I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used and
liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using isnt the
best.

Thanks for your help/input

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:22:07 -0700, "madis"
> wrote:

>I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used and
>liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using isnt the
>best.
>
>Thanks for your help/input


I have been using Mastercook since Version 3. I am now on Version 9.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

On 2009-10-02, madis > wrote:
> I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used and
> liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using isnt the
> best.

emacs

nb

On Oct 2, 1:25*pm, notbob > wrote:
> On 2009-10-02, madis > wrote:
>
> > I want to enter my recipes into a program. *Which one is the most used and
> > liked? *I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using isnt the
> > best.
>
> emacs

You've got me beat. If I find something on the Web, I usually cut and
paste it into Wordpad, so that I can expand the font to something that
my husband can read without his glasses. Then I print it, take it
home,
and stick it in a three-ring binder.

If I want to put something on my web site, I use vi. Boldface is
overrated.

Cindy Hamilton

"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
...
On Oct 2, 1:25 pm, notbob > wrote:
> On 2009-10-02, madis > wrote:
>
> > I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used
> > and
> > liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using isnt
> > the
> > best.
>
> emacs

You've got me beat. If I find something on the Web, I usually cut and
paste it into Wordpad, so that I can expand the font to something that
my husband can read without his glasses. Then I print it, take it
home,
and stick it in a three-ring binder.

If I want to put something on my web site, I use vi. Boldface is
overrated.

Cindy Hamilton

........

I have a lot of clippings in binders and wordpad files on different
computers thought it wold help to put the favorites all in a program guess I
will try master cook.

On 2009-10-02, madis > wrote:

> You've got me beat. If I find something on the Web, I usually cut and
> paste it into Wordpad....

heh heh....

Wordpad is Window's little known secret gem. Most folks go for the
full blown Word or the ultra-handy notepad (toggle wrap). I
discovered wordpad is da bomb! Handles ascii .txt files properly. I
used to open linux/unix .txt files from software hackers, their
braggin' page, in n/p or word and they were jest text garbage. No
formatting at all. I discovered it you opened 'em in wordpad, they
were formatted as intended, the text and ascii art parsed and rendered
perfectly. It writes and formats ascii properly, too.

nb

madis wrote:
> I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used
> and liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using
> isnt the best.
>
> Thanks for your help/input


I use "wordpad" and generally store then as .rtf files. Some of my
older files are in .txt format, but I prefer to use a *little* bit of
formatting (like bold titles)

Bob

zxcvbob wrote on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:05:30 -0500:

> madis wrote:
>> I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most
>> used and liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I
>> find out what I'm using isnt the best.
>>
>> Thanks for your help/input

> I use "wordpad" and generally store then as .rtf files. Some of my
> older files are in .txt format, but I prefer to use a
> *little* bit of formatting (like bold titles)

I use MS Word. I have a folder called simply Food with a sub-folder
called Tested where I move recipes I have liked. I don't use anything
much more complicated because I seldom find myself asking what can I
make with what I've got. I keep notes on how to cook things and also
general notes like Chilis in Tested.

I don't format recipes much until they go into Tested. This has several
sub-sub-folders for categories that I find useful. The recipes in Food
may be copied from news groups, copied or down-loaded from the Web or
sometimes scanned and run thro OCR. I find a downloaded freeby program
called PureText very useful for removing ads, creative decorations and
peculiar fonts when the web page does not have a Print button to get an
undecorated version.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:22:07 -0700, madis wrote:

> I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used
> and liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using
> isnt the best.

I use Gourmet Recipe Manager running on Linux



--
Cameron Moore
St Petersburg, FL

madis wrote:
> I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used
> and liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using
> isnt the best.
>
> Thanks for your help/input

master Cook. I started with it in 1995 with a version that came on a set
of diskettes. You remember those little square things that went into a
slot in the computer?

I'm on my 3rd version which is V.7 I never went any higher because V.8
is buggy and V.9 has gadgets that work with Microsoft's Internet
Explorer which I do not use.

I love Master Cook. I also like the Mastercook Discussion group on
Yahoo! Groups that knows all the ins and outs of the software. One of
the fellows on that group developed a free tool for grabbing recipes off
a lot of internet sites directly into the cookbook. It works with
Mozilla Firefox.

Anyway, I love my Master Cook and I don't know what I'd do without it.

