Prompt: Introductions

[runpunkrun]

Hello, gluten-free friends and family! It is I, Punk, speaking to you with my words. If you haven't already, please read the community guidelines for your safety and mine.

If I can keep my act together, I'll be posting a weekly discussion topic to prompt conversation about gluten-free cooking. This week I thought we could introduce ourselves and do some light mingling.

Let's do name, rank, and preferred pronouns. And maybe answer one or more of the following questions:

• What's the last gluten-free thing you made with your own hands?
• If your answer is "coffee," that's valid.
• What kind of foods do you like to prepare?
• How much baking experience do you have?
• What type of recipes are you interested in?
• Are you here to post, comment, or just be a friendly lurker?
• If you are going to lurk friendily, please say hi just this once. We'll say hi back.

Also, as the comm opened on Pi day (3.14), why not tell us your favorite pie?

Come join me in the comments!

Comments

[runpunkrun]

I would absolutely dump plain oat flour into things if the recipe let me get away with it, but I'm afraid of Failure. I'd love to hear about your oat flour successes.

[nerakrose]

the fear of Failure is Real. I once decided to try to bake a bread (one of those cast iron pot breads) using only oat flour and...uh, well it LOOKED great, the crust was strong, it smelled amazing, etc. only, when i cut into it, the inside was PORRIDGE.

i've found going oat flour only works best in cookies and cake recipes! and i have some of those i'll be happy to share. :D

[runpunkrun]

What you made was an Oatmeal Bread Bowl! Eat the oatmeal, then the bowl. And then probably don't eat again for a week because that's so much oats. D:

I look forward to your oat flour recipes!

[nerakrose]

oh god, if only. it was this really weird gooey mass, that just...goo'ed. it was inedible. i 100% did not have enough stabilisers (or used the wrong ones) in this bread, but chances are i should've had another flour in the mix too. i might repeat the experiment sometime, but we'll see. :'''D