People who are interested in this may also be interested in Cooklang, a simple plain-text markdown format for recipes: <a href="https://cooklang.org/" rel="nofollow">https://cooklang.org/</a> -- doesn't get much easier than that.
I love it, I'm hosting a version for me at <a href="https://food.modispub.com/" rel="nofollow">https://food.modispub.com/</a><p>The recipe importer is great, I was using paprika but there's always the issue of sharing the recipe with your friends. Here, I can share the recipe where they don't even have to login. The UI is responsive on the phone and the collapsing steps feature is just great. I'm not using the shopping list and meal planner on a daily basis.
Not sure if it's intentional, probably not, but <i>mealie</i> is also the South African colloquial word for corn. <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mealie" rel="nofollow">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mealie</a>
I want to make a plug for Grocy[0] which has recipes and meal planning, but its core feature is inventory. It's a lot of work to get going, but if you keep a lot of non-perishable and frozen food it can help a lot with tracking what needs to be eaten and what you have.<p>[0]<a href="https://grocy.info/" rel="nofollow">https://grocy.info/</a>
I've been using (and even built!) recipe organizers and complex meal planners for about a decade now. Recently I decided, screw it, and just powered up a little self-hosted wiki. Now I have a section for all the meals that we like to make, that everyone likes to eat and I copy/paste them in.<p>The epiphany was that 99% of the recipes I was storing were crap and I was wasting my time with a dedicated system. The wiki has about a dozen recipes now, with a new one getting added once a month, tops. It's really not so much work that I need a dedicated app just for recipes. Plus, wikis have really good change tracking, so I'm able to make little modifications without worrying about losing access to the original.
If you are looking for more selfhosted apps, checkout<p>1. <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted</a><p>2. <a href="https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted</a>
Another very similar alternative is <a href="https://docs.tandoor.dev" rel="nofollow">https://docs.tandoor.dev</a><p>I have been using it for the last months with family and friends and it works great as well.
When I started cooking I thought I needed something like this -- but what I found was that when keeping a recipe collection, over time I ended up with 10 different recipes for roasted brussels sprouts with different flavors mixed in and had slight variations on the basic technique. What I actually ended up wanting as I cooked more was to keep track of the basic technique I used when I made really good roasted brussels sprouts, along with a bunch of notes different variations or flavors to use with that technique, rather than a bunch of individual recipes.<p>Personally, I've found switching to using something like Notion or Evernote as more of a cooking 'notebook' than a recipe collection -- where you are not forced into traditional recipe structure for each page -- has worked really well for keeping track of stuff like this.
If one of these recipe apps integrates the diagrams from Cooking For Engineers, it'll be perfect.<p>Example:
<a href="http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/268/Buffalo-Chicken-Chili" rel="nofollow">http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/268/Buffalo-Chicke...</a>
This is really awesome :D Looked for something like this a while ago and wasn't massively keen on what was already out there...<p>One feature I immediately tried to find, though (and then searched for a github issue for it and couldn't initially see) was to be able to filter meals by ingredients.<p>Not necessarily the 'fuzzy' search, but (similar to the include/exclude categories) have a drop-down list of ingredients for ingredient auto-completion and then select to add to a list of items.<p>And then the same for adding some ingredients that are excluded (e.g. want to do something with flour, but have no eggs)
I use google sheets :D because of the flexibility it offers.<p>It's accessible everywhere already, works good on mobile, so you don't have to haul laptops/tablets when cooking/shopping.<p>If i need extra notes on some ingredient, i just use some adjacent cell.<p>But above all - formulas. A lot of recipes lend themselves to calculations. Things like crepes (something superior to pancake) can be narrowed down to exact number of crepes you want. Same goes for ny cheesecake - dial the pan size and ingredients and baking time, temp are modified. Breads are basically fully formulaic so that is also covered.
Kcal[0] is my own project in this space. It’s still very rough (I don’t necessarily recommend using it, hah) but my spouse and I have been using it for a year or so now and it’s invaluable for our specific use case of a mostly plant-based diet but high protein needs because we are both very active. It’s a weird little niche (:<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/kcal-app/kcal" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kcal-app/kcal</a>
These types of apps are cool and all, but there's just too much upkeep. I use a simple wiki where I can just cut and paste text. I don't need images.
This is so cool! Got it running locally and it has all the features that my girlfriend and I would need. We're usually doing this planning on paper and it's quite some time involvement to be fair.
This can massively help. Thank you for the DB + API as well.
What I really would like is a recommendation engine for me personally. Basically: This is what you could cook today (you haven't cooked this for a long time, but like it or so).
I tried the demo but I didn’t find the meal planner. I mean let say I want to plan the meal for a month by choosing available recipe for each family member.
Is it on the plan?