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

"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
...
> madis wrote:
>> I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used
>> and liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using
>> isnt the best.
>>
>> Thanks for your help/input
>
> master Cook. I started with it in 1995 with a version that came on a set
> of diskettes. You remember those little square things that went into a
> slot in the computer?
>
> I'm on my 3rd version which is V.7 I never went any higher because V.8 is
> buggy and V.9 has gadgets that work with Microsoft's Internet Explorer
> which I do not use.
>
> I love Master Cook. I also like the Mastercook Discussion group on Yahoo!
> Groups that knows all the ins and outs of the software. One of the
> fellows on that group developed a free tool for grabbing recipes off a lot
> of internet sites directly into the cookbook. It works with Mozilla
> Firefox.
>
> Anyway, I love my Master Cook and I don't know what I'd do without it.
>
> --
> Janet Wilder
> Way-the-heck-south Texas
> Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

Me too.

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:48:20 -0500, Janet Wilder
> wrote:

>master Cook. I started with it in 1995 with a version that came on a set
>of diskettes. You remember those little square things that went into a
>slot in the computer?
>
>I'm on my 3rd version which is V.7 I never went any higher because V.8
>is buggy and V.9 has gadgets that work with Microsoft's Internet
>Explorer which I do not use.
>
>I love Master Cook. I also like the Mastercook Discussion group on
>Yahoo! Groups that knows all the ins and outs of the software. One of
>the fellows on that group developed a free tool for grabbing recipes off
>a lot of internet sites directly into the cookbook. It works with
>Mozilla Firefox.
>
>Anyway, I love my Master Cook and I don't know what I'd do without it.


I just downloaded recipefox-0.33.xpi

Any problems I should look out for or just click on it follow the
prompts?

I am getting tired of having to go to IE to move recipes to MC.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

The Cook wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:48:20 -0500, Janet Wilder
> > wrote:
>
>> master Cook. I started with it in 1995 with a version that came on a set
>> of diskettes. You remember those little square things that went into a
>> slot in the computer?
>>
>> I'm on my 3rd version which is V.7 I never went any higher because V.8
>> is buggy and V.9 has gadgets that work with Microsoft's Internet
>> Explorer which I do not use.
>>
>> I love Master Cook. I also like the Mastercook Discussion group on
>> Yahoo! Groups that knows all the ins and outs of the software. One of
>> the fellows on that group developed a free tool for grabbing recipes off
>> a lot of internet sites directly into the cookbook. It works with
>> Mozilla Firefox.
>>
>> Anyway, I love my Master Cook and I don't know what I'd do without it.
>
>
> I just downloaded recipefox-0.33.xpi
>
> Any problems I should look out for or just click on it follow the
> prompts?
>
> I am getting tired of having to go to IE to move recipes to MC.

The tutorial is really helpful. I think you have to make sure you have
the proper version of Java. There is one older version it doesn't work
with. You need to set up that folder "work" as the directions tell you.

An easy way to see if it's working is to click on the "show the sites"
button on the tool bar that sits below the others and if you get a list
of web sites, it should be okay.

Also, go to the next to last button on the right that looks like a gear.
That's "options" click on that and uncheck the option for Living
Cookbook. If you don't do this you will get an error message. I couldn't
figure this out at first, but that's what you have to do.

Any other problems, go to the user forum at
http://recipetools.sourceforge.net/phpBB3/ for help or the Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MastercookDiscussion/

Either place will get you any assistance you need. The sourceforge
site, I believe, has the install instructions.

I love my Recipe Fox. I even have a bookmark to the .jsn files.

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

l, not -l wrote:
> On 3-Oct-2009, The Cook > wrote:
>
>> I just downloaded recipefox-0.33.xpi
>>
>> Any problems I should look out for or just click on it follow the
>> prompts?
>>
>> I am getting tired of having to go to IE to move recipes to MC.
>
> Assuming you are using FireFox, you might want to look at the RecipeFox
> add-in. When it works, its a great tool; but, like many FireFox add-ins,
> when new releases of FireFox come out, it quits working. If you use a
> version of FireFox it likes, it's a nice tool.

I have heard that, but for some reason, it hasn't happened to me. I did
lose usefulness when I updated the last version of Java, not Firefox. I
found out that I had to revert to a previous update. Now the newest Java
works fine as does the newest Firefox.

