Kitchen Minimal

Minimalist master recipes for the renaissance chef

Welcometo the kitchen

Which kitchen? Any kitchen. When you’re comfortable in Kitchen Minimal, you’ll make delicious things happen wherever you are, with whatever’s on hand.

Brunch in the oven before your cabin companions have brushed their teeth. Anniversary-saving breakfast in bed from a last-minute scrounge through the pantry. Dinner for a dozen, from a foreign farmers market, on a hostel hotplate.

With the right master recipes—and intuition you’ll develop once you let go of culinary coddling—you will do all this and more. Before long you might find yourself getting much warmer welcomes to many more kitchens. In the meantime, welcome to mine.

The Cookbookall the recipes, by topic

Soups & Stews

Chili: Chilis green chile bean chili

Minestrone
Italian vegetable soup, perfectly proportioned & passably pronounced
A System of Chili
universal methodology for spicy stew in any style
How’ta Chowdah
clam, corn, fish, and beyond, in one rule and six equal parts

Sauces


Peanut Sauce
reliable deliciousness in six liquid adjectives

Batters


Clafoutis
the peasant's pancake
How to Fritter
while away almost any food (but not all that much time)

Adult Beverages


Homemade Vermouth
'secret recipe' means 'try this at home'
Cocktail: Sours
The simple formula for infinite cocktails
Cocktail: Fizz
a sour spin-off for a range of seasons

Energy Bars


Durable Energy Density
energy bars part 1 · in search of the perfect bar
Engineered Fuel-Food
energy bars part 2 · a framework for better bars
Pepe’s Tri Bars
energy bars part 3 · simple, reliable, nutritional perfection
Banana-Bound Bars
energy bars part 4 · rugged and adaptable, sans animal
Fruit-Glued Bars
energy bars part 5 · absolute simplicity without the expense

The Pantrywhat to stock

Dry Goods


How to Buy Coconut Milk
rubric and recommendations from the Asian aisle

Implementstools to use

Digital


Nutritional Cost Comparator
edible analysis when the missing ingredient is math

Du Jourfresh from the chef


Peanut Sauce

reliable deliciousness in six liquid adjectives

For years and years, I thought peanut sauce was made with two ingredients. For years and years, I made miserable peanut sauce.


Fruit-Glued Bars

energy bars part 5 · absolute simplicity without the expense

Four parts into a five-part series on energy bars, we’ve covered nearly every need. What more could we ask of an energy bar?


Minestrone

Italian vegetable soup, perfectly proportioned & passably pronounced

Pronounce the classic Italian soup with a silent “e”. Cook it reliably with four sets of three.