For the stuck

Never cook the same eight dinners again.

Your collection is bigger than your rotation. Set a variety floor — the report counts it, and CookBot dusts off what you forgot you loved.

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Recipe-site links import free and unlimited; photo and social imports come with Cook Basic.

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The loop

Set the target. The week keeps it.

Your target is a few lines in a plain-text template. The report checks the whole week against it; where it misses, CookBot makes the fix, and every edit is listed in the chat, one click to undo.

Your target · variety.check.jinja
{{ ck.between(distinct_recipes, 5, 7, "Distinct dinners this week") }}
{{ ck.min(new_this_month, {"min": 1}, "Recipes not cooked this month") }}
Report
⚠ 2 of 7 dinners repeat last week
CookBot — change made
- dinner: ./Fast/Carbonara.cook
+ dinner: ./Dinners/Chicken Paprikash.cook
Report, re-run
✓ 7 distinct dinners — 2 you haven't cooked in a month

The counts run free on your own files. CookBot suggestions come with Cook Pro. First subscription includes a 7-day free trial. See pricing →

Plugins

Add these to Cook Editor.

Install them from the Extensions view in the editor, or browse them on plugins.cook.md.

Recipe Hub

Free

Search the public Cooklang index from inside the editor and save new dinners straight into your collection.

View plugin →

Favourites

Free

Heart the recipes you love so they stay one click away instead of falling out of the rotation.

View plugin →

Shopping List

Free

A new dinner is only hard the first time you shop for it; the list builds itself from the plan.

View plugin →

Plugins are ordinary VS Code-style extensions with a small Cooklang API. How plugins work →

Why this works

Because your recipes are data.

Every recipe is a plain-text .cook file you own — readable in any editor, today and in fifty years. Because the whole collection is structured data, a report can check it and an AI can plan from it. No database, no lock-in.

Plain text, yours forever Every AI change is one click to undo Open spec & open-source editor

Start with the recipes you already love.

Install the editor, bring in the recipes you already cook — links from recipe sites import free — and set your first target this week.

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Other dreams

Aiming for something else?

Building muscle? A protein floor the week can’t duck under. See how → Cutting gluten? A week you already know is clear. See how → Going low-FODMAP? Your safe list, enforced across the week. See how → Vegan? Protein, iron, B12 — proven weekly. See how →
Questions

Is this free?

The counting is — variety checks are plain templates over your own plan files, no subscription needed. CookBot, which proposes what to swap in, is Cook Pro.

Where do the 'new' recipes come from?

Your own collection first — the corners of it you stopped visiting. And importing more is easy: links from recipe sites are free, and photos or social links come with Cook Basic.

How does it know what I've cooked?

From your week plans — they're plain-text files, so your cooking history is just data you already own.