{"id":1813,"date":"2019-05-02T06:27:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2019-04-14T21:09:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T04:09:57","slug":"using-up-baguette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/02\/using-up-baguette\/","title":{"rendered":"Using up: baguette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got a free baguette from somewhere a few months ago. It&#8217;s been sitting in my freezer since then, desiccating, apparently. I got it out to make banh mi yesterday and discovered that it was rock hard. I would&#8217;ve given up on the whole idea except that I&#8217;d already bought all the other ingredients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To attempt to rehydrate the bread, I&#8230; steamed it. It mostly worked. Soggy on the outside and still pretty hard on the inside = delicious, right? Fortunately, panfrying got rid of the sogginess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bread down, onto the hacked-together filling! The main components of banh mi are some protein (I used fried tofu and scrambled egg), cilantro, mayo, fish sauce, and marinated veggies. I had trouble with the fish sauce (don&#8217;t have it) and the marinated vegetables (don&#8217;t have vinegar), so I made some wild substitutions like usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Julienned carrots and radish are supposed to be marinated in a combination of rice vinegar, sugar, and salt. I didn&#8217;t want to buy a whole container of vinegar (and it&#8217;s not available in bulk) just as I&#8217;m about to move out, so my plan was to use lemon or lime juice in place of vinegar. Lime would be especially fitting \u2013 it&#8217;s commonly used as a topping. But&#8230; the grocery store didn&#8217;t have either \ud83d\ude41 The closest alternative I could find was grapefruit. I still don&#8217;t know if that was a good choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I added bonito flakes to the marinade to substitute for fish sauce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2863-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2863-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2863-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2863-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2863.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>The final banh mi-like sandwich. (This nice plate was a bulk-trash-pickup-day find \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The sandwich was actually pretty good, considering. The vegetables only have the faintest hint of grapefruit-bitterness flavor&#8230; \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a free baguette from somewhere a few months ago. It&#8217;s been sitting in my freezer since then, desiccating, apparently. I got it out to make banh mi yesterday and discovered that it was rock hard. I would&#8217;ve given up on the whole idea except that I&#8217;d already bought all the other ingredients. 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