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Aug. 22nd, 2022 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynNP wants me laying off dairy for two weeks or until we get whatever is going on with my innards sorted out. Fine. I got my oat milk recipe and my quart bottle* out last night. Ninety grams oats, quart of water, pinch of kosher salt, tablespoon or two of Mount Cabot maple syrup, 1/8 tsp xanthan gum** to keep it emulsified and thicken it up a bit. Oat pulp goes into another recipe afterwards.
NP wants me taking psyllium fiber- okay, she said metamucil but I'm not going to do the artificial orange version, and once you're not doing the artificial orange version metamucil is just psyllium fiber- to counter my various symptoms. Okay, that's fine. Bought capsules first, acquired a container of freefloating psyllium fiber later.
Did some searching. Hm. Psyllium fiber can be dissolved in coffee. Daily recommended dose of psyllium fiber is 6 grams. Let's try that. And add the chocolate syrup I made for sweetening my iced coffee, because I like it better than mere sugar, and use the oat milk I made last night with the xanthan gum in it.
This is not a good combination, it turns out. This is like drinking pudding. British pudding, which is food that can be eaten with a knife and fork, rather than American pudding, which is basically of the same texture as mayonnaise. seriously, standard-sized coffee mug of coffee + 6 g psyllium + xanthan-gummed oat milk = coffee with ENTIRELY TOO MUCH TEXTURE. and this is coming from someone who used to play What The Hell Is This in the drinks aisle of the Asian supermarket and regularly wound up with unknown beverages that had to be chewed.
*from a local dairy that charges a substantial amount in deposit but returns it if you bring them back the bottle; it's the last bottle of milk I bought before COVID-19 meant they stopped offering deposits and I have been reusing the living daylights out of it because hell, I paid for it, didn't I?
**Bought it when one of the instructors at my flight school was a guy with gluten allergy and I wanted to be able to bring in baked goods he could eat. I haven't gotten back to flight school yet post-plague but xanthan gum is shelf stable for a damn long time.
NP wants me taking psyllium fiber- okay, she said metamucil but I'm not going to do the artificial orange version, and once you're not doing the artificial orange version metamucil is just psyllium fiber- to counter my various symptoms. Okay, that's fine. Bought capsules first, acquired a container of freefloating psyllium fiber later.
Did some searching. Hm. Psyllium fiber can be dissolved in coffee. Daily recommended dose of psyllium fiber is 6 grams. Let's try that. And add the chocolate syrup I made for sweetening my iced coffee, because I like it better than mere sugar, and use the oat milk I made last night with the xanthan gum in it.
This is not a good combination, it turns out. This is like drinking pudding. British pudding, which is food that can be eaten with a knife and fork, rather than American pudding, which is basically of the same texture as mayonnaise. seriously, standard-sized coffee mug of coffee + 6 g psyllium + xanthan-gummed oat milk = coffee with ENTIRELY TOO MUCH TEXTURE. and this is coming from someone who used to play What The Hell Is This in the drinks aisle of the Asian supermarket and regularly wound up with unknown beverages that had to be chewed.
*from a local dairy that charges a substantial amount in deposit but returns it if you bring them back the bottle; it's the last bottle of milk I bought before COVID-19 meant they stopped offering deposits and I have been reusing the living daylights out of it because hell, I paid for it, didn't I?
**Bought it when one of the instructors at my flight school was a guy with gluten allergy and I wanted to be able to bring in baked goods he could eat. I haven't gotten back to flight school yet post-plague but xanthan gum is shelf stable for a damn long time.
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Date: 2022-08-23 11:02 am (UTC)The humble Farmer used to speak of drinking his morning oats. He habitually put too much liquid in and then sat in his back door slurping from the pot. I'm sure pudding coffee would have been the perfect accompanyment. Something to get your teeth into.