My Way

Made for myself

This is the cookbook I wanted and could not find: the recipes I actually cook, the way I actually cook them. No childhood anecdotes, no SEO filler, no ads pretending to be recipes. Just the food and a few extras that make cooking less annoying.

I made it for myself but you are welcome here too. The recipe list is scarce, but growing. I doubt I’ll carry most of your favourite dishes, but hey, at least I will not ask you to subscribe to a newsletter, or track your activity across the site.

Made for a reason

Everything I need is in the step

The quantities are listed in the step, and they scale with the number of services. No scrolling up and down to remind myself of how much butter goes into the saucepan mid-cooking.

Timers that stay with me

Tap a duration in any step to start a timer. Several timers can run at once and they keep counting while I move between recipes, so I don’t have to remember which timer I had for the rice and which for the onions. And big buttons that I can hit with my wet fingers, my knuckles or, every so often, my nose.

The screen stays on

A running timer stops the display from sleeping. Waking a phone with greasy hands is the single most annoying thing about cooking with one.

Plain text recipes

Every recipe is a CookLang file in a Git repository. No database maintenance headaches, just simple text and a static website. The source code is free to access and modify, and anyone can easily port my recipes to another app that supports the CookLang format.

No accounts, no tracking, no ads

There is no analytics script, nothing to log in to, no advertising. This is the default for most of my personal projects. Everything the site remembers — the servings, the timers, the ticked-off steps — never leaves the device.