Ingredient Substitutions

Just received a pizza stone as a gift. It specifically states: "Do not use sprays or oils on the stone. Dust the stone with cornmeal to keep dough from sticking". From what I understand, seasoning ...

I have a new ice cream maker and all the (American) recipes call for “heavy cream”, which I simply cannot find in shops in Canada. (There was an old discussion on this four years ago I ran across, ...

I'm making a recipe that calls for 4 tbsp of caster sugar. Never heard of it. Can I substitute regular sugar for it?

While have read numerous recipes on Vegan Honey free alternatives to Honey Mustard, has anyone ever attempted to use Date syrup / Date Honey in place of Honey to create Date Honey Mustard as it wer...

Now that Unilever has wrecked Hellmann's Mayonnaise by changing the formula, what are former Hellmann's lovers using instead? In another post, several people recommended "Duke's" and said that i...

I have a half gallon of half and half in my fridge and would like to make some whipped cream with it, I know that I need whipping cream to do this but I was wondering if there is anything I could a...

when making chicken curry and the recipe calls for coconut milk, can I substitute regular milk? I'm not concerned with being "authentic" thanks

I've made really delicious ribs with a homemade barbecue sauce in the past via a recipe where one of the ingredients was light/dark molasses. This one time I was at a friend's cottage and was asked...

by kezdenek 6 years ago

Hi fellow food lovers, We are making a homemade Pad Kee Mao. Our first time to make fresh pasta for a thai dish so we are really excited. Problem is I really am not the biggest fan of fish ...

I've come across a bunch of recipes lately I want to try. I can't find Parve Soy yogurt in Vanilla or Plain -Trader Joe's only has fruity flavors and the Silk brand are dairy. I'm looking specifi...

Hi. I have a cherry pie recipe that calls for tapioca to thicken the filling. I assume they mean tapioca flour. This is not something that I have around the house, but I do have cornstarch on hand....

I started making a quinoa salad for tomorrow and I realized that it calls for cumin, which we don't use. Any good, readily available substitutes?

If you're following a total avoidance of alcohol, how do you get around the need for red-wine vinegar, white-wine vinegar, sherry vinegar, etc.? I am planning to make a Spanish sopa de ajo blanco, ...

by MidwesternerTT 2 months ago

I've got a bag of mini-cucumbers to use up, and plans to make our spice-wimp variation of the CH Mexican turkey-meatball soup this week. https://www.chowhound.com/recipes/mexican-turkey-meatball-s...

Growing up in the seventies and eighties, it seemed like carob was the ubiquitous "natural" substitute for chocolate... but now, even in a rising culture of health food, alternatives, and organic s...

Hello! I have a ton of dried peppermint from Frontier Market that I use for tea. Is this the same as the mint you find fresh in the store? I’m wondering if for recipes that add a bit of mint, if d...

Want to bake the chocolate pound cake from this month's Cuisine. It calls for 1 tablespoon potato starch. I don't have any and can't find any within about 10 miles. Can I use corn starch? or add mo...

I got this mix in Hawaii and they don't sell online much to my chagrin. I've tried dozens of internet recipes but none are as good as the mix! The ingredients are super vague and I was hoping someo...

Hi, I'm trying to make a recipe for buta no kakuni I found in an issue of the Japanese magazine Dancyu; at one point it calls for the pork belly to be simmered for 2 hours together with a quanti...

Anyone have success with this in making matzo balls? Because of the terrible weather we're having, I refuse to make a stop at the store -- but I'm really craving matzo balls, and I will be coming ...