What do you consider the best recipe software for Windows?

On 3/20/2011 5:49 PM, l, not -l wrote:


When we past our mastercook recipes to this newsgroup they are in text.
If I want to save someone's recipe, I still have to copy and paste it
into Import Assistant.

There is a Yahoo! Group for people to share their mastercook formatted
recipes in. I belonged for a little while, but never found anything
interesting and the moderation was way-heavy.

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On 3/21/2011 11:52 AM, sf wrote:
I've had a couple of occasions where a guest has found my paper copy of
the recipe for what I served for dinner and asked for it. I print a
clean copy for them. Nice feeling.

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On 3/14/2011 2:01 PM, Landon wrote:

Do yourself a favor and subscribe to Mastercook Discussion on Yahoo! Groups

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MastercookDiscussion/

There are some really helpful people who can assist you with it and the
glitches it might have.

I've been using it since the earliest version on floppy disks. I'm using
version 7 which I like just fine and see no reason to update.

There is a Firefox extension called recipefox which will allow you to
grab recipes fro the Internet (not every site) and import them directly
into cookbooks. http://recipetools.sourceforge.net/recipefox.html

The newer versions (8 and up) have a tool bar that does this from IE,
but from what I read in the Discussion group, it doesn't work so well.

I love it because I can make my own cookbooks. There are also other
cookbooks out there that you can download. This one is the best.
http://www.madsrecipes.com/ The person who created it has passed on to
that great kitchen in the sky, but the site is still maintained.

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Janet Wilder
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On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:16:14 -0500, "Storrmmee"
wrote:


I understand. In their case, they really do need more counter space
and that's the only way to get it. So if they knocked down the wall,
their eating area would stay in the same place, but it would be in the
"kitchen" area instead of the "living room" area and the whole thing
would be one big "great room". hahaha! It's too tiny to be a "great"
room. It would be more like a so-so room.

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:13:26 -0400, Landon wrote:


Get your facts straight, please.

http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/


Gourmet Recipe Manager is a recipe-organizer available for Linux and
Windows that allows you to collect, search, organize, and browse your
recipes. Gourmet can also generate shopping lists and calculate
nutritional information. It imports Mealmaster, MasterCook and KRecipe
files and exports PDFs, webpages and other formats. Gourmet is free
software and uses Python, GTK+ and SQLAlchemy.


Note the bit where it states it's *free* software.

BTW, no apology will be forthcoming.

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On 3/21/2011 12:52 PM, sf wrote:
I have one of those picture frames. I think you would have to save all
the recipes in *.jpg, though. That's what it reads.

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Janet Wilder
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Janet Wilder wrote:



Janet,

That makes no sense to me. The frequency of badly stamped CDs is far
greater than downloading. I have yet to get an unsuccessful download.
The latest of which was 895 Mbytes of Windows 7 (64) Service pack 1.

A little recipe software would be near impossible to fail a download.

Best,

Andy
 
On 20-Mar-2011, notbob wrote:


Thus, the problem was not with MasterCook; but, a problem in interpersonal
relations.
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:06:32 -0500, Janet Wilder
wrote:



I lived in an apartment one time where the kitchen was behind folding
ceiling to floor doors. The Kitchen was only as wide as the fridge.
Maybe 30". It was a challenge, but I made a bunch of food in that
little bitty kitchen!

I'll bet you did too in your RV kitchen.

Traveling around sure would be fun. I might get to try that one day.
 
On Mar 20, 2:00?pm, Andy wrote:

==
The failure rate on downloading is extremely small nowadays. I haven't
had a download failure in the past seven years. The old dial-up fail
rate was a different story as ISPs were notorious for shutting you
down when the download was 95% downloaded. I used to curse and swear
and rend my garments when that happened.
==
 
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:29:42 -0600, "Janet Bostwick"
wrote:


If the literal size of the data files is small enough in totality,
then the search of the data would be quick anyway. If it was a lot of
data, it would slow it down radically if there was repeat data in the
same database. It's a cardinal rule of databases to store more
than one copy of each unique record.

You reference the data from the other categories. That's why a
database like MasterCook is so handy. For what it does, it's fast as
all get out.

