u/cookwithcompagnon

Was sick of classic gastrique so I decided to get wild.

Compressed and sliceable. Served with chilled creme anglaise

Filled with champagne poached pear and goat cheese. Finished with an exceptionally light parmigiano reggiano cream and dehydrated sliced pear 🧑‍🍳

Cooked these over the campfire on a dispersed trip in Anza borrego state park perfect way to end a beautiful afternoon

Got these bad boys goin on a dispersed trip Anza Borrego state park absolutely slapped

I built Compagnon, an AI cooking app. Its planner turns a week of meal prep into one efficient, perfectly timed sequence. You pick your recipes and a serve time, and it:

• breaks every recipe into steps, builds a dependency graph (DAG) of what blocks what,
• topologically sorts it into one back-timed timeline - batching prep, overlapping oven/stove time,
• load-balances the prep across your available days so no single day gets slammed (respecting how much time you have each day... this is fully parametrized and customizable),

With this a week of meal prep (or an extravagant holiday meal) is organized as one efficient sequence.

You create the recipes by describing what you want (being specific or vague - Compagnon will help you brainstorm). AI writes a real, cookable recipe and formats it into a well organized recipe card.

Each cook can be logged and refined, and changes are version-controlled using git principles.

React Native / Expo. In beta (iOS + Android); link in the comments. Testers get premium free.

Beta here: https://compagnon.to — TestFlight + Play.

Mountain of whip cream with a layer of chocolate because why not

iOS (TestFlight) and Android (Play). Beta testers get free access for life: https://compagnon.to

I built a cooking app called Compagnon and I'm looking for a few people to test it.

It starts with a conversation. You and the AI talk through what you want to make, and once you land on a recipe it gets turned into a clean, well-organized recipe card.

But it's so much more than a UI layer over an LLM. As each recipe is created, the app breaks it into steps, works out which steps depend on which, and estimates the lead time for each one. That lets it stitch any number of recipes into a single plan so your time in the kitchen is as efficient as it can be. If you're meal prepping, you do all the prep for every recipe in one flow instead of starting and finishing one recipe at a time. Planning an extravagant holiday dinner is basically zero effort, just pick your dishes and serve times and let it figure out everything in between.

It also learns. Log how a cook went and it'll refine the recipe for next time, keeping every past version so you never lose a good one.

There's a fair bit more in there too. I'd love people to play around with it and tell me what's missing, what needs refining, and what isn't intuitive.

Still need to perfect my crust technique (tips?) but this pie was exceptional 🤤

I’ve been bored with making the same bâtards and I want to try something a little different. This batch was slightly over baked and over hydrated, but I’m getting close!

Tuna with crispy rice, gyoza hanetsuki, shrimp chawanmushi, ibérico secreto cooked over fire brushed with tare, black sesame chocolate cake 🤗

Tuna with crispy rice, Gyoza Hanetsuki, Shrimp Chawanmushi, Ibérico Secreto cook over fire brushed with tare, black sesame chocolate cake

Smashed super thin into a crispy meat wafer until it’s all just surface area for crisp Maillard reaction. Fried onion crispys, homemade brioches, and dijonaise 🤤

Chicken was twice fried for extra crunch. Sauce was made with Calabrian chiles and anchovy paste. Pasta was (of course) made with love. Served with confit byaldi and fresh baked sourdough.

Happy to share the recipe!

Came across some BMS 9 AZ Wagyu at the butcher and couldn’t resist. Sorry wife!

Served with a dome of fried rice and soy cured yolk. Happy to share the recipe - just lmk!

Low key Peruvian chicken is my favorite thing the throw on the kettle. The smoky and crunchy char paired with the spicy/cooling ají verde hits every single time.

Lemme know if you want the recipe!