Production Recipes

These recipes are for a production kitchen. The quantities are much larger than what is appropriate for home use. These are speed recipes in the sense the user knows their way around their equipment, and has familiarized themselves with industry terminology.

Converting Gourmet Recipe Manager HTML to Markdown

You’ll have to change the paths in the script. I wrote this script to automatically convert the now abandoned Gourmet Recipe Manager output HTML files to: Markdown. You can run this script with --no-hugo to generate normal markdown files. If you download this script to the same directory as the output from Gourmet > Files > Export all recipes > HTML as the output format in the file picker. Otherwise, you can specify --input= and --output= or in long form or -i and -o in short form to change the paths.

Show script used to generate these recipes

#!/bin/bash

# Usage:
#   ./convert_gourmet.sh [--no-hugo] [-i|--input-dir /path/to/html] [-o|--output-dir /path/to/output]
# Default output:
#   Hugo:     ./recipes.hugo/
#   No-Hugo:  ./recipes.markdown/

set -euo pipefail

# --- Configurable defaults ---
DEFAULT_HUGO_OUTPUT_DIR="$HOME/Build/brege.org/content/recipes" # "./recipes.hugo"
echo "Default Hugo output directory: $DEFAULT_HUGO_OUTPUT_DIR"
DEFAULT_NOHUGO_OUTPUT_DIR="./recipes.markdown"
DEFAULT_INPUT_DIR="./recipes.html"

AUTHOR="Wyatt Brege"
DATE="$(date +%F)"  # ISO format YYYY-MM-DD

# Optional override via env or command line
: "${OUTPUT_DIR:=""}"
INPUT_DIR="$DEFAULT_INPUT_DIR"
output_dir=""
no_hugo=false

# --- Parse args ---
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
    case "$1" in
        --no-hugo)
            no_hugo=true
            shift
            ;;
        -i|--input-dir)
            INPUT_DIR="$2"
            shift 2
            ;;
        -o|--output-dir)
            output_dir="$2"
            shift 2
            ;;
        *)
            echo "Unknown option: $1"
            echo "Usage: $0 [--no-hugo] [-i|--input-dir DIR] [-o|--output-dir DIR]"
            exit 1
            ;;
    esac
done

# --- Final output directory ---
if [[ -n "$output_dir" ]]; then
    final_output_dir="$output_dir"
elif [[ -n "$OUTPUT_DIR" ]]; then
    final_output_dir="$OUTPUT_DIR"
elif $no_hugo; then
    final_output_dir="$DEFAULT_NOHUGO_OUTPUT_DIR"
else
    final_output_dir="$DEFAULT_HUGO_OUTPUT_DIR"
fi

mkdir -p "$final_output_dir"

# --- Convert recipes ---
shopt -s nullglob
files=( "$INPUT_DIR"/*.htm "$INPUT_DIR"/*.html )
echo "Found ${#files[@]} recipe files in '$INPUT_DIR'."

if [[ ${#files[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo "❌ No recipe files found."
    exit 1
fi

for file in "${files[@]}"; do
    filename=$(basename "$file" .htm)
    [[ "$filename" == "index" ]] && continue

    # Normalize filename → slug
    slug=$(echo "$filename" | sed 's/[0-9]*$//' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr ' ' '-')

    # Extract metadata
    title=$(grep -oPm1 '(?<=).*?(?=)' "$file")
    yield=$(grep -oPm1 '(?<=).*?(?=)' "$file" || echo "")

    # Determine output file path
    if $no_hugo; then
        output_file="$final_output_dir/$slug.md"
    else
        recipe_dir="$final_output_dir/$slug"
        mkdir -p "$recipe_dir"
        output_file="$recipe_dir/index.md"
    fi

    # --- Write header ---
    {
        if $no_hugo; then
            echo "# $title"
            echo
        else
            echo "---"
            echo "title: \"$title\""
            echo "tags: []"
            echo "date: 2018-01-01" # "$DATE"
            echo "draft: false"
            #echo "type: recipe"
            echo "ShowTOC: false"
            echo "---"
            echo
            echo "{{% recipe %}}"
            echo
            echo "### $title"
            echo
        fi

        echo "**Author:** *$AUTHOR*"
        echo
        [[ -n "$yield" ]] && echo "**Yield:** $yield"
        echo
    } > "$output_file"

    # --- Convert body with pandoc ---
    if ! body=$(pandoc -f html -t markdown "$file" 2>/dev/null); then
        echo "❌ pandoc failed for $file — skipping"
        continue
    fi

    # --- Clean up markdown ---
    clean_body=$(echo "$body" \
      | sed '/^:::/d' \
      | sed -E 's/\\$//' \
      | sed -E 's/\[.*?\]//g' \
      | sed -E 's/\{[^}]+\}//g' \
      | sed -E 's/^### Instructions/#### Directions:/I' \
      | sed -E 's/^### Notes/#### Notes:/I' \
      | sed -E 's/^### Ingredients/#### Ingredients:/I' \
      | sed '/^\s*$/N;/^\s*\n\s*$/D' \
      | awk 'BEGIN {skip=1} /^\s*#/ && skip {next} {skip=0} 1')

    echo "$clean_body" >> "$output_file"
    if ! $no_hugo; then 
      echo "{{% /recipe %}}" >> "$output_file"
    fi
    #echo "✅ Converted $file to $output_file"
done

Converting Gourmet Recipe Manager HTML to Markdown#

Converting Gourmet Recipe Manager HTML to Markdown