#recipe subs

[ekho-ekho-ekho]

PSA: Egg Shortage Hack

For anyone not aware: That syrupy liquid you find in a can of garbanzo beans (aka chickpeas) is a damn-near perfect substitute for eggs/egg whites in pretty much any recipe that's not, like, FOR eggs. It's called "Aquafaba" in a lot of vegetarian & vegan recipes, but I shit u not it's. it's just canned chickpea juice.

I have heard that most kinds of bean juice will also do the trick, as will water that dried beans have been cooked/soaked in. As I have yet to verify this, I can only say that chickpeas do seem to be widely preferred (and like, the texture is UNCANNILY similar), and also the canned stuff works great. I've subbed The Bean Juice in a few cake and cookie recipes now, and although it does make the mixture smell distinctly "beany," I've not found beans at all detectable in the end results.

The ratios are dead easy, too:

3 Tblsps of Bean Goo = 1 Whole Egg

2 Tblspns = just the Egg White,

1 Tblspn = just the Yolk

Doing a little back-of-the-napkin math, I'd estimate a standard can of chickpeas contains about 12 Tblpns worth of Bean Goo, or 4 whole eggs. As of press time, canned chickpeas go for $0.89 at both Aldi and my area's dominant chain grocery. So 3 cans of chickpeas = about a dozen eggs' worth of Bean Goo = $2.67.

In other words, for about the average cost of eggs pre-Trump, you can get a dozen eggs' worth of Bean Goo, on top of like ten servings of chickpeas.

Speaking of which: once you've opened a can of chickpeas, you obviously don't want them to go to waste. And if chickpeas aren't already a staple of your daily diet, this might seem like a bit of a roadblock. That was certainly the case for me. But a few months into this little foray, I have found a good handful of low-effort chickpea recipes and can report that it's quite easy to find uses for them.

For instance, if you have a food processor or literally any kind of blender, you can make your own hummus. This recipe is super simple, customizable, and doesn't require you to just. have tahini on hand.

Hell, if you have one sturdy fork + some mayo, dijon, garlic powder, lemon juice, etc., you can make chick-pea salad, which is a vegetarian take on the standard chicken salad that I find nearly equal in flavor profile and versatility (though the texture is admittedly a bit starchy, so I wouldn't recommend it on like, a sandwich, but hey. YMMV).

I understand that the aquafaba-egg trick is well known in some culinary circles. I'm just a lifelong baker in my 30s who only learned it like 6 months ago. Given that eggs are pushing $5 right now and money's tight for . . . basically everyone, I thought I'd pay it forward. Maybe account for one of two of Today's Lucky 10,000 and hopefully save someone a few dollars down the line.

I invite anyone more familiar with aquafaba / chickpea recipes in general to add their recs, corrections, etc.!

[daily-deliciousness]

Gourmet meatball subs

[foodcravings]

Easy Italian Meatball Sub Sandwiches (recipe)

[toyastales]

Philly Cheesesteaks

[vegan-nom-noms]

Meatball Sub Bites

[daily-deliciousness]

Meatball marinara sub

[everybody-loves-to-eat]

MEATBALL SUB

[fattributes]

Easy Meatball Subs

[barwithnodoors]

A recipe from Stan Lee Presents: The Mighty Marvel Superheroes’ Cookbook (1977).

It’s a really basic tuna casserole. I forgot the peas and didn’t realize until just now. Whoops. Yeah - it was fine. I’m sure there are better recipes out there, but it’s tuna casserole, what are you expecting?

[kay-claire]

Damn the Try Guys creating their own streaming platform announcement video vs the Watcher announcement video are night and day.

Like, the Try Guys have actual footage of the content to expect from the new platform. They're still going to be posting the stuff we already love on YouTube. With the announcement they actually show just what kind of production value you can actually achieve instead of just vague promises to do higher production value while sitting on a couch. They made their point in 8 minutes instead of 14. And the Watcher video was hyped up for a week leading to it, making everyone expect something fun and exciting, and then they used a click bait title that just made everyone so mad.

Also we already know the Try Guys struggle with censorship on YouTube so this actually feels like a good move for them, and something that they have probably been working on for ages, whereas the Watcher one came completely out of left field and felt extremely rushed. They wanted you to pay $6 for a product that was still in beta mode with no proof of concept yet, while I am fully convinced the Try Guys will have very few growing pains with this, AND it's cheaper!

[notbecauseofvictories]

is this recipe for a grilled chicken sandwich work-intensive? yes. unequivocally yes. there are so many more steps than you're anticipating. you have to chop so many things, and then mix other things together, and then grill the chicken before topping it with all the junk. But the result? is phenomenal.

[vegan-nom-noms]

Italian Sub Pull Apart Sliders

[strawberrystepmom]

one thing about the internet that truly perplexes me and always has but especially post social media is the fact that people can’t ever seem to accept that sometimes things just aren’t for them and that they don’t have to react to them bc of it

[eat-love-eat]

French Onion Meatball Subs

[selinaeliott]

These vegan meatballs are the BEST I’ve tried. They’re intensely flavorful and have the perfect texture – crisp and charred on the outside and firm-yet-tender in the middle.

Serve them on pasta, stuff them into subs, or serve them over polenta with a scoop of marinara. However you enjoy them, I guarantee you’ll be going back for seconds!

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