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

In article >,
"l, not -l" > wrote:

> On 3-Oct-2009, The Cook > wrote:
>
> > I just downloaded recipefox-0.33.xpi
> >
> > Any problems I should look out for or just click on it follow the
> > prompts?
> >
> > I am getting tired of having to go to IE to move recipes to MC.
>
> Assuming you are using FireFox, you might want to look at the RecipeFox
> add-in. When it works, its a great tool; but, like many FireFox add-ins,
> when new releases of FireFox come out, it quits working. If you use a
> version of FireFox it likes, it's a nice tool.

MacGourmet can use OS X "services" to input recipes from most sources,
but Firefox doesn't do services. I just keep MacGourmet's "Clippings"
window open behind Firefox, highlight a recipe, and drag it over to M-G.
Would that work with MasterCook? Or if not drag-n-drop, how about
highlight-copy-paste?

Isaac

isw wrote:
> In article >,
> "l, not -l" > wrote:
>
>> On 3-Oct-2009, The Cook > wrote:
>>
>>> I just downloaded recipefox-0.33.xpi
>>>
>>> Any problems I should look out for or just click on it follow the
>>> prompts?
>>>
>>> I am getting tired of having to go to IE to move recipes to MC.
>> Assuming you are using FireFox, you might want to look at the RecipeFox
>> add-in. When it works, its a great tool; but, like many FireFox add-ins,
>> when new releases of FireFox come out, it quits working. If you use a
>> version of FireFox it likes, it's a nice tool.
>
> MacGourmet can use OS X "services" to input recipes from most sources,
> but Firefox doesn't do services. I just keep MacGourmet's "Clippings"
> window open behind Firefox, highlight a recipe, and drag it over to M-G.
> Would that work with MasterCook? Or if not drag-n-drop, how about
> highlight-copy-paste?
>
> Isaac

Copy and paste works perfectly using Mastercook's "import assisntant" tool.

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

Janet Wilder > wrote in
on Oct Sun 2009 02:31 pm

> isw wrote:
>> In article >, "l, not -l"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 3-Oct-2009, The Cook > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just downloaded recipefox-0.33.xpi
>>>>
>>>> Any problems I should look out for or just click on it follow the
>>>> prompts?
>>>>
>>>> I am getting tired of having to go to IE to move recipes to MC.
>>> Assuming you are using FireFox, you might want to look at the
>>> RecipeFox add-in. When it works, its a great tool; but, like many
>>> FireFox add-ins, when new releases of FireFox come out, it quits
>>> working. If you use a version of FireFox it likes, it's a nice
>>> tool.
>>
>> MacGourmet can use OS X "services" to input recipes from most
>> sources, but Firefox doesn't do services. I just keep MacGourmet's
>> "Clippings" window open behind Firefox, highlight a recipe, and drag
>> it over to M-G. Would that work with MasterCook? Or if not
>> drag-n-drop, how about highlight-copy-paste?
>>
>> Isaac
>
> Copy and paste works perfectly using Mastercook's "import assisntant"
> tool.
>

NYC has a similar tool for importing recipes.

With all the free updates the calorie counter and nutrition info is more current in NYC than in MC as
NYC updates to the most current USDA database...the USDA nutritional database changes a couple
times a year as it includes more and more entries. Plus the usual menu planner and Shopping lists
and weight watcher points.

The shopping list can tell you which aisle stuff is in as well as current price if you bother to fill that
stuff in as well as keep track of your coupons.

--
Is that your nose, or are you eatting a banana? -Jimmy Durante

On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:22:07 -0700, "madis"
> wrote:

>I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used and
>liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using isnt the
>best.
>
>Thanks for your help/input

MasterCook seems to be the most used program for recipes. May or may
not be the best, but it sure ranks up near the top.

Ron Kelley

"Ron" wrote
> "madis" wrote:

>>I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used and
>>liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using isnt
>>the
>>best.

Madis, what operating system do you have?

> MasterCook seems to be the most used program for recipes. May or may
> not be the best, but it sure ranks up near the top.

I predate MasterCook. I use MealMaster (now freeware). It runs on DOS, all
windows versions (except with Vista you have to add DOSBox 0.73 which is
freeware), and all Unix platforms (need to run it under DOSEMU).

