A recipe book for your kitchen
Your family’s recipe book, kept for keeps.
Paste a link, snap a cookbook page or type it in. Sousie files a clean copy that’s yours to keep — scribbled on, shared with the house, and ready to plan, shop and cook from.
Same book, any screen.
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.
From the page to the table
Everything a kitchen does with a recipe, in one book.
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 one comes through scruffy, it lands in the edit form ready to fix, never on an error page.
Flip through the book
Browse 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 — or let Sousie propose a week from your own book, under your house rules. 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 list, grouped by supermarket section, checked against your pantry, and ticked off in the aisle.
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. Start a kitchen of your own, or take a seat at a friend’s: every house keeps an invite link in its settings.
Questions
Do I need an invite?
No. Sign in with your email and start a kitchen of your own — it takes a minute. A friend can also send you a link to share their book instead.
What does it cost?
Nothing. Sousie is free to use.
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 — move them onto another day as leftovers, or into the freezer for later. Frozen meals come 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.