Recipes

Your recipe collection lives here, organized by category. Most categories show every recipe they hold, in alphabetical order. A large one leads with a working set instead — the handful you’re most likely to want right now — and tucks the rest behind a disclosure.

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. The rest of the category folds away below.

Not every category folds. A category splits 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 fold, the disclosure below the front cards reads N more; open it and the label changes to Show less, and the recipes inside are ordered by how often they’ve been on the menu over the past year, most often first. Mirepoix remembers which categories you left open, per browser tab.

Some cards carry a small line of text next to their controls, saying why that card is worth a look: on the menu 3 days ago for one that came off the menu recently (on the menu until today for one taken off just today), added 2 weeks ago for a recent arrival, or on the menu 4× in the last year for one that keeps coming back. A card shows at most one of them, and the last kind appears only from two stints up. All of them count time on the menu, which is what Mirepoix records — never time at the stove.

When you’re signed in, each recipe card carries an add-to-menu control. Tap it to put the recipe on the menu — a check mark appears 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. Tap Star to mark a recipe as a family favorite — the star fills in — and Unstar 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 from folding away.

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 N more disclosure, no card lines, and no star or add-to-menu controls. Publishing shares your recipes, not what your household has been cooking lately.

QuickBites — grocery bundles for the things that aren’t full recipes — live on the Menu page, not here. That’s where you make one, edit it, and take it off again; a QuickBite has no page of its own. See QuickBites.

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 August 25, 2026