"cshenk" > wrote in message
...
> "Ron" wrote
>> "madis" wrote:
>
>>>I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used
>>>and
>>>liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using isnt
>>>the
>>>best.
>
> Madis, what operating system do you have?
>
>> MasterCook seems to be the most used program for recipes. May or may
>> not be the best, but it sure ranks up near the top.
>
> I predate MasterCook. I use MealMaster (now freeware). It runs on DOS,
> all windows versions (except with Vista you have to add DOSBox 0.73 which
> is freeware), and all Unix platforms (need to run it under DOSEMU).
>
>
I use Vista. I'm trying mastercook 9 seems to be very comprehensive. Will
take me a while to figure it out though and how best to convert my recipes
to it. Not likely i'm going to learn linux or dos at this point.

"madis" wrote
> "cshenk" wrote

>>>>I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used

>> Madis, what operating system do you have?
> I use Vista. I'm trying mastercook 9 seems to be very comprehensive.
> Will take me a while to figure it out though and how best to convert my
> recipes to it. Not likely i'm going to learn linux or dos at this point.

Grin, MasterCook works well enough then. (MM is better in many ways and
easier but you'd have to use DOSBox).

Here's a sample of a simple recipe you can make in 3 mins plus nuke warm for
about 2 mins and eat.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

Title: Almost Instant (Secret) Broccoli Soup
Categories: Soups, Stews
Yield: 1 Servings

Left over or freshly cooked
Broccoli
1 cn Mushroom soup
Milk -- as desired
Salt and Pepper

Remove tiny tops of flowered ends of broccoli and save. Dump remaining
stems into blender. Add soup, some milk, salt and pepper. Blend. Garnish
with saved tops. Heat and serve.

Recipe By : BJanson

From: Ladies Home Journal- August 1991

File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/m...s/mmdja006.zip

-----

And here's one with more fancy ingredients:


---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

Title: Iroquois Soup
Categories: Soups, Ilink, Cyberealm
Yield: 4 Servings

4 ea Large mushrooms, sliced
2 ea 10 1/2 oz cans beef consomme
2 tb Yellow corn meal
2 tb Minced parsley
1 cl Garlic, crushed
1/2 ts Basil
1 ea Onion, thinly sliced
Fresh ground pepper, dash
1/4 ts Salt
Haddock fillets, 12 oz
10 oz Baby lima beans
1/3 c Dry sherry (optional)

Place the mushrooms, consomme, corn meal, parsley, garlic, basil, onion,
pepper and salt in a large saucepan, and simmer, uncovered, for 10
minutes.
Add haddock, lima beans, and sherry and simmer 20 minutes, stirring
occasionally, breaking haddock into bite-sized pieces. Serve hot.

The Iroquois were blessed with clear, cool lakes and sparkling streams,
and
both served up an abundance of fish. Fish soup, or u'nega'gei, as the
Iroquois called it, was a favorite. One early recipe is described, "Fish
of any kind is boiled in a pot with a quantity of water. It is then
removed
and coarse corn siftings stirred in to make a soup of suitable
consistency." When wild onions and greens were available, they were
usually tossed into the soup pot, adding both color and flavor.

From: The Art of American Indian Cooking by Yeffe Kimball and Jean
Anderson, Avon Books, New York, NY, 1965.

Posted by Loren Martin, Cyberealm BBS Watertown, NY 315-786-1120 In ILink
Cuisine Conference

-----

madis wrote:
>
> "cshenk" > wrote in message
> ...
>> "Ron" wrote
>>> "madis" wrote:
>>
>>>> I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most
>>>> used and
>>>> liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using
>>>> isnt the
>>>> best.
>>
>> Madis, what operating system do you have?
>>
>>> MasterCook seems to be the most used program for recipes. May or may
>>> not be the best, but it sure ranks up near the top.
>>
>> I predate MasterCook. I use MealMaster (now freeware). It runs on
>> DOS, all windows versions (except with Vista you have to add DOSBox
>> 0.73 which is freeware), and all Unix platforms (need to run it under
>> DOSEMU).
>>
>>
> I use Vista. I'm trying mastercook 9 seems to be very comprehensive.
> Will take me a while to figure it out though and how best to convert my
> recipes to it. Not likely i'm going to learn linux or dos at this point.

The Yahoo Group has a file for converting recipes. I don't remember what
it's called or even if the free ware is even still available, but if you
ask on that forum, someone will be able to help you.

I have found that the "tool" called "import assistant" is very helpful
for adding text recipes. You do a "copy" of your text recipe then paste
it into "import assistant" If the recipe is formatted properly, it's a
one-button operation. If not, you can make the changes (usually line
spacing) in the assistant then import over the sections one at a time.

