Changing The Recipe

I don't usually do it to lower calories, more for variation or because I can't find the ingredient. For example, I use chives instead of spring onions when I make my stir fry ginger beef; apples instead of turnip when I do meatballs... I'll add things like orange or lemon zest into my sweet baked stuff like Madeleine even when they don't call for it. When I'm cooking, I improvise along the way with what I have - once I was making a spicy sauce for some fried fish and I decided to add some crunch to the sauce, so I took out my nut brittle, crushed it using a mortar & pestle and then just added it into the sauce. :)

I always substitute applesauce, it's about the only way I can have a little cake or something! I love putting raisins in things. Currants are good, too. I'm always changing recipes, they're usually very boring to me so I add stuff.

I've used applesauce in brownies. It turned out well. I bought a jar of baby food prunes to use in some recipes when I was reading you could use that too. I forgot about it and it sat way too long in the cupboard. I add as much fruit as I can to recipes, I know it adds sugar but hope the nutrition and fiber make up for it. The family doesn't like many raisins so I use canned stuff I have on hand. I know it adds calories, but in my own way, I feel justified in not having desserts around if I have a really nce dinner, plus having a sweet ish taste somewhere in the meal? I like the dried cranberries in salads.

I do that also i love cooking an experimentting with different things like instead of useing water for oatmail using apple sauce an adding the dried cranberries to alot of my cookie recipes

i also change recipes of bread when i bake sometimes. i usually adjust the sugar.