Food Recipe Software

Quid

So we have lots of recipes and now we're looking for recipe software that's compatible with Vista to keep track of them. We honestly aren't sure that to go for and are looking for advice.

So, adviceiate.

Everywhereasign

I'm currently keeping mine as memos on my Palm. I, as well would be interested in recipe software, but for OS X.

ManonvonSuperock

Database portion of Open Office?

Quid

Talking to my fiancee, the program she was looking at has a large number of features unique to easily looking for recipes. She's using an online program right now but she wants something kept on our next computer's hard drive.

Daenris

I've actually been planning on writing something like this for awhile because I couldn't find any that worked well for my needs. Unfortunately every time I get started I get distracted with other projects...

My eventual goal is to have a database of basic ingredients set up (along with nutrition information) and a database of recipes linked to that, so I can pull out nutrition info at the same time. This should give most of the features of online recipe sites (ingredient search, nutrition info, shopping list creation, recipe halving/multiplying, printing for recipe cards, etc). Beyond that I also want to put in a recipe sharing feature that will allow you to easily send recipes to other users of the programs to update their database.

Lofty goals...

Everywhereasign

...Yet lovely ones. I've thought of doing the same, but just don't have quite the skill set required.

I'd love to see excellent searchability with it. It would be cool to put in a list of the crap I want to get rid of from my fridge/pantry and come up with a bunch of recipes to chose from.

If you ever do Daenris, and you make it cross platform, you'll probably find some willing beta testers here.

Out if interest, what was the online version your wife was using Quid? Did she like it? I was thinking of using Google Documents to make the same kind of thing. In this age of ubiquitous internet it's nice to have them always with you.

Daenris

Everywhereasign wrote: »

If you ever do Daenris, and you make it cross platform, you'll probably find some willing beta testers here.

Unfortunately -- at least for a first attempt -- it likely wouldn't be cross platform. What little I've coded for it, and what I'm most familiar with for GUI applications is C# with the .NET architecture. And last I looked at the open source .NET projects, they weren't really capable enough for a complete port of a complex app.

Then again, looking at the Mono FAQ right now they claim to be somewhere between .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.5, so maybe I'll have to give it a try.

Superzero115

One of my books from school came with a program that might be of some help. MasterCook was the name, it has quite a few recipes on it already but you can easily add your own. The learning curve for getting started might be a bit high, but once you get one or two down it is pretty easy to manage.

You can search the database for ingredients, recipe names, etc. It'll print off in a nice and easily formatted design, as well as a shopping list and nutritional facts.

radroadkill

Superzero115 wrote: »

One of my books from school came with a program that might be of some help. MasterCook was the name, it has quite a few recipes on it already but you can easily add your own. The learning curve for getting started might be a bit high, but once you get one or two down it is pretty easy to manage.

You can search the database for ingredients, recipe names, etc. It'll print off in a nice and easily formatted design, as well as a shopping list and nutritional facts.

Master Cook rocks; however, it's not Vista compatible. Hence: the problem.

Something that works as well with great features like MC that works with Vista.