Cook Without Recipes
Ratios, substitutions, and the confidence to open the fridge and just start.
Ratios over recipes
Vinaigrette 3:1. Stir-fry sauce 3:1:1. Yogurt sauce: yogurt + acid + salt. Memorize ratios, improvise everything else.
Substitution logic
Swap within roles: crunchy for crunchy, acid for acid, green for green. The dish doesn't care which.
Leftover alchemy
Fried rice, frittatas, quesadillas, the bowl: the machines that turn yesterday into a different dinner. The Fridge page lists all of them.
The no-recipe dinner
Ingredients, questions, no instructions. Dinner 20 is this lesson's exam.
Seasonal thinking
Buy what looks good, apply a pattern to it. Farmers-market confidence comes standard with the equations.
And then: people
Cooking for a table is the same reps at a bigger scale — one anchor dish you've made before, one make-ahead side, one thing that's just assembled. There's no level for it because there's nothing new in it.