Taste Advisor: AI-Powered Recipe Finder

Taste Advisor answers a single question: "What can I cook with what I already have?" The user types in the ingredients on hand, and the app sends them to Google Gemini with a prompt that returns three concrete recipes, each with steps, quantities, and prep time. No login, no recipe database to scroll, no premium tier.

What it does:

• Ingredient-driven recipes: Three recipe suggestions per query, generated through the Gemini API against an ingredient list rather than free-text prompts
• Bilingual: English and Turkish with a language toggle that sticks across sessions
• History: Past queries are stored locally with timestamp and language so users can reopen what worked last week
• UI: Gradient backgrounds, glassmorphism cards, and Framer Motion transitions, kept light enough to load quickly on mobile
• Responsive: Works from phone to desktop, with the mobile case treated as the primary layout

Stack:

• React 18 with TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS for styling
• Google Gemini API for the recipe generation
• Framer Motion for transitions
• Lucide React for icons
• Vite for the build, with ESLint, PostCSS, and Autoprefixer in the toolchain

The interesting part of the project is on the prompt side rather than the UI side: getting Gemini to return three usable recipes for an arbitrary ingredient list, with consistent structure, in two languages, without hallucinating ingredients the user did not list.