Dreamy Music

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Songs with the word "dream" conjure mind wanderings. It's difficult to be asleep AND think or mentally sing songs about dreams and dreaming. However, one song that could fit the bill might be one about daydreaming, such as "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees.

List 1 of 2 (compiled late August 2012)

• Dream (song used in Nightmare on Elm Street, long after the song's original release)
  Everly Brothers
• Dreams
  Fleetwood Mac
• Dreamweaver (now immortalized as the Adobe web design tool)
  Gary Wright
• Dream Lover (song used in Charlie Sheen's Hot Shots movie)
  Bobby Darin (pink-tinted, but complete film w/Ed Sullivan intro)
• Dream Baby
  Roy Orbison
• Dreamin', I'm Still Dreamin'
  Johnny Burnette
• Dream On (different from Steve Tyler version)
  Herman's Hermits
• Dream On (different from Peter Noone version)
  Aerosmith
• I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night (long clip that includes other stuff on Mike Douglas show)
  Electric Prunes
• California Dreamin'
  Mamas & Papas
• Dream a Little Dream
  Mama Cass (serenading Dick Smothers, who does the whistle solo at the end)
• #9 Dream
  John Lennon
• Elusive Butterfly
  Bob Lind
• Spill the Wine ("I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie")
  Eric Burden and War
• Sweet Dreams (song used in a Simpsons episode regarding Artie Ziff courting Marge via snore suppressor.)
  Eurythmics (androgynous Annie Lennox look)
• I Can Dream About You
  Dan Hartman
• Dreamboat Annie
  Heart
• I Like Dreaming
  Kenny Nolan (intro by Dick Clark)
• I Have a Dream (English, Spanish—aka "Estoy Soñando")
  ABBA
• I Dream of Jeannie TV show theme
• I Dream of Jeannie Season 1 Theme
• I Dream of Jeannie (pre-TV show, 1937 recording)
  Richard Crooks

List 2 of 2 (compiles and added early October 2012)

• Sh-Boom
  Chords
• Sh-Boom
  Crew Cuts
• Send Me the Pillow You Dream On
  Hank Locklin
• Send Me the Pillow You Dream On
  Dean Martin
• Just a Dream
  Jimmy Clanton
• Dreams of an Everyday Housewife
  Glen Campbell
• Dreaming (Blondie at Apollo Theater in 1979)
  Deborah Harry
• If I Can Dream
  Elvis
• I Dreamed a Dream (from Les Miserables)
  Lea Salonga
• The Impossible Dream (from Man of La Mancha)
  Richard Kiley
• Beautiful Dreamer
  Bing Crosby
• White Christmas (lyrics & slide show)
  Bing Crosby

Tubular Waffle Grid Wafers

These tubes are soft rollups that you can spread frosting or other sweet filling in. The softness comes from rolling up baked waffle-cone wafers and dropping them into cylinders that are narrow enough for steam to stay in. For my recipe, I used color-coded 1-inch diameter test tubes. The recipe is actually from the waffle-cone machine manufacturer for making waffle cones. I wanted to try making tubes, as I don't keep ice cream in the house. If you want crispy tubes, roll each baked waffle around a dowel or chop stick and hold them together for a few seconds. (For my next experiment for making crispy tubes will be trying a fortune cookie batter recipe, a test tube rack, or both.)
My pixstrip show the following images:

1. Equipment and utensils
2. Ingredients and mixing
   
   1. Eggs and salt, to be mixed together first
   2. Sugar, to be added to the eggs and salt mixture
   3. Rest of ingredients
3. Process completion
   
   1. Batter baking process (1st and 2nd image in the 2nd row)
   2. A set of rolled baked wafers
   3. Finished tube wafers
   4. Some tubes and frosting (filling optional)

Equipment and utensils (spray oil being a bridge from equipment to baking process)

• Waffle cone maker
• Mixer (I used an electric hand mixer.)
• Measuring cups
• Measuring spoons
• Rubber spatula(s)
• Plastic spatula
• Mixing bowl(s)
• Cooling rack
• Cylinders (I used test tubes—aka "test tube shooters"—that I bought at Urban Outfitters, which are also available online.)

Ingredients and mixing (from the Simply Vanilla Wafer Cones recipe of the Bella Recipe Guide)

• 2 eggs
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 C of water
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 C cake flour (can sub with 1 C flour -2 T flour +2 T cornstarch)
  

  Note: I'm 'fessing up to having putting only 2/3 the amount of flours because I, duh, misread my list of ingredients

• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recommended: Spray oil application about every other wafer or so.

1. Beat the eggs and salt.
2. Add the sugar and beat it. :-)
3. Add the water, oil, cake flour (or replacement flours), and vanilla.

Process completion (baking, etc.)
Prepare the iron as instructed with your appliance. Because I've used mine a few times, I've only wiped the cooking surfaces with a clean, warm, damp kitchen rag for cleaning preparation, sprayed the cooking surfaces, and plugged the cord. Heating time is a minute or so.
For each disk, pour about 1 T batter, close the lid, and heat for about 30 seconds.

Note: If you want to make cones or bigger tubes, which won't easily fit into test tubes, pour 2 T. With 1 T batter, the lid locks fine. More than 1 T at a time, the lid tends to not stay locked. In my past recipe for waffle-grid tortillas, I held down the lid, using an oven pad for each hand. (Warning: The lid gets hot.)

Move the cooked disk onto the cooling rack, roll it up, and drop it into a cylinder. Continue the batter dispensing and baking process until you use up the batter. (My pixstrip shows a set of six filled, poured out tubes, and tubular wafers.)

I wound up with 22 tubes and some 2-T batter disks. Those disks didn't last long enough to make it into the picture. :-) My calculations for calories, considering my reduced amount of flours, came to about 50 calories for each tube. Placing about a teaspoon of frosting nudges the calories by another 25. IOW, the plate of four as shown in the pixstrip amounts to about a 300-calorie snack, about the amount in a good-sized candy bar. Eater beware!