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Same. As a result, I've been using this LaTeX package for my personal recipe collection (see example on page 5): http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/ctan/macros/latex/contri

Same. As a result, I've been using this LaTeX package for my personal recipe collection (see example on page 5): http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/cuisine/cuisine.pdf http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/cuisine/cui... [PDF] (I'm in the process of abandoning LaTeX in favor of a custom Markdown → Pandoc → HTML flow with basically the same layout, though.)

Bo0kerDeWitt 6y ago
I save my recipes in plain old text files. For a long time now I've been meaning to write them up in LaTeX and print them on A6 cards with a nice font. Then construct a nice wooden box to put them in.
- mhb 6y ago
  That sounds nice. Do you have a good way of organizing it?
jevogel 6y ago
We have our recipes in a Trello board for meal planning, grocery list making, etc. I wrote a Python script to extract the data and print out an oft-used subset of them in a nice readable format. I use a Jinja2 template to format the pages with HTML and CSS, then convert them to one PDF document for printing. I use an 8.5x11 page with metadata on one side (name, description, time to make, tags, dates made, etc.) and the recipe on the other. On the recipe side I have ingredients at the top of the page in two columns, and then the directions at the bottom in two columns. We put this page in a plastic sleeve and into a 3-ring binder. When we want to make the recipe, we take it out and tape it to the cupboard with masking tape. That way anyone in the kitchen can easily see it and prep their part.
k2enemy 6y ago
Funny, after trying out all sorts of digital recipe organization methods, I've settled on plain old 4x6 index cards as the most useful. I have all of my recipes plaintext in an org file with a very simple format... * Recipe title ** Ingredients - 1 tsp x - 2 tbsp y ** Directions 1. Mix together x and y 2. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes I set up a simple python script using the same package as the OP's website for scraping recipe sites to org format, then I export subsections to latex with a custom class and print to index cards.
- memset 6y ago
  My site (the OP) uses a separate print-specific CSS to try and format recipes to a 4x6 index card. It doesn't work as well as I'd like, as in, it's hard to get what shows up on the screen to print on an odd-sized piece of paper, but if you, or someone you know, has CSS expertise then I'd love for someone to help make this work more reliably!

Bo0kerDeWitt 6y ago

I save my recipes in plain old text files. For a long time now I've been meaning to write them up in LaTeX and print them on A6 cards with a nice font. Then construct a nice wooden box to put them in.

mhb 6y ago
That sounds nice. Do you have a good way of organizing it?

jevogel 6y ago

We have our recipes in a Trello board for meal planning, grocery list making, etc. I wrote a Python script to extract the data and print out an oft-used subset of them in a nice readable format. I use a Jinja2 template to format the pages with HTML and CSS, then convert them to one PDF document for printing. I use an 8.5x11 page with metadata on one side (name, description, time to make, tags, dates made, etc.) and the recipe on the other. On the recipe side I have ingredients at the top of the page in two columns, and then the directions at the bottom in two columns. We put this page in a plastic sleeve and into a 3-ring binder. When we want to make the recipe, we take it out and tape it to the cupboard with masking tape. That way anyone in the kitchen can easily see it and prep their part.

k2enemy 6y ago

Funny, after trying out all sorts of digital recipe organization methods, I've settled on plain old 4x6 index cards as the most useful. I have all of my recipes plaintext in an org file with a very simple format... * Recipe title ** Ingredients - 1 tsp x - 2 tbsp y ** Directions 1. Mix together x and y 2. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes I set up a simple python script using the same package as the OP's website for scraping recipe sites to org format, then I export subsections to latex with a custom class and print to index cards.

memset 6y ago
My site (the OP) uses a separate print-specific CSS to try and format recipes to a 4x6 index card. It doesn't work as well as I'd like, as in, it's hard to get what shows up on the screen to print on an odd-sized piece of paper, but if you, or someone you know, has CSS expertise then I'd love for someone to help make this work more reliably!