Carrots have way too much sugar?? To go in a cake?? Wut
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I'm guilty of this. For my pesto recipe I replaced pine nuts with peanuts, olive oil with sunflower oil, basil with spinach, cheese with nooch, but kept the salt, pepper, garlic and citric acid. It's not exactly pesto anymore at that point, but for a struggle meal it could be a lot worse.
Technically what you made very well could still be "Pesto", since the word refers to how it's prepared not what's in it (shares the same root as Pestle). The basil, pine nut, olive oil, and cheese recipe you were following would be Pesto alla Genovese
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Like it’s definitely a different thing, but it’s the same general concept, gonna have a wildly different flavor but fill the same kind of culinary niche.
Replacing carrot with kale in a freaking carrot cake is like replacing basil with potatoes.
There are worse ways to riff on a recipe, I don't know what nooch is but the rest at least sounds like possible replacements. You're right it wouldn't be pesto, but I don't think I'd hate it.
Nooch is nutritional yeast. It's probably the most expensive ingredient in the recipe hah, but it goes a long way. Even though I'm not vegan, I've dabbled with vegan substitutions and nutritional yeast was probably the best part of that journey.
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There are people who think if it looks the same, it can be substituted. They blow a lot of chips if they try electronics design.
The amount of dumbfucks in the 1990s who suggested I could remove the eggs from my cookies recipe and replace them with bananas and cider vinegar was insane. I get you are looking to reduce fats but why would a banana and acid do the same job as the egg?
There are lots of vegan egg replacement tricks, banana is one of them. If you look at pictures when you search "vegan egg replacement" you'll find a bunch of them. Flax seed "egg", chia seed "egg".
Apparently, the apple cider vinegar one is supposed to be combined with baking soda, which I'm not certain how that'd work as vinegar and baking soda reacts quite violently, releasing a lot of CO2 all at once (classic school "homemade bottle rocket" recipe: vinegar and baking soda).
It’s still not chemically do the same thing as a different fat would. It’s not going to bind like the protein in eggs do either.
Oh I'm aware, I've tried almost all of them and none of them worked very well in my homemade vegan and gluten free pasta attempts. (I don't personally suffer from coeliac disease, but I wanted to see how difficult it was living as one. It's difficult.)
I could do vegan way before gluten free. Im working on transitioning to aplant based diet becase I live in the USA and our meat is about to be very unsafe.
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So in cooking, I tend to do this sort of thing all the time, but not in a dumb way - for example, when I roast a chicken, if I want a more Asian spin on it, I’d sub out my usual herbs de Provence + fresh parsley/sage/rosemary/thyme for chili crisp, ginger, sambal olek, minced Thai basil, and a bit of cilantro, or something like that.
But in baking, there’s actual chemistry involved with almost everything, so you do not want to fuck with that unless you actually know what you’re doing..
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Decided to give your “famous” crab cake recipe a try. Substituted double chocolate fudge brownies for the crab and was murdered by how bad it was. No crab to be found anywhere in the mess and now I have panic attack disorder. -15/10 Next time just say you don’t know what the fuck a crab cake is, GWYNETH.
Carrots having way too much sugar is wild to me. Like what do you eat except kale?
I mean, carrots do have a lot of sugar as vegetables go, but it’s like 5% sugar by weight. If you’re cutting out stuff with that low of a ratio, you’re probably taking a low sugar diet a bit far.
I wouldn't eat a raw carrot either unless I'm looking for a sugar shock but this is like one ingredient of a cake, a fucking CAKE!! What else did you supplement?
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They're making a cake, you don't want sugar in cake!
More kale
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I'm really loving the last one there. Somehow "shots" is their preferred unit of measure. Most cookies don't have any liquid ingredients, either, so milk is kind of a wild addition. Then they blame the recipe for being chunky, which I assume is due to the banana that they did a shit job of mashing. The cherry on top is that there is a rating out of five stars at the top (looks like they gave five stars?), but then they throw in a rating out of ten at the bottom. Should have given a thumbs up rating, but I assume the thumbs are busy in their ass.
What on earth do these people think recipes are
Suggestions, clearly.
They kind of are if you understand what role these ingredients play and why. I was able to make an easy substitution in an oatmeal cookie recipe because the nuts I was adding were primarily bulk as was the oats so the substitution worked out fine. If, on the other hand, I replaced oats with more raisins that might not have worked because the raisins would add more moisture.
You can replace like for like provided they are doing the same job
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any site worth their salt would remove these reviews as they aren't based off the product posted since they subbed items
“I tried playing my DOOM: The Dark Ages copy for Xbox but I don’t own an Xbox so I put the disk in my Nintendo 64. The game didn’t even launch wtf this game sucks”
You forgot the bit where they cut the disk so it would fit in the slot, and are also upset that the store won't return it anymore.
They substituted the salt with nutritional yeast.
0/10, tasted like floury paste.
I asked you for directions to Santa Monica but I decided to drive to the Mojave instead and there was NO BEACH AND NO OCEAN.
2/5 stars, wouldn’t recommend Santa Monica
One of the few things I miss on Reddit is a sub called "Ididnthaveeggs" or something like that. Basically a whole sub of the bonkers substitutions people have done. It was always a good read.
How did I not know about that sub! I love hearing about those idiots
How did i not know about that sub? I would love hearing those idiots
I tried to make fried eggs but I didn't have eggs so I replaced them with ice cream.
0/10 hot ice cream soup isn't fried eggs!!
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1/5 stars
I didn't have sugar, butter, vanilla, or baking powder, and I substituted the milk with cheddar cheese. Also, I don't have an oven, so I just used a frying pan on the stove top. It turned into an omelet! Would not recommend this cake recipe.
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