Kitchen & Bar

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How to get around

The bar under the name is the map. Swipe it sideways if a destination sits off-screen. On Tonight, the button pinned to the bottom cooks the lead dish.

  1. Tonight — What you can cook first, plus drinks that fit the same shelf.

  2. This week — Five dinners from the shelf, urgent things cooked first.

  3. Shelf — Edit what you actually own.

  4. Written methods — Every dish and drink with a method somebody wrote out.

  5. The pantry — Start from one ingredient: what it does, and everything built on it.

  6. Out of it — What to use instead, judged by the job the missing thing was doing.

  7. Photo review — Review a demo shelf photo and confirm every item before adding it.

  8. Flavor Lab — Pairings with a track record: classic matches and the mixology behind them.

  9. Wild cards — Combinations with no tradition behind them, only shared aroma notes.

  10. Send to Occasion OS — Prepare confirmed shelf availability for Occasion OS.

  11. The field — The gap this layer owns.

Keep it on the home screen

  1. iPhone — tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
  2. Android — open the browser menu, then Install app or Add to Home screen.

After that it opens as Kitchen & Bar, not a browser tab. Inventory stays on this device.

Substitutions · 11 dishes here use it

Out of almonds

Fat and crunch, and toasting is not optional — raw almonds taste chalky and toasted ones taste like almonds. Sliced for texture, ground for body.

Everything below is judged against that job. A swap that covers it is a swap; one that only looks similar is not.

64% of the 11 dishes here that mention almonds already list it as optional. Before you look for a replacement, check whether you are in one of them.

What to reach for

Instead · 1

hazelnuts, cashews or pistachios

one for one

What it gets you
A toasted nut with the same crunch in the same salad, bake or dukkah.
What it costs you
Neutrality. Hazelnut and pistachio both have loud flavors that lead rather than support.

Instead · 2

sunflower or pumpkin seeds

one for one

What it gets you
Toasted crunch and fat, allergy-safe and cheaper.
What it costs you
Size and richness. Seeds scatter where nuts sit.

Instead · 3

toasted breadcrumbs with olive oil

one for one by volume

What it gets you
The crunch on top of a pasta or a vegetable, which is what the nuts were for.
What it costs you
The fat and the protein, and it goes soft within the hour.

Where you can just leave it out · 7

These dishes list almonds as optional. They were written to work without it, so no ratio is needed and nothing has to be bought.

Check what else is in the pan

The company almonds keeps in this library, counted off required ingredients. A swap that argues with the top two is the wrong swap, whatever a chart says.

What to make with almondsRank what I can actually cookAll substitutions