Herb & Lime Lab
Purpose: connect what you grow with what you cook — in both directions. Pick the mode that fits your question.
How to use it
- Tick the ingredients you harvested (or already have).
- Optionally pick a cuisine or a max cooking time.
- Get our recipes ranked by how well they fit what you have.
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Our scoring, stated openly: the matcher ranks by ingredient roles — a missing core ingredient hurts far more than a missing garnish — plus your cuisine and time choices. Equipment and diet filters are not in this version: our recipe data does not include verified equipment or diet fields yet, so we left them out rather than guessing.
How to use it
- Tick the cuisines you cook most.
- Tell us about your space, sun, and experience.
- Get a ranked plant shortlist, with the recipe count each plant unlocks.
How the shortlist is ranked: from our live plant data — sun needs, container suitability, difficulty for your experience level, your cuisines, and how many of our recipes each plant unlocks. Counts update automatically as we publish new recipes and plant guides.