Recipes
Two related surfaces:
-
/recipes— the family's cookbook -
/meals— a weekly meal-plan board
Tightly integrated: you plan a meal by dragging a recipe onto a day/slot; you generate a shopping list by selecting what's planned this week.
| Recipe library | Meal-plan board |
|---|---|
 |
 |
Four paths:
-
Manual entry (
/recipes/new)- Title, image, servings, total time, difficulty
- Ingredients (free-form list with quantity + unit + name)
- Instructions (numbered steps; markdown supported)
- Tags (multi-select; auto-suggests existing tags)
- Source URL (optional; links back if imported)
-
Recipe image picker in the new-recipe form (Search / Upload / Camera tabs):
- Search — searches a recipe-image API for "recipe + your title" to auto-pick a hero photo
- Upload — drag-drop or file-pick from disk; cropped server-side
- Camera — uses the device camera to snap a photo of a paper recipe / cookbook page
-
Chefkoch.de search & import (
/recipes/search) — searches the Chefkoch.de recipe database (Germany's largest recipe site, ~340k recipes) by keyword and one-tap-imports the chosen result with title, ingredients, instructions, hero image, prep time, and source URL. Best path for German-language recipes. -
Import from any recipe URL (schema.org) — paste a URL into the import dialog. Kinboard fetches the page, parses the embedded schema.org/Recipe JSON-LD, and creates a recipe entry from it. Works on any site that publishes structured recipe data: NYT Cooking, Serious Eats, Allrecipes, BBC Good Food, food blogs running standard recipe plugins, etc. Falls back gracefully if a site doesn't publish structured data — you get an error and can fall back to manual entry.
Both import paths preserve the source URL on the recipe so you can jump back to the original later.
/recipes is the cookbook view. Tile grid sorted by most-recent. Filter chips at the top:
- All / Favorites
- Per tag (vegetarian, quick, dessert, etc.)
- Search box (matches title + ingredients)
Tap a tile → the recipe detail page (/recipes/[id]).
Full ingredients list, full instructions (numbered, large readable type for kitchen-wall use), serving-size adjuster (auto-scales quantities), prep time. Quick actions:
- ⭐ Mark favorite
- 🛒 Add ingredients to shopping list
- 📋 Add to meal plan
- ✏️ Edit
- 🗑 Delete
The "Add to shopping list" pre-fills quantities by current serving size, so doubling the recipe doubles the list items.
Each recipe can have multiple tags. Kinboard's catalog suggests common ones (schnell, vegetarisch, kinderfreundlich, etc.) but tags are free-form. Tag a recipe meal-prep and you can quick-filter to it later.
/meals shows a 14-day calendar grid. Rows: meal types (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack). Columns: days. Cells: planned meals.
Three ways to fill a cell:
- Drag a recipe tile from the right-hand sidebar onto the cell
- Tap an empty cell → quick-add menu lets you choose a recipe or type a free-form name
- Right-click / long-press an existing cell → quick options (move / clear / mark eaten)
Empty cells show a subtle "Try Pizza" or similar randomized hint based on the meal type to spark ideas — see mealHints translation namespace for the list.
The right sidebar lists your recipes. Filters mirror the cookbook view (favorites, tags, search). Drag any recipe onto any cell.
The "Generate shopping list" button in the meal-plan toolbar collects all planned meals' ingredients (across the visible 14-day window), deduplicates by name, and adds them to the shopping list. Quantities scale based on each recipe's planned serving size.
A confirmation dialog lets you review what's about to be added before it lands on the shopping page.
The default is 2-week because that matches typical "planning Sunday for the next two weeks" patterns. The view toggle in the toolbar switches to:
- This week only (compact, fewer cells)
- 2 weeks (default)
- Month (4 weeks; tighter cells, harder to read on small screens)
A meal plan cell can contain:
- A recipe link (cell shows recipe name + thumbnail + serving size; clicking opens the recipe)
- A free-form name ("Pizza takeaway", "Leftovers") — useful when the meal isn't in your cookbook
Free-form entries don't contribute to the shopping list (no ingredients to extract).
- Recipes live in
public.recipes+recipe_ingredients+recipe_tags - Meal plans live in
public.meal_plans(one per family) +meal_plan_entries(one per cell) - Real-time sync — adding a recipe on a phone shows up on the kitchen wall instantly
-
Sunday planning ritual: open
/meals, drag-and-drop the week, click "Generate shopping list" → done -
Kid-friendly menu picker: filter recipes by tag
kinderfreundlich, let the kids pick which meal to plan - "What can I make with what's in the fridge": search recipes by ingredient (in the cookbook search), pick one
-
Photographing handwritten recipes: in
/recipes/new, use the Camera tab to snap the recipe card and OCR is on the v1.2 wishlist (currently it's just an image)
- OCR / auto-extracting ingredients from a photo — manual entry only (v1.2 wishlist)
- Nutritional info — no calorie / macro tracking
- External recipe APIs beyond Chefkoch + schema.org URL import (no Spoonacular / Edamam / etc. integration yet)
- Per-person dietary preferences (vegetarian, gluten-free) — handled via tags, not a structured filter
- Bulk import from another cookbook app — manual recipe re-entry