Trying to make a Recipe app, including Beer

Hey, great minds of the interwebs!   I'm kinda new to Laravel and looking to learn.

I am trying to make a Recipe app in Laravel, that will contain both beer and meal(dinner, desserts, etc..) recipes. But I'm kinda stuck on this concept since Beer recipes are a bit different from meal recipes.

Difference examples

• A beer recipe has ingredients; though it has hops which is to be added at a spesific times or "steps" in the process.
• A beer recipe has multiple timings; mash time, boil time, and fermentation time.
• And more..

I've create a Recipe model and a RecipeController, created the relationship (belongsToMany) between the Ingredients and Recipe (storing the Ingredients in a separate table).

Was hoping to manage all types of recipes from the Recipe model and RecipeController. Because afterall.. It's all recipes.

RecipeController.php

class RecipeController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
       $recipes = Recipe::get();
       
       return view('recipes.index', compact('recipes'));
    }

    public function show(Recipe $recipe)
    {  
        $recipe->with(['ingredients', 'instruction', 'user']);

        return view('recipes.show', compact('recipe'));
    }

    public function create() //create($type = null)
    {
        // am I on the right track here? Or is there a better way?
        //$ingredients = Ingredient::where('type', $type)->get();
        $ingredients = Ingredient::all();

        return view('recipes.create', compact('ingredients'));
    }

}

Recipe.php

class Recipe extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = ['name', 'description', 'image'];

    public function user()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
    }

    public function ingredients()
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany(Ingredient::class, 'recipe_ingredient')
            ->withPivot(['amount', 'measure', 'type', 'time'])
            ->withTimestamps();
    }

    public function instruction()
    {
        return $this->hasOne(Instruction::class);
    }
}

create_recipe_table

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('recipes', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->unsignedInteger('user_id');
        $table->string('name')->unique();
        $table->text('description');
        $table->text('image')->nullable();
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

Ingredient.php

class Ingredient extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = ['name'];

    protected $touches = ['recipe'];

    public function recipe()
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany(Recipe::class, 'recipe_ingredient')
            ->withPivot(['amount', 'measure', 'type', 'time'])
            ->withTimestamps();
    }
}

create_ingredient_table

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('ingredients', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('name');
        // more coming.

        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

The Pivot table

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('recipe_ingredient', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');

        $table->unsignedInteger('recipe_id');
        $table->unsignedInteger('ingredient_id');

        /* This is the extra things I've been thinking */
        $table->float('amount');
        $table->string('measure');
        $table->string('type')->nullable();
        $table->integer('time')->nullable();

        $table->foreign('recipe_id')->references('id')->on('recipes')->onDelete('cascade');
        $table->foreign('ingredient_id')->references('id')->on('ingredients')->onDelete('cascade');

        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

  What would you do? Can I create childmodels for Beer and Meal then use the Recipe model for things in common?   I would like to have all Ingredients in a select-box on my /recipe/create page, and list the ingredients based on what type of recipe I am creating. Best way to define a type element on the Ingredient and do a Ingredient::where('type', $type); ?   Maybe that this is a too big of a starter project. But I'm sticking to it.  And please excuse me if this is not understandable.

Regards icey