Sausage, Potato, and Cheese Waffles

From Everyday With Rachael Ray



Ingredients:
1 link sweet Italian sausage (about 3 ounces), casing discarded
1 baking potato, grated and excess water squeezed out
4 tablespoons butter
1 3/4 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 tablespoon chopped flat-leaf parsley
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1 1/4 teaspoons pepper
2 cups milk
2 large eggs, lightly beaten

Directions:
1. In a medium skillet, cook the sausage over medium-high heat, breaking it up with a fork, for 5 minutes. Add the potato and butter, lower the heat and simmer until the butter is melted, about 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool, about 10 minutes.

2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, cheese, parsley, salt and pepper. Stir in the milk and eggs until smooth. Stir in the sausage-potato mixture.

3. Using a waffle maker, cook the waffles according to the manufacturer’s directions.

Comments:
Now first off, let's just say these waffles are named in kind of mis-leading manner. Yes, there is sausage, potato, and cheese in the batter. But you don't taste the cheese or potato. And only taste the sausage when you bite into a chunk. Mostly what you taste is pepper and baking powder. So go easy on the pepper.

All in all, not a hard recipe to figure out. I don't really do waffles so much so Adam ended up manning the waffle iron. Division of labor and all that... I'm not sure I really liked these too much for the aforementioned imbalance of flavors. Or maybe I just don't like waffles. Who can say?