Cookies, on a cloudy day...

Like the words of one wise animated shark: Fish are friends. It should conclude "like food."
So lately I've found, the opposite to be true. Food is frenzied and frivolous - a worrisome thing and a tool. Where is the love? On the horizon, I know, but how far?
When I make it, I'll let you know...

But this day

Sadly Buckwheat flour renders them similarly gray but renders no such syndrome of weather.
Gluten free, sweet, soft - not crispy; sometimes a good thing can be simple.
Cookies work that way especially shared with another.
Thank goodness for a pantry so ample...

To play about with ingredients, so novel, recipes simple and strange
Add chocolate and cherries, sugar and spice
The things that can never go wrong...

With Oats rolled, flour allergy-free, butter and oil - coconut solids - a chocolate chip frenzy...
Risen, just slightly, by chemical means and introducing the sweets of my friend: the oven.

Gluten-free Chocolate Oat Cookies

2 cups Rolled oats, a-cup-and-a-quarter Buckwheat, a half teaspoon salt and baking soda each...
Cinnamon and vanilla - how much would you like? Chocolate chips and Butterscotch tossed in - a cup total - or more, if you choose.
1 cup Brown Sugar, 2 eggs, creamed with solids best: butter - 5 tbsp - and Coconut - 6.

Baked at 350, balled and flattened close. Yielding about 2 dozen.
Comfort, 10 minutes close.

But before dessert comes dinner - lately a simple affair.
Simple for mind and spicy for spirit. Peanut Chicken on these brilliant Banana nut Muffins of mine and topped by Mushrooms and Squash - sauteed and sesame.
With a salad and cilantro dressed - a simple pleasure of gustatory extraordinaire...