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.
