What should I cook tonight?
Five honest questions, one real answer with steps. Built for the evening when every recipe list feels like homework.
How much time do you actually have?
The eight answers the quiz can give you
No mystery box: every path through the quiz lands on one of these dishes, chosen by your time, energy, kitchen and mood. Each one is a real dinner you can cook tonight.
Fast, one pan, and it turns leftover carbs into a real dinner instead of a sad rerun.
Survival-mode cooking that still counts: eggs deliver a real meal in under ten minutes.
Comfort from things you already own: pasta, passata and a splash of cream carry the night.
Fresh, fast and built for vegetables that need using today rather than composting tomorrow.
The open-evening answer: ten minutes of chopping, the oven does the remaining hour.
Feeds a table tonight and tomorrow too, and it forgives every substitution you make.
Breakfast-for-dinner is a legitimate life choice, and this one needs exactly two things.
With a truly empty kitchen the move is one smart top-up, not a full shop: eggs, a carb, one vegetable.
Questions people ask
How does the quiz decide what I should cook?
Five questions narrow down the constraints that actually decide dinner: time, energy, what your kitchen holds, mood and how many are eating. Every path lands on one of eight real dishes with steps, not a list of twenty links.
Why does it ask about energy, not just time?
Because they fail differently. Twenty free minutes with zero energy is an eggs-on-toast night; the same twenty minutes with normal energy carries a stir-fry. Recipes fail more often on energy than on the clock.
What if I have almost nothing at home?
That is one of the eight outcomes, not a failure case: the quiz points you to the smallest smart top-up, eggs, one carb and one vegetable, which covers three different dinners for a few francs.
Is this what the Pann app does?
It is the pocket version of it. The app takes the real thing you have, by text or a photo of one item, builds a meal around it sized to your goal, and then walks you through the cooking step by step.