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- A–Z indexes for every ingredient and technique
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A personal recipe collection · since 2016
Learn as you cook.
Family recipes spanning generations presented such that the teaching happens inside the recipe — not in a glossary you'd have to go hunting for. Hover any ingredient or technique for the short answer. Click for the whole story.
The idea
The recipe explains itself
Most recipes assume you already know. This one doesn't. A dotted underline means there's more underneath.
Hover it, tap it — a card appears right where you're reading. You never lose your place. Follow More → for the whole thing: what it is, which one to buy, and what to use when you're out.
405 ingredients and techniques, written for someone who has never cooked.
Getting started
Four things worth knowing
No account, no app, nothing to set up. Just the things that make cooking from this site different.
1
Every ingredient has a ?
The steps don't name every ingredient, so each one in the list carries its own badge. Tap it for what the thing actually is, which kind to buy, and what works instead.
Most useful in the shop, standing in front of six tins that all say paprika.
2
Check things off as you go
Tap an ingredient to cross it off. Close the tab and come back — still crossed off. Double the recipe — still crossed off.
Reset clears the lot, then turns into Undo for ten seconds. No "are you sure?" box to poke at with wet hands.
3
Two buttons for the kitchen
Keep screen on stops your phone going dark three steps in. No more wiping your hands to wake it up. Set it once and it sticks.
Print gives you a clean sheet — no menus, no photos, just the recipe and the size you scaled it to.
4
Read it at any size
A− / A+ lives up in the header. Four sizes, from Small to X-Large. Set it once and every page remembers.
Works with your browser's zoom, not against it.
Serving sizes
Quarter it or quadruple it
Seven sizes, one tap. Quantities stay real fractions — ⅔ cup, not 0.667 — and a ~ means it's been rounded to something you can actually measure.
Grams come along too, and they know the difference between a cup of flour and a cup of honey. Yield and total time move with the scale, because doubling a recipe that still says "serves 4" helps nobody.
Also true
The rest of it
In the kitchen
- Big tap targets, not fiddly little checkboxes
- Text size controls on every screen
- Dark mode that was actually designed
- Print layouts built for the counter
- Every oven temperature in °F and °C
And more
- Credit to whoever handed the recipe over
- A link out to the original, where there is one
- Notes for the things that aren't steps
- Recipes can call other recipes, and link to them
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About this site
Rebuilt with an AI, in the open
Family recipes going back generations, pulled off a decade of WordPress posts and rebuilt from scratch — glossary, scaling engine, the lot — in a long collaboration with Claude Code. Still built that way.
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