“The more you love your art/calling/enterprise…the more you will fear it and the more resistance you will experience facing it.” Steven Pressfield, The War of Art My current read is the most quotable of books; the words ring like a gong of truth into my life, and perhaps into yours too. Your creative work, your business or non-profit idea, your dream to write a novel or a screenplay or a symphony, to start writing poetry again, to start a blog or website: with that idea comes fear. Fear that it won’t work out, you’ll be laughed at, that you won’t be good enough. Keep reading for more on fear and how these chai spiced dairy free waffles relate.
Creativity and fear
We’ve been taking some creative risks lately, and man — resistance is right there with us. It might look easy from the outside. But each recipe and photograph is an effort as Alex and I learn the dance of holding light-bouncing boards and spoons and napkins, like with these chai dairy free waffles. And our A Couple Cooks podcast — it’s both a joy and huge risk, as we try our hand at a new skill sets like interviewing (without um’s) and editing audio instead of photographs. Over the years it’s gotten easier and easier to press Publish on our work, but after almost 6 years it still gives my stomach butterflies. But we keep pressing on because, well — we truly, deeply, sincerely love it. It makes us feel alive. And knowing that you make some of the recipes we post here and that they add nourishment to your life — that matters to us. A lot. Because our dream is that through our photographs and story telling, more and more people might come to know the joy of cooking and be inspired to advocate for sustainable ways of eating and the right to nourishing food for all people. In last week’s post we talked about dreams and loved hearing what is on your hearts. This week, we’d love to know both about your dreams and your fears. Is fear holding you back from the creative dream that is in your heart? Did you grow up practicing a creative outlet but it’s fallen to the wayside now that you’re in the “working world”? Do you find resistance when you take steps toward the thing that makes you feel alive? Do you fear the judgement of others on your work — does it paralyze you from sharing that photograph, that essay or that poem? Let us know in the comments below.
How to make dairy free waffles
This recipe was a happy accident, a challenge to create a recipe with almond milk. We ended up with dairy free waffles, made a bit of whole wheat flour for a healthy spin. What makes them dairy free? Using almond milk instead of traditional milk is an easy swap and makes for perfectly fluffy waffles! And instead of butter, we’ve used coconut oil: if you’d like, you could substitute any neutral oil in place of coconut oil. And now the best part of these dairy free waffles: the flavor from the chai spices! Lately we’ve been experimenting with adding chai flavor by making things like chai spiced cookies and chai spiced jam, and it’s incredibly good! The key to the chai flavor is cardamom, so make sure to find some ground cardamom if you can!) For the topping on these dairy free waffles, we used frozen berries to whip up a delicious berry compote, tangy and sweet with maple syrup. It made for both some shocking pink kitchen stains and a delicious topping. Want more waffles? Try Fluffy Gluten Free Waffles, Blueberry Waffles, or Strawberry Waffles!
Looking for more brunch recipes?
Outside of these dairy free waffles, here are some of our favorite brunch recipes:
Perfect Waffle RecipeFluffy Scrambled Eggs with Goat CheeseTwo Potato Hash with Soft Boiled EggsVegan French Toast with Caramelized BananasAcai Bowl Recipe Healthy Banana BreadParmesan Herb Baked EggsDippy Eggs with Toast SoldiersWaffle PartyLemon Poppy Seed Oat PancakesEasy Banana PancakesPumpkin Pancakes with Maple MascarponeCoconut Strawberry SmoothieBanana Oatmeal PancakesVegan Breakfast Ideas97 Brunch Recipes
This dairy free waffles recipe is…
Vegetarian and dairy-free 5 from 4 reviews
1 pound frozen mixed berries 2 tablespoons maple syrup 1 tablespoon cornstarch
For the dairy free waffles
1 cup all-purpose flour ½ cup whole wheat flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon each ground cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and cardamom ½ teaspoon kosher salt ¼ cup coconut oil 1 large egg 1 ¼ cups almond milk (we used Califia Farms) ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 2 tablespoons maple syrup
