THE RECIPE

Ingredients:

1 cup organic whole wheat flour
1/2 cup rye flour
1/4 cup oat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp sea salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup first cold pressing [organic, if desired] extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons ground flax meal
1 3/4 cups organic whole milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
spray oil to keep batter from sticking to waffle iron

Mix dry ingredients and then add eggs, milk, vanilla and olive oil and stir with a wire whisk or wooden spoon.

Spray waffle iron w/ oil [so it won't stick] and warm up the waffle iron.
Add batter.

Makes approx. 8-10 waffles.

Optional modifications to ingredients:

1) Add half a cup of cooked squash or canned pumpkin.
2) Instead of whole milk substitute soy milk.
3) Instead of whole milk substitute carrot juice.
4) Instead of whole milk substitute canned mango puree plus 1/2 cup added carrot juice.

Ingredients

Here are the ingredients you will need to make these waffles, or at least the suggested ingredients:

1. A waffle iron. (No, technically this is not an ingredient. I guess you would call it waffle-making paraphenalia.)
2. A non-stick cooking oil spray.
3. Some kind of sweetener.
4. Butter or replacement for butter.
5. Organic, 100% stone ground whole wheat flour (or any wheat-based flour).
6. Rye flour.
7. Oat flour.
8. Sea salt.
9. Eggs, or egg replacement.
10. Vanilla extract.
11. Olive oil (cold pressed first pressing extra virgin, or any other cooking oil).
12. Baking soda.
13. Milk or milk substitute. (Soy milk, rice milk, almond milk, etc.)

Recipe (forthcoming) :-)

Butter (or no butter)

If you object to animal products or won't use butter for health reasons, there are very good vegan "buttery" tasting spreads out there, as well as margarine and butter replacements. Feel free to use those. I only recommend butter because I use it, and I love it. If you want to convince me not to use real butter, go right ahead!
:-)

Syrup

If you are interested in a healthy and tasty sweetener to use in place of regular sugar syrup, buy a pint of honey, a pint of agave nectar [agave sugar syrup], and a pint of maple syrup and mix. I am no nutrition expert but I *think* you can leave such a syrup out of the frige without having any problems. There shouldn't be any problems because there is an enzyme in honey which produces hydrogen peroxide, which keeps it free of germs. If you want to flavor your syrup, add a teaspoon of vanilla extract to the mix. Alternatively, you can put vanilla extract in the waffle batter, as recommended by the recipe (forthcoming).