dinnerbord

Recipes

Build and manage your household's dinner recipe library in Dinnerbord.

Recipes are the building blocks of your week plan. Every dinner you suggest comes from your recipe library.

Adding a recipe

  1. Go to Recipes in the sidebar.
  2. Click New recipe.
  3. Enter a name and choose a protein. These are the only required fields.
  4. Optionally add tags, effort, ingredients and notes.
  5. Click Create recipe.

Recipe details

  • Protein: every recipe has exactly one (Chicken, Beef, Pork, Fish & Seafood, Eggs, Beans & Legumes, Vegetarian or Other). It's used to warn you about the same protein on back-to-back days.
  • Tags: free-form labels such as "kids' favourite" or "slow cooker". You can filter your library by them.
  • Effort: Quick, Normal or Weekend project. Ideas favour quick dinners on weekdays and projects at the weekend.
  • Makes leftovers: for big batches like chili or lasagna. When this dinner locks, the next day is locked as leftovers, as long as nobody has suggested anything for it yet.
  • Notes: preparation notes or the full method.

Ingredients

Add each ingredient with an optional quantity and unit (e.g. "2 cups flour"). Dinnerbord uses these when building your grocery list.

Editing a recipe

Click a recipe's name to view it, or use the row menu and choose Edit. Make your changes and click Save changes.

Deleting a recipe

Use the row menu and choose Delete. Open suggestions for that recipe are removed. Days where it was already locked stay in the plan, but no longer link to a recipe.

Browsing your library

Use the Protein and Tags filters at the top of the Recipes page to narrow the list. Your household's full library is visible to all members.

Further reading