I love cooking.

Ask any of my friends who’ve eaten something of mine, they’ll all say the same thing, “Mmmmph mmpphh mphhh,” which I usually take to mean that it’s tasty.

Now, I don’t claim to have come up with this idea of laying out a recipe, that credit goes to Michael Chu.  What I do claim to have done is continue a great tradition and improve through interations what his original vision was. As any modern cook knows, recipe cards are a must, whether it be on your kitchen tablet (if you’re so lucky) or in your 3 ring binder.  Visual work instructions with pictures in each step, especially in an abbreviated format are also a must. Explanation of techniques, feelings, smells, these are the things that complete a good recipe, make it easy to follow, and best of all, rewarding to cook.

To that end, I’ve elected to keep my excel-based recipe generator and improve upon it as necessary to best help you serve your guests.  As a former editor, recipe pages (available as a virus-scanned pdf file) contain ample white space for note-taking and customizations. And don’t like the left-aligned version? Try the right-aligned version so you can always write on the outside of the page!

I do have a bunch of these recipes already written up, but I can improve their formatting. Over the next couple weeks, I’ll slowly release my recipes in the best format possible. This example I’ve posted above is a brief and in-format example of what to expect going forward. Ingredients listed on the left are used in the step to their right. Follow a line across the page and you know everything that will happen to that ingredient before it’s ready for the dinner table.

Like a recipe? Let everyone know and post a comment down at the bottom of the page! Want to be a personal test subject of mine while I test out recipes for publication? LET ME KNOW! I could certainly use the help and would love to work with you.