Neighborhood recipe archive

Recipes traded over fences, group texts, and potluck tables.

A neighborhood recipe book for the dishes people actually make twice.

4 recipes collected
4 categories in rotation
1 bundle per recipe with its own image

Collection rule

Every recipe lives in its own Hugo page bundle, so the Markdown file and image stay together.

Search behavior

Client-side filtering matches titles, summaries, tags, ingredients, and the neighbor who shared it.

Categories

Built on Hugo taxonomies, so category pages come for free and stay static-host friendly.

Featured recipes

The dishes people ask for again.

A deep bowl of red chili topped with sour cream, scallions, and tortilla chips.
Soups and Stews 1 hr 10 mins

Block Party Chili

Smoky beef-and-bean chili built for cool evenings, porch bowls, and second helpings.

Serves 8 From Mara from Cedar Lane
one-pot make-ahead crowd-pleaser
A platter of pasta salad with tomatoes, cucumber, herbs, and crumbled feta.
Sides 35 mins

Porchlight Pasta Salad

A bright, herb-heavy pasta salad with lemon vinaigrette, feta, and crunchy vegetables.

Serves 8 From Eli on Birch Court
potluck cold vegetarian
A baking dish of peach crisp with golden topping and scoops taken from one corner.
Desserts 1 hr

Sunset Peach Crisp

Bubbling peaches under a crisp oat topping that works equally well warm or cold the next morning.

Serves 8 From June from the corner house
fruit summer bake

Browse by category

Built for quick weeknights and crowded tables.

1 recipes

Desserts

Use category filters to narrow the client-side search without leaving the directory.

1 recipes

Main Dishes

Use category filters to narrow the client-side search without leaving the directory.

1 recipes

Sides

Use category filters to narrow the client-side search without leaving the directory.

1 recipes

Soups and Stews

Use category filters to narrow the client-side search without leaving the directory.

Add recipes fast

Simple publishing flow.

1

Collect the raw recipe

Get the text from a neighbor, potluck card, or family note and clean it up in ChatGPT using the repo prompt.

2

Create a new bundle

Run hugo new content recipes/block-party-chili/index.md and drop the generated image into the same folder.

3

Publish through Cloudflare Pages

Push to main, let Cloudflare build the static site from GitHub, and serve it on your custom domain.