I use nextcloud cookbook but I would really love another or a federated alternative. It does its job but I don’t think other people I know would use it.
Mealie previously, now Homechart. Mealie is probably better suited to the specific purpose, but Homechart includes a mess of other functions.
Mealie has been solid for me
Which docker compose file to use?
This one has a weird image source https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/blob/mealie-next/docker/docker-compose.dev.yml
And this one expects me to build the container locally first which sounds like a dev version although the other file is named dev https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/blob/mealie-next/docker/docker-compose.yml
Thank you! It worked
Mealie is absolutely the best
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Home Assistant integration
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SSO through OIDC (though mine is broken and I need to file a bug)
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meal planning functionality with shopping checklists
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equipment checklists
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advanced grouping through tagging, cookbooks, and categories. Everything can be beautifully sorted
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then the holy grail: recipe parsing through URL. I haven’t found recipe parsing this good since the discontinued ChefTap app
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+1 for mealie. Been running it for maybe six months now and it’s great.
I’ve been using RecipeSage for a while now. It replaced Paprika for me. Runs easily in Docker, and it can create a recipe from a URL.
I’ll check it out, thx
A directory full of plaintext files. Can
catthem from the command line.Yep, this is how we’ve kept ours for over 20 years. Even if you don’t use the command line, most graphical file browsers will search through text files without issue.
I’ve tried several, but I’ve had a major incident and lost all of the recipes I had because of a database corruption.
So I decided against keeping recipes in databases. I migrated to Notion, but I kept looking for a replacement since that’s not self-hosted. Eventually I ran across Silverbullet, and I’ve been using it for everything, so far it’s been great. Not exactly specifically what you asked but it can be used for it and works great.
And a lesson to all as to why backups are essential.
Meh. That’ll never happen to me…
Hahah, enjoy my upvote for speaking what all of us have thought at one time or another.
I think I’ve finally hit an ok point with backups: 3 copies of everything at home (on spinning disks), with one backup in the cloud. And I’m working on building a backup system between my brother’s house and mine.
I ended up creating my own because I couldn’t find something that did what I want a few years ago when I started looking. My main requirement was easy scaling of ingredients. It has a handful of features around that such as scaling by specifying servings, scaling by setting the amount of a particular ingredient (example making pancakes with leftover buttermilk, pour the buttermilk into the bowl then scale the recipe based on how much was left) and ingredient conversion. In most other ways it is pretty basic and free-form but it does the job. It stores data in a user-provided provider so other people never send me their recipes.
I guess this doesn’t qualify as self-hosted but I’m gonna comment anyway. I really like Pestle for iOS. I love the way it cuts the shit out of those 5,000,000 paragraph long introductions before the actual recipe and just grand the important parts. It’s very handy.
I use mealie, but an older version which still has its recipes public. Still waiting for that to be an option on newer versions.
I was in the exact same boat as you, but its pretty much there now. You can set a specific user group (i.e. Default) to have its recipes be public and then redirect index to that page.
Also I recommend upgrading because IIRC there’s a security vuln with that old version of Mealie
I haven’t played with it but I installed tandoor.dev ready for when I get time to look at it.
Mealie is perfect for this use case
Tandoor recipes
On iOS, I use and love Paprika.
I simply use Joplin subnotebooks. I have one for home cooking and one for brewing beer. Markdown works well enough for me in terms of portability and readability. It also syncs between my devices, so I have several copies of my recipes.
For home brewing, I have written a few scripts that convert BeerXML to Markdown for easy importing. I create the recipes in my home brewing software (currently Kleiner Brauhelfer), export the BeerXML file and convert it to Markdown for secondary storing.
Paprika. I haven’t used anything else aside from having a folder of word documents.
Paprika allows you to copy/paste the URL of a recipe and it will download only the recipe. No more scrolling through a blog and a dozen ads looking for what you want. You can then create categories and tag recipes for any combination of categories.
It also has extra functions like meal planners, pantry inventory, and shopping list generators based on the meal plan and pantry, but I don’t use those.
It syncs between devices. The only real downside is you must purchase per platform type. If you bought the windows licence and you want it on your phone you must separately purchase the Android licence.
I’ve been using copymethat but I’m trying to move to obsidian.
Could you elaborate on “move to obsidian”? I’m already storing some recipes in my vault, but I would be interested in further features like shopping list generation and other filtering options.
I’m trying to find that out myself, just started playing with it yesterday. Right now I’ve got a personal store of recipes in CopyMeThat, and that’s got some nice features like meal planning and shopping lists but its not integrated into anything.
I’ve seen a few approaches so far, some guy on the forums has all the ingredients stored in the front matter and uses dataviewjs to display them in the note which allows for unit conversion but I think that’s too much, I still want to be able to read them without obsidian.
Right now I’ve got tags and method and ingredients in the front matter along with checklist add-on formatted tasks in the main part of the note. Eventually I want to have it pull a recipe at random and put it in my weekly note or something.
