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Heh, I once tried to make a DSL to cope with recipes from cookingforengineers.com e.g. their lovely recipe cards [1] . I totally failed to make anything decent!. The combining of multiple steps etc. was just painful!. In the linked site above, that recipe is so straight forward, I'd love to see how it copes with [1] below.

[1] http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/127/Shepherds-Pie-...

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Those cards are genius. They perfectly illustrate what you can do parallel to other things rather than having to re-read and re-interpret the written instructions continuously.

I'm a fan of his recipe card as well, though I convert it to a standard recipe for sharing with friends who don't see the format in the same light.

Also, a friend and I made enough of his Mac and Cheese[1] to serve 150 people at my wedding a couple years ago. Highly recommended.

1: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/230/Macaroni-and-C...

Looks great. I will give a recipe cards like this a try someday with actual cooking. Looking forward to experimenting with the format.

That is actually a great visualization for recipes and cooking instructions.

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