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Chicken and Waffles? Try Chicken IN Waffles – Kitchen Experiment Time

Lance Heiskell — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:23:00 +0000

I’ve had several friends talk about places that serve chicken and waffles. I was going to try to make this at home, but I didn’t have eggs or flour for frying up the chicken. So…Improvise! Instead of fried chicken on top of a waffle, I decided to grill the chicken and put it IN the waffle – as part of the batter. I also had some garlic cloves so I minced some garlic and added that to my batter.

The end result was full of delicious win. The taste of waffle, chicken, garlic and maple syrup was amazing. This is now my go to weekend breakfast.

Here is how I make “Chicken IN Waffles” – in pictures.

I like deep pocket waffles and sweet batter. This is my favorite mix.

Follow the instructions for the batter and set aside.

I like garlic so I chopped 3 cloves for my batch of batter that yielded 3 waffles.

Mmmm…chopped garlic.

I cut two chicken tenderloins along with the garlic and grilled till cooked.

Ready for the batter.

Let the chicken cool a bit before folding it into the batter.

Filling the waffle iron with the garlic chicken waffle batter.

Fill all the surfaces to get a full-rounded waffle.

Mmmm…waffle steam. My waffle iron takes 3 minutes to cook.

Heat and 3 minutes later and SCIENCE! Delicious waffle!

I prefer grade A Canadian maple syrup. It’s a bit more expensive but you’ll notice that the taste is worth it.

I prefer to dip my waffle into the maple syrup.

Now you are getting really hungry…am I right? W A F F L E. Tasty w a f f l e. Waffle.

Open the waffle up and witness the Chicken IN Waffle! Try it yourself and let me know how you like it.

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Ore wa Jack Bauer! CalorieMate’s Bestest Friend

Lance Heiskell — Thu, 05 May 2011 05:01:04 +0000

“Pssst! Jack Bauer knows we use CalorieMate! Let's get the FUCK out of here!”

I took this picture when I was in a Tokyo subway station about 6 years ago. I finally got to see in person the international ads that actors do for other countries. Seems bit creepy that Jack Bauer is doing surveillance on school kids and their energy bars.

By the power of the YouTubes witness all that is good BEHOLD! CALORIEMATE (tick, tick, tick, tick)

Jack Bauer + CalorieMate = Bad Assery.

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All My Favorite Magazines Have Gone Away.

Lance Heiskell — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:28:34 +0000

There used to be smart, hip mags that catered to Gen X cause it was the 90’s. I mean come on, Details in the early 90’s was the fucking zenith.

Then came April 1997 with the first issue of Maxim hitting the US shores. I remember this cause I managed the magazine section of a Hastings in college. Maxim started the era of hot babe on cover mags. Didn’t matter if your magazine was shit, if the babe was hot, people bought it.

Well, all the ad money flowed to what I called “dude lifestyle” mags and if your magazine didn’t follow the trend? Ad dollars slowed and eventually only the strong survived. Strong does not equal good.

In 2011, I still subscribe to about 8-10 magazines. Fast Company, Wired Inc, Ready Made, This Old House and Money and others. Magazines still have a long-form narratives and quick glance articles that the web still doesn’t procure.

In the 90s pre-internet and dot-com internet, it was still about magazines. My gateway to culture when stuck in a small town.

So here’s a collection of my favorite mags that have come and gone. And, yes I did keep the old mags that I liked.

First up: Might Magazine. This mag catered to the bright and witty crowd. It was also edited by the then unknown Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius). RIP 1997.

Swing Generation – Again a mag that catered to the Gen X with smart writing. RIP 1998.

Shift – The last magazine to survive longer. Published in Canada. This was around the time when Comcast had Much Music (imagine an MTV that plays music videos all the time, yeah…shocker) as a channel so I got into lot of Canadian bands like The Tragically Hip, Moist and Matthew Good Band. RIP 2003.

Fuse – This magazine lasted for one issue in the dot com days but it spoke to me. I also wanted to be the dude on the cover – there with a happy work life and a cute girl by his side. RIP 2000

P.O.V. – I started to read this in grad school. Again, smart writing and interesting articles. RIP 2000

Saving the best for last: Details – The Old Version not the crappy metrosexual mag that it is today. Remember that in the back of the mag was a two page comic Wild Palms that was later made in to a TV miniseries? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Palms to jog your memory. Crazy that the story is set in 2007. I have the DVD is anyone wants to borrow it) Such a fucking good mag. RIP around 96.

Will we ever see these types of magazines on the shelves again? No. The era has past. I have found some sites similar in content but it’s just not the same. It’s a damn shame.

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