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Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by kls »

apacheCamel wrote: post #139
solatic wrote: post #137

Tangential rant: The publishing industry pushes more and more cookbooks every year, and between traditional cookbooks and more recent YouTube channels, most recipes are much more fantasy entertainment than serious attempts at trying to get people to take more control over how their food is made. The problem is that cookbook recipes distort the flow of food preparation: Find an appealing recipe -> look up the necessar…

What kind of solutions do you think are possible for this issue? I can totally see your point, but I am unsure how to fix it for a person who really isn't interested in learning tons of recipes for each season. I think the first flow is still fine, but maybe should just include going local and buying in-season items. Knowing what you eat is important but I can understand why people are drawn to the easiness of a cook…

A reverse cookbook app, I have these ingredients, what can I make?

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

kls wrote: post #141
apacheCamel wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of solutions do you think are possible for this issue? I can totally see your point, but I am unsure how to fix it for a person who really isn't interested in learning tons of recipes for each season. I think the first flow is still fine, but maybe should just include going local and buying in-season items. Knowing what you eat is important but I can understand why people are drawn to the easiness of a cook…

A reverse cookbook app, I have these ingredients, what can I make?

Dieticians of Canada released a website and mobile app that does this. I use it from time-to-time: https://www.cookspiration.com/

Edit: the site seems to work differently than the app. You can search by ingredient in the app.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by dooglius »

solatic wrote: post #137

Tangential rant: The publishing industry pushes more and more cookbooks every year, and between traditional cookbooks and more recent YouTube channels, most recipes are much more fantasy entertainment than serious attempts at trying to get people to take more control over how their food is made. The problem is that cookbook recipes distort the flow of food preparation: Find an appealing recipe -> look up the necessar…

> but you have to learn how to cook as an independent life skill, and not constantly rely upon recipes

But don't you have to start by looking at recipes before you have fully acquired this skill? It's not like anyone is born with the ability to know what temperature to cook things at.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by shaklee3 »

inferiorhuman wrote: post #97
shaklee3 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cook's illustrated/ATK as well, if you have a subscription. The quality is superb.

Cook's Illustrated is great, their equipment reviews are top notch, and their sweet potato pie recipe is my goto every year. Although like NYT they made unsubscribing obnoxious. Something I'm surprised I haven't seen mentioned is Serious Eats. J Kenji Lopez-Alt does some absolutely excellent recipes (hello Halal Cart Chicken & Rice).

J kenji's origins are from America's test kitchen, so you see a lot of the same techniques be applied to his new stuff.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by chooseaname »

A while ago, I tried using various recipe apps. Then decided to build my own. While sketching what I wanted I realized everything I tried to come up with was overkill. There's a reason grandma uses a card file for storing her recipes. But, I still wanted something on the computer. So, I just use a wiki hosted on my server. I have a page that keeps bulleted wiki links to recipes for each day of the week, for months and months. I also store the shopping list. I can recycle a weekly meal plan just by copying and pasting it under the new date. So easy and I can plan meals for the week in just a few moments. The recipes are super easy to read on phone, tablet, computer or even printed out.

For meal planning:

---- ===== October 05, 2019 =====

* [[recipe:recipes|recipe]]

* [[recipe:recipes|recipe]]

* [[recipe:recipes|recipe]]

* [[recipe:recipes|recipe]]

* [[recipe:recipes|recipe]]

== Shopping List ==

  * [[ShoppingList10052019:shopping_lists|Shopping List]]
----

===== September 28, 2019 =====

* [[recipe:recipes|recipe]]

* [[recipe:recipes|recipe]]

* [[recipe:recipes|recipe]]

* [[recipe:recipes|recipe]]

* [[recipe:recipes|recipe]]

== Shopping List ==

  * [[ShoppingList09282019:shopping_list|Shopping List]]
----

For Recipes:

====== Broccoli and Cheese soup ======

====== Ingredients ======

  *     1 tablespoon butter

  *     1/2 onion, chopped

  *     1/4 cup melted butter

  *     1/4 cup flour

  *     2 cups milk

  *     2 cups chicken stock

  *     1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped broccoli florets

  *     1 cup matchstick-cut carrots

  *     1 stalk celery, thinly sliced

  *     2 1/2 cups shredded sharp Cheddar cheese

  *     salt and ground black pepper to taste
====== Directions ======

  -     Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Saute onion in hot butter until translucent, about 5 minutes. Set aside.

  -     Whisk 1/4 cup melted butter and flour together in a large saucepan over medium-low heat; cook until flour loses it's granular texture, adding 1 to 2 tablespoons of milk if necessary to keep the flour from burning, 3 to 4 minutes.

  -     Gradually pour milk into flour mixture while whisking constantly. Stir chicken stock into milk mixture. Bring to a simmer; cook until flour taste is gone and mixture is thickened, about 20 minutes. Add broccoli, carrots, sauteed onion, and celery; simmer until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes.

  -     Stir Cheddar cheese into vegetable mixture until cheese melts. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Super simple and it works really well for me.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by shaklee3 »

ghaff wrote: post #125
inferiorhuman wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cook's Illustrated is great, their equipment reviews are top notch, and their sweet potato pie recipe is my goto every year. Although like NYT they made unsubscribing obnoxious. Something I'm surprised I haven't seen mentioned is Serious Eats. J Kenji Lopez-Alt does some absolutely excellent recipes (hello Halal Cart Chicken & Rice).

The main thing that bugs me about CI is that I subscribe to their website and they still want me to buy an upgrade to access all the content. I get that there are subscription tiers but it just somehow feels a bit obnoxious to me. Serious Eats is good too. I used to use Epicurious quite a bit back when they were a pretty early-on serious website for recipes. But with the demise of Gourmet and other sites like the NYT…

I think really the most annoying thing is they try to brand themselves as having 3 distinct shows, websites, and books, but they're all the same people and company. Yet they make you buy a subscription for each separately.

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by Mikhail_Edoshin »

dooglius wrote: post #143
solatic wrote: post #137

Tangential rant: The publishing industry pushes more and more cookbooks every year, and between traditional cookbooks and more recent YouTube channels, most recipes are much more fantasy entertainment than serious attempts at trying to get people to take more control over how their food is made. The problem is that cookbook recipes distort the flow of food preparation: Find an appealing recipe -> look up the necessar…

> but you have to learn how to cook as an independent life skill, and not constantly rely upon recipes But don't you have to start by looking at recipes before you have fully acquired this skill? It's not like anyone is born with the ability to know what temperature to cook things at.

Recipes alone are not good for that, you need a systematic course. That, and the fact that most recipe sources try to be interesting, not just "basic pancakes".

Re: Show HN: I had issues organizing my favorite recipes, so I built this

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Post by jaco8 »

solatic wrote: post #137

Tangential rant: The publishing industry pushes more and more cookbooks every year, and between traditional cookbooks and more recent YouTube channels, most recipes are much more fantasy entertainment than serious attempts at trying to get people to take more control over how their food is made. The problem is that cookbook recipes distort the flow of food preparation: Find an appealing recipe -> look up the necessar…

Depends where you live , there is no local farmer's market here, if we drive there the affordable part of the equation disappears. Some local grown things are available , like mushrooms and they seem to be in season all year. The best and freshest tomatoes have flown a minimum of 10 hours from where they happen to be in season. So , while I agree with your proper flow , the reality is you eat whatever is available near you nevermind where it comes from.
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