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Thu, 09/04/2025 – 05:03
one other one from ‘the “who kidnapped Rob?” cookbook.’
Tailored from Sarah Owens. I modified the recipe to complete wheat (mainly as a result of I wished to make use of up a few of what I’ve in my cupboard.) I subbed in violife faux-butter, soy milk, and a flax seed faux-egg for the animal equivalents.
Outcomes:
a enjoyable experiment, however —
- with, primarily, a complete bunch of parsley and a complete bunch of mint within the combine, I anticipated these to virtually blow the roof of my mouth off. However, oddly, the flavour is muted blended veggie, as if I had used previous kale as an alternative of knock-your-socks-off herbs. May or not it’s the ‘seems contemporary however actually is not’ produce from Complete Meals? Or does it want a ton extra mint, or another extra fragrant herbs?
- the vegan substitutions labored nice, texturally, however, truthfully, they lack the anticipated umami. I would like to not use animal fat & proteins, however I nonetheless want to grasp methods to make up for the ‘mmmmmm-deficit.’
- they’d have been so so so a lot better fried as an alternative of baked — the crispy (and, sure, oily) exterior would have introduced a texture/taste distinction that may have helped make these extra irresistible. As somebody stated to me this morning: every little thing’s dangerous for you, it is dangerous to breathe the air in New York, so why not fry?
- the glaze may have leaned a bit extra into the flavors. Maybe I ought to have diminished it on the range or used a barely extra intense number of citrus — meyer lemon, possibly — and a jolt extra brandy.
Rob
ROFLMFAO 😂You undoubtedly ought to write a e book with that title!
I like peppermint! Was that peppermint?
And glad to see two doughnuts posts in per week. Extra doughnut posts, please!
You would possibly need to attempt toasted soybean flour and powdered coconut milk, Rob. I really feel they’re fairly a sport changer, particularly in cake baking
And I am genuinely pleased for you diversifying your baking repertoire! Maintain them coming!
Jay
thanks Jay! Sure to extra donuts! I eagerly await the styling ‘baked by Jay’ tackle the standard fried dough deal with.
Rob
PS– I get the soy flour concept, however why add powdered coconut milk. Could not I simply use the canned or vacpac’d stuff from the shop?
PPS — seemed like peppermint nevertheless it was simply labeled mint
Loving all of the issues that come out of your kitchen Bor, how unique this all sounds.
Undecided if whole-wheat is one of the best flour for it although, however I assume you knew that and simply went for it anyway which is a testomony to your baking abilities that you could possibly nonetheless pull one thing good off.
I did misinterpret the sentence and thought you’d substituted all the vegan components with the animal equivalents to be dafka.
Hope you loved them very a lot along with your espresso substitute.
-Noj
- Let’s collaborate on a cookbook that turns all vegan recipes into full-on paleo caveman concoctions🤣
- Espresso is fruit juice — and as soon as I noticed that it made it a lot simpler to eat an excessive amount of of it.
- Years in the past, I labored the counter within the Cupcake Cafe at thirty ninth & ninth in NYC, which, regardless of the title, really specialised in desserts and a pair of kinds of complete wheat donuts — ww-orange & ww-oat. Each had been terrific — the orange had been memorably crunchy & gentle — nevertheless it was lengthy earlier than my baking days & I by no means received the recipe.
Bor
