diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 0b1f90f..bfe534c 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -35,3 +35,4 @@ Imports:
 Depends: 
     R (>= 3.5.0)
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
+LazyData: true
diff --git a/R/memo_misc.R b/R/memo_misc.R
index 9f72a03..852a670 100644
--- a/R/memo_misc.R
+++ b/R/memo_misc.R
@@ -61,6 +61,35 @@ NULL
     invisible()
 }
 
+## data generation
+## ---
+## recipes <- list()
+## recipes["texlive"] <- "## install texlive\nRUN apt-get install -y pandoc pandoc-citeproc texlive"
+## recipes["texlivefull"] <- "## install texlive-full\nRUN apt-get install -y pandoc pandoc-citeproc texlive-full"
+## recipes["quarto"] <- "## install quarto (latest)\nRUN apt-get install -y curl git && curl -LO https://quarto.org/download/latest/quarto-linux-amd64.deb && dpkg -i quarto-linux-amd64.deb && quarto install tool tinytex && rm quarto-linux-amd64.deb"
+## recipes["clean"] <- "## Clean up caches\nRUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && if [ -d \"$CACHE_PATH\" ]; then rm -rf $CACHE_PATH; fi"
+## recipes["make"] <- "## install GNU make\nRUN apt-get -y install make"
+## usethis::use_data(recipes, overwrite = TRUE)
+
+#' Recipes for Building Container Images
+#'
+#' A list containing several useful recipes for container building. Useful for the `post_installation_steps` argument of [dockerize()]. Available recipes are:
+#' * `texlive`: install pandoc and LaTeX, useful for rendering RMarkdown
+#' * `texlivefull`: Similar to the above, but install the full distribution of TeX Live (~ 3GB)
+#' * `quarto`: install quarto and tinytex
+#' * `clean`: clean up the container image by removing cache
+#' * `make`: install GNU make
+#' @examples
+#' \donttest{
+#' if (interactive()) {
+#'     graph <- resolve(pkgs = c("openNLP", "LDAvis", "topicmodels", "quanteda"),
+#'                     snapshot_date = "2020-01-16")
+#'     ## install texlive
+#'     dockerize(graph, ".", post_installation_steps = recipes[['texlive']])
+#' }
+#' }
+"recipes"
+
 ## internal data generation
 ## ---
 ## ### Supported OS Versions
diff --git a/data/recipes.rda b/data/recipes.rda
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diff --git a/inst/update.R b/inst/update.R
index 6bfbdd1..e21c2cf 100644
--- a/inst/update.R
+++ b/inst/update.R
@@ -13,6 +13,6 @@ rang <- resolve(here::here(),
 
 ## You might want to edit `post_installation_steps` or `cache`
 dockerize(rang, output_dir = here::here(), verbose = TRUE, cache = TRUE,
-          post_installation_steps = c("RUN apt-get install make"),
+          post_installation_steps = c(recipes[['make']], recipes[['texlive']], recipes[['clean']]),
           insert_readme = FALSE,
           copy_all = TRUE)
diff --git a/man/recipes.Rd b/man/recipes.Rd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..068b879
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man/recipes.Rd
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
+% Please edit documentation in R/memo_misc.R
+\docType{data}
+\name{recipes}
+\alias{recipes}
+\title{Recipes for Building Container Images}
+\format{
+An object of class \code{list} of length 5.
+}
+\usage{
+recipes
+}
+\description{
+A list containing several useful recipes for container building. Useful for the \code{post_installation_steps} argument of \code{\link[=dockerize]{dockerize()}}. Available recipes are:
+\itemize{
+\item \code{texlive}: install pandoc and LaTeX, useful for rendering RMarkdown
+\item \code{texlivefull}: Similar to the above, but install the full distribution of TeX Live (~ 3GB)
+\item \code{quarto}: install quarto and tinytex
+\item \code{clean}: clean up the container image by removing cache
+\item \code{make}: install GNU make
+}
+}
+\examples{
+\donttest{
+if (interactive()) {
+    graph <- resolve(pkgs = c("openNLP", "LDAvis", "topicmodels", "quanteda"),
+                    snapshot_date = "2020-01-16")
+    ## install texlive
+    dockerize(graph, ".", post_installation_steps = recipes[['texlive']])
+}
+}
+}
+\keyword{datasets}