Devlog

Semi-healthy.com

Mostly healthy. Always delicious.

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Fonts fixed, a proper site icon, new product photos, and privacy

  • The site's own fonts (Fraunces for headings, DM Sans for text) load again. Since the project folder moved on 2026-09-14, the pages had pointed browsers at font files on the Owner's computer, which also put a private folder path in every page. Both are fixed.
  • A proper site icon: the Semi-healthy leaf in the browser tab, on iPhone home screens, and for Android. There's also a real favicon.ico, which the site never had.
  • New photos for the De Buyer carbon steel pan, the Lodge Dutch oven, and the Ninja blender and food processor. The old Amazon listing photos for three of them are no longer on the site.
  • Amazon links now use the site's own semi-healthy-20 tracking ID.
  • Every deploy now runs a privacy check first and stops if the Owner's name or email would appear.
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Make it healthier, and numbered steps

  • Tuscan Chicken Pasta has a "Make it healthier" switch that swaps in a lighter version: half the bacon and cream, and fewer oil-packed tomatoes. The changed ingredients are highlighted, with the original amounts shown underneath. More recipes get the switch as they're written.
  • Its method is now a clean numbered list. Steps that used to show up in bold by accident are ordinary steps again. The rest of the recipes switch to numbered steps over the coming updates.
  • The recipe is now written for a carbon steel pan (or a Dutch oven for more room), and its useful products list the pan and the Dutch oven.
  • Across the site, recipes list the carbon steel pan only once, and wok recipes link to a wok.
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De Buyer carbon steel pan in the Kitchen

  • Added the De Buyer Mineral B carbon steel pan (12" and 14") to the Kitchen picks, linked from all 30 recipes that sear.
  • Fixed product-link priority so a recipe's most relevant tool isn't pushed out by the three-link limit.
  • Live on semi-healthy.com since the 2026-09-16 deploy (checked on the live site).
  • The card now shows the pan itself, made with image generation, instead of a placeholder (live since the 2026-09-18 deploy, entry 11).

Recipe fixes and a more careful recipe importer

  • Fixed recipe steps and headings that were being dropped or put in the wrong place when recipes were imported, across more than a dozen recipes.
  • "Light" pasta and noodle swaps are now applied consistently, each linked to the Carbe Diem pasta pick.
  • Individual fixes: Cantonese Chicken Thighs; Pesto and Red Pesto measurements; Southern Stewed Chicken and Gravy made consistently boneless and skinless, with shorter cooking times; Hawaiian Pineapple Chicken's chicken back in the ingredient list; Chicken Kofte renamed "with Cucumber Sauce."
  • Decorative emoji and leftover drafting notes removed from recipe text.

Built for phones

  • The menu button works on phones (it previously did nothing).
  • Pages load much faster on phones: photos load as you scroll instead of about 80 at once.
  • A recipe's Share, Print and Close buttons no longer sit on top of the recipe text while you scroll.
  • A full-width search bar, tighter spacing, phone-sized headings, and a working filter button.
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Live on semi-healthy.com

  • semi-healthy.com moved off Squarespace and now serves the new site.
  • Every recipe has its own link and a Share button, and shared links show a proper preview card with the dish's photo.
  • A Contact form that actually sends, and a Donate section.
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Kitchen and Pantry picks, sorted by use

  • Ten pantry products from the old site were carried over.
  • Kitchen and Pantry cards are sorted by how many recipes use them, and each card says how many recipes that is (it used to read "Used in undefined").
  • Cleaner cards: shorter titles, and the badge no longer covers the photo.

Easier tag browsing

  • "More tags" now opens a panel with every tag instead of pushing the recipes down the page.
  • Cuisine became a filter tag.
  • Tags that differed only in capitalization or hyphenation were merged (Air Fryer, Slow Cooker, Pressure Cooker, Carbon Steel Pan), and an unused tag was removed.
  • Suya now calls for a carbon steel pan instead of cast iron.

The rebuilt Semi-healthy.com

  • Semi-healthy.com was rebuilt from scratch as a searchable recipe box, generated from a shared folder of recipe documents instead of hand-built pages.
  • Search by ingredient, craving, cuisine or cooking method, and narrow down with tags.
  • Recipes print cleanly, and ingredient lists work as on-screen checklists.
  • Kitchen and Pantry sections list the tools and ingredients the recipes actually use.