The story behind the app
About My Recipe Assistant
A personal cooking companion built around the way you actually cook.
My Recipe Assistant is designed to help you do more with your recipes, ingredients, and everyday cooking. Add recipes your way, search your collection naturally, discover what you can make from ingredients you have, get optional cooking help from ChatGPT, and keep everything organized in one place.
Rather than simply storing recipes, My Recipe Assistant helps you use them.
What You Can Do
My Recipe Assistant brings the everyday parts of cooking together.
Add recipes directly, search and browse your collection, or search naturally by ingredient or cooking need. Pin recipes, organize favorites, work with kitchen inventory, and keep a shopping list.
Cook With What I Have lets you enter available ingredients and discover recipes you may be able to make. Once you choose one, Cook Mode gives you a focused way to follow the recipe while you prepare it. ChatGPT is available when you want additional cooking help.
What Makes My Recipe Assistant Different
Collect → Discover → Decide → Cook.
My Recipe Assistant connects your recipes and ingredients with Cook With What I Have, Cook Mode, and optional help from ChatGPT. These capabilities work together as one practical cooking journey.
Cook With What I Have helps answer, "What can I make?" Your collection helps you decide, "This looks good." Cook Mode and optional ChatGPT assistance help with, "Now help me cook it."
Your Recipes, Your Ingredients, Your Kitchen
Your own recipes and available ingredients stay at the center of the experience.
Cook With What I Have accepts the ingredients you enter and helps you discover recipes you may be able to make. If you choose to maintain kitchen inventory, it can also help you see what is on hand, notice foods to use soon, track prepared foods, and plan shopping.
You do not need a perfectly detailed inventory to benefit from My Recipe Assistant.
Ask ChatGPT About Cooking
ChatGPT is optional assistance for the moments when you want extra cooking help.
Ask about ingredient substitutions, cooking techniques, recipe modifications, flavor suggestions, or questions that come up while you cook. My Recipe Assistant's core recipe, discovery, and cooking features work without it.
You decide what information you want to share with ChatGPT and when you want to share it.
Build Your Recipe Collection
Build your collection in the way that suits the recipe.
Create Manually to enter it yourself. Import from Link to bring in details from a recipe webpage. Paste Recipe Text to prepare copied recipe content for review. Import from Paprika to bring an existing Paprika export into the collection.
Paprika is one supported import path, not a requirement for using My Recipe Assistant.
The Vision
My Recipe Assistant is evolving into a personal cooking companion built around your recipes, ingredients, preferences, and real-world cooking habits.
COLLECT recipes worth cooking. DISCOVER recipes from your collection or the ingredients available. DECIDE what makes sense to cook now. COOK with the recipe and a focused Cook Mode.
The aim is to help throughout the complete cooking journey while keeping your own food and choices at the center.
What should I make today?