What is Wingredients?

Could you use a win today?

That’s a feeling I am deeply familiar with. It’s rough out there in the real world, and on days when I come home feeling defeated, cooking awards me that winning feeling: a sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, and creative control that’s often lacking in other aspects of my life.

My hope is that Wingredients will be more than a recipe blog, and more than just a series of kitchen demos, but a lifestyle guide for incorporating food and cooking into your life responsibly, deliciously, and successfully. You can have fun, think creatively, enjoy amazing food, save money, and impress your friends and family. That’s a lot of wins.

What makes a Wingredients recipe special?

There no real rules in the Wingredients kitchen, but there are three basic principles that I use as a guide when I develop recipes or think about how to best feature specific ingredients:

1. Versatility 

The core concept of Wingredients is one ingredient, three ways to use it. But that’s just the beginning. I then think about how much variation I can find within the three recipes. Maybe I can do a breakfast, lunch, and dinner (as in Episode 3: Canned Pineapple). Or maybe it’s an appetizer, entree, and dessert (like Episode 8: Watermelon). That goes for supplemental ingredients too. I rarely have anything in my pantry that I can’t use in multiple ways.

2. Responsibility 

The world wastes roughly one third of all food meant for human consumption, 61% of which is thrown away by home cooks. I am on a mission to reduce my own food waste, committed to sourcing ingredients as locally and sustainably as possible, and continuing to educate myself on the subject.

3. Creativity 

I try to think outside the box, be curious, be adventurous, and have fun.

How To Use This Site:

A new video drops each month demonstrating three ways to prepare that month’s featured ingredient, which you can find on our YouTube Channel, and on the wingredients.com homepage. All three recipes will live on the homepage all month long.

Each recipe includes a SUB LIST with substitutions to help you customize it for your tastes or for your pantry. For some pantry guidance, check out Stock Your Wingredients Pantry for my list and some tips.

Connect with the Community!

Do you have a great recipe or tip for this month’s ingredient? Are you stumped by something in your CSA box you’d like me to take a crack at? Did you have a kitchen win you’d like to celebrate, or a kitchen fail you’d like to commiserate about? Contact me here or email me at wingredientsblog@gmail.com. 

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