04 / Your recipes & web imports

Keep the recipes you cook

Write a recipe, import a supported page or save a copy from Featured, then edit it to match how you cook.

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Record ingredients and your own changes

Enter a family recipe by hand. Add photos, ingredient amounts and steps, with notes such as “less salt” or “cook two minutes longer.”

Keep different versions of a dish, and find them using search, tags and filters. Manage drafts and Recently Deleted separately.

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MY RECIPES

Cover photos, ingredients, steps, tags and notes.

Start with recipes you already have

Supported recipe pages

Paste a supported URL, review the parsed ingredients and steps, then edit and save.

Personal copies from Featured

Edit a saved copy independently. Official updates do not overwrite personal notes and changes.

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PlateNote bulk imports

Import ZIP or Markdown exports from PlateNote to bring over existing recipes.

The free tier supports 15 groups of saved recipes; versions of the same dish count as one group. Xiachufang imports are free. Other compatible sites and PlateNote bulk imports require membership; website access and formats may affect imports.

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