Cooking rules.md
My favorite skill: Cooking rules
The part of my brain I use most. One small rules file in my cooking folder: everything vegan by default, the shortcut version of a recipe over the fancy one, my favorite recipe sites searched first, a wishlist sorted by how much energy a dish takes, and a Google Keep shopping list for each recipe. I just say "add this to my recipes" or "make me a shopping list" and it knows where everything goes.
The whole skill
# Cooking - working rules
Rules for my AI whenever we touch my cooking folder. They load automatically (a small AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md file inside the folder) whenever a session works there.
## Recipe preferences
- Everything vegan, as standard - never as a "vegan variation."
- Prefer simpler versions of recipes. When there's a from-scratch path and a shortcut, default to the shortcut (for example, instant mushroom granules over a kombu-shiitake broth for sundubu jjigae). Only surface the fancy path when it clearly earns the effort.
## Finding recipes
When I ask for a type of dish ("a chocolate chip cookie recipe"), search the sites on my Favorite Recipe Sources page first and recommend from them, linking the recipes. Only go wider if they come up empty.
## Wishlist workflow
My "Recipes To Make" page is the cooking wishlist: one place to look when there's energy for something new, organized by how much energy a dish takes (Top of mind, Low energy quick wins, Components to make once and use all week, More energy weekend projects).
- New "want to try" links land under the right energy tier, as `**Dish name** (source) - link - why it's on the list`.
- Keep entries short: one sentence, two max. Name + source + link, then a short hook. No method walkthroughs, ingredient lists, or gotchas - the linked recipe already has those (pointers over copies).
- When a recipe gets made, move it to the ✅ list at the bottom with the date and a one-line verdict; log details in my Cooking learnings page. If it becomes a repeat staple, it graduates to its own page.
## Recipe pages
- Link the source recipe; don't transcribe it.
- Say why it earns a page, then my actual method and variations as they're learned.
## Shopping lists
A shopping list for one recipe is its own separate Google Keep list, not a vault page and not items on my running grocery list. Create a new Keep list titled `Shopping / <Recipe name>`, one ingredient per item with the quantity, and don't link it from the recipe's entry or page: I archive shopping lists once I'm done, so the link would break.
