Confession: I own more cookbooks than I probably want to admit and yet somehow I still ended up googling “easy weeknight dinner” more nights than not 😅 It’s not that I didn’t want to use them. I just never remembered which book had the recipe I was craving. Was the risotto in that one blue book or the other one? Did I even own a bolognese recipe or did I just think I did? So the cookbooks sat pretty on the shelf while my phone did all the actual cooking decisions. Then I found @cookshelf.app and it fixed the exact problem I didn’t know had a name. You scan the barcodes on your cookbooks (or search their catalog) to build your own digital library. Then when you’re standing in the kitchen with too many green beans or trying to remember which book has your go to bolognese you just search it right in the app. It pulls up every recipe across your own cookbook collection that matches, ingredient list, page number and all. You grab the actual book, flip to the page and get cooking. You can also bookmark recipes you want to try, ones you’ve already made and your favorites so you’re actually building a relationship with the books you own instead of letting them collect dust. I have not opened a recipe google search since downloading this and honestly that feels like a small win worth celebrating. Go download cookshelf, it is genuinely going to change how you use your cookbook collection. Tag a friend who has a cookbook collection they never use 👇 🎥 @ted.kendrick

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