What do you consider the best recipe software for Windows?

On 3/20/2011 4:16 PM, Roy wrote:



They had a 128? Gosh! My Commodore was only a 64.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On 3/20/2011 1:55 PM, Andy wrote:

There are problems with the downloadable versions. He did the right thing.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:34:16 -0400, Landon wrote:


If she did, it looked so good I didn't even notice it was pasted in
from Master Cook! LOL

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
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Pete C. wrote:


.... either of the above (wordpad preferred), or Word, and a folder named
"Recipes" in "My Documents". Import content via copy and paste. Use Word if
content includes graphics. Subfolders added where useful. Search using
Windows Explorer. No updating of software for compatability. No learning a
software program which duplicates what Windows and Word already can do. No
need to open a separate program to print, copy, import or export. Fully
editable and transportable. Free if you are using Windows.

MartyB
 
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:34:38 -0400, Landon wrote:



You have now been charged for the following items shipped today:

Mastercook 11.0
Sold by: lakeplacegames
Condition: new
Quantity: 1
$13.95 each
Item subtotal: $13.95

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Item Subtotal : $13.95
Shipping & Handling : $5.99
Total : $19.94
Paid by Visa: $19.94


Delivery Estimate: March 18, 2011 - March 23, 2011

This shipment will be delivered by USPS.

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Note to Chatty Cathy: Now why in the world would a "Shill" buy the
item they were shilling? Its my guess that a shill would either
already own the software or have seen it a million times.

Above, you'll see the clip from my email that I received this morning.

Unless you're a dyed in the wool conspiracy nut, you'll now see that
you're wrong about me.

If you have any class at all, you'd apologize now.

I'm guessing you won't, and that will tell the rest of the group as
well as me that you indeed have no class, manners or upbringing.
 
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:19:43 -0500, Janet Wilder
wrote:


But you see, Janet... I shake my head when I think of all the work it
takes to input recipes into that software. I don't have the patience
to paste into little boxes little here and there . I do one big
paste, one click to remove the formatting, make it readable to me and
move on. Much less effort.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 3/14/2011 7:13 PM, Landon wrote:


It's faster than you think. Here's how I do it:

Take out any stuff that isn't necessary to the recipe. Take care of the
spacing of the ingredients and also the spacing of the directions In
the directions, you will have to patch the lines together as saving the
Usenet posts to .txt does nutty things to the line spacing. Highlight
and copy the entire recipe. Open Mastercook. Pick the cookbook you want
to put the recipe in. Open it. Under "file" click "new" When that
opens, click "import assistant. A window opens. put the cursor in
there and paste.

If the recipe is in the proper format, just move the whole thing over at
once. If not you can clean things up in that window and move each
section of the recipe separately or the whole thing. It takes me about
2 minutes to move one from the .txt file to Mastercook.

Since I don't always use everything I save or don't get to it for a
while, I put the number 1 in front of the name of the file so I know
it's not copied to a cookbook yet. When I copy it, I delete the 1.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On 3/14/2011 7:39 PM, Landon wrote:

I did for 9 years. It was not always perfect, but I wouldn't trade a
moment of it. We traveled the "blue highways" most of the time. We did
have to watch out for low clearances and we carried a Rand McNally Motor
Carrier's Atlas which listed low clearances and routes that were
approved for large trucks. We lived in a 40+' customized fifth wheel
trailer and pulled it with a baby Freightliner RV hauler truck.

http://i54.tinypic.com/2uykojc.jpg

This was my kitchen:

http://i54.tinypic.com/29ld5ee.jpg


It was wonderful!

We live in a house now and have for the past 6 years, but we have a
small camper now and we intend to do some "flitting" in it this summer.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On 3/20/2011 2:19 PM, Roy wrote:


I have copied a Mastercook recipe and pasted it into notepad with
perfect results. Even the formatting was correct, which surprised me as
Notepad is famous for screwing up one's formatting.

I don't mind constructive criticism and I know that Mastercook is
certainly not perfect, but I truly don't understand all the criticism
against it.

