Whenever I make a new meal, I have to read the recipe over and over until I can visualize the process. What will my set-up look like? How many prep bowls, and what’s going in them? In my head, the recipe becomes a series of images—essentially, a comic.

Which made me think: Why not make a cookbook as a comic? It would be great for visual learners, and might even be sensible design for the rest of us.

As you can clearly see, my handwriting ain’t great, and my drawing is laughable, but hey, it’s a prototype, right? Plus, I know that I’m not the right guy to make this project. I’m not a real cook or an artist. I’m just sticking this baton out into the universe with the hope that someone else will grab it and run with it.

Credit where credit is due. This recipe is a riff on the red sauce recipe from THE FOOD LAB by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt.

Thanks, too, to @thenearsightedmonkey and her idea of “little comics everywhere.”