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MCP Recipes MCP Server

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MCP Recipes runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 264 installs a week from npm. Last commit 2 Nov 2026.

Search six recipe sites at once, in French, English and Spanish, and scale quantities.

Installs per day peak 37 · avg 14 · +38% w/w
a month agotoday
264
Installs / week
npm · mcp-recipes
0
Stars
1 open issue
2 Nov 2026
Last commit
10 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

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Today is the operative word: we check MCP Recipes every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp-recipes -- npx -y mcp-recipes
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-recipes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-recipes"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-recipes]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-recipes"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-recipes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-recipes"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-recipes": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-recipes"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: RECIPES_USER_AGENT (Identify your own client. The project's own identifier is appended, so a site can always reach a human), RECIPES_MIN_INTERVAL_MS (Minimum milliseconds between two requests to the same site. Default 1000, floor 500), RECIPES_TIMEOUT_MS (Deadline for one request to a site, in milliseconds. Default 20000), RECIPES_MAX_RETRIES (Retries on rate limiting and transient failures. Default 3), RECIPES_CACHE_TTL_MS (In-memory cache lifetime, in milliseconds. Default 900000. Set 0 to turn it off), RECIPES_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES (In-memory cache size. Default 200), RECIPES_LOG_LEVEL (silent, error, info or debug. Default error. Logs go to stderr).

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MCP Recipes — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Recipes?
MCP Recipes runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package mcp-recipes was installed 264 times last week.
How do I connect MCP Recipes?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mcp-recipes straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use MCP Recipes?
The npm package mcp-recipes was installed 264 times in the last week. Week over week that is +38%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is MCP Recipes open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.