Recipe Manager

It's deployed on Render.

One place for all the recipes I've saved, an assistant that helps me pick what to cook from them, and a weekly meal plan that writes my grocery list for me.

The problem

My saved recipes were scattered everywhere: bookmarked cooking websites, posts saved on social media, and several different recipe apps. When it was time to decide what to cook, I had to remember where each one lived. When it was time to shop, I had to open every recipe and copy the ingredients by hand.

I wanted one website that collects every recipe I care about, helps me decide what to cook, and turns a week of meals into a shopping list.

What it does

• Import a recipe from a link, a YouTube video, screenshots or text. Paste a link to a recipe page or a YouTube video, whose amounts are read from what's said and shown on screen; add up to six screenshots from Photos or the camera, read together as one recipe, for one I found in a video or a post; or paste the recipe's text, for sites that block importing, such as 小红书. It's read in the background, and Claude tidies it up: ingredients split into amounts and units, steps in order, tags and the author's tips. It then waits in a Draft box until I review and save it. I can also type a recipe in by hand, or paste a link to the assistant.
• Browse my collection. Tag recipes by meal, cuisine, diet and convenience, then browse them from a category sidebar or search by name or ingredient.
• Plan the week. Drop recipes into breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack for each day.
• Get the grocery list for free. Ingredients from the week's meals are gathered into one list, grouped by store aisle in shopping order. I can rename, reorder and add aisles.
• Skip what I already have. Mark items I already have at home, and they stay marked even when the meal plan changes.
• Ask the assistant. A chat panel (✦) beside any page. It answers cooking questions, recommends recipes from my own collection with a reason for each, and imports a recipe from a link I paste. When I mention something like "we're vegetarian", it offers to save it to my preferences, which its recommendations follow from then on. Behind it, a router on Claude Haiku answers itself or hands over to a Recommend or Import specialist.

A note on language

The interface is in English and Simplified Chinese, and the 🌐 button switches between them. I built this for my own household, where we cook from both Chinese and American recipes.