Oh shiny!

I really am not missing coffee at all. Tea, I do sometimes wish I could drink, but I never liked coffee as much in the first place.

By the way, I tried some Orgran gluten-free buckwheat pancake mix the other day when Ross's dad came down, and it was rather nice - have you had it?

ceb's annual pancake do in February has been buckwheat-based and hence entirely GF for the last couple of years, and has seemed none the worse for it. I'm not aware that I've had the mix you mention, but buckwheat pancakes in general are certainly in the category of tried and tested technology for me by now :-)

Oddly, I've been able to drink tea for a couple of years, while coffee was still problematic. Either it was mostly psychological (which, of course, doesn't mean "not really a problem"), or there was something about the additional active ingredients that are in coffee but not tea. Either way, it seemed slightly odd to me, because AIR it was your stepdad's extremely strong tea that set me off in the first place.

It's coffee my stepdad makes, unless I'm much mistaken. (And yes, coffee is much worse for me than tea is too. I can drink half a cup of tea if I'm lucky, but I get two mouthfuls of decaf coffee and I go funny.)

The Orgran mix thing has built in raising stuff so they come out really thick and fluffy, which is monstrous cool. They're fabulous with fruit. They come out a bit nicer if you let the batter rest a bit first though; they're a wee bitty dry otherwise.

It's coffee? Hmm. Well, in that case the physiology makes more sense to me, but in that case I'm not sure how I got it firmly fixed in my head that the original offending substance had been tea. Possibly it wasn't uppermost in my mind considering what else my brain was up to at the time.