Being seven months and a half months pregnant and approaching the size of a small, squat tornado (I don’t say whale, because I am still moving fairly quickly), if I want to cook something, I want to cook it NOW. I will not hesitate to admit that at this point, I am not looking for ingredient substitutes to make something like salad dressing (although the website I’m going to mention can handle that too.) Rather, I am generally interested in what to do if I run out of a crucial ingredient for brownies. Typically, this lack-of-an-ingredient-revelation happens once the oven has already been preheated. Clearly there is no turning back.
So what’s a chubby girl to do? Log on to www.switcheroo.com and solve her latest crisis without the blink of an eye. Note: Canola or vegetable oil is a substitute for clarified butter. Butter can be substituted for shortening (1 cup shortening = 1 cup + 2 tablespoons butter). Who knew? Not me, but I do now. Give me a few more weeks and it’ll be Jenny Craig, here I come. For now the oven is at a steady 450.
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