What do you consider the best recipe software for Windows?

On 3/21/2011 11:03 AM, Landon wrote:

you have to prove to the that you can format the recipes the way they
want them. Then they require so many recipes a time period, I forgot how
long. It's highly moderated and I never did find anything worthwhile
there, so I left.

The discussion group is critical to owning the program. A couple of
months ago a Windows XP SP3 patch knocked out a string needed for the
program to operate properly. One of the Pams (there are 2 gals named
Pam) provided a fix and now it's working fine.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On 3/21/2011 11:12 AM, sf wrote:
Who's looking back? If I used dial up where I live it's 28.8 at the
fastest and mostly 19.9. That's in the year 2011!!!

I get my internet over-the-air. No cable out here in "the country"

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:28:42 -0700, Mort wrote:


Thanks Mort. Janet Wilder said she had some cookbooks of recipes she's
personally tried. I prefer that to the massive collections that are
available.

That's a cool site. I've book marked it.
 
In article ,
"M. JL Esq." wrote:


The favorites that I cook are:

(1) Pork and Yorkshire pudding
(2) Chicken and Dumplings
(3) Beef and barley soup
(4) Beef enchiladas
(5) Ginger chicken stir-fry
(6) Fried chicken with white gravy and mashed potatoes
(7) Fried pork chops with w/g and mashed potatoes
(8) Deep fried fish (cod) and chips
(9) Anything bisque. Don't ask for a definition.
(10) Curried beef over rice

These are mostly meals, not recipes. There isn't a recipe in the bunch.
I'm sure I've left something out that should be in my top ten. All are
mundane in the recipe and technique, and all but number (10), my wife
will eat.

leo
 
On 3/18/2011 7:19 PM, M. JL Esq. wrote:

Well, the absolute favorite in my book is my grandmother's dessert
"chocolate ice box cake"! Can't have a major holiday (Thanksgiving or
Christmas) with that ;) I think of her very often, especially so when I
make that dessert.

Sky

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On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:16:08 -0700, Roy wrote:


Gourmet Master? Is that recipe software? Never heard of it before - and
nothing came up about it on google.

I use Gourmet Recipe Manager - Linux version. Works fine, with no bugs
that I've seen - and IIRC, Serene installed it (and quite liked it) too.

But hey, if you wanna spend between $20-30 + shipping on some flavor of
Windows-only recipe software, it's no skin off my nose.

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy
 
On 3/15/2011 2:53 AM, sf wrote:

It was home. I worked with the manufacturer for 2 and a half months
customizing it.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:12:12 -0700, sf wrote:


It wasn't a brag, sf. Just a note of interest. It was a real challenge
to accomplish then, what we take for granted today.
 
On Mar 18, 10:57?pm, ChattyCathy wrote:

==
Oops, my mistake. It was Gourmet Recipe Manager for Windows and the
developers are having trouble with it. Apparently the Linux version is
stable but still work to be done on the Windows version.

Cheers right back at yah.
==
 
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:00:08 -0500, Andy wrote:

I imagine he'll be able to download a copy from the net if his CD is
hosed. I don't see a problem with him having a hard copy back up.
He'll probably put a copy on his portable drive too.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:37:43 -0700, Roy wrote:


Think there are some freebie Windows-specific recipe managers out there,
but how good they are, I have no clue. But if you're in a hurry for
something that works and works well, I'd actually recommend BigOven recipe
software. When I was still running Windows on my machine a couple of years
ago, I bought a copy and found it very good.

I think it's a little more expensive than MasterCook, but it wasn't
"buggy" either, it installed on my XP machine without a hitch and
everything worked as advertised. I also didn't have to pay any shipping
costs (and I'm in South Africa) because it was available for download from
their website - and as soon as I'd paid for it (on-line) they sent me the
"license key" so I had it up and running within hours. One was also
allowed to install it on up to 3 different machines using the same
license. They currently offer over 170,000 recipes too. Not too shabby,
donchyathunk?

BTW, the latest version runs on all version of Windows (7, Vista, XP,
etc.) - and they even have an iPad version available

You can download a free trial version from here - what could it hurt? If
you don't like it, you can just un-install it and that's that.

http://www.bigoven.com/software/windows

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy
 
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:22:07 -0500, Janet Wilder
wrote:


Ouch! I remember the days of needing tabbed browsing and an internet
answering machine. Seems like forever, but in reality it wasn't all
that long ago.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 3/15/2011 12:31 AM, Landon wrote:


My aunt had a studio apartment that had one of those kitchens. I was a
little kid when she lived there. It was within walking distance of our
own apartment and I used to visit her so she'd make me jelly omelets. It
has to be over half a century since I've had a jelly omelet.


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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On 3/15/2011 7:41 AM, Jim Elbrecht wrote:

I am working with the fellow who actually wrote the Recipefox program
tight now. He has a thing called "recipe tools" that you can get from
his website that will convert entire text cookbooks into Mastercook
format. It's a bit complicated for me but some of y'all might
understand it better.

http://recipetools.gotdns.com/

This would make converting entire cookbooks easier.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:17:34 -0500, Janet Wilder
wrote:


Mise en place is how I learned to cook. I was a prep for a chef when I
was just a kid. He had this big wooden spoon he would whack me with if
I messed up one of his dishes.

I'm currently remodeling my entire home. My wife passed, my kid is
long out on his own and I'm retired. I have all the time in the world
now and have always wanted "My perfect kitchen".

I have 30 feet of combined counter space planned. That's not counting
the area for the sinks. It's going to be my cooking paradise.

I'm going all electric. I like cooking with gas, but the price
per/gallon of propane and natural gas have become stupid, so
all-electric it is for me.

I have a big generator for those times that the power is out.

Currently, I have every appliance made, almost. I have to run back and
forth to the pantry to get each appliance I need. I have about 4 feet
of counter now. No room for appliances.

My house is such a mess right now. I have the flooring exposed to
sub-floor and everything from the one room I'm working on stacked in
the living room. It looks like a warehouse.

As each room is completed, I move to the next and empty it into one of
the other rooms while I rip and tear it apart and rebuild it. It's
quite an adventure!
 
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:39:55 -0400, Landon wrote:


When you file the recipe you select the category or categories for it.
You can search for the recipe by name or category. You can add your
own categories if you want to.

You can create shopping lists and menus. You can put in a whole day's
worth of menus and check the nutrition for the day. You can print an
alphabetized list or a list by category.
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48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
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