Adventures in cooking

I found this small appliance at a yard sale for a whole three dollars. Before you think it's an abelskiver pan, I'll tell you-it is a Takoyaki  cooker! Takoyaki are Japanese snacks. They are dough cooked usually with octopus (Tako in Japanese) but can be made stuffed with most anything. They are crisp on the outside soft and eggy  inside with scallions, seasoned with dashi  (fish and seaweed broth) ours were stuffed with shrimp and krab. You are supposed to eat them with sauce and toppings like bonito  flake and kewpie  mayo. They are not Abbie's favorite but the rest of us liked them well enough to almost eat the whole batch! So fun to try something new on the cheap!