I dig the simplicity of Cooklang
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Whatever does the trick for you! For me its mealie, because my wife loves to find new recipes online, and I just can't stand dealing with these sites. So import by URL is my main feature, then I tweak it as I go, no more dain bramage from terrible sites.
If you've got the recipe though - yeah markdown or cooklang rocks as a solution!
I love mealie. I can steal online recipes, catalogue them, adjust them to my liking, plan all the shopping. Definitely a core self hosted service in my house.
e: I was so excited I didn't realise I just parroted everything you said.
No worries I completely get it!
I can't have gluten, so a big advantage for me is importing and modifying, and yes sometimes taking pictures with notes so I can make easier adjustments next time. Definitely the right fit for us, but I can understand OP wanting something leaner if their needs are lighter for sure.
Same for me with Markdown. Love the simplicity.
I went through a phase a while back of evaluating a bunch of note-taking and to-do apps, and hating almost all of them for being proprietary products with so much vendor lock-in.
I eventually settled on Joplin because it just uses plain old markdown, and allows you to selfhost the storage back-end so you own your data.
So because of that, my recipes are just a folder (and some subfolders) with markdown in Joplin.
ठेचा चिकन? Excellent taste my man
Wait, do you guys have editors specifically for recipes?
I write mine in an .epub (using Calibre) and send it to my 7" e-reader
I'm using the cookbook plugin for Nextcloud.
If mealie was too bloated, Nextcloud definitely isn't going to be the answer.
This. Its a bit slow but the auto import is a life save and the app is really nice with the ability to easily scale the portions or keep the screen awake.
I am documenting my recipes in obsidian (which essentially is nothing else than mkdocs :p)
The main feature I want is portion scaling. So I can type the number of servings and everything gets multiplied. Is that possible in obsidian via a plugin or with mkdocs?
I started with WordPress + Cooked, then moved to WordPress only, and am currently looking to convert all recipes to markdown as well. Will give mkdocs a try.
You think manually copying and pasting recipes in is easier than mealie? Okay.
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