Recipes — what to cook with what you have.
10 pantry-first recipe guides, organized by the ingredient sitting in your fridge. Each page is 8 dinners that lean on that ingredient as the headliner, with technique notes and FAQ.
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What to cook with chicken breast
Chicken breast is the most-bought protein in American kitchens, and the easiest one to ruin. Cooked right, it's a 12-minute dinner. Cooked wrong, it's rubber. H…
What to cook with ground beef
Ground beef is the workhorse of the American pantry — cheap, freezable, and adaptable to every cuisine. A pound of 80/20 chuck can become tacos for 4, a Bologne…
What to cook with eggs
Eggs are the single most useful thing in any kitchen — breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, sauce binder, leavening agent, glue. Here are 8 dinners that lean on e…
What to cook with salmon
Salmon is the easiest fish to cook well and the easiest to overcook. The window between perfect and dry is about 90 seconds. Here are 8 ways to land it consiste…
What to cook with pasta
A box of dried pasta and three or four pantry items is a complete dinner if you know what you're doing. The Italians wrote the rulebook a century ago and most o…
What to cook with rice
Rice is the most-cooked grain on earth and the one most cooks get wrong. Method depends on the variety. Here are 8 rice-forward dinners with the right technique…
What to cook with beans
Beans are the cheapest protein on earth, the most flexible base ingredient in your pantry, and the most slept-on. A pound of dried beans is a week of dinners fo…
What to cook with potatoes
Potatoes are the cheapest, most-bought, most-misused vegetable in the American kitchen. A 5-pound bag is a week of dinners. Here are 8 potato-forward dishes — e…
What to cook with what I have
Most recipe sites assume you start with the recipe. The reality is most home cooks start with a fridge full of food they forgot they bought — half a fennel bulb…
What to cook with shrimp
Shrimp cook in 90 seconds. The trick is preparing everything else first. Here are 8 shrimp dinners where the shrimp goes in last and dinner is on the table 5 mi…
Cook with what you already own.
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