The Sugo journal

Notes from the kitchen.

Practical writing about saving recipes, cooking from what you already have, and getting dinner on the table without a browser full of open tabs.

24 September 202613 min read

How to import recipes from any website, video or photo

Import recipes from websites, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, photos, Notes and other recipe apps: what works, how deep each one reads, and what doesn't yet.

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A blank open notebook on a kitchen table, ringed by an open cookbook, a stained recipe card, a printed page, a face-down phone and a closed laptop

A worn wooden recipe-card box next to a clipboard with a blank shopping pad, a lemon, garlic and a bag of flour on a kitchen counter

23 September 20267 min read

AnyList vs Paprika: which one fits your kitchen?

Paprika is a one-time purchase you own outright. AnyList is a $9.99/year subscription built around a shared shopping list. Where each wins, checked August 2026.

A sleek cream enamel frying pan beside a well-seasoned black cast-iron skillet on a wooden counter

23 September 20267 min read

Crouton vs Paprika: the Apple one or the durable one?

Crouton is the better-built app and it is Apple only. Paprika runs everywhere and you buy it once. An honest comparison, checked August 2026.

Overhead view of a wooden bowl heaped with blank paper slips beside two market baskets packed with the same groceries

23 September 20266 min read

ReciMe vs AnyList: capture or coordinate?

ReciMe saves recipes from TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. AnyList runs the best shared shopping list at $9.99 a year. Checked August 2026.

An open store cupboard: a dozen well-used jars, tins and a bottle of olive oil pulled to the front of the lower shelf, with a crowded rank of full, unopened jars on the shelf above

21 September 202610 min read

12 pantry staples that make almost anything cookable

Twelve jars that turn up in dinners with nothing else in common, and the test that separates a real staple from something you bought for one recipe.

Two identical bowls of pappardelle with ragù set opposite each other on a wooden table, a phone lying face down between them, and a casserole still steaming on the counter behind

14 September 202610 min read

How to cook the same meal with someone in another city

Cooking together at a distance fails for one reason: a video call carries the talk but not the pot. How to share the recipe itself instead.

A phone lying on a wooden worktop showing a camera roll grid where recipe screenshots are mixed in among photos of a dog, a plant and a street

7 September 202610 min read

What to do with recipe screenshots in your camera roll

A screenshot is the fastest way to save a recipe and the worst place to keep one. Why the camera roll loses them, and the five minutes that fixes it.

Four pairs of hands of different ages reaching in from all sides of a kitchen table over one open book and a stack of old recipe cards

31 August 20268 min read

How to share a family recipe collection

Sending the recipes round as a PDF freezes them at one version. How to build a family collection that survives being cooked from and corrected.

A home kitchen at dusk with the lights just on, the counter wiped clean and set up with prepped bowls, herbs and a pan waiting on the hob

31 August 20267 min read

Sugo 1.0 is out

Sugo is on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and the web. What version 1.0 does, what it costs, and what it still can't do.

A kitchen table covered edge to edge in hundreds of paper recipe slips, with a small space cleared in the middle holding just three

24 August 202610 min read

How to organise 500 saved recipes you have never cooked

You did not save 500 recipes, you saved 500 intentions. A one-hour method for cutting a bloated recipe library down to the part that answers a Tuesday.

One kitchen counter, a full canvas shopping bag at one end and the same ingredients prepped and cooking in a pan at the other

23 August 20265 min read

Sugo vs AnyList: shopping list first, or kitchen first?

AnyList has the best shared shopping list in the category. Sugo is built around what you can cook tonight. An honest comparison, checked August 2026.

Two wooden cook's spoons of the same shape side by side on pale wood, one much darker and more worn than the other

23 August 20265 min read

Sugo vs Crouton: two hands-free recipe apps compared

Crouton shipped hands-free wink cooking years before we did, and it is beautifully built. Where the two differ, honestly. Checked August 2026.

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Put one good dinner on the table.

Sugo is on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac, on Google Play for Android, and in any browser at app.sugo.kitchen. It is free to start, so start saving the recipes you actually cook.

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