Things You Can Put On A Waffle

*Or, Reasons I Need A Waffle-Maker

• Fresh berries and crème fraiche
• Ice cream and chocolate sauce
• Fried chicken and hot honey
• Love, topped with whipped cream

• Warm maple syrup (the real kind) and fresh salted butter
• Softly scrambled eggs and breakfast sausage
• Blueberries, ricotta and lemon zest
• Your childhood hopes and dreams

• Sliced bananas, chopped walnuts and bourbon sauce
• Spiced apple compote and a dollop of mascarpone
• Nutella
• Nostalgia.

Also, Yom Kippur is imminent, which means, among other things, it's a good time to remember those whose fast is not by choice. Here's where you can donate to City Harvest; Feeding America; and Oxfam America's efforts to provide food and other necessities to refugees from Syria.

Photo credits (top to bottom): 1) mine (pumpkin waffles from Trader Joe's and Edy's slow-churned Fudge Tracks ice cream); 2) Cooking Classy's pumpkin waffles; 3) Mother Thyme's banana bread waffles.