Recipes For Me

Kitchen-tested recipes by Dylan Thomas, built with Hugo.

Prerequisites

Hugo (static site generator):

brew install hugo

Or see https://gohugo.io/installation/ for other platforms.

Image compression tools (used by ./squish):

brew install pngquant oxipng jpegoptim

• pngquant — lossy PNG compression
• oxipng — lossless PNG optimization (applied after pngquant)
• jpegoptim — JPEG compression and stripping

On Linux (apt): sudo apt install pngquant jpegoptim && cargo install oxipng

Adding a New Recipe

hugo new content recipes/my-recipe-name

This creates a page bundle at content/recipes/my-recipe-name/index.md with all the frontmatter fields pre-filled. Drop any images into the same directory, set draft: false when ready, and it will appear on the site.

Development

Start the local development server:

hugo serve

The site will be available at http://localhost:1313/. Changes to content and layouts will live-reload automatically.

Image Compression

Before committing new recipe images, compress them with ./squish to keep the repo lean:

./squish content/recipes/tomato-soup         # Dry run — show sizes and what will change
./squish content/recipes/tomato-soup --now   # Resize (max 1600px wide) and compress
./squish content/recipes/tomato-soup --clean # Replace originals with compressed versions

Images wider than 1600px are automatically resized down before compression.

Build

Generate the production site:

hugo

Output will be in the public/ directory.