One of my hobbies is cooking, and very often I just go freestyle in the kitchen. Often, I forget to write down what I put in to a dish...and its lost forever.

I'm a techie by trade, and have this desire to build little software systems to support my hobbies, so this morning I started wondering about creating a simple markup language for recipes. Google was my first stop, and it found RecipeML™ for me.

I'm not happy with RecipeML for a couple of reasons. First off, they require that applications developers "ask permission" to use RecipeML, and secondly...the syntax/vocabulary itself is inconsistent. e.g.

<ingredients>
  <ing/>
</ingredients>

Sooo...I think I shall design my own markup. And it will be free for all to use. No trademark, no "permission"...and hopefully a consistent markup for the XML freaks among us.
Here is the first pass:

http://mattmackenzie.com/files/recipe.dtd