I’ve moved to storing my recipes in my Obsidian notes. To organize them a bit, I ensure that every recipe file starts with the prefix of recipe-. This allows me to use the Dataview plugin, which lets you write SQL-like syntax, to query for each recipe. Using this query:
TABLE file.name as "Recipe Files", description as "Description"
FROM ""
WHERE startswith(file.name, "recipe-")
SORT file.name ASC
will render the results like this truncated image:
What’s neat is it can even query the “frontmatter” that you optionally put at the top of a markdown file. For example, one of my files recipe-andrea-ribs.md has this frontmatter:
---
Tags: [recipe]
Description: Andrea Sebastyan's coke rib recipe
---
Notice that the query above queries this with the description as "Description".
Overall, this approach can be used to write complex queries to fetch files throughout your Obsidian vault.