Not anyone real, just my Blue Chip Group/Auguson Farms bag of certified gluten free oats. Sigh.
We don't eat oats all that often, really just on a great apple or pear crisp, or in some oatmeal ranger cookies. Thursday night when I returned from a short business trip, I decided to make some ranger cookies for me and the boy. And for C, and anyone else who stopped by. A nice, soothing baking session while the laundry spun in the washing machine.
And so I did. They were fantastic. A little crispy around the edges, and that chewy middle, studded with large walnut pieces, and a few chocolate chips thrown into a few of them. Perfectly golden mounds of oaty goodness. The boy chowed down a few, and I had one before bedtime.
Let's just say that during the night and into the morning confirmed what some celiacs fear in the great gluten free oat debate - I seem to be sensitive to the prolamine in oats called avenin. Gluten is also a prolamine, and that is the reason that some celiacs don't do well with even pure, or certified, gluten free oats. I guess I'm on the list.
Thankfully, ranger cookies can always be made with quinoa flakes.
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My break up with (gluten) and with (dairy). Let's just say proteins and I have a rocky relationship.
I feel your pain. Oats and I broke up a couple years ago on a backpacking trip. Let's just say it's difficult enough being a female in the great outdoors, without the added complication of food intolerance reactions...Thank goodness for quinoa!!
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ReplyDeleteAlso, ranger cookies? How have I never heard of these?
How sad! I'm so lucky I am okay with GF oats. Thanks goodness for quinoa flakes, though!
ReplyDelete:( So sad for you. Thankfully, gf oats and I are sill an item. I'm sorry you had to break up with him. Quinoa flakes are definitely an amazing lover to take the place of the once amorous oats though. He and i are still lovers on the side. )
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