Food52 Cook in the Blank

Build recipes in a fun, flexible manner with basic ingredients and instructions to create customizable meals with this innovative tear-away pad.

Based on the Food52 "Cook in the Blank" website feature, this reporter's style notepad with perforated, tear-out pages lets you create incredible meals based on adaptable instructions and just a few staple ingredients . Fill in the blanks with whatever you have in your kitchen, or let your imagination go wild and create unique dishes with unusual flavor combinations. The choice is yours! It's like Mad Libs for meal time. When you're done, you can tear the recipe out to save or send to friend. From pasta to chili to grain bowls, Food52 Cook in the Blank makes mealtime easy and makes every dish new and exciting. This is how you cook without a book.

About the Authors

We're Food52, and we've created a groundbreaking kitchen and home destination. Founded in 2009 by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs-two authors, editors, and opinionated home cooks who formerly worked for the New York Times-we support, connect, and celebrate home cooks, and give them everything they need in one place. That includes smart and entertaining stories about cooking and home, over 60,000 recipes, a cooking hotline, a suite of cookbooks, a shop with everything from stunning tabletop goods to the trustiest pan, and a community of talented and curious home cooks. Oh, and we've won many a James Beard and IACP award doing it.