Colophon

I want to keep track of recipes that I use, as well as where I source them. I tend to bookmark links under the recipe tag on my Tumblr, but that doesn't give me a copy of them, nor does it let me search them by ingredient.

It is my understanding that the list of ingredients are not copyrightable, so I include them from the source. The cooking directions must be followed from the source blog or cookbook.

Header

Features

• Jekyll 3
• Long Haul Theme
• Hosted on GitHub Pages (source repo bmann/cookbookshelf)

Recipe & Cookbook Formats

(in progress documentation of the YAML front matter I’m using for the recipe collection)

(which is likely better served by looking at the recipe source files)

• Example Recipe from a Cookbook
• Example of Recipe sourced from a Website
• Example Cookbook that the Recipe is from

Cheat Sheet

A few items that are specific to the Long Haul theme, or other things to remember.

See the example post formatting for all the styled elements.

Because this is running in a sub-directory, this is needed in relative URLs:

prepend: site.baseurl

To Do

• A way to separate quantities from ingredient names, both for scaling and in order to pull out major ingredients
  • Short answer: you use an indexed area that looks like this:

 ingredients:
  - { qty: 2, measure: cups,  name: "flour", extended: "sifted" }
  - { qty: 1, measure: Tbsp, name: "baking soda" }

• An ingredients page that automatically groups recipes based on the ingredients
• Search, which is a bit tricky with Jekyll + GitHub Pages, but can likely use something like jekyll + lunr.js
• Dive into the quagmire that Microformats.org has documented about recipe formats. This is for import / export into recipe apps (e.g. Paprika uses a YAML Format), grocery lists, etc.
• Implement Algolia search
• Linked / sub recipes