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Save Recipes as Markdown: Build Your Personal Cookbook

· Save Team
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You found the perfect recipe. But first: a 2,000-word story about the author’s grandmother, three video ads, a newsletter popup, and scroll-jacking that makes your phone unusable. Sound familiar?

Save recipes as Markdown and never deal with recipe website chaos again.

The Recipe Website Problem

Modern recipe sites are designed to maximize ad revenue, not help you cook:

  • Endless life stories before the actual recipe
  • Video ads that autoplay and follow you down the page
  • Pop-ups for newsletters, apps, and premium subscriptions
  • Slow loading from tracking scripts and ad networks
  • Broken mobile experience when you’re actually cooking

The Markdown Solution

With recipes in Markdown, you get:

  • Just the recipe — ingredients and instructions
  • Offline access — works in your kitchen without WiFi
  • Fast loading — plain text is instant
  • Searchable — find any recipe by ingredient
  • Editable — add your own notes and modifications

How to Save Recipes with Save

  1. Find your recipe on any website
  2. Click Save — AI extracts the recipe content
  3. Download clean Markdown — ready to cook from
  4. Organize in your cookbook folder

What Gets Extracted

Save intelligently captures:

  • Recipe title
  • Ingredient list
  • Step-by-step instructions
  • Prep and cook times
  • Serving sizes
  • Nutritional information (when available)

What Gets Removed

  • Author’s personal stories
  • Advertisements
  • “You might also like” sections
  • Newsletter sign-up forms
  • Social sharing buttons
  • Comment sections

Example Output

A saved recipe looks like this:

# Chicken Tikka Masala

**Prep Time:** 20 minutes
**Cook Time:** 30 minutes
**Servings:** 4

## Ingredients

### For the Chicken
- 1 lb boneless chicken thighs, cubed
- 1 cup yogurt
- 2 tbsp tikka masala spice blend
- 1 tbsp lemon juice

### For the Sauce
- 1 can (14 oz) crushed tomatoes
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 onion, diced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp ginger, grated

## Instructions

1. Marinate chicken in yogurt, spices, and lemon juice for at least 1 hour.
2. Sauté onion until soft, about 5 minutes.
3. Add garlic and ginger, cook 1 minute.
4. Add tomatoes and simmer 10 minutes.
5. Grill or pan-fry marinated chicken until charred.
6. Add chicken to sauce, stir in cream.
7. Simmer 10 minutes until sauce thickens.
8. Serve over basmati rice.

Clean. Simple. Cookable.

Building Your Personal Cookbook

Organize your saved recipes:

~/recipes/
├── weeknight/
│   ├── 30-minute-pasta.md
│   ├── chicken-stir-fry.md
│   └── sheet-pan-salmon.md
├── meal-prep/
│   ├── burrito-bowls.md
│   └── overnight-oats.md
├── baking/
│   ├── chocolate-chip-cookies.md
│   └── banana-bread.md
└── special-occasions/
    ├── beef-wellington.md
    └── tiramisu.md

Pro Tips for Recipe Organization

1. Add Tags to Your Files

Include tags at the top for easy filtering:

---
tags: [quick, chicken, asian, weeknight]
---

2. Note Your Modifications

Keep track of what worked:

## My Notes
- Doubled the garlic (always double the garlic)
- Used coconut cream for dairy-free version
- Best served with cilantro lime rice

3. Create Weekly Meal Plans

Build meal plans in Markdown:

# Week of January 13

## Monday
- Dinner: [[chicken-tikka-masala]]

## Tuesday
- Dinner: [[sheet-pan-salmon]]
- Prep: Make overnight oats for Wednesday

## Wednesday
- Dinner: [[burrito-bowls]] (meal prep)

4. Generate Shopping Lists

Extract ingredients across multiple recipes:

# Shopping List - Week of January 13

## Produce
- 2 onions
- 1 head garlic
- Fresh ginger
- Cilantro

## Protein
- 1 lb chicken thighs
- 1 lb salmon fillet

## Dairy
- 1 cup yogurt
- Heavy cream

Mobile Kitchen Display

When cooking, display your Markdown recipe:

  • Obsidian mobile — full vault access on your phone
  • Any Markdown app — iA Writer, Bear, etc.
  • Simple file viewer — even basic text works

No ads. No pop-ups. No distractions. Just your recipe.

Discover New Recipes

Use Save to build your collection from:

  • Food blogs — AllRecipes, Serious Eats, Budget Bytes
  • YouTube descriptions — many include written recipes
  • Social media — save recipes from Instagram, TikTok
  • Restaurant menus — save dishes you want to recreate

AI-Powered Cooking

Use your saved recipes with AI:

  • Scale recipes — “Convert this to serve 8”
  • Suggest substitutions — “What can I use instead of heavy cream?”
  • Generate variations — “Make this vegetarian”
  • Create shopping lists — “List all ingredients for these 5 recipes”

Clean Markdown makes AI interactions precise and useful.

Start Your Digital Cookbook Today

Life’s too short for recipe website ads. Build a clean, searchable, personal cookbook you’ll actually use.

Install Save from the Chrome Web Store — save any recipe as clean Markdown in one click.

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