You know that moment when you are tired and decide the best thing to do is to knock something irrelevant but yet still very important off your to-do list and it all goes to pot? Well let me tell you about the weevils I just found. I got home from work at 9 on a Friday night and decided that I just had to bake the banana muffins (this had to happen soon or the bananas would have rotted on the banana hanger). So I start mixing away and all is going according to plan. THEN, I get out the flour to measure up 3 cups to finish the whole process. Yes, that is correct I did NOT measure everything out first and then mix I just went for it. At the top of my sealed plastic container was a little nugget… upon further analysis I realized it was a LIVE bug. This live bug crawled around in my hand, and that is how I found out it was alive. In hysterics I called my mom and wanted to know what was going on. My sweet mother, after having a little snicker about my terror, told me to heat the flour to 200ºC and the bugs will crawl out. I will admit I was more keen to just toss everything and move on. My mom suggested that I just blend up some oats and make oat flour. I have no idea how these are going to turn out, I really hope they are delish seeing as that is what I am having for dinner.
Things I learned in this adventure…
-Weevils are nasty little things.
-Always call mom when cooking goes awry because she might have a way to fix it.
-A sealed container does NOT keep the weevils away.
-You can blend up oats to make oat flour, in hindsight this should have been relatively obvious but you can’t know everything.
-Sometimes you have to know when to throw in the towel.
I’ll let you know how these super oatey muffins turn out, they are pretty good. I mean I am not going to toss them but I am undecided about making these again with only oat flour.
Hannah
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