I usually search the recipes section for of my ridiculous cookbook collection for either the overall dish I wish to make, or by ingredients. Depending on what it is, a successful search could yield between one and thousands of results. Sometimes I do get overwhelmed, or am drawn to another type of recipe altogether, but usually I pick and choose my favourite bits and / techniques / ingredients from a number of recipes and toss them all together to make a hybrid recipe (for cooking. Baking is another beast entirely, and I choose recipes on their ease, available ingredients, & level of forgiveness to an impatient / terrible baker).
That said, this only works if you're relatively skilled or quite reckless in the kitchen. Sometimes the flavours of an awful creation need to meld until the next day (ahem, last night's air fryer Greek chicken and feta meatballs, made delicious by an overnight rest and that made a fantastic sandwich on toasted sourdough with hummus and roasted red peppers). Sometimes they remain awful, in which case, toasted peanut butter & lemon marmalade is a great backup. But, I'm only feeding myself, not a family who needs to eat.
Most times, the hybrid approach comes up with something very good, sometimes fantastic, in which case it gets entered into my Paprika database as 'Sunday's xxx,' and becomes a much-beloved favourite.
There are very few authors whose recipes I trust implicitly, whose palate matches mine, and even then I tweak. It's an illness.