Sunday, April 19, 2020

Pandemic Cooking: Cook With the Ingredients You Have on Hand

I just came across a site called Fridge to Table (fridgetotable.com) that lets you search recipes by ingredient and type of diet (vegan, vegetarian, none, etc). This seems like a pretty handy approach at this time in our history, when we are avoiding grocery shopping as much as possible and cooking with pantry ingredients that we have on hand.

Of course we have always been able to find recipes online by searching an ingredient or two, but I found myself with a cup of freshly squeezed lime juice and when I searched for recipes just by googling "cup of lime juice" I found a variety of limeade recipes, but not much else.

Using the Fridge to Table site, "lime juice" as an ingredient gave me lots of recipes for ceviche, guacamole, fajitas, chicken, salmon, quinoa, shrimp, etc. The recipe results could then be sorted by course (breakfast, lunch, etc.), source (where the recipes came from), number of ingredients, and cook time--plus giving me the option to exclude certain ingredients or tailor the dish to a particular diet.

Perhaps I'll be making some Honey Lime Turkey Fajitas, which will leave me with just another 3/4 cup of lime juice to use in newly found recipes.