Welcome aboard the Sparrow STAR Liner! A blog where we take a trackless voyage across Space, Technology, Aviation, and other Randomness. Stops are scattered, and we do not have many stations, but we hope you enjoy where you disembark.
Saving Cooking Recipes
Cooking is quite fun, but having a recipe is very useful. Often, when looking of recipes, it is helpful to save the more successful ones for later. There is any number of methods of doing this, from books, recipe cards, or even bookmarks for online recipes. However, I have opted to put my recipes here in my notes for a few reasons:
It is digital and online. Being online is a bonus in my opinion; it is easily accessible from a smart phone and it does not take up much physical space. Moreover, being digital means that it is easily copied, safely stored, and backed up. It generally is easier than physical recipe bookmarks and recipe cards for keeping tabs on liked recipes.
It is to the point. If you ever browse recipes online, you might notice two rather annoying things in my opinion. Excessively obtrusive advertisements and unnecessarily long introductions. I understand the need for advertisements for income, and the long introductions for SEO optimization and a general feel for the blogger, but sometimes it is excessive. So, instead, I have opted to transcribe recipes found online, in books, and from other people into a simpler form.
It is stable and archivable. Having web browser bookmarks or saved links to recipes work well for some people, but I have found that not to be something that works for me. First, irrationally, I never actually use web book marks (never got used to them). But, more importantly: link rot. Having a personal copy of recipes that I like, in a simple plain-text format, ensures that they will always be there.
It is easily sharable. You are reading this post, so it is relatively easily accessible and sharable to multiple people at once, compared to a recipe deck in my drawer. Sharing recipes is a big part of the joy of cooking, and going through the effort to have a list of recipes which are online and sharable to some, but not everyone, is not worth it. Tim Berners Lee envisioned the world wide web as just that, sharing recipes is harmless, so, why not?
Accessing the Recipes
The recipes can be accessed from the sidebar under the appropriate drop down. Or, you could also use the search bar or use the recipe tag to search only for recipes.
But, you may have noticed that the recipes are not actually in the STAR Liner blog. I have done this for two reasons:
- The STAR Liner blog, by design, is not really ordered to structured. The recipes will probably get buried in all of the other non-cooking related posts, becoming harder to access. This sort of defeats the purpose of saving recipes to access later.
- A big point was trying to reduce the lengthy recipe introduction that are found on some recipes. Replacing the source’s long introduction with my own blog introduction is hypocritical and starts to venture towards plagiarism as opposed to the current “ethically questionable possibly fair-use” gray area situation I am using now.
So, I have separated out the recipes into their own section, without having the need for a blog post for each one and instead having this current canonical blog post for them to link back to.
Secondarily, separating it like this is more reminiscent of the older WikiJS system which I used to use. But that is a story for another time.
Created: 2025-12-28
Last Updated: 2025-12-28