February Challenge: Sourdough Waffles

My husband bought me a waffle maker from Facebook so I have been itching to try it out. I didn't wanna just make waffles, I wanted to make sourdough waffles with my homegrown sourdough!!! If you want to try to grow your own bacteria, this is how.  

So, I grew my sourdough, and when it was ready to be used, I took out 2 cups of sourdough, mixed in 2 eggs, some olive oil, some salt, tiny bit of baking soda (to make it more bubbly), and yes, molasses. 

Well, guess what happened to me. I told you from the beginning why this section of my blog was created, right? To experiment and challenge myself because I am not good in the kitchen? Yeah. Look at my pictures. It took me just one very hard to take out waffle to figure out I needed some kinda oil on my waffle iron. When I showed these pictures to my friends, they told me I was crazy and actually needed to spray PAM on it. Well, I didn't have PAM and I don't ever want to use PAM so I just drench olive oil on the iron. Guess what happened. Yes, the batter spilled out. HA! Anyway, I finally did it. The kids really liked my waffles though. It was very very tasty, and crispy because of the bubbly sourdough. 

Click here for the other sourdough foods I have made.

Homemade Kombucha

ALERT: If you have a sensitive stomach, you might not want to look at the photos I have on this post. 

I make Kombucha  A friend introduced me to it, yes, another health nut. :-) Kombucha is a health drink. The syllable "Cha" means tea in Chinese and Cantonese. But I believe this drink is from Russia. Kombucha has a lot of benefits. It detoxes the body and supplies the body with probiotics. 

The liquid is tea of course. The lighter colored liquid is Green tea and the darker colored is Chrysanthemum tea. The white mushroom looking thing is called Scoby. Not Scooby. ScOby. It is an organism. This Scoby absorbs the sugar I put in the tea and also caffeine, so I have heard, and spits out bubbles of probiotics into the tea. After a few days of brewing, the tea becomes "carbonated" and not sweet. Many people use Kombucha recipes to make different flavored drinks. 

Scobies are grown. I have grown some just by leaving a bowl of Kombucha around (covered). One risk that I know of is that if you leave the Scoby in for too long, the alcohol content will be high. So, here's how to make Kombucha:

1. Boil 2 cups of water (I use filtered)

2. 20 min 4 tea bags (any tea but tea with oil, like earl grey)

3. Mix in 1 cup white sugar

4. Mix in 2 cups cold water

5. Put in Scoby and cover

6. Leave in a warm dark place for 2-4 days

7. Strain Kombucha and store in refrigerator

8. Repeat 1-7 for the Scoby

GREEN TEA

CHRYSANTHEMUM TEA