lots of things working

Recipies/settings.py

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
     'django.contrib.messages',
     'django.contrib.staticfiles',
     'django_tables2',
+    'django_filters',
     'cookbook.apps.CookbookConfig',
 ]
 

Recipies/urls.py

@@ -13,11 +13,12 @@ Including another URLconf
     1. Import the include() function: from django.urls import include, path
     2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  path('blog/', include('blog.urls'))
 """
+from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
 from django.urls import include, path
 from django.contrib import admin
 
-
 urlpatterns = [
+    path('', lambda r: HttpResponseRedirect('cookbook/')),
     path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
     path('cookbook/', include('cookbook.urls')),
     path('accounts/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),