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Maple Syrup |12.17

jk703 said:
I like a little maple syrup. I like store or real.

Fun recipe.... maple syrup 1 cup with 1/3 cup of siracha - add shrimp - marinate and grill. YUM! You can lower the amount of siracha depending on how much spice you want. Also, you could add a slice of pre-cooked bacon to wrap that shrimp and bake it together for 10 min or so....
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This made my mouth water! I'm definitely trying this! Sounds delicious!
 
Growing up, we were oftentimes poor so we did not have the luxury of being picky eaters. As a child, I detested pancakes and figured out ways to push them around the plate, sneak them to the dog, etc. We were expected to eat every last bite on our plates.

We took one family vacation and stayed at a cabin by a lake in the middle of Nebraska. I woke up starving and the smell of the pancakes was actually quite wonderful. I sat down at the cabin table actually looking forward to the mound of pancakes. My mom had forgotten the Mrs. Butterworth so my dad found Dark Karo syrup at the local store. Gag. It was absolutely horrible but it is what he had grown up with out on the plains in a Nebraska sod house. I really missed and found a whole new appreciation for Mrs. B!

We still use Mrs Butterworth. I’ve tried the true maple syrups and they are tasty but I like the mapelly, mapelly, taste, buttery, buttery taste, Delicious, Mrs Butterworth better. (You have to be old to remember that jingle)
 
I think we came back from Toronto with some maple candy but it might still be in the souvenirs cupboard; I'm amazed at the range of syrups everyone's mentioned here; adding 'fake maple syrup'to pancakes & in some baking recipes is the extent of its use in our house, it seems weird to add it to meat products to me but then adding an Asian sweet chilli sauce isn't so strange as putting chicken on a waffle etc to me, so chalk it up to international dining differences!
 
I love that Costco now has real maple syrup that doesn't cost a bunch. We make pancakes a lot and use that.

For Christmas morning we are having Belgium waffles from Costco - the kind that are individually wrapped. I need a quick and yummy breakfast since we are having a big birthday/Christmas lunch.

Strawberry syrup is good. I have also made my own compote. Cook frozen (or fresh) berries with some sugar until syrupy. Yum! Maybe I will make some of that for tomorrow morning.

Speaking of Chicken and Waffles, we have a restaurant here that specializes in them --- yum yum yum!! They have smears --> flavored butters - butters mixed with chopped nuts, or fruit, or caramel, or ..
 
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