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.

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A pantry shelf of jars, tins and bottles
pasta

In the pantry · 89 uses

pasta

The sauce finishes on the pasta, not the other way around. Undercook it by a minute, move it into the pan with a ladle of its water, and let the starch pull the sauce onto it.

84

dishes and drinks that need it

5

more where it is worth adding

88%

of those are under 30 min

The technique underneath this

Handling pasta

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What it is usually standing next to

Garlic turns up alongside it in about 46% 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 · 12 min

Nori butter noodles

Butter, soy and a sheet of nori toasted for two seconds and crumbled at the table. Strange on paper, and then you make it weekly.

Built on it · 84

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

Worth adding · 5

These work without it. They work better with it.

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