My quiche is baking, and it looks funny! 

I cracked and whisked 5 eggs, reached into the fridge for milk, and discovered the only milk in there was chocolate.

So that's what I used. 

What's the weirdest thing you've substituted what with?

Someone help me make PIEEEEE!!!

What can I use if I don't have shortening to make pie crust? I read on Cooks.com that I can use peanut butter instead of shortening, but I'm not so sure about this. I'm trying to make a simple apple pie, and I don't want it to taste like Peter Pan.

Help? Plllleeeaaase? I'll share the pie! Hell, I'll GIVE you the pie if it ends up sucking. ;D

Thanks, folkses.

Sometimes I use duct-tape for underwear.

I made crepes the other day and also realized I didn't have milk. So I used water. They weren't terrible, but next time I'll make sure there is milk.

Nice! haha

On the pie crust, I've used butter instead of shortening for the crust using slightly less than the shortening called for.  It was really rich, though, and browned faster than usual.  I've never tried margarine, but since it's essentially similar to shortening (solidified vegetable fats), it should probably work.  If you know the consistency of dough you're working for, Hippie, go by that on amounts.  Start with your flour and shortening/butter/margarine, and work in the water, adding ingredients bit by bit as you go till you have the right balance.

On my strangest substitution?  No particularly odd ones, but I once learned a very important lesson about black beans.  I made a wonderful black bean soup, with peppers and onions and mushrooms and chicken.  It was spicy, and good, and filling.

It was also a uniform, perfectly even shade of bland purplish-grey.  All of it.  Peppers, mushrooms, chicken, all perfectly and totally dyed.  My roommate had to eat it with his eyes closed because it creeped him out.  We ended up throwing in a can of cooked tomatoes just for the spots of color.

I LOVE CoW.  I usualy put brown sugar and raisins in, but I've been using maple suryp recently.  My sister likes to put a LOT of butter and sugar in hers.  I've also tried apples and cinnimon.

Cream of Wheat is pretty much the same as Grits, ain't it?

I loves me some cheese grits.

Also, grits is made from corn ^.~  I've had both, the appearance is very similar, taste and texture when eating is quite different.  Cream of Wheats has sweetness to it that would make a cheese version kinda icky, hehe.

I do something like this.  It's black beans and peppers and garlic and onions served over rice.  I leave the pepper chunks nice and big so they're less likely to get all washed out and purpley.  I also put in pineapple just before the end for color and a nice sweet to offset the spicy.

As for weird cooking... I'm not sure where to begin.  Bachelor cooking can lead to interesting creations.  The one that comes to mind first was canned tuna, french cut green beens, cream harveti cheese mixed into a pot of basmati rice.  I hadn't done the shopping that week.