Definitely Delish originally came about as a web development project. However, as I spent more time in the kitchen, it became apparent that I needed copies of the recipes I grew up with so I could stop bugging my mom for them. Then recipes I loved kept disappearing from Pinterest, so I decided to catalog any recipe I wanted to hold onto here. Over the years, I’ve found a love for international foods and recreating dishes I loved while eating at restaurants. All the recipes eventually make their way to this website. I’m absolutely its #1 user. The fact that it makes the recipes available to others is just a bonus!
A few things about this site. I can’t stand scrolling through barely related stories to get to a recipe. You won’t find those here. Occasionally, I’ll share tips or links for uncommon ingredients, but otherwise it’s the recipe itself, plain and simple.
You will also never find recipes written by AI here. I’m not anti-AI, though. I occasionally use it to help me develop new recipes and spruce up my photos. But every recipe on Definitely Delish comes from a real source, not generated by AI. Almost all of them have been tested by me, though occasionally I’ll add a recipe that I begged off a friend or family member after tasting their dish. Those recipes are marked with a #untested hashtag so you’ll know the food is delicious, but I haven’t necessarily worked out any kinks in the instructions by making it myself. And the food photos are always real. I’ll only ever change the backgrounds, if anything. If it looks a certain way in the photo, it can absolutely look that way when you make it!
Because this is a passion project, it’s not as expansive as I’d like it to be. As I find time and capability, I’ll try to tag recipes for various dietary needs (i.e. celiac/gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, etc). It’s a work in progress. I hope you can enjoy it as much as I do!
