Grain Free Waffles with Fresh Strawberries and Strawberry Cream for Mother’s Day

[A treat on Mother’s Day or any day, these Grain Free Waffles with Fresh Strawberries and Strawberry Cream are vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg free, soy-free, yeast-free, and low glycemic. Suitable for Stage 2 and beyond on an anti-candida diet.]

Mother’s Day is one of those holidays that seems to command some kind of ritual or tradition. In the house of my childhood, we always celebrated Mother’s Day with a special brunch.

The routine was perfectly reliable: as soon as my father was awake on Mother’s Day, he’d march into the kitchen, set down a potted plant on the table in front of my mother, and present her with a card. The interior was embossed with a mushy, multi-verse message, set in sharp contrast to Dad’s own florid handwriting at the end of the poem, which said simply, “Your husband, Alec.”

Of course my mother would cry (because, well, my mother cried at everything) and then we’d all have brunch–which my mother would cook.

The table always heaved with a huge array of meats–bacon rippled and still crackling from the frypan; kielbasa sausages, grilled and bursting at the seams; deli smoked meat, turkey, salami–and two or three blocks of cheese (my father was a butcher after all). But the carbs that made an appearance tended to be prepared convenience breads like bagels, loaves of rye or pumpernickel, or sometimes, English muffins. On the rare occasion, we’d have “homemade” pancakes (aka Aunt Jemima mix).

But waffles? I can’t remember having them even once in the 18 years I lived at home, or during any of my visits back after that.

So it makes sense that I’d mix up waffles for Mother’s Day this year, right? Seems my goal is to do things a little differently from my parents here in the RH household.

Now that I’ve taken on the role of “mother,” this coming Sunday will feature no meats on the table; no potted plants (they might contain molds, after all, really not good for candida); no actual children; and a golden stack of grain-free, egg-free, dairy-free, candida-diet friendly waffles with a dollop of luxuriously creamy, sweet and tart strawberry cream on top.

Of course, I understand that I’m technically not a real mom (I don’t have human children), but in my heart, I would argue that I experience all the same emotions as any “real” mother, and I certainly embrace that role. (It looks like science agrees with me; and so, apparently, do the dogs). And, as some of you know, our sweet Elsie girl was recently operated on to remove several cancerous tumors; the experience really brought out the maternal instincts in me.

So, even though I can’t rightfully claim the title, we will, nevertheless, enjoy a lovely brunch together with our Girls this weekend. No doubt the HH will present me with a card (no romantic poetry here) and his own unique gift to demonstrate his affection (such as a car charger for my cell phone–makes my heart go pitter-pat!).

After I wipe the tears from my eyes, we’ll likely kiss, and the HH will lean over and whisper, “So, what are we having for brunch?”

Hmmm . .  . . maybe not so different from my mom’s Mother’s Day, after all.

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