Feature
Recipes
Recipes gives your household or team a shared digital cookbook. Save what you actually cook, keep family-only context private, and share public recipes with friends and extended family.
What Are Recipes?
Recipes in ComingUp Today are a digital family cookbook built for shared visibility with private household context. You can store recipes your household uses regularly, share selected recipes publicly, and preserve important food knowledge across generations.
This feature started from a real household need: we wanted one place to save recipes we cook often, including recipes generated and refined with AI, and make them easy to share with extended family who ask for them.
How Recipes Work
- Structured recipe fields: Capture title, prep/cook/wait/total times, ingredients, markdown instructions, and recipe photos uploaded from your devices.
- Private household context: Add who eats the dish in your household and family-specific notes (for example, "pull one piece of chicken before barbecue sauce").
- Recipe-level visibility: Each recipe can be toggled public or private so you can share some dishes while keeping others internal.
- Kitchen-level cookbook sharing: Public kitchens get a cookbook link that lists all public recipes in one place and supports a cookbook description.
- Privacy guarantee: Public cookbook and public recipe views never show private family notes or "who eats this" details.
- Print-friendly output: Every recipe has a print-friendly version styled for clean kitchen printing.
- Linked cookbooks: Link up to 6 other cookbooks on ComingUp Today so you can jump between your kitchen and extended family or friends without hunting for old URLs.
Use Cases
- Household meal planning: Keep repeat favorites, prep details, and cooking instructions easy to find.
- Extended family sharing: Publish recipes relatives ask for without exposing private household notes.
- Preserving family recipes: Help parents and older relatives store handed-down recipes so they are not lost over time.
- Multi-household cookbook browsing: Link related cookbooks so one place gives quick access to recipes from family and friends.