Online Recipe Book
My wife is a brilliant cook. (So was her mother, actually.) (So is my daughter! Is there a pattern emerging?) She (my wife) has put together many “family recipes” over the years. The paper copy gets scribbled on, dripped on, crumpled ... and eventually needs updating, and a fresh copy is printed. And the cycle repeats.
With the last updating (a few weeks ago), I thought how good it would be if there was a simple, easily maintainable way of putting this online. It would make it easier to share in the family, and could even prevent the cycle of paper-copy-gets-mutilated, described above.
A little web-searching turned up a superb solution: the “super minimal recipe website” script by Jeff Thompson. Basically, you have a directory of Markdown files, formatted according to some simple and obvious conventions. Thompson’s script parses the filenames as recipe titles, and presents each recipe in an attractive manner. There’s even a functional frill, in that one can click-through (or arrow-through) the steps of the recipe, with the current step highlighted. Very neat!
You can see it in action with Jeff Thompson’s own recipes.