Curious Kitchen
🍳 Curious Kitchen: Full-Day Workshop
Build an AI-Powered Recipe App from Scratch 🥘
Sunday, 23 November | 6 hours
Join me for an immersive hands-on workshop where you'll build a complete, AI-powered recipe planning app from scratch using Cursor (an AI code editor that acts like a coding sous chef) and modern development tools.
You'll build an app with an AI agent that acts as your personal cooking assistant—answering questions about recipes, offering suggestions, and helping you plan meals. By the end of the day, you'll have a working application deployed and ready to share with friends and family.
👥 Who This Is For
Everyone!
Whether you're an experienced developer wanting to learn better mental models for working with AI agents, or you've never written code before and want a gentle, scaffolded introduction to software development—this workshop meets you where you are.
No prior coding experience required. We scaffold everything so you can focus on learning how to think about building with AI.
🎯 What You'll Build (The Menu) 🍽️
A working recipe planning application with AI features, ready to deploy and share by the end of the day.
You'll work through four core phases:
🧂 Prep Your Ingredients – Design your data schema and plan the structure of your app
🔪 Build the UI – Create a beautiful, functional interface using Cursor
🍲 Create API Interactions – Wire up your frontend to your backend
✨ Add the Secret Sauce – Integrate AI capabilities using the Gemini SDK
📦 What's Included
🗓️ On the Day
✅ All workshop materials (six guided markdown chapters, worksheets, starter code)
✅ Pre-configured starter codebase in a GitHub repository
✅ Breakfast 🥐, lunch 🍱, and refreshments throughout the day
✅ Structured exercises and activities
✅ Built-in troubleshooting documentation and support
✅ Access to shared examples and resources
🎁 After the Workshop
✅ Lifetime access to all workshop materials
✅ Your complete project code and deployed app
✅ Invitation to exclusive Slack community 💬
✅ Ongoing knowledge sharing and support
✅ Updates to the workshop materials and starter kit
✅ Inspiration from other participants' unique projects
🏆 What You'll Walk Away With 🎁
A complete, working AI-powered application you built end-to-end
A toolkit and strategies for building your own apps from scratch
Hands-on experience working with an AI coding agent in a real project
Confidence to keep learning and building after the workshop ends
Connections with others learning to build with AI
❌ What's Out of Scope
This workshop focuses on getting you building quickly with AI assistance. We won't cover commercial app development concepts like:
Authentication systems
Payment processing
Multi-user architecture
These are beyond what we can tackle in six hours, but you'll have a solid foundation to explore them afterwards.
✅ What You'll Need 🎒
A laptop with Cursor installed (you'll probably need a Cursor Pro subscription to get the most out of the day)
I encourage you to get some Cursor experience beforehand—when you register, I'll send you resources to help you get up to speed with what you need for the class
All other setup instructions will be provided beforehand
👨🍳 Your Instructor
Joshua Crowley – AI educator, Cursor Ambassador, and organiser of Sydney Cursor meetups.
🔗 Learn More
Full details and recipes: https://jaggedpeaks.club/curious-kitchen
❓ Questions?
📧 [email protected] | 🐦 @ojschwa
Ready to cook with AI? 🧑🍳 Register below 👇