Listen. We all know recipe websites suck these days. Paywalls. Multiple competing levels of video ads. Endless pop-ups. Having to scroll down to the recipe every time. The cookies you can't even eat! Plus I've pretty much never made a recipe as-written. So I collect recipes here that I think I'll want to make again. I broke my own promise about focusing on simple design for phones here, so I can look at my own recipes in the kitchen, because I got obsessed with the idea of making a little recipe box using CSS animations and a surprising amount of fussing with vectors. A simple, mobile-friendly, (nearly) JavaScript-free version of the page can be found here.

These recipes may not have sufficient detail for beginners. The main, unusual audience here is myself. I've taken a lot of (classical, French-influenced) cooking classes and I take recipe-speak a bit for granted--when I say "dice" or "mince" or "slice", those all have different specific meanings and I know that's not necessarily how an untrained ear hears them. Most cooking times are determined by a combination of smell/sound/color/impatience that I'd have a hard time writing down precisely. I'm not trying to be obtuse on purpose, but I'm not a beginner, so I couldn't begin to remember what all of the stumbling blocks are for newbies. My best advice for how to get started on learning cooking technique, if you want to, is to watch old episodes of Good Eats, but any of Alton Brown's cookbooks or Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking are also good resources. Or just try stuff until you figure out what works and what doesn't. I promise the stakes aren't that high.

I've also never done something the easy way in the kitchen a day in my life, so keep that in mind I guess.