end of the spectrum, and I like a waffle that's tasty in its own right, because I do not care for syrup. One of my kids is vegan and the other has a tough time with dairy, and the recipes do well when I switch out dairy ingredients for nondairy alternatives and use flax eggs in place of chicken eggs. I would definitely recommend this cookbook for cooks looking for creative waffle recipes.

[John’aLee · Rating 4 out of 5]

For 25 years I have been making overnight waffles for my kids, and now my grandkids. They devour them up and are ecstatic when they come into the kitchen the night before and see me making them....
This last weekend I decided to use gluten free flour, without letting on to anyone. They were devoured as well, and not a peep out of a one of them! I was pleasantly surprised myself at how good the waffles were.
This prompted me to pull out my Waffle Cookbook that I’ve had for years to see what else I could do with this fabulous treat that I now could eat without an allergic reaction. And was I ever delighted with the myriad of possibilities. I love this little cookbook! And can’t wait to use 2021 to try out her delicious and oh so different recipes!

[Cherie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A variety of different waffle recipes; my machine is a Belgian waffle maker, and I don't know how well many of these would work out, but maybe?

[Emily · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a disappointment! The inclusion of savory waffle recipes and all kinds of interesting combinations really made me excited to waffle everything in sight. I made one recipe for brunch (the whole wheat, oat & banana waffles), following it to the letter and ended up with overly moist pancake like batter and waffles that tasted like goat food. Horrible.

I was going to try another recipe just in case but I don't feel like wasting ingredients.

Did I mention that I'm disappointed? So. Disappointed.

[Anne Bean · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wedding gift along with a fantastic waffler, and we have used it dozens of times. The apple waffles are to die for and we've also enjoyed michigan grids, butterscotch waffles, buckwheat waffles, cottage cheese waffles, and more.

[Rose]

641.8 Gre