Tell us what you cook, grow, or have on hand — and the Lab helps you decide the next useful action. Nineteen free tools for Asian cooking, pantry intelligence, and garden-to-table decisions.
Results are calculated from our current collection of 30 recipes. No accounts, no sign-ups — everything runs in your browser.
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The two-way garden-to-kitchen core: cook what you grow, and grow what you cook.
Garden-to-Dinner Matcher
Tick the herbs you grow — we rank our 30 recipes by how many of your herbs each one uses, best match first.
Match my garden →Flavor Pairing Compass
Pick an herb and see its top pairings across our 30 recipes, ranked by how often they cook together.
Explore pairings →Kitchen Garden Lab
Pick what you harvested and get ranked recipes with exactly what you have and what you are missing — or tell us what you cook and get a garden plan for your pots and sun.
Open the Lab →Ingredient Compass
Search any ingredient: its role in our kitchen, every recipe that uses it, and whether you can grow it at home.
Look up an ingredient →Pantry Unlocker
Enter what is already in your pantry and see which one, two, or three extra ingredients unlock the most recipes.
Unlock my pantry →What Should I Cook Tonight?
Answer three quick questions — your mood, time, and crowd — and get one decisive pan-Asian dinner pick with the reason why.
Decide for me →Dinner Party Builder
Pick an occasion and headcount for a full multi-course menu from our real recipes, plus a shopping checklist.
Build my menu →30-Day Pan-Asian Cooking Challenge
Cook one pan-Asian dish a day for 30 days. Check off each day and track your streak — no account needed.
Start the challenge →Pantry & garden intelligence
Buy smarter, grow smarter, waste less.
Garden Unlocker
Only a few pots? Ranked herb picks so your small garden unlocks the most recipes you actually cook.
Plan my pots →Harvest Rescue
Drowning in basil or bok choy? Use it tonight, use it this week, preserve it, or store it right.
Rescue my harvest →Asian Pantry Builder
A short quiz about the cuisines you cook builds your starter pantry, matched to our recipes.
Build my pantry →Garden-to-Table Meal Planner
Pick 3–5 dinners and get one combined shopping list, duplicates merged, ready to copy.
Plan my week →Asian Herb Selector
Cuisine, space, and sun in — a ranked shortlist of herbs worth growing, out.
Find my herbs →Seasonal Harvest Planner
General seasonal guidance for Asian herbs, with links to ZIP-specific planting dates.
See the seasons →Local Planting Guide
Sun, difficulty, and container notes for nine Asian herbs — and where to find your local dates.
Check my plants →Asian Herb Visual Guide
Tell herbs apart at the market: key identifiers and common confusions, side by side.
Compare herbs →Flavor, rescue & sauces
Fix dinner, stretch sauces, and swap with confidence.
Fix My Dish
Too salty, too spicy, too bland? Cuisine-aware rescue steps for broths, curries, stir-fries, and dipping sauces.
Rescue dinner →Substitution Matrix
Missing an ingredient? Context-aware substitutes by dish type, with ratios and honest limits.
Find a swap →Asian Sauce Lab
Scale nuoc cham, prik nam pla, peanut sauce, and ginger-scallion sauce to any serving size.
Scale a sauce →Leftover Rice Rescue
Chilled rice in the fridge? Pass a quick food-safety check, then get matching recipes.
Use my rice →Everyday utilities
Small tools, used often.
Unit Converter
Ounces to grams, cups to milliliters — with ingredient-aware cup-to-gram approximations.
Convert →Rice Portion Calculator
How much dry rice per person — for side dishes, mains, and fried-rice bases.
Portion rice →Wok Batch Calculator
Max batch size for your wok diameter, so dinner sears instead of steams.
Size my batch →Marinade Calculator
Scale an Asian-style marinade to your protein weight, with caps on the strong stuff.
Mix a marinade →How the Lab stays honest
- Calculated, not claimed. Counts like "recipes unlocked" are computed live from our current collection of 30 recipes — never marketing estimates.
- No invented results. If we do not have enough good matches, the tool says so and suggests a next step instead of making something up.
- Food safety is sourced. Rice, marinade, and preservation guidance follows published food-safety guidance, not guesswork.
- Garden guidance is conservative. We never invent frost dates or planting windows — for your exact local dates we point you to the Almanac planting calendar.
- Your data stays yours. Saved pantries and gardens live only in your browser (localStorage). No accounts, no tracking beyond anonymous usage counts.