Hello — I’m Sousie
I keep the recipe book for your kitchen. Bring me a recipe and I’ll paste it in, tidy it up, and look after it — ready for planning, shopping, and cooking.
A book, not a bookmark
Sousie is modelled on the handwritten recipe book your mother or grandmother kept — cutouts from all over, pasted in and scribbled on. Paste a link to a recipe you like and a clean copy goes into the book: yours to keep, even if the source site changes or disappears.
And a cutout is meant to be scribbled on. Reword the steps, write in the units you actually cook with, add notes and a verdict, count the times you’ve cooked it. The book grows more personal — and more useful — the longer it’s used.
How it works
Bring recipes in
Paste a link, paste the text, or photograph the pages of a cookbook — Sousie reads it and files a clean copy. If a recipe comes through scruffy, it lands in the edit form ready to fix, never on an error page.
Flip through the book
Browse the collection like leafing through pages: search by title or ingredient, filter by cuisine, course, or your own tags.
Cook from it
Every recipe scales to the servings you need. Cook mode gives you big text, checkable steps, and one-tap timers pulled straight from the method.
Plan the week
Give each recipe a day on a rolling planner. A big cook yields several meals — spare portions become leftovers on another day, or go into a freezer that remembers what’s in it.
Shop in one motion
The coming days’ ingredients merge into one shopping list, grouped by supermarket section and ready to copy.
Cook together
Cooking several dishes for one meal? Pick them, set a serve time, and get a single interleaved plan of attack so everything lands together.
A shared table
A household shares one book, one plan, and one freezer — a recipe anyone adds is there for everyone at the table. Different households keep entirely separate books. And Sousie keeps a small kitchen on purpose: joining takes an invite from someone already in.
Questions
What if an import comes out wrong?
It never dead-ends. Whatever could be read lands in the edit form for you to tidy and save — and every recipe stays fully editable afterwards. If a site refuses to be read at all, paste the text or photograph the page instead.
Do recipes disappear if the original site does?
No. The recipe and its photo are copied into the book at import, so they survive dead links, paywalls, and redesigns.
Can I add a recipe that isn’t online?
Yes — type it in by hand, or photograph the cookbook page or recipe card and Sousie will transcribe it.
How does scaling work?
Pick the servings you want and the ingredient quantities multiply to match, on the recipe page and in cook mode. Units stay as written — there’s no metric–imperial conversion.
Where do spare portions go?
If a cook makes more meals than the day needs, the spare portions appear on the plan — drag them onto another day as leftovers, or into the freezer for later. Frozen meals drag back onto a day when you’re ready to reheat them.
What does joining someone’s household mean?
You share their book, plan, and freezer from then on. If you already had your own book, it stays behind — its recipes don’t come along. The invite page spells this out before you accept.
How do invites work?
Every house keeps two invite links in settings — one that brings a friend into the household, one that gives them a book of their own. A link admits anyone holding it, and either can be swapped for a fresh one at any time; the household link also refreshes itself every two weeks.
A note from the kitchen
Sousie is a hobby, kept warm by one pair of hands. It’s under active development — things improve week by week — and feedback is very welcome: pass it along to whoever brought you in.
If a friend sent you this page and it sounds like your kind of kitchen, ask them for a seat — invites are easy to make.