Family favorites, one recipe at a time.

Recipe Rhino started because I noticed something that kept happening in our family. Whenever one of us wanted to make a dish we grew up with, we had to go searching for it. Sometimes that meant digging through old recipe books, flipping through stained recipe cards, scrolling through photos, or calling Great Grandma Lenon, Nana, or whoever might know where the recipe was hiding.

Then my daughter Kylee got married and started calling for family recipes too, and it became one more reminder that we needed a better way to keep these favorites together. As our family spread farther apart, it felt even more important to create one place where these recipes could be saved, shared, and found again.

I’m Darin, and this is something I had been thinking about for many years.

The recipes here come from generations of family kitchens — from holiday dinners, Sunday meals, favorite desserts, comfort foods, and the everyday dishes that somehow become part of who we are. Some recipes have been passed down for decades, while others came through parents, grandparents, cousins, in-laws, friends, and the many people who have shared meals and traditions with our family over the years.

Recipe Rhino was built to help make sure these recipes don’t get lost.

With Stephanie’s help, we started gathering family favorites together, organizing them, and creating a place where our kids and grandkids could easily find the meals they remember growing up with, try recipes connected to different parts of the family, and maybe even add their own someday.

The website itself has become a family project too. I originally started trying to build it myself, and my son Tanner taught me how to code and later helped me find better tools to build the site faster and better. My son Collin helped me through the rough spots along the way as well. That part means a lot to me, because this site isn’t just preserving family recipes — it’s also being built with family help, patience, and encouragement.

And the name? Honestly, I just like rhinos.

I even own The T-Shirt Rhino and Comic Rhino web domains, so Recipe Rhino felt like a fun name people might actually remember. But at its heart, this site is really a labor of love — a place to share the recipes, traditions, memories, and stories that connect our family and the people we love.

If there’s a recipe you’d love to see added — whether it’s one of your own or a family favorite we may have missed — feel free to reach out. I’d love to add it.

Because in the end, this isn’t just about ingredients and instructions. It’s about the people, stories, memories, and moments connected to the food.

We hope you enjoy looking through these recipes, revisiting a few old favorites, and maybe discovering some new ones along the way.

With love,
Darin and Stephanie