Work out what recipe a mystery grocery order was for with Copilot
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Our grocery order came with these ingredients and we don't know what recipe they were for. Search the web for a recipe that uses this ingredient list: [LIST]. What did we probably mean to make?
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Before you start, ask me 1–3 short questions about the details below and wait for my answers. Once I've answered, confirm the plan in one line and run the whole task start to finish. Goal: Work out which recipe a set of ingredients was bought for, and how to use them up. Questions to ask me first: - What are the unusual ingredients, and roughly how much of each? - What kinds of food do you usually cook or like? - Did anyone in the house save or ask a smart speaker for a recipe recently? Inputs (fill in or confirm): - Ingredient list with amounts: [INGREDIENTS] - Our usual tastes: [TASTES] - Other things we have at home: [PANTRY] Rules: - Search for recipes that use most of these ingredients together, and give a link to each one. - Rank the top three matches by how many ingredients they use. - Note which ingredients each recipe doesn't use, and what else we'd need to buy. - Don't invent a recipe and call it a found one; label any idea of your own. Checkpoint: Show the top three matches with links and wait for me to pick one. If you get stuck: If nothing matches well, say so and suggest two simple dishes that use the perishable items first. Verify before you finish: Check each linked recipe really lists the key ingredients you matched. Output: Three likely recipes with links, a short shopping list for any gaps, and a tip for using leftovers. Done when: We know what to cook and nothing goes to waste.
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Anthony Blake's online grocery order arrived with a set of ingredients that looked as if they'd been added automatically from a recipe page, maybe via an Amazon Echo. Nobody knew what the ingredients were meant for, and searching Google didn't help. So Blake asked Copilot to check the web for a recipe using that ingredient list. Its answer: an Asian coleslaw, which Blake says made perfect sense given the household's tastes.
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