Quick Kitchen Replacements
Breadcrumb Replacement Hack
Yield
1 cup of breadcrumbs
Ingredients
- 2 pieces of bread, toasted
Instructions
- Grate the toasted bread to create homemade breadcrumbs.
Ingredients
- eggs
- 2 bowls (to catch egg whites and yolks)
- cooling rack
Instructions
- Place the cooling rack on top of one of the bowls.
- Crack the eggs onto the cooling rack. Allow the egg whites to fall through.
- Then lift the cooling rack and pour the egg yolks into the other bowl. The egg yolks should easily roll off of the cooling rack.
Ingredients
- 8 in. x 8 in. parchment paper
- scissors
- tape (optional)
Instructions
- Fold the parchment paper in half two times to create a smaller rectangular shape.
- Cut slits along one of the short edges to create the bristles of the brush.
- Roll the parchment paper along the long edge to form the cylindrical brush shape. Seal with a piece of tape, and you’re ready to go!
Two-In-One / Boil and Steam
Ingredients
- 1 box of pasta of your choice
- 2-3 c. vegetables of your choice (or any food you want to steam!)
- water (to boil pasta)
- large pot with lid
- cooling rack
Instructions
- Boil water in a large pot, then add your pasta.
- Stack the cooling rack on top of the boiling pasta. Then add your vegetables, or whatever you’ve chosen to steam! Add a lid to conceal the steam, and allow both the pasta and veggies to cook for about 12-14 minutes.
- Remove the cooling rack with veggies, strain pasta, and serve as you wish!
Powdered Sugar Hack
Yield
2 cups of powdered sugar
Ingredients
- 2 c. granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp. cornstarch
- food processor or blender
Instructions
- Blend the granulated sugar and cornstarch together in a food processor or blender. Blend for about 5 minutes, or until your sugar is light and powdery!
Whipped Aquafaba / Egg White Replacement + Aquafaba Mousse
Ingredients
- For the Aquafaba:
- 1 can of chickpeas
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar, white vinegar, or lemon juice
- electric mixer
- For the Mousse:
- 140 g chocolate
- Whipped Cream
- Fresh Berries
- Mint
Instructions
- For the Aquafaba:
- Melt the chocolate over a double boiler.
- Fold the melted chocolate into the aquafaba.
- Chill for at least 30 minutes to let the mousse set. Top with whipped cream, fresh berries, and mint!
Easy Oat Flour
Yield
2 cups of oat flour
Ingredients
- 2 c. old fashioned oats
- food processor or blender
Instructions
- Add the old fashioned oats to a food processor or blender, then blend until the oats become a fine, powdery texture. . . Just like flour!
Ingredients
- 4 c. ice
- blender
- snow cone syrup of your choice
- plastic water bottle
- candle or lighter
- skewer
Instructions
- Blend the ice to reach an icy snow texture. Use a small cup to scoop and form your snow cone.
- Remove the bottle cap from the water bottle. Heat over a candle or with a lighter until the top of the lid is melted and thin enough to poke with the skewer.
- Poke the skewer through the heated bottle lid to create a spout. If the skewer doesn’t poke all the way through, just cut the tip of your DIY spout with scissors. Add the new lid back to the water bottle and now you have a homemade squeeze bottle!
- Add your snow cone syrup to your squeeze bottle and pour over your snow cone!
Ingredients
- tongs
- lemons
- bowl (to catch lemon juice)
Instructions
- Cut the lemons in half.
- Place one lemon half between the tongs. Easily squeeze the tongs and juice the lemon! Repeat with remaining lemon halves.
Ingredients
- Dumplings, or anything you’d like to steam!
- foil
- 1 c. water
- shallow pot with lid
- ceramic or oven safe plate
Instructions
- Crumple three separate pieces of foil into identically sized balls.
- Pour the water in the pot, then add the three foil balls. Your plate will sit on these foil balls, so be sure they are small enough to allow the plate to fit in the pot.
- Stack the heat safe plate onto the balls of foil, add your steam-able food of choice, then cover with the lid!
- Let steam and enjoy as if you had the real equipment!
Ingredients
- 6 oz Lays chips
- 1 cup Water * optional to adjust consistency*
- ¾ cup Heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon cup Sour cream * optional to adjust consistency*
- Garnish chives *optional*
Instructions
- In a medium pot on low heat add your water, once your water begins to simmer add in your potato chips continuously mashing until incorporated.
- Add your heavy cream and sour cream and use a potato masher to mash for 2 minutes until smooth and creamy.
- Transfer your mashed potatoes to a serving bowl and top with chives before serving and enjoy!
Ingredients
- 300 g brown rice flour
- 100 g Potato Starch
- 130 g tapioca starch
- 350 ml boiling water
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 2 TBsp Olive oil
- 2 tsp Salt
- Potato Ricer
Instructions
- Mix together the brown rice flour, tapioca starch, lemon juice, olive oil, and salt.
- Then add the boiling water and mix for 5 minutes.
- Add potato starch and mix for 2 minutes.
- Roll the dough into a fist-sized ball.
- Place the ball of dough into the potato ricer. Press the dough into noodles over a boiling pot of water, and cut straight across to release the noodles.
- Let the noodles boil for 2 minutes, or until the noodles float to the top.
- Rinse the noodles twice in cold water, once in warm. Serve with your favorite broth and toppings, and enjoy!