I have recipes that I have gotten here or even on non-recipe fox
compatible web sites that I just copy and paste to the "import
assistant" and pop them right into my cookbooks.

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

On Oct 2, 9:22 pm, Ron > wrote:
>
> MasterCook seems to be the most used program for recipes. May or may
> not be the best, but it sure ranks up near the top.
>
I don't use it but this does seem to be the case based on responses in
this thread. They leave unanswered the crucial question that keeps me
from using any such software. Then again, it's a hardware issue, I
guess. Namely, what do I do with the kitchen drawer that is full of
clippings from newspapers and magazines and typed pages of recipes?
Not to mention all the writings in the margins of cookbooks? -aem

On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 12:09:24 -0700 (PDT), aem >
wrote:

>On Oct 2, 9:22 pm, Ron > wrote:
>>
>> MasterCook seems to be the most used program for recipes. May or may
>> not be the best, but it sure ranks up near the top.
>>
>I don't use it but this does seem to be the case based on responses in
>this thread. They leave unanswered the crucial question that keeps me
>from using any such software. Then again, it's a hardware issue, I
>guess. Namely, what do I do with the kitchen drawer that is full of
>clippings from newspapers and magazines and typed pages of recipes?
>Not to mention all the writings in the margins of cookbooks? -aem

Well, no matter which recipe program you use, you will have to enter
recipes from clippings or magazines and the handwritten notes in the
margin of cookbooks by hand. Most recipe programs will import recipes
from other recipe programs, but I know of none that will import
directly from a scanned image of a recipe.

We use MasterCook to enter recipes we like particularly well and plan
to make again. With a bookcase full of cookbooks, it's too much
trouble to try to remember which book has a particular recipe. Also,
with MasterCook, or any recipe program, it's easy to make changes as
you adjust the recipe to your taste, and you end up with a clean copy
if you want to print out a page. The search and sort functions are
also very useful.

True, it's a convenience not a necessity. And it would be quite a
task to type in a drawer full of clippings and typed pages of recipes.
Depends on how patient you are and how many you try to type in at one
sitting. :-)

Ron Kelley

In article
>,
aem > wrote:

> On Oct 2, 9:22 pm, Ron > wrote:
> >
> > MasterCook seems to be the most used program for recipes. May or may
> > not be the best, but it sure ranks up near the top.
> >
> I don't use it but this does seem to be the case based on responses in
> this thread. They leave unanswered the crucial question that keeps me
> from using any such software. Then again, it's a hardware issue, I
> guess. Namely, what do I do with the kitchen drawer that is full of
> clippings from newspapers and magazines and typed pages of recipes?

Get a scanner with a good OCR package. That has worked out very nicely
for me. I continue to be amazed at how well it works, even for poor
quality sources.

> Not to mention all the writings in the margins of cookbooks?

Well, that's a problem. Unless your writing is a whole lot neater than
mine, the OCR will choke on it for sure.

One reason I want to have all the "good" recipes in a database on the
'puter is so I can easily share them (one click e-mail), and also make
sure that each of my kids gets copies of all the ones they like. A few
years after I'd left home, my mom gave me a loose-leaf notebook holding
dozens of family recipes. For years, whenever I'd call to ask how to
prepare something, she'd tell me and then a few days later, the mail
would bring another page for that notebook. I want to do the same for my
kids, but I'm not about to hand write that much stuff (my mom made three
copies, one for each of her kids).

Isaac

On Oct 3, 9:10 pm, isw > wrote:
[snips]
> One reason I want to have all the "good" recipes in a database on the
> 'puter is so I can easily share them (one click e-mail), and also make
> sure that each of my kids gets copies of all the ones they like. [snip]

That's a good point and an admirable ambition. I always marvel at
well-organized people. It's doubtful that I'll ever want to organize
recipes that well but more power to those who do. For me and mine,
I've always tried to teach/demonstrate the hows and whys of cooking
rather than focusing on recipes. -aem

In article ]>,
isw > wrote:

> One reason I want to have all the "good" recipes in a database on the
> 'puter is so I can easily share them (one click e-mail), and also make
> sure that each of my kids gets copies of all the ones they like. A few
> years after I'd left home, my mom gave me a loose-leaf notebook holding
> dozens of family recipes. For years, whenever I'd call to ask how to
> prepare something, she'd tell me and then a few days later, the mail
> would bring another page for that notebook. I want to do the same for my
> kids, but I'm not about to hand write that much stuff (my mom made three
> copies, one for each of her kids).
>
> Isaac

