Today’s beautiful thing is entirely practical, and positively genius. It’s a website that lets you enter the foods currently in your house and gives you recipes based on them. Has the internet ever produced anything more useful? I doubt it. And the recipes it offers up aren’t just the predictable cheese omelette or spaghetti with garlic and oil. Those are there, sure, but so are creative ideas that you might never have come to on your own.

Using it is simple. The website assumes only that you have salt, pepper, and water. You can then use the bar on the left to add your current ingredients by clicking on the more common items organized by type (fruits, vegetables, cheeses, meats, etc.). You can also look up items not listed using the search bar at the top. The center section tells you how many recipes you have available. You can filter them by things like cuisine, meal type (lunch, quick and easy, oven free, etc.), diet (vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, and lactose free), and preparation time. You can then view the recipes online, print, save, etc. I tried a number of different ingredient and filter configurations, and I couldn’t stump the website!

In my opinion, the most valuable thing about the website is that if you employ it to use up what’s fresh in your house, you can have a zero-waste kitchen! That and the fact that you don’t have to leave your house…

You can use the eminently-practical Supercook on their website. You can also download the app (there’s an app!) on Google Play and follow them on Facebook.