Fix three bugs found by running against the live instance

suggest_recipes returned 422 for every call. The endpoint takes food UUIDs as
repeated query parameters, not a comma-joined string of names — the rule
inherited from the skill was never actually verified. Added resolve_foods to
map names to food records first, and report anything unresolved instead of
dropping it.

scale_ingredients silently returned unscaled lines. It read the structured
quantity field and string-replaced str(quantity) into the display text, which
failed twice over: unparsed recipes store quantity 0.0 with the real amount only
in the text, and str(800.0) never matches "800 g kycklinglårfilé". Amounts are
now read from the display text, ranges scale at both ends ("1-1,5 msk"), mixed
numbers scale as one value ("1 1/2 msk"), and lines with no amount are reported
in `unscaled` rather than presented as if they had been scaled.

looks_mangled flagged the readable "1 1/2 msk tomatpuré" because its duplicate-word
rule matched the repeated digit. Restricted to alphabetic words, so it still
catches "2 dl dl grädde".

Verified against all 238 recipes in the live library: no false positives remain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

mealie_mcp/server.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import json
 import os
+import re
 from decimal import Decimal, ROUND_HALF_UP
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ from .normalize import (
     ingredient_display_lines,
     looks_mangled,
     normalize_for_parser,
+    scale_line,
 )
 from .verify import verify_recipe as run_verification
 
@@ -106,12 +108,56 @@ def search_recipes(query: str, limit: int = 10) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
 
 
 @mcp.tool()
-def suggest_recipes(foods: list[str], limit: int = 10, max_missing_foods: int = 0) -> Any:
-    """Find recipes matching ingredients on hand."""
-    return _request("GET", "/api/recipes/suggestions", params={
-        "foods": ",".join(foods), "limit": limit,
-        "maxMissingFoods": max_missing_foods, "includeFoodsOnHand": "true",
-    })
+def resolve_foods(names: list[str]) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Map food names to the Mealie food records they refer to.
+
+    ``/api/recipes/suggestions`` takes food UUIDs, not names, so free-text has to
+    be resolved first. Returns the best match per name plus the alternatives, so
+    the caller can tell that `kyckling` resolved to `kycklingbröst`.
+    """
+    resolved: dict[str, Any] = {}
+    unresolved: list[str] = []
+    for name in names:
+        data = _request("GET", "/api/foods", params={"search": name, "perPage": 5})
+        items = data.get("items", data if isinstance(data, list) else [])
+        if not items:
+            unresolved.append(name)
+            continue
+        exact = next((i for i in items if (i.get("name") or "").lower() == name.lower()), None)
+        best = exact or items[0]
+        resolved[name] = {
+            "id": best.get("id"),
+            "name": best.get("name"),
+            "exact": exact is not None,
+            "alternatives": [i.get("name") for i in items if i.get("id") != best.get("id")],
+        }
+    return {"resolved": resolved, "unresolved": unresolved}
+
+
+@mcp.tool()
+def suggest_recipes(foods: list[str], limit: int = 10, max_missing_foods: int = 5) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Find recipes matching ingredients on hand, given plain food names.
+
+    The endpoint expects food UUIDs as repeated query parameters; passing names or
+    a comma-joined string returns 422. Names are resolved first, and anything that
+    could not be resolved is reported rather than silently dropped.
+    """
+    lookup = resolve_foods(foods)
+    ids = [entry["id"] for entry in lookup["resolved"].values()]
+    if not ids:
+        return {"items": [], "matched_foods": {}, "unresolved_foods": lookup["unresolved"]}
+    data = _request("GET", "/api/recipes/suggestions", params=[
+        *[("foods", food_id) for food_id in ids],
+        ("limit", limit),
+        ("maxMissingFoods", max_missing_foods),
+        ("includeFoodsOnHand", "true"),
+    ])
+    items = data.get("items", data if isinstance(data, list) else [])
+    return {
+        "items": items,
+        "matched_foods": {name: e["name"] for name, e in lookup["resolved"].items()},
+        "unresolved_foods": lookup["unresolved"],
+    }
 
 
 @mcp.tool()
@@ -152,25 +198,42 @@ def find_by_source_url(url: str) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
 
 @mcp.tool()
 def scale_ingredients(slug_or_id: str, servings: int) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    """Return readable ingredient lines scaled to a requested serving count."""
+    """Return readable ingredient lines scaled to a requested serving count.
+
+    Amounts are read from the display text, not the structured ``quantity`` field:
+    unparsed recipes store ``quantity: 0.0`` while the real amount lives in the
+    line. Lines with no leading amount (`salt`, `smör (att steka i)`) are returned
+    untouched and listed in ``unscaled`` — never silently presented as scaled.
+    """
     recipe = get_recipe(slug_or_id)
-    original = recipe.get("recipeYield") or recipe.get("recipeServings")
+    original = recipe.get("recipeServings") or recipe.get("recipeYieldQuantity")
     if not original:
-        raise ValueError("Recipe has no serving/yield metadata; scaling is not exact")
-    try:
-        base = Decimal(str(original).split()[0])
-        factor = Decimal(servings) / base
-    except Exception as exc:
-        raise ValueError("Recipe serving metadata is not numeric") from exc
-    lines = []
-    for item in recipe.get("recipeIngredient", []):
-        text = item.get("display") or item.get("note") or item.get("food", {}).get("name", "")
-        quantity = item.get("quantity")
-        if quantity is not None:
-            scaled = (Decimal(str(quantity)) * factor).quantize(Decimal("0.1"), rounding=ROUND_HALF_UP)
-            text = text.replace(str(quantity), format(scaled, "f"), 1)
-        lines.append(text)
-    return {"recipe": recipe.get("name"), "servings": servings, "ingredients": lines}
+        # recipeYield is free text ("4 portioner"); take a leading number if present.
+        match = re.match(r"\s*(\d+(?:[.,]\d+)?)", str(recipe.get("recipeYield") or ""))
+        original = match.group(1).replace(",", ".") if match else None
+    if not original or Decimal(str(original)) == 0:
+        raise ValueError(
+            "Recipe has no serving metadata (recipeServings, recipeYieldQuantity, "
+            "or a numeric recipeYield); scaling would be a guess"
+        )
+
+    factor = Decimal(servings) / Decimal(str(original))
+    scaled_lines: list[str] = []
+    unscaled: list[str] = []
+    for line in ingredient_display_lines(recipe):
+        text, was_scaled = scale_line(line, factor)
+        scaled_lines.append(text)
+        if not was_scaled and line.strip():
+            unscaled.append(line)
+
+    return {
+        "recipe": recipe.get("name"),
+        "original_servings": float(Decimal(str(original))),
+        "servings": servings,
+        "factor": float(round(factor, 3)),
+        "ingredients": scaled_lines,
+        "unscaled": unscaled,
+    }
 
 
 # --- Import -----------------------------------------------------------------