Vanilla Cookbook is a self-hosted recipe management application designed to make collecting, organising and cooking recipes straightforward. It places considerable emphasis on handling recipe information automatically, reducing the amount of manual formatting required from users.
Recipes obtained from websites often contain inconsistent ingredient descriptions, measurements and instructions. Vanilla Cookbook attempts to normalise this information while retaining the original recipe text, allowing users to view ingredients in a clearer and more practical format.
The application includes facilities for importing recipes, adjusting ingredient quantities, managing shopping lists and keeping a record of meals that have been prepared. Its cooking logs can help users repeat recipes using previous settings and quantities.
Optional integrations with large language models provide additional facilities for importing, translating, searching and modifying recipes. The core recipe management functionality does not depend on these services.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Import recipes from supported websites using a URL or browser bookmarklet.
- Support multiple recipe import and export formats.
- Parse ingredient descriptions into structured quantities, units and ingredient names.
- Convert volumetric measurements into metric or imperial weights using ingredient-specific information.
- Adjust ingredient quantities automatically when changing recipe servings.
- Handle fractions, measurement ranges and cooking temperatures.
- Extract nutritional information and display values in structured tables.
- Maintain shopping lists generated from recipes, with list history and statistics.
- Keep cooking logs with dates, notes and serving quantities.
- Repeat previously cooked recipes using saved settings.
- Optionally use language models to extract recipes from unstructured text and images.
- Provide AI-assisted recipe translation, ingredient cleanup and instruction summaries.
- Support optional semantic recipe search and recipe generation.
- Share recipes publicly or within a private cookbook.
- Configure user registration, authentication and site privacy controls.
- Support OAuth and OpenID Connect authentication providers.
- Provide scheduled database backups and backups before database migrations.
- Offer multilingual ingredient parsing and translated interfaces.
Website: github.com/jt196/vanilla-cookbook
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Developer: jt196
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Vanilla Cookbook is written in JavaScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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