Can Anyone Help?

[KLS52]

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Don't know why, but I always thought the red one was plastic. but upon closer inspection it is metal with some kind of coating.
Anyway, I really like the wooden one which I got one year as a stocking stuffer.

The wooden one is cool!

 

[KLS52]

My last few onions have this green part in the middle. Dies it mean they're old? Is it safe to eat or should I cut around the green part?

 

[silva]

Looks like new shoots, which don't bother me, I use them. What does is what looks like rotten brown layer. Often the cheap bags I sometimes get will have a mushy brown layer, but just one layer is bad and the rest seems perfectly fine. If not too bad I'll cut it out and rinse the rest
I got a good bag from Costco, think a 5lb for like $5

 

[silva]

I'd bought a jar of sun dried tomatoes in oil particularly for sausages. I'd only had dried tomatoes, and didnt' like them, so I was very surprised how flavorful they are! Turned out to be just what I was missing in Italian seitan sausage flavor! Just hope the texture is as good!

 

[KLS52]

Looks like new shoots, which don't bother me, I use them. What does is what looks like rotten brown layer. Often the cheap bags I sometimes get will have a mushy brown layer, but just one layer is bad and the rest seems perfectly fine. If not too bad I'll cut it out and rinse the rest
I got a good bag from Costco, think a 5lb for like $5

Ok good to know. I just didn't want to be afraid of it if some got in whatever I'm using it for. I feel like this bag was not the greatest for freshness because most of the onions were like this and some did have the soft layer too.

 

[silva]

Ok good to know. I just didn't want to be afraid of it if some got in whatever I'm using it for. I feel like this bag was not the greatest for freshness because most of the onions were like this and some did have the soft layer too.

That's me though, I also cut mold off bread and cheese. My son is horrified

 

[KLS52]

That's me though, I also cut mold off bread and cheese. My son is horrified

I've done that too. Not so much lately because of what I keep hearing about how bad it is to do it. But I can't say I would never do it again lol.

 

[Tillimint]

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Looking to make this Chipotle sauce but cashews are out of my college student budget. Any ideas for subs?​

Creamy chipotle sauce​

• ¾ cups raw cashews, soaked overnight or boiled for 10 min
• ½ cup plant-based milk, unsweetened
• ¼ tsp sea salt
• 1 tsp maple syrup
• 1 lime, juiced
• 2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, plus 1 tsp of adobo sauce, adjust to taste

 

[Blues]

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Looking to make this Chipotle sauce but cashews are out of my college student budget. Any ideas for subs?​

Creamy chipotle sauce​

• ¾ cups raw cashews, soaked overnight or boiled for 10 min
• ½ cup plant-based milk, unsweetened
• ¼ tsp sea salt
• 1 tsp maple syrup
• 1 lime, juiced
• 2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, plus 1 tsp of adobo sauce, adjust to taste

You could try peanuts

 

[silva]

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Looking to make this Chipotle sauce but cashews are out of my college student budget. Any ideas for subs?​

Creamy chipotle sauce​

• ¾ cups raw cashews, soaked overnight or boiled for 10 min
• ½ cup plant-based milk, unsweetened
• ¼ tsp sea salt
• 1 tsp maple syrup
• 1 lime, juiced
• 2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, plus 1 tsp of adobo sauce, adjust to taste

Raw cashews are the most neutral of things that make food creamy and thick.
Peanuts would be a very very different sauce, but would be good!
Raw sunflower seeds would be a good sub, and last I checked, much cheaper than cashews.

I use raw walnuts for a lot of dips and things, and now find their price has gone way up!
I buy organic raw cashews from Costco--2 lbs for $12.99. They make a great cheese and less than buying processed

 

[KLS52]

I don't use cashews for many things so I pay a million dollars for a jar of raw cashew butter and I use that anytime a recipe calls for cashews. I can't be bothered soaking and then grinding/blending them. The cashew butter works beautifully.

 

[Raven]

I don't use cashews for many things so I pay a million dollars for a jar of raw cashew butter and I use that anytime a recipe calls for cashews. I can't be bothered soaking and then grinding/blending them. The cashew butter works beautifully.

I never thought to do that!

 

[KLS52]

I paid $14.99, so not quite a million dollars, for a jar and it keeps forever in the refrigerator.

 

[silva]

I don't use cashews for many things so I pay a million dollars for a jar of raw cashew butter and I use that anytime a recipe calls for cashews. I can't be bothered soaking and then grinding/blending them. The cashew butter works beautifully.

You go to costco, 12.99 for 2 lbs for organic raw is a good price
when I had cashew butter I tried using it to make milk, Which people on the dr Gregor site do, and hated it,,.!

 

[KLS52]

You go to costco, 12.99 for 2 lbs for organic raw is a good price
when I had cashew butter I tried using it to make milk, Which people on the dr Gregor site do, and hated it,,.!

Oh cool...I will look for it.

 

[silva]

Oh cool...I will look for it.

I keep mine in the freezer

Where do you get your yeast? I stopped at Aldi and the 3 pack went from .79 to .99 cents
I was wondering if the big container from Costco was worth buying, as sometimes I only want a 1/2 tsp

 

[KLS52]

I keep mine in the freezer

Where do you get your yeast? I stopped at Aldi and the 3 pack went from .79 to .99 cents
I was wondering if the big container from Costco was worth buying, as sometimes I only want a 1/2 tsp

I hardly ever use yeast but I keep that in the freezer. I had purchased a bag off of Amazon a year ago. It was a one pound bag and it's still good. I don't get to Aldi and I don't recall seeing it at Costco but I'll check that out too. I definitely want to get their flour because a lot of people are using it for their sourdough.

 

[silva]

I hardly ever use yeast but I keep that in the freezer. I had purchased a bag off of Amazon a year ago. It was a one pound bag and it's still good. I don't get to Aldi and I don't recall seeing it at Costco but I'll check that out too. I definitely want to get their flour because a lot of people are using it for their sourdough.

whoa. I looked up Costco Red Star yeast. 32 oz for $8.99.
32 oz of yeast equals 128 packets That's 42 packets of 3, which cost (now) 42 dollars !
Really thats ridiculous. It would mean keeping in freezer, and not finding it, and maybe splitting with someone...buy jeez that's a deal
I'm not....unless it's 3 dollars off in their monthly sale

You don't use yeast in your breads?

 

[KLS52]

You don't use yeast in your breads?

Not in the sourdough bread that I've been making. The starter is the "yeast".

 

[silva]

You go to costco, 12.99 for 2 lbs for organic raw is a good price
when I had cashew butter I tried using it to make milk, Which people on the dr Gregor site do, and hated it,,.!

I saw the bag in freezer and found it is a 12.5 lb bag for $12.99!