Kitchen & Bar

Kitchen & Bar · First run

Three moves. Then cook.

No setup marathon. The point is to get one credible answer first, then let the shelf get smarter as you use it.

01 · Tonight

Start with the meal, not the database.

Tell Kitchen & Bar what kind of answer you need tonight. You can begin with only the ingredients you know you have; a perfect inventory is not required.

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A pantry shelf of jars, tins and bottles
fennel

In the pantry · 14 uses

fennel

Anise, and it moves a long way with cooking. Raw and thin-sliced it is crisp and sharply licorice; roasted or braised it goes sweet, soft and barely recognizable.

14

dishes and drinks that need it

0

more where it is worth adding

100%

of those are under 30 min

What it is usually standing next to

Tomato turns up alongside it in about 43% of them, which is a strong lean rather than a rule.

Counted off required ingredients across the whole library. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.

If you have twenty minutes

Quickest dish · 10 min

Fennel orange salad

Slice the fennel as thin as you can manage — thick fennel stays crunchy and aniseedy. The orange juice on the board is the dressing.

Quickest drink · 5 min

Fennel tonic

Anise vegetable in a highball. A thin slice, not a salad in the glass.

Built on it · 14

Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.

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