Summer Squash Pancakes

I am all for trying out new savory baked goods.  These have become my special treat; they are so good but often contain vegetables, which are so good for me.  So I was excited to try these summer squash pancakes from a book I got from the library.  I started by grating my zucchini and squash...grating things is so much fun, right? 

Then I smashed all the other ingredients together, which included things like onions, salt, pepper, dill, flour, baking powder, eggs, etc.  This is what the batter/dough looked like when I had added all the ingredients.  To me it did not look like pancake batter; it was more the consistency of muffin batter.  Despite this, I forged ahead and made the pancakes (well, waffles since I like waffles better).

Here's what one of my waffles looked like.  It looked kind of like a hash brown (even though there was no potato in it).  I took my first taste and...it was terrible.  Who came up with this recipe?  What were they thinking?  Why does the batter look like dough?  Blech.  Well, I took the first batch out and added a second to the iron.  While that was cooking I was ruminating.  'Will I eat these?  Are they good enough to want to eat?  I think I will throw the rest of the batter away.  I just threw the batter away and all the waffles so why am I still cooking the waffles in the iron?'  At this point I threw in the towel, turned off the iron and tossed all the waffles in the trash.  Good riddance.

I will add that I think something was missing from the recipe, like something liquidy.  But since I didn't like how they tasted I was pretty sure it wasn't worth messing with the recipe to get a better product.  So that's one epic failure which I blame on the cook who invented the recipe (of course).  My husband had this to say, "I guess you can't add zucchini to everything."