Easy Recipes presents a modular approach to cooking that answers the question, "What's for dinner?" by mixing and matching a marinade or rub with a sauce. Whatever protein is in your fridge right now is your starting point.

Bored with the same old same old for dinner every night? Staying home more for meals? Need some ideas to shake things up?

This is your test kitchen and you decide what works and what won't. Later, share your test results with the community.

Take 20 marinades (or rubs) times 20 proteins times 20 sauces and you get 8000 recipe ideas. Cajun Rubbed Pork Chop Citrus Style The emphasis for Formula Easy Recipes will be on dinner ideas - the biggest headache for the home cook.

Have some chicken in your freezer? Just like you would choose separates at the clothing store, chose one marinade (or rub) and a finishing sauce and Voila, you have created your own signature recipe.

Example: Anne P. likes spice, so she chose cajun style chicken breast served up on a cooling Colbert sauce. To this she added her favorite instant brown rice (cooked in broth) and some green beans. Her husband was wowed by Anne's Cajun Chicken Colbert.

Marilyn L. thought she'd give Sichuan Style Shrimp with Carbonara Sauce because she's fond of tomato sauces and Marilyn's Sichuan Shrimp Carbonara, served over wilted spinach, became a family staple overnight.

We'll give you the basic marinades, rubs, and sauce recipes all in one spot for you to try out with your favorite meat or fish.

We are developing useful charts and graphs to refer to - all here in one handy spot - including:

• cooking temps for meat
• smoking points for oils
• what herb or spice goes well with what
• what gadgets really work and which are a waste
• video clips on cooking techniques
• tips for using up leftovers
• what's seasonal where

Free yourself from slavishly following cookbooks and develop that "knack" that your mother had for throwing things together and coming up with five star cuisine that she made up on the spot. Formula Easy Recipes is your source to sharpen your already substantial culinary skills or, if you're a newbie, to develop "judgment." Less a cookbook than a cooking reference, enjoy the menu ideas, charts and graphs, and tips and techniques of Formula Easy Recipes.