If y'all are happy using Micro$oft Word, Notepad, Wordpad, Word Perfect
or whatever for your recipes, then stay with it, but if you have not
used Mastercook, then perhaps you might want to limit your criticism to
what you have actually used and not base it on conjecture?

BTW, I have no financial interest in whomever is selling Mastercook
these days. I'm just a satisfied user.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On 3/20/2011 4:42 PM, Landon wrote:

There is, but it sucks. I got it but deleted it. The writer had posted
on MastercookDiscussions Yahoo! Group.

I am too messy of a cook for a computer in the kitchen. I just print
out the one I'm using.



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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On 3/14/2011 9:05 PM, sf wrote:

But you do one big paste and one click with Mastercook. There is no
pasting into little boxes. There is a feature called import assistant.
I'll see if I can make a screen print and show you.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:56:27 -0500, "Storrmmee"
wrote:


Although they do work together in the kitchen, it's not really a two
person area. Their kitchen is so tiny, two people have to literally
dance past each other. I'm thinking they should knock down the wall
to their living room so they can add a little more kitchen counter
space.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:34:25 -0500, "Nunya Bidnits"
wrote:


Thanks Bob, Pete and Marty.

I decided to go a little more high-tech and bought Master Cook.

I'm a retired Database Admin and Designer, but I didn't want to spend
more in time and effort than the $20 MasterCook cost me.

It does everything I would need and then some.
 
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:15:14 -0700, Mr. Bill wrote:


valusoft.com has it on offer for $19.99 at the moment.

BTW, I use "Gourmet Recipe Manager" which a) has all the bells and
whistles I need and b) it's free. Long live open source software .

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Cheers
Chatty Cathy
 
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Pete C. wrote:


.... either of the above (wordpad preferred), or Word, and a folder named
"Recipes" in "My Documents". Import content via copy and paste. Use Word if
content includes graphics. Subfolders added where useful. Search using
Windows Explorer. No updating of software for compatability. No learning a
software program which duplicates what Windows and Word already can do. No
need to open a separate program to print, copy, import or export. Fully
editable and transportable. Free if you are using Windows.

MartyB

Janet adds:
ditto what MartyB said. I created exactly that many, many years ago. No
muss, no fuss.
Janet
 
"Landon" wrote in message
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Years ago, I used MealMaster, but it's seriously out of date in
today's world and on windows.

I'm trying to find the latest, greatest software that will allow
importing of existing recipes on the net and easy to use with great
search features.

Thanks!

Janet asks:
Would you please tell me what Master Cook has/does?
Janet
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:40:34 +0200, ChattyCathy
wrote:


Then when you add shipping, it's almost $30 for the one you suggest.

The one I've already suggested to him is 19.94 including shipping.

If you had bothered to read my previous posts, you would have seen
that. Isn't that what you told me?

You see how your spiteful, hateful and rude comments feel when used
back to you?

(No, I don't suppose you do. People like you seldom have the class to
admit when they're obviously wrong.)
 
On 3/14/2011 9:05 PM, sf wrote:

Okay. I had a recipe I think stu posted. I copied the recipe.

Opened the cookbook and pasted it into the big window

http://i56.tinypic.com/28wnd4g.jpg

Then I highlighted the entire recipe and clicked auto fill. The entire
recipe moves over into the file. Click save and it's done.

http://i55.tinypic.com/a3whh.jpg

Before clicking "save" I go into the categorize section in the recipe
and check the category boxes. Same for the drop box for Cuisines.

A couple of clicks and I'm done with my recipes in a cookbook, with
categories, search capabilities, changeable serving calculations,
nutritional information and even, if I want, pictures!

I've done the word processing thing and I can truly say, Mastercook is
soooooo much better. Just having the database abilities is worth it and
there is no more work to putting a recipe in than there is in putting a
recipe into a final text file. You have to clean up almost every recipe
you take from the net or Usenet to some extent.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On Mar 20, 1:52?pm, Janet Wilder wrote:

==
I didn't think that I WAS criticizing Master Cook....just saying that
if one doesn't own a copy it is hard to CHEAT and steal recipes
created and formatted by MC. Undoubtedly Master Cook has its fans or
it wouldn't sell.
==
 
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