Recipes

Your recipe collection lives here, organized by category. Most categories show every recipe they hold, in alphabetical order. A large one shows a preview instead: it leads with a working set — the handful you’re most likely to want right now — and leaves the rest for the category’s own page. A category holding nothing at all isn’t listed here.

A recipe belongs to its category’s working set when any of these is true: it’s starred, it’s on the menu right now, it was on the menu at some point in the last 30 days, or it’s one of the four most recently added recipes in that category, counting only the last 45 days. Everything else waits on the category’s own page.

Not every category previews. A category previews only when it holds 12 or more recipes and at least 4 fall on each side of that split — so a short category, or one where nearly everything is in the working set, keeps showing all of its cards. Where a category does preview, a See all N → link below those cards opens the category’s own page, which lists every recipe in it. A preview holds recipes back, it doesn’t drop them: filtering by tag still searches the whole collection and shows the matches inside a previewed category, and printing the page includes the recipes a preview held back — though a tag filter you’ve selected still narrows what prints, the same as it narrows what’s on screen.

The page carries no title of its own, and has the same shape at every width. A bar sits under the navigation bar and stays there as you scroll.

The pill at the bar’s left reads All recipes — the name of the page you’re on. Tap it to open the contents: All recipes first, with a check mark beside it, then every category that holds a recipe, in the order your kitchen keeps them. Tap a name to open that category’s page. When you’re a member of the kitchen, Edit categories sits at the foot of the list.

At the bar’s right, Filter opens the tags, for filtering by tag. When you’re a member of the kitchen, Add Recipe sits after it, with Continue Draft and Pending Imports joining the row when you have a draft or a saved import waiting. Add Recipe opens a sheet for adding a recipe from a link, pasted text or a file, or by typing it yourself.

A kitchen with no recipes yet shows No recipes yet. under the bar. When you’re a member of the kitchen, tap Add your first one beside it to open the same Add a recipe sheet as Add Recipe. Anyone else sees the line on its own.

Each category’s heading down the page is its name, and tapping the name opens that category’s page too. The headings scroll with the cards; only the bar stays put.

A card can show a small drawing of the dish at its right, beside the title, with the description underneath both — a sketch Mirepoix makes on its own, in the app’s colors, so it follows light and dark mode. It’s drawn after you save a recipe in the editor, whether you typed it yourself or it started as a draft or a proposed edit from Mirabel, since you save those in the editor too. Mirepoix draws in the background, so a sketch can take a moment to appear. An open Recipes page or category page picks it up without a reload. A recipe needs a title and enough to draw: two ingredients, or one ingredient and a step, where another recipe it uses counts as an ingredient. A one-line stub gets no sketch.

A recipe keeps its sketch when you edit it later — Mirepoix doesn’t redraw it on its own — and a recipe Mirepoix decides it can’t draw stays without one. When a sketch no longer fits the recipe, or Mirepoix couldn’t draw it before, a member can press Redraw sketch on the recipe’s page. The new drawing replaces the old one on the card once it’s ready; if Mirepoix can’t make a new one, the old sketch stays. A redraw counts toward the daily limit below. A kitchen that saves a great many recipes in one day can reach a daily limit; a save past it draws nothing right away. Once a day, Mirepoix catches up: it draws any recipe with enough to draw that it hasn’t yet drawn or turned down. That covers a recipe saved past the limit, and one whose drawing was cut short by a passing problem, like a timeout. It also covers a recipe added by importing files, one brought back from Recently deleted, and one from before sketches existed. The catch-up doesn’t count toward the daily limit, and a kitchen missing a great many sketches gets them over several days. Sketches appear only on cards: a recipe’s own page and its photo don’t change. They’re decoration, so screen readers skip them. A kitchen owner can turn them off in Settings, and Data and privacy covers what’s sent to draw one.

A card whose recipe has a source names it in small text at the foot of the card. That’s the recipe’s Source name as written, or — when it has only a Source URL — the site’s address, without www.: seriouseats.com, say. A recipe imported from a link names the site the way the site names itself — Serious Eats — and falls back to its address when the page gives no usable name. The line is plain text, not a link, and a long one is cut short to fit on one line. A recipe with no source shows no line.

When you’re signed in, each recipe card carries a ＋ Menu button. Tap it to put the recipe on the menu — the plus turns into a check mark, ✓ Menu, to show it’s on. Tap again to take it off. This is where you build your week; the Menu page then shows what’s on it, live for everyone in the kitchen. Putting a recipe on the menu also keeps it in its category’s working set, and for a while after you take it off again.

Each card also carries a Star button, beside Menu at the card’s bottom right. Tap Star to mark a recipe as a family favorite — the star fills in. Tap it again to clear the mark. The same control sits in the second row of buttons on a recipe’s own page. Stars are shared: everyone in the kitchen sees the same starred recipes. A starred recipe stays in its category’s working set for as long as the star is on it, so starring is how you keep a recipe in the preview.

All of that is for your kitchen’s own members. If your kitchen is published, someone who opens the link without being a member sees each category whole — every recipe, in alphabetical order — with no working set, no preview and so no See all link, and no star or add-to-menu controls. They do see each card’s sketch and its source — the source because that’s part of the recipe, the same source the From line on its own page names. Publishing shares your recipes, not what your household has been cooking lately.

QuickBites — grocery bundles for the things that aren’t full recipes — have their own QuickBites page. Open it from mirepoix in the navigation bar, below Ingredients, to browse, create, edit, or delete them. You can also create one while searching the Menu page’s add list.

See also

• Menu — put recipes on the week’s plan and send their ingredients to the Pantry
• Ingredients — the catalog behind nutrition facts and ingredient matching
• Import & Export — bring recipes in from other sites and apps, or take yours out

Last updated October 10, 2026