cowles family recipes

this is a jekyll blog hosting our recipes:

https://escowles.github.io/recipes/

these recipes are mostly things we've found on the web (generally at least abbreviated and often substantially tweaked). there are also some old standards from cookbooks (cook's illustrated is my go-to, but also betty crocker, silver spoon, and a bunch of more specialized cookbooks). and there are a handful of family recipes too.

we used to manage these in a private wordpress blog, and copy them over to knittles & beer when we wanted to share them. but that increasingly just seemed like a lot of bother, so we decided that we'd put them all in one public place.

terse recipes

it's not for everyone, but these recipes are very terse. they assume you know how to cook, and if you're not familiar with a technique, we'd recommend finding a more standard explanation somewhere else. these are the recipes we cook from every day, and we (well, mostly esmé) like them to be terse so more fits on my tablet screen and we don't have to scroll around and wade through verbiage to find the number you need to find in a hurry.

installing pre-commit hook

to automatically update the last_modified_at header in recipes, install the pre-commit hook:

cp _etc/pre-commit.hook .git/hooks/pre-commit

this script will be executed right before commiting, to update the last_updated_at timestamp for modified files.