AI makes (a dog's) dinner

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Here’s a kitchen experiment with AI. The ingredients in my fridge one weeknight were as follows:

• A stub of mooli (white horseradish)

• A thick baton of cucumber

• A half-pack of celery

• Coriander and parsley

• A couple tomatoes

• Lemons

Yoghurt, milk, eggs and cheddar and feta cheese were available. Also to hand were onions, garlic and ginger. In the pantry, stood various jars of pasta, pulses and grains (bulgur, pearl barley, rice and that pseudo grain, quinoa). In the freezer, there were hazel nuts and sunflower and pumpkin seeds, as well as a few bags of beans (red and black-eyed), soaked and boiled by me some weeks previously. I also had multiple condiments — mustard, miso, tahini, harissa. The spice cupboard brimmed over.

Clearly, there was no shortage of material with which to cook a fine meal — healthy and delicious, with lots of different flavours. Left to myself, my menu would be simple. Bulgur with feta, herbs and nuts and seeds. Cucumber-mooli salad, garnish…