Kitchen & Bar

On this phone

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 · 33 dishes here use it

Out of bell pepper

Sweetness and water. Raw it is crunch, blistered under a broiler it goes silky and smoky and stops tasting like a salad bar — that char is most of the reason to buy them.

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

2 of the 33 dishes here that mention bell pepper list it as optional — 6% of them. In those, the correct substitution is nothing.

What to reach for

Instead · 1

roasted red peppers from a jar

one jarred pepper per fresh one

What it gets you
Sweetness, color and body in anything cooked, with the skin already dealt with.
What it costs you
Crunch entirely, and they bring vinegar. In a stir fry they turn to mush.

Instead · 2

poblano or anaheim

one for one

What it gets you
The same shape and the same roasting behavior, with more flavor and a faint warmth.
What it costs you
Neutrality and sweetness. A poblano is a greener, more vegetal thing.

Instead · 3

celery and carrot together

one stalk and one carrot per pepper

What it gets you
The aromatic base job, if the pepper was going into a soffritto rather than onto a plate.
What it costs you
The sweetness peppers give at the end of a long cook, and the color.

Where you can just leave it out · 2

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

Where the swap will be tasted · 5

These need it and are short enough that nothing hides: 4 required ingredients or fewer, which makes bell pepper a quarter of what is in the pan. Make the swap a decision rather than a repair.

Check what else is in the pan

The company bell pepper 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 bell pepperRank what I can actually cookAll substitutions