I imagine MasterCook has some way of identifying recipes that fit in
multiple categories. A simple check mark or radio button tells it to
always show that recipe when each of the checked boxes are present.

Sorry, I'm a database guy...don't get me started.
 
On 20-Mar-2011, Landon wrote:


The situation nb cites appears to be a case of the blind being led by a
deaf-mute. For as far back as I can recall, which goes back quite a way,
beginning with Mastercook v2.0, there has been a way to produce ascii text
files of idividual or groups of recipes. Often, the default was not ascii
text, but MC native format which does have embedded, prorietary code.
Below, see samples of the same recipe exported in MC4 native format and as
text. In addition to these formats, you could always print to a text file,
which, worse case, had a few issues with CR/LF vs CR or LF. Had nb asked
for a text file and his provider knew the various features of MC, there
would have been no issue in getting clean text files. The following
examples were produced using MC v8


MC4 native-format:





Awesome Collard Greens






(or 1/2 collards 1/2 kale)




chopped




1 15 oz can, chopped




chopped (2 to 4)






to taste




to taste




Wash greens in a colander.


Chop into bite-sized pieces.


Throw all ingredients into a large pot and cover.


Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, the reduce heat and simmer.


Greens are done when they have shrunk down and are cooked through, usually
about a half hour, but you can let it simmer much longer.


Serve with its liquid.



Adapted from recipe on Recipezaar



? 2008 Scripps Networks, Inc.



Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 47 Calories; trace Fat (6.9% calories
from fat); 3g Protein; 10g Carbohydrate; 4g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
122mg Sodium. Exchanges: 2 Vegetable; 0 Other Carbohydrates.



MC export to text file format:


* Exported from MasterCook *

Awesome Collard Greens

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:10
Categories :

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
1 lb collard greens -- (or 1/2 collards 1/2 kale)
1 medium onion -- chopped
1 3/4 cups canned tomatoes -- 1 15 oz can, chopped
2 cloves garlic -- chopped (2 to 4)
1 1/2 cups water
1/2 cup cider vinegar
salt -- to taste
hot sauce -- to taste

Wash greens in a colander.

Chop into bite-sized pieces.

Throw all ingredients into a large pot and cover.

Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, the reduce heat and simmer.

Greens are done when they have shrunk down and are cooked through, usually
about a half hour, but you can let it simmer much longer.

Serve with its liquid.

Source:
"Adapted from recipe on Recipezaar"
S(Internet Address):
"http://www.recipezaar.com/Awesome-Collard-Greens-69475"
Copyright:
"? 2008 Scripps Networks, Inc."
Start to Finish Time:
"0:40"
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 47 Calories; trace Fat (6.9% calories
from fat); 3g Protein; 10g Carbohydrate; 4g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol;
122mg Sodium. Exchanges: 2 Vegetable; 0 Other Carbohydrates.


Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0


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On 3/21/2011 2:30 PM, sf wrote:

Blush.

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:31:52 +0200, ChattyCathy
wrote:



My facts are straight. You suggested a website for MasterCook.

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:40:34 +0200, ChattyCathy
wrote:


That's the site you suggested.

Plus shipping and it's almost $30

Why don't you take your crappy attitude and go argue with someone
else? You have less class than my cat.

You attack with no reason. Don't admit it when you're proven wrong and
don't even try to argue honestly.

I'm not wasting any more time with you.
 
On 3/14/2011 3:28 PM, Janet Bostwick wrote:

Master Cook has so many abilities. The one I like the best is the
ability to create one's own cookbook. The cookbook can also be printed.

You can create shopping lists for recipes. I use the nutritional
information feature. The software also allows me to input ingredients
that might not be in their database and it is really helpful in
calculating carbs for DH's diabetes.

If you use Firefox, there are a whole bunch of web sites that will work
with an extension called Recipefox (see other post) Also, there is a
feature called "import assistant" that will take text and help you
convert it into a recipe. Great for recipes I get from this NG and from
some sites where Recipefox doesn't work. The import assistant worked
really well when I scanned some old cookbooks using OCR software and
converted it to Mastercook Cookbooks.

I looked into Big Oven once, but I'm just a Mastercook junkie.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
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