Cooking With Claude Code

I was inspired by this post on Simon Willison’s Blog to try out cooking with Claude Code / Claude. There are multiple ways to do this. For example:

generating recipes based on a list of available ingredients
simply ask for a specific recipe
planning an entire dinner (including cooking, managing time, shopping groceries, structuring the work)

Recipe Generation

During the last few months I tried the second and third option. Claude “came up” with this surprisingly tasty herbal butter by grinding thyme and rosemary in a 3:1 ratio and mixing it with garlic, salt and butter to taste. It was great. Simple to cook and went really well with beef tenderloin. You can find the recipe here on my new recipe website: recipes.marc-julian.com.

Dinner Planning

Planning an entire dinner was a great use case for Claude Code. I created a new git repository in a local folder, spun up Claude Code and asked it to write down many notes to plan my dinner. I had already picked most dishes and just needed help planning it all together. To get the timings right, be prepared, have all ingredients, hardware and tableware ready and overall have a nice oversight on what to do the next two days. If you want, you can take a look at the resulting notes after some conversations with Claude Code, here.

Here are some pictures of the dinner managed by Claude Code: