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Stop NOT writing. Just do it, badly. Just write the thing you need or want to write, that you are avoiding. That avoidance is costing you greatly, isometrically, and in general well-being. So can you find one measly hour, to write, badly?
ANNE LAMOTT
I have used the krumkake maker more times at Christmas than any other time , I be live it would be safe to say that it was used at lease for forty years , what I do is use a wooden dowel about 1 1/2 to 2 inches and make the cookies that way, grand kids love them that way. This has been a great item to use,,,thanks for being there to make the kids happy,,,they are now making them for them/self…
its a long tradition on my mothers side of the family to use this krumkake iron not for krumkake, but for fresh corn tortillas. the design it puts on the tortillas always gets comments from guests.
I was reading about pizzelle and loved the comments on the recipe at Proud Italian Cook. Link below.
I got hooked on pizzelle by a friend whose grandmother made several hundred each Christmas. (She’s Croatian, but there’s a lot of cross fertilization of recipes in Europe.) I got my first pizzelle iron on eBay–there are so many beautiful designs you could end up with a dozen irons. Plus, pizzelle are the gateway drug, but from there you can go to krumkake, gaufrettes, goro, oblaten, etc…
–Cristina
My tips:
1) Use a coffee measure to measure your batter. I have used melon ballers and teaspoons, but I had the best and most consistent results with a coffee measure and a very small spatula to scoop out the batter onto the pizzelle maker. Keep a plate next to the bowl to rest the messy spoon and spatula on.
2) Make the dough the evening before, it will thicken and it is easier to work with.I downloaded at least half a dozen variations on pizzelle recipes from the Pittsburgh Gazette a few years ago. I still use my grandmother’s recipe, my Mom uses a different variation. You are right they are all similar.
Last, watch your cord. I had to replace mine after a decade of use.
https://www.prouditaliancook.com/2011/11/making-pizzelle.html
Last summer, I read “Achieving Our Country” by Richard Rorty. He argued that America is an imperfect project that has never been realized. It took a mass shooting for me to understand what achieving America meant.
Right now, and in so many other times during the Trump presidency, I have seen the dwindling of the radical hope that our country can be a bastion of safety and freedom for everyone. Some people believe that it is too late: Politicians have ruined America forever. Others believe that compassion must be narrowed: Only some of us deserve these things. Both of these reactions are failures of courage.
In the midst of constant tragedy, it feels easy to give up on this ambitious and imperfect project. It is easy to turn inward to our families and niche communities and say that only the people closest to us matter.
Patriots and America-skeptics alike, I challenge you to do the opposite. As Miriam Kaba says, hope is a discipline.
The version of our country that is failing does not fully represent the American people or our dreams. We are so much more than our government. We owe it to ourselves to believe in a better future.
Simon Aron is a sophomore at Brown University and the co-president of Brown Rise Up.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/22/metro/brown-shooting-commentary-radical-hope/
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
“True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the
internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those
tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure
through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted
together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self,
wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the
enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in
others.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a
fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not
obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the
human soul.”
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection. Plato
