Recipe Engine
The recipe engine is a technology project that I’ve been working on that allows users to search for recipes based off ingredients from your kitchen. It consists of several technology parts, the first is an iOS Swift application that allows users to search across 30,000+ recipes (via voice control and other). The second is the RESTFUL web service (hosted on AWS) that supplies the iOS application with recipe and ingredient data. Finally, there is another web service that is using Apache’s Nutch and Solr to crawl sites for recipe data and imports, cleans and scrubs the data and imports it into a MySQL database.
This project is intended to answer the age old question “What could we make for diner tonight?” What could we make for diner tonight that we already have the ingredients for in our kitchen.