A working reference
The Index
Most cookbooks bury the best part at the back. A reader who already knows they have two pounds of tomatoes and an hour shouldn't have to scroll a card grid to find the dish — they should be able to look up tomato, run their finger down a list, and land on something tested.
This page is that back-of-book index. Every recipe on the site is cross-listed below by course, ingredient, technique, season, and the kind of time it asks of you. Use it the way you'd use a real index: skim for what you have, follow the link, and skip the marketing.
Every entry is keyed straight off the recipe files, so the day a new piece goes up it's already filed under each of its tags. Nothing on this page is hand-curated — which means nothing on it can quietly drift out of sync with what's actually been published. If a recipe doesn't appear here, it hasn't shipped yet.
Section i
By course
Four buckets, because more would be a lie. A tart can be a starter or a Sunday dinner — that's the cook's call. Where a recipe straddles two, it lives under whichever one I'd actually serve it as.
The minute total beside each title is prep plus active cook, rounded the way you'd round on a Tuesday — not the way a magazine would round.
Breakfast & Brunch 1 recipe
- Brown Butter Banana Bread 70 min
Desserts 2 recipes
Mains 4 recipes
Snacks & Sides 1 recipe
Section ii
By ingredient & technique
The longest section, and the one I built this page for. Every tag on every recipe is listed here — ingredients, methods, occasions, even the pans I keep coming back to. If you've ever stood in front of an open fridge with a fistful of brown butter on the brain, this is where to start.
30 minutes
baking project
banana
comfort
dairy-free option
olive oil
pan-fried
puff pastry
quick bread
risotto
spring
starter
sunday dinner
weeknight
whole grain
Section iii
By season
Most of these were tested in the month they were published, and the month they were published was almost always the month the ingredient was on the counter. Read this as a Portland-farmers-market calendar more than a strict rule — tomatoes show up in August, citrus in February, and the rest fills in.
Spring 1
Summer 1
Fall 3
Section iv
By time to table
The most honest filter on the site. These totals are prep plus cook — the time from picking up a knife to sitting down to eat — and they assume a stocked pantry and a sharp blade. Add ten minutes if you're starting from a cold kitchen.
Under 30 minutes 1
- Miso-Glazed Salmon with Coconut Rice 28 min · Mains
30 to 60 minutes 3
- Brown-Butter Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies 34 min · Desserts
- Spring Pea Risotto with Mint 40 min · Mains
- Chocolate Olive Oil Cake with Flaky Salt 45 min · Desserts
An afternoon or longer 4
- Brown Butter Banana Bread 70 min · Breakfast
- Lemon-Herb Roast Chicken with Schmaltz Potatoes 90 min · Mains
- Caramelized Onion & Gruyère Tart 90 min · Mains
- Slow-Roasted Tomato & Burrata Toast 100 min · Snacks
Section v
A–Z
Every recipe by title, the way you'd find it in a paper cookbook. The three-letter category code on the right is shorthand — BB for breakfast and brunch, MNS for mains, SDS for snacks and sides, DST for desserts. You'll stop noticing them within about a minute.
- Brown Butter Banana Bread BB
- Brown-Butter Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies DST
- Caramelized Onion & Gruyère Tart MNS
- Chocolate Olive Oil Cake with Flaky Salt DST
- Lemon-Herb Roast Chicken with Schmaltz Potatoes MNS
- Miso-Glazed Salmon with Coconut Rice MNS
- Slow-Roasted Tomato & Burrata Toast SDS
- Spring Pea Risotto with Mint MNS
A note on this page
I built this index because I kept needing it. A reader emailed asking which recipes used brown butter; another wanted everything that could be done in under thirty minutes; a third wanted to know what to cook with a single pound of cod and three scallions. None of those are well-served by a card grid sorted newest-first.
The index is generated automatically from the recipe files themselves, so it stays accurate as new pieces go up. If you spot a mis-filing or a missing cross-reference, the address at the bottom of the about page still works — write in, and I'll fix it.
Two notes on what isn't here. There's no calorie count or macro split — I don't cook that way, and I don't trust the numbers when they're calculated by a script. There's also no rating, because the only honest rating is whether you cook a thing twice. If a recipe ends up in your weekly rotation, that's the only review I want.
The whole index is one HTML document, no scripts, no fetch. Save the page to your phone before a trip to the store and the lookups still work in airplane mode — which is how I built it for myself before I built it for the site.