American breakfasts are mostly sweet: yogurt with fruit sauces and overnight oats with more fruit sauces and lattes with caramel syrup and whipped cream and our secret household loves the flaky cereal with the dried strawberries but especially the baked muffins and quickbreads and cinnamon rolls. I love them all but more often than not I wake up craving something savory that I can put a wobbly egg on and for that reason when I saw cornbread waffles in Joy Wilson's aka Joy The Baker's new brunch cookbook I knew that they were the first thing I was going to make.
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Brunch has become a cultural punching bag in recent years — "The meal brings out the worst in restaurants and their guests. 'Chefs bury the dregs of the week's dinners under rich sauces and arrange them in strange combinations.'" "Less satisfying than the two things it purports to replace." — but this like most things people like to complain about is annoying in restaurants. At home brunch is everything: loosely planned and relaxed just the way weekends should be and pretty much anything you like can easily be transformed into a lazy midday meal.
Joy’s book is a ray of sunshine because it has all of those things — bright cocktails and smoothies omelet wheels banana bread granola sticky buns and praline bacon — but I also love that it’s not totally predictable like those mocked-up brunch menus. There’s salad something I’d like to see on more brunch menus as an oasis from the fried and smothered stuff and a nod to her adopted home of New Orleans a Cajun Soufflé and a Muffaletta Brunch Salad and yes amazing pillowy overnight beignets coming up next.
For this weekend these cornbread waffles are a no-brainer: they’re ready in 5 minutes the batter rests while you brew the coffee and they cook just as quickly. They’re sweet or savory — topped with bananas and maple syrup or with hot honey and a piece of fried chicken on top; you can add some cheddar jalapeños and a salsa-covered egg if you’re inviting me over and you never want me to leave; or you can do it the classic way as we did with crispy bacon salt pepper chives and a poached egg.
