Chia seeds are a nutritional powerhouse. Full of antioxidants and nutrients like omega-3, they are a great addition to any meal. However, if you want to bake with chia seeds and don’t want the actual whole seed in there (they do get stuck in your teeth), then you might want to make yourself some chia flour! While chia flour is not necessarily digested easier than chia seeds, it still makes an excellent alternative flour. [...]
4 Best Grapeseed Oil Substitutes for Any Situation
Grapeseed oil is a popular cooking oil made from, you guessed it, grape seeds! It has a light flavor as it is a refined oil that works well for most dishes. It often is confused with rapeseed oil, which is the ingredient in canola oil, but the two are from different plants. Being a neutral and refined oil, it is easily substituted with pretty much any other refined oil on the market, from vegetable to soybean. Still, if [...]
How to Make Your Own Butter
Did you know making your own butter at home is super simple? I had no idea! I figured I would need milk fresh from the cow, and an old-timey churning gadget, which I would then toil on for hours…. Nope! I pretty much just needed cream and an electric beater! Hooray for modern technology. Turns out, butter can be made from heavy cream if you agitate it for long enough that the fat separates from the liquid, and you end [...]
6 Best Sesame Oil Substitutes for Any Situation
Sesame oil is something I always try to have in my kitchen. 100% pure, toasted sesame oil tastes like nothing else, and my Asian food tastes so much better with a dash of it in there. So what to do when you don’t have any on hand? Well, you could try to make it yourself or go with an alternative! Here are the 6 best sesame oil substitutes: Before we jump into what substitute to use in what situation, let’s run through [...]
3 Best Palm Oil Substitutes for Any Situation
Palm oil is a common ingredient in foods and cosmetics, but it's also one of the most controversial ingredients out there. While palm oil can be sustainable from specific sources, some people choose to avoid it just in case, while some people do not realize that some forms of palm out are actually okay. If you want to use palm oil, as it has a unique color and flavor, make sure to find one that states ‘ethically sourced’ [...]
7 Best Canola Oil Substitutes for Any Situation
Now a commonly used cooking oil, canola oil was developed in Canada in the 1970s from rapeseed plants. Fun fact (well, I’m not sure it’s a fact, but a Canadian told me), the name canola is derived from "Canadian oil, low acid." Canola oil, like many refined vegetable and seed oils, became popular as saturated animal fats were slowly going out of fashion due to health concerns and have remained popular even today as a [...]
