About

Welcome to Green Stack Cooking!

Hi, I’m Sage Byte — I work in IT by day (networks, servers, password resets…) and cook by night.

For most of my life, my diet was basically toast and pasta. Safe, familiar, the same few things on rotation — comfortable, but not exactly what you’d call nourishing. I knew I should be eating proper vegetables, but knowing and doing are very different things, and “just cook something healthy” is a surprisingly hard instruction to follow when deciding what to cook is itself the obstacle.

So I started getting a veg box every two weeks — not as a culinary adventure, but as a commitment device. The vegetables arrive whether I’m inspired or not, and now they need eating. The problem was back again though: I’d stare at a kohlrabi with no idea what to do with it.

That’s where AI came in. Instead of decision paralysis, I feed it whatever arrived in the box and get back healthy, balanced recipes that fit my preferences. And it’s genuinely changed how I eat: more variety, more vegetables, more actual meals — and honestly, more excitement. “What’s in the box this time?” is a question I look forward to now. Some of these experiments are brilliant; others teach me valuable lessons. I write down how they actually turned out — the wins, the fails, and the tweaks. A quick word of warning though: I use a lot of cheese and spice. If you’re looking for bland, low-fat, or dairy-free, you might want to adjust the ratios before you start cooking!

The people I share food with wanted in on it, so this site is where those recipes live. If you try one, you can rate it and add your own notes — saved only in your own browser, never sent to me or anyone else. It’s a private kitchen notebook for everyone who visits.

And given what I do for a living, there was no way I was putting this on an ad-strewn platform that tracks its visitors. This site is self-hosted: no trackers (apart from my own privacy repecting analytics), no cookies, no third-party scripts. It’s fast, it’s clean, and it respects your data.

That’s the whole idea: a veg box turned into a genuinely varied diet, one honest write-up at a time, on a site that treats you like a person and not a product.

Feel free to browse around and try something new!