Isaac, I hope you will take the time to write out the favorites for your
kids‹at least some of them. There's something very tender in having a
recipe handwritten by someone you've loved. I treasure those I have in
my mom's hand. She was not well educated and her writing was a hoot‹she
began a letter with a capital letter and ended it with a period. In
between, you were pretty much on your own to decipher it. I'd give a
lot to have her write a recipe out for me. Alex rest her soul.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.me.com/barbschaller - Yes, I Can! blog - check
it out. And check this, too: <http://www.kare11.com/news/
newsatfour/newsatfour_article.aspx?storyid=823232&catid=323>

In article >,
Melba's Jammin' > wrote:

> In article ]>,
> isw > wrote:
>
> > One reason I want to have all the "good" recipes in a database on the
> > 'puter is so I can easily share them (one click e-mail), and also make
> > sure that each of my kids gets copies of all the ones they like. A few
> > years after I'd left home, my mom gave me a loose-leaf notebook holding
> > dozens of family recipes. For years, whenever I'd call to ask how to
> > prepare something, she'd tell me and then a few days later, the mail
> > would bring another page for that notebook. I want to do the same for my
> > kids, but I'm not about to hand write that much stuff (my mom made three
> > copies, one for each of her kids).
> >
> > Isaac
>
> Isaac, I hope you will take the time to write out the favorites for your
> kids‹at least some of them.

My kids literally grew up using computers (our son damaged a mouse cord
teething on it); keeping random pieces of paper around is completely
outside their experience. My daughter regularly asks me to scan recipes
for her.

Plus, if you could see what passes for my handwriting, you'd probably
change your mind right quick. 8^}

Isaac

aem wrote:
> On Oct 2, 9:22 pm, Ron > wrote:
>> MasterCook seems to be the most used program for recipes. May or may
>> not be the best, but it sure ranks up near the top.
>>
> I don't use it but this does seem to be the case based on responses in
> this thread. They leave unanswered the crucial question that keeps me
> from using any such software. Then again, it's a hardware issue, I
> guess. Namely, what do I do with the kitchen drawer that is full of
> clippings from newspapers and magazines and typed pages of recipes?
> Not to mention all the writings in the margins of cookbooks? -aem
>

You get a decent OCR program and scan them into a word processing
program then copy and paste into Mastercook. I've done entire
cookbooks. Work, but worth it.

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

In article >,
Ron > wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:22:07 -0700, "madis"
> > wrote:
>
> >I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used and
> >liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using isnt the
> >best.
> >
> >Thanks for your help/input
>
> MasterCook seems to be the most used program for recipes. May or may
> not be the best, but it sure ranks up near the top.

I used MC for years, and hated it most of that time, but it was pretty
much the only thing available; there were just so many things it did
poorly or not at all. I've been using MacGourmet for over three years
now, and it's way better. Moving over four thousand recipes was not a
lot of fun, though...

Isaac

I'm still using MasterCook v.2.20, if you can believe it...


"madis" > wrote in message
m...
> I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used and
> liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using isnt
> the best.
>
> Thanks for your help/input

"grossbea" > wrote in
on Oct Sat 2009
09:42 am

> I'm still using MasterCook v.2.20, if you can believe it...
>
>
> "madis" > wrote in message
> m...
>> I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most
>> used and liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what
>> I'm using isnt the best.
>>
>> Thanks for your help/input
>
>

I like Now Your Cooking, Fast tech help response, don't have to pay for updates, updates at least
twice yearly and very user friendly plus faster search than MC.

--
Is that your nose, or are you eatting a banana? -Jimmy Durante

In article > ,
"madis" > wrote:

> I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used and
> liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using isnt the
> best.
>
> Thanks for your help/input

I'm on a Mac, and I use MacGourmet.

jt

In article > ,
"madis" > wrote:

> I want to enter my recipes into a program. Which one is the most used and
> liked? I dont want to have to redo it if I find out what I'm using isnt the
> best.
>
> Thanks for your help/input

The best one is the one you like most. Compare features and decide
which are most important and will be of most value to you. I use a Mac
app I'm not nuts about (MacGourmet) but has been well-rated by lots of
people. I prefer MasterCook Mac but it's outdated and no longer
available from its owners. :-(
--
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it out. And check this, too: <http://www.kare11.com/news/
newsatfour/newsatfour_article.aspx?storyid=823232&catid=323>