I always pick a ridiculous recipe from, like, bon appetit and then go crazy trying to decide what can and can't be substituted. Do I really need aleppo pepper? Where does one even find whole star anise?? Will it ruin the recipe to leave out that one ingredient because I don't want to spend $16 on the jar that will spend the rest of its life in the back of my fridge, 96% unused???
I always pick a ridiculous recipe from, like, bon appetit and then go crazy trying to decide what can and can't be substituted. Do I really need aleppo pepper? Where does one even find whole star anise?? Will it ruin the recipe to leave out that one ingredient because I don't want to spend $16 on the jar that will spend the rest of its life in the back of my fridge, 96% unused???
Bahahaha yes exactly!!!! And am I investing $20 in a bottle of some sort of sauce or oil I’ll never use again? Probably!