Cooklang (Alexey)

Also our import library got a bit smarter:
Even if a recipe doesn’t include JSON-LD data, it can now recognize and understand recipes from popular WordPress plugins. That increases success rates by good margins

Cooklang import library and cook.md recipe converter now understands metadata 🥞

Well, actually, cooking is not that hard as meal planning is.

Cooking isn’t hard. Which is why we invented delivery apps, meal kits, and frozen pizza.

Rephrased old internet wisdom “The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong one.”

Want people to contribute to your open source project?
Step 1: Post the most unholy AI-generated solution imaginable.
Step 2: Watch the experts crawl out of the woodwork, frothing with corrections.
Congratulations. You’ve tricked them into caring.

WASM Bindgen In Cooklang YouTube video by Jacob Bolda

Join us for a live coding session with @jacobbolda.com starting in 3 minutes!

Release v0.13.0 · cooklang/cookcli 0.13.0 (2025-05-27) ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES use : as scaling factor delimiter Features add base path for shopping lists so we can lookup references (a5c1a42) detect cycle references (3d9144f) highlig...

It's been a while since we allowed referencing other recipes as ingredients into the spec. Now implemented it in Cook CLI. You can store your recipes in DRY fashion, have shared recipes like sauces, dough, etc. Release: github.com/cooklang/coo...

9/9 In short: cooking is chemistry.
Sometimes you’re Gordon Ramsay, sometimes you’re Walter White.
Just don’t be the person who thinks deep-fried kale is a health food.

8/9 So what should you do?
• Steam, don’t boil
• Roast, don’t incinerate
• Give garlic some time to get its act together
• Microwave mushrooms (yes, seriously)
• Accept that food is complicated, and do your best

7/9 Mushrooms: Frying nukes antioxidants. Grilling or microwaving actually keeps the nutrients.
Microwaving mushrooms — the future is weird, but apparently effective.

6/9 Garlic: Allicin — its health superstar — gets destroyed if you cook it straight away.
Crush it, then wait 10 minutes before cooking.
Yes, garlic needs foreplay.

5/9 Spinach: Full of iron and calcium, but high heat makes oxalates bind to those minerals and stop you absorbing them.
Moral of the story? Wilt, don’t destroy.
(Also true of most friendships.)

4/9 Carrots: Fun fact — cooking them actually boosts beta-carotene, which your body turns into Vitamin A.
So roast them. Roast them like you’re trying to make up for everything you said to your mum in 2007.

3/9 Broccoli: Steam it, and you keep most of the sulforaphane (a compound that’s good for fighting cancer and sounding clever at dinner parties).
Boil it, and you’ve basically turned it into green water.

2/9 Vitamin C is like that mate who disappears as soon as things get hot.
Steam your veg? He hangs around.
Boil it like a Victorian nurse? Gone faster than your will to live on a Monday morning.

1/9 We all try to eat well — some broccoli here, a bit of spinach there, maybe a carrot or two if you’re feeling adventurous. But here’s the kicker: depending on how you cook it, you might be boiling half the good stuff into oblivion.

Right, let’s talk about something that’s been quietly ruining your five-a-day ambitions.
How cooking can absolutely wallop the nutritional value of your food — a thread 🧵

GitHub - pakohan/cooklang-epub: GitHub Action to generate ePUB books from cooklang recipes GitHub Action to generate ePUB books from cooklang recipes - pakohan/cooklang-epub

EPUB cookbook generator from Cooklang files + GitHub actions github.com/pakohan/cook...

9/9 So go forth. Cook big. Freeze smart. Label well.
And always—always—season with your heart.

Your future self is hungry.
Feed them well.

8/9 Nail batch cooking, and you gain:
– Time
– Money
– Actual peace of mind
– That smug feeling when you skip Deliveroo because you’ve got homemade dal ready to go

7/9 Mistake #6: Cooking without joy.
Batch cooking isn’t punishment. It’s a gift to your future self.
Make things you like.
Not what TikTok told you was “efficient.” You are not a robot.

6/9 Mistake #5: No labelling.
You will forget what it is. You will play Freezer Roulette.
Buy a Sharpie. Write the name and date. Be the organised adult you pretend to be.

5/9 Mistake #4: Freezing things that hate being frozen.
Not everything wants to survive the icy deep.
Cucumbers? No. Creamy pasta? Dangerous.
Stick to meals that reheat like champions: soups, stews, curries, sauces.

4/9 Mistake #3: Skimping on flavour.
Food fades in the fridge. Spices dull. Acidity disappears.
Batch meals need extra oomph. You are cooking for Future You. Make it sing.

3/9 Mistake #2: Making five of the exact same meal.
You will get bored. You will resent your Wednesday self.
Freeze two. Eat two. Keep one for the dog if it comes to it.
Variety isn’t a luxury—it’s survival.

2/9 Mistake #1: Cooking like you’re in a food factory.
You don’t need to make 15 portions of beige. Just double your normal recipe. That’s batch cooking too. Keep it human. Keep it edible.

1/9 Let’s talk about batch cooking.
Not the Instagrammable kind with mason jars and quinoa pyramids—real batch cooking.
Done right, it saves you money, time, and your very soul.
Done wrong, it’s fridge Tetris and tastebud despair.
Here’s how to do it properly. A thread:

9/
TL;DR
• Ideas = free
• Facts = free
• Original writing = protected
• Don’t nick the story, nick the seasoning

8/
What about tweaking a recipe?
Change 2g of salt? Not “transformative.”
Turn a cake into a spoken-word poem about trauma and frosting?
Now we’re talking originality.