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.