Asian American Daddy
Cooking

The kitchen notebook

Cooking.

Asian home cooking for everyday kitchens.

Mitsuba in a kitchen pot beside freshly cut stems, herb scissors, and a ceramic bowl

What brings you to the kitchen?

Watercolor illustration of thick udon noodles in amber curry broth with brown mushrooms, carrot strips, onion and scallion rings.

Cook dinner

Choose a dish, gather the ingredients, and get cooking.

Find a recipe
Watercolor illustration of dry wrinkled shiitake caps beside soaked caps in amber liquid and a halved mushroom on a board.

Understand an ingredient

Know what to buy and what to do with it when you get home.

Explore ingredients
Watercolor illustration of cooked crescent potstickers, some turned to show golden crisp bases, beside a small bowl of dipping sauce.

Solve a kitchen problem

Rice that rests properly, dumplings that release, and a steamer made from your own pot.

Find a kitchen skill

Something good for dinner

All recipes →

A few dishes, one plan.

Shop for several dinners or bring rice and two dishes to the table with a clear cooking order.

Plan a meal →
Cook alongIngredients ready, one clear step, and timers for the waits.Start cooking →

Garden to kitchen

Grow the ingredient. Follow it to dinner.

Choose a seasonal edible-plant project, harvest with a crop-specific cue, and open the recipes connected to that plant by the site’s structured records.

Start the journey →
Minari growing in a contained container beside a small clean harvest

Keep these close

What can I cook?Choose what is already in your kitchen and find the closest recipes.Check the pantry →Meal builderScale several recipes and combine their ingredients into one shopping list.Build a list →Kitchen cardsSix free printables for prep, cooking, shopping, and planning dinner.Choose US Letter or A4 →Kitchen conversionsSwitch between cups, grams, milliliters, and temperature units.Convert a measurement →

Browse the kitchen

Search Cooking →
IngredientsFind the right ingredient for the texture, seasoning and dish you have in mind.Open catalog →CookwareChoose a pan, pot or steaming setup for the job. Start with what already fits in your kitchen.Open catalog →TechniquesA useful cue for the next step, with a dish or a fuller guide to put it into practice.Open catalog →RecipesFind a dish for dinner, a side for the table or something sweet. Open the recipe for ingredients and steps, or cook along one step at a time.Open catalog →

Fresh from the kitchen