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 · 23 dishes here use it

Out of chickpeas

Nutty and sturdy, and they take on whatever they are cooked in rather than adding much of their own. Roasted hard they go crisp and become a topping instead of a filler.

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

What to reach for

Instead · 1

white beans or butter beans

one for one

What it gets you
A canned legume of the same scale in a stew, a salad or a braise.
What it costs you
The firmness. Chickpeas hold their shape through anything and white beans do not, so a roasted-chickpea dish is not available.

Instead · 2

lentils, brown or green

three quarters of a cup dry per can

What it gets you
Legume protein and body from dry storage in twenty minutes.
What it costs you
The size and the nuttiness. A hummus made with lentils is a lentil dip.

Instead · 3

edamame, for a salad

one for one

What it gets you
A firm, green, protein-heavy bean that stands up to dressing overnight.
What it costs you
The earthiness, and it sends the dish toward east Asia rather than the Levant.

Where the swap will be tasted · 4

These need it and are short enough that nothing hides: 4 required ingredients or fewer, which makes chickpeas 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 chickpeas 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 chickpeasRank what I can actually cookAll substitutions