6 Grain Overnight Waffles

6 Grain+ Overnight Waffles by Shelley

This is my own recipe.   I have made some yogurt waffles before, they help to lighten and fluff the waffle.   But I wanted a very healthy recipe with Protein and whole grains.  So after some experimentation, this is what i have come up with.   They are are sweet, tasty, and lighter than a traditional whole grain waffle, while still very filling and hearty.  You could also substitute in a Cup of Regular Rolled Oats for 1 Cup of the cereal, adds yet another grain.

Plus I like that i can start them at night, and they are ready to cook as soon as we wake up in the morning.  This makes a HUGE batch.  Approximately 40+ waffles.   I like to make ahead and freeze. 

I buy the Honeyville 6 Grain Rolled Cereal, available here.  It contains:  Whole Red Wheat Flakes, Whole White Wheat Flakes, Barley Flakes, Oatmeal, Rye Flakes and Sunflower Seeds.

Ingredients:
6 cups uncooked  6 grain Rolled Cereal OR Rolled oats (Not Quick)
6-8 Cups Boiling water
3.5 cups Multi-grain flour or Whole Wheat flour
1/2 C. Coconut Flour 1.5 Cups of Plain or Vanilla Yogurt w/ Live active Cultures
2 T. Vanilla Extract 4 T. Cinnamon
3 t. Nutmeg
2 T. Ginger
5 t. baking powder
2 t. baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 
12 large fresh eggs 
3-5 cups goat milk (We have milking goats at home, you can use any milk you choose, even a non dairy version.)

I always grind my flour at home.   Click here for a tutorial on making your own Multi-grain flour.
Also, spices give such good flavor.  Don't skimp on them!

Directions:
Measure out the 6 grain cereal in LARGE mixing bowl, and add about 6 Cups boiling water.   Cover and let stand for 1-2 hours.  If it is really dry, add more water, just until moist.
Add remaining dry ingredients.

After it has cooled some, or if you need to cool it sooner, (after at least 1/2 hour) add the milk and mix well.  It must be under 100º before adding Yogurt.   Mix in Yogurt and let stand overnight.
In the morning, Add eggs, mix well and its ready to cook.
Preheat a waffle iron and wipe down w/ Coconut oil. Pour the correct portioins of the batter for your specific waffle press and cook until golden. Serve with butter and syrup, or fruit, if desired.

You can also just cook these as pancakes, if you prefer.  I would just thin out the batter first with more milk.

Udderly Delightful!

     In case the title doesn't quite give it away, we are talking about goats.   My family has been enjoying and learning about goats for quite some time.  Well, lets be honest, I do the enjoying, and they do the learning, ha ha.  First let me start off by introducing you to a couple of my girls:

     Left is Cocoa, a Nigerian Dwarf/Nubian cross.  She is not quite a year yet, and I hope she's expecting. Then my big white girl, Zeba, a 4th generation Mini-Mancha (Nigerian Dwarf crossed with LaMancha) she is about 3 years old, and the best milker I've ever had.  She's mild tempered, and quite friendly.  And then just barely you can see the eyes of Sugar poking out behind her.  She is Cocoa's sister but is pure white, and I hope she is expecting as well.    They have all been exposed to this handsome fella:

     This is Rocky.  Up until recently he was our resident stud man.  He's a purebred, registered Tri-color Nigerian Dwarf.   And I soooo hope we get some of his babies.   He was so active his first year that we had to get rid of him because he started stinking at a very young age.  I wasn't planning on keeping him forever, but we did bottle feed him from a baby, so he was a doll.
     I had always wanted to have milk goats.  And at first it started because we had 2 kids allergic to milk as babies and I had read that most people with milk allergies can tolerate goats milk because it has smaller proteins and is easier to digest, among about a million other reasons.   We bought our first milker in about 2004 or so and discovered after having her home less than an hour, that our yard and fencing wasn't sufficient to keep her.  She ran away twice that afternoon and so we had to tie her to a tree.
     I really didn't have the heart to keep an animal tied up, so the previous owner was gracious enough to take her back.   After that we tried a couple of Pigmy goats and a Nigerian dwarf.  The pigmy's weren't bottle raised and wouldn't have anything to do with us, so really we didn't get to enjoy them much.   We had to sell our animals when we moved so we went about 4-5 years before having them again.
    About 4 years ago I decided to try again.  A friend was moving and had to sell her milker and a Yearling.  And this time we had bought property with a barn and corrals so we were sufficiently set up to care for them.  We all really enjoyed it at first, but sadly my kids have mostly lost interest except for one.  But he is a trooper and milks every day, twice a day for me, and I really think he doesn't mind except for occasionally when other activities interfere and cause him to have to go out at late at night when its dark and snowing to take care of the milking.
   When we bred our yearling, Lucy and taught her to milk it had to be one of the most horrific experiences (for both her and us).  I'm not sure how we all made it out alive.  Likely quite comical for any passers by.  But she was so stubborn, she'd do a double back kick on the milk stand trying to clear the room of any potential milkers.   It took 3 of us at first to get her milked.  2 to hold each of her back legs, and one person to milk.  (Below is Lucy in front with her 2 babies behind, followed by PattyCake)

She was a full size dairy goat, a Saanen, and it was all we could do to keep her under control.  She eventually settled down, and by the next year was a very well behaved milker, as long as you didn't dawdle.

  I really enjoyed our other Saanen, Patty-Cake, she was 10 years old or more, and very mellow and well behaved.  Not to mention too fat to cause any real trouble, ha ha!  And did I mention the VERY best thing about goats?  BABY goats!  :-)  Here is PattyCake with our very fist babies!  Oh how we loved them!

   

We eventually sold our Saanens to try some smaller goats. 

 (The first ones pictured at the top.)

Hopefully you enjoyed your introduction to my herd, I will do several follow up posts on milking, the benefits of goat milk, and more!  I am more of a fair weather milker, just ask my boys, so once it warms up you will see alot more of what goes on around here. 

Check back again soon, and thanks for reading!

A surprise for me!

 I got a fun new surprise today!   Hubby was over at his parents helping out with some stuff around the house, and his mom sent him home with this!   FOR ME!  :-)

I didn't even know there was a NEW Magic Bullet! (Actually called the Nutribullet) Its hard to tell in this photo but the cups and ring size are quite a bit bigger than the original Magic bullet.   Not that this alone would be a selling point, but I have had the MB for quite a while and it is usually too small for what i want to do, leading me to overfill it and cause a mess.   So This morning I got it out to try it and filled it with fresh goat milk from the farm, added some frozen strawberries and about a tablespoon of Agave.   Yumminess!  

It works great too!  When I first opened the ring the smoothie was almost as thick as Ice cream.   I was surprised because the old MB would not have been able to do anything with that.  I would have had big chunks of unblended strawberry.  This whizzed it all up in a jiff!  I added a bit more milk and started it again, to get the perfect consistency.

 

Boxed up the old MB and all 97 accessories that go with it. (Seriously cleaned out two shelves in my kitchen - I actually have two complete sets, ask me why.   No idea.)  Will be selling it on the local online classifieds to recover some cash for something else.  Love to do that.

THANKS MOM!

P.S.  I took my magic bullet to Ireland last year because I was determined to make my green smoothies EVERY day!  On the right, there I am (in my hotel room) with fresh Kale from a local market packing it into my green MB.   It tasted pretty gritty, ick!  But I still drank it every day.  Will be interesting to see if this new one can break up the greens like my VitaMix.   Stay tuned!

Nutri Bullet NBR-12 12-Piece Hi-Speed Blender/Mixer System

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