diff --git a/src/endpoints/CompactRecipePoint.ts b/src/endpoints/CompactRecipePoint.ts
index 0df0e0a..e7c6956 100644
--- a/src/endpoints/CompactRecipePoint.ts
+++ b/src/endpoints/CompactRecipePoint.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ router.get(
   asyncHandler(async (req, res) => {  
     // extract search string from query parameters, convert to lower case for case insensitive search
     const searchString : string  = req.query.search ? req.query.search.toString().toLowerCase() : "";
+    console.log("Searching for recipes with title containing", searchString)
     const response = await compactRecipeHandler.getMatchingRecipes(searchString);
     res.status(201).json(response);
   })
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 73cf6fb..d0d06fc 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -27,9 +27,24 @@ async function startServer() {
     await AppDataSource.runMigrations();
     console.log("Migrations executed");
 
+    // Enable CORS before anything else
+    // @todo move to middleware util
+    app.use((req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) => {
+      res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
+      res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET,POST,PUT,DELETE,OPTIONS');
+      res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type, Authorization');
+      
+      // Handle preflight requests quickly
+      if (req.method === 'OPTIONS') {
+        return res.sendStatus(200);
+      }
+
+      next();
+    });
+
     // Activate Authentication
     app.use(authentication);
-
+    
     // Setup routes
     app.use(authBasicRoute, authRoutes);
     app.use("/user", userRoutes);
diff --git a/src/repositories/RecipeRepository.ts b/src/repositories/RecipeRepository.ts
index 493b7f0..8c62cb2 100644
--- a/src/repositories/RecipeRepository.ts
+++ b/src/repositories/RecipeRepository.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { AbstractRepository } from "./AbstractRepository.js";
 import { RecipeEntity } from "../entities/RecipeEntity.js";
 import { AppDataSource } from "../data-source.js";
-import { Like } from "typeorm";
+import { ILike, Like } from "typeorm";
 
 export class RecipeRepository extends AbstractRepository<RecipeEntity> {
   constructor() {
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export class RecipeRepository extends AbstractRepository<RecipeEntity> {
   async findCompactRecipeBySearch(searchString : string): Promise<RecipeEntity[] | null>{
     // @todo doesn't work like expected...
     return this.repo.find(
-      { where: {title: Like(`%${searchString}%`)}}
+      { where: {title: ILike(`%${searchString}%`)}}
     );
   }