Appendix C · Print edition
The Weeknight Manual
100 dinner recipes, every one 45 minutes or less including prep. A cookbook with the properties of a manual: no photographs, no essays, no scrolling. One recipe per entry, what you need and then what you do. PDF, 162 pages, US letter, $10.
Specification
What makes it a manual
Three quantity columns on every recipe. Half, Standard, Double, printed side by side. Cooking for two or cooking for leftovers is a column choice, not arithmetic done badly at the counter.
Quantities repeat inside the steps. "Add 2 cups panko," not "add the panko." You never scroll back up, and on paper you never lose your place.
Numbered and grouped. Recipes 001 to 100, in five chapters: Chicken; Beef, Pork and Lamb; Fish and Seafood; Pasta, Rice and Noodles; Vegetarian. 35 cuisines represented.
Full data on every entry. Prep, cook and total time, servings, calories per serving, difficulty, and diet flags. Total time includes prep, because the alternative is a lie.
Four weeks of dinner plans. Five weeknights each, chapters rotated, no cuisine repeated inside a week, with a consolidated shopping list and a separate check-the-pantry list per week.
Built to print. US letter, no full-bleed images, no ink-hostile backgrounds. Print the week you are cooking and put it on the counter.
Questions, answered plainly
Before you buy
Are these recipes free on the site? Yes, all of them, in full, no account. That is the point of the site and it is not a trick. What $10 buys is the curation, the print format, and the four weeks of plans with their shopping lists: the shortest path from "what's for dinner" to a grocery list.
What format is it? A single PDF, 162 pages, US letter. No DRM, no app, no account. Read it on a tablet or print it.
Do I get later editions? Yes, free, through Gumroad to the address you bought with. The book is rebuilt from the live catalog, so it improves as the catalog does.
Is this the subscription? No. The book is a one-time $10 purchase and nothing renews. The subscription is a separate thing entirely: the kitchen tools in the app, at $3.99 a week or $63.99 a year, with a 30-day free trial.