Cooking · laid out as flowcharts
Recipes
Ingredients down the side, operations across the top. The grid tells you what gets combined with what, and when — so you can read the whole dish at a glance instead of parsing a wall of paragraphs.
Meals
Pantry cans · one baking dish · three short bakes
White Boy Enchiladas
Canned chicken, green chilis, and a sour cream gravy poured over halfway through.
Three components · candy the nuts first
Honey Walnut Shrimp
Honeyed walnuts baked until they shine, a mayo sauce whisked cold, and shrimp fried in a potato-starch batter.
One pan · 15 minutes · mild on purpose
Gochujang Rose Pasta
Gochujang toasted in browned butter, then heavy cream reduced until it turns from white through pink to orange.
Desserts
Makes one deep-dish pie, or two shallow
Grandma's Pumpkin Pie
Spices whisked dry, eggs beaten separately, then everything folded together and baked hot before it coasts.
Makes two deep-dish pies · a bowl and a shell
Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie
Pecans and chocolate laid into the shells, a bourbon custard poured over the top.
Twice baked · chill the dough · 28 slices
Biscotti
A spiced, nut-studded dough chilled into logs, baked, sliced on the diagonal, then baked again.
Ground oats · a drop of lemon juice · 3 dozen
Chocolate Chip Cookies
The hotel-lobby cookie: oats blitzed to flour, cinnamon in the dry mix, and lemon juice in the cream.
Cinnamon in the dry mix · 4 dozen
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Three cups of old-fashioned oats holding up two cups of chocolate and a cup of toasted pecans.
Mini baking bits · soft centres
M&M Cookies
A plain, well-behaved butter cookie carrying a whole bag of mini M&M's.
Rolled in sugar · a Kiss pressed in hot · 2 dozen
Peanut Blossom Cookies
Shortening and peanut butter creamed together, then a chocolate Kiss pressed in until the edges crack.
One saucepan · the boil is timed · 3 dozen
No Bake Cookies
Cocoa, sugar, and milk boiled for exactly one minute, then oats and peanut butter stirred in fast.
Almond and coconut flour · chill the dough · 1 dozen
Vegan Lemon Cookies
Coconut oil and maple syrup bound with almond flour, rolled in lemon-zest sugar.
Espresso dissolved first · do not overbake · 4 dozen
Mocha M&M Cookies
A cocoa dough with dissolved espresso powder beaten into it, studded with plain M&M's.
Five dry, six wet · 20 minutes · makes 12
Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins
Melted butter and mashed banana folded into a cinnamon batter with chocolate chips.
Two layers · set the base first · serves 12
Strawberry Jello Pie
A fruited strawberry jello set firm, with a cream cheese and Cool Whip layer spread over the top.
Sides
No heat · make ahead · feeds a crowd
Ceviche
Fish cured in lime and vinegar with most of the crisper drawer diced into it.
Four cans · crock pot · serves 24
Sarah's Beans
Ground beef and bacon browned off, then four kinds of bean left to go tender in a sweet ketchup-and-mustard sauce.
Grill, then cut off the cob · serves 8
Grilled Corn with Spiced Butter
A honey-and-smoked-paprika butter melted in a wide pan, with grilled kernels tossed through it.
Drinks
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