On 2/27/2012 4:06 PM, BlueBrooke wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:52:52 -0600, Janet Wilder
> > wrote:
>
>> On 2/27/2012 1:42 AM, BlueBrooke wrote:
>>> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:21:01 -0500, Mark > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of any cookbook software where you can add your own
>>>> recipes to make your own (digital) cookbook?
>>>>
>>>> I would like to be able to copy and paste recipes I get off the
>>>> Internet instead of having to type every word. Maybe even include a
>>>> pic of the food which often accompanies online recipes. I don't even
>>>> know if such a thing exists.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Mark
>>>
>>> Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but I've been using Living
>>> Cookbook:
>>>
>>> http://www.livingcookbook.com/
>>>
>>> It has a "capture" feature for new recipes and it's easy to add
>>> photos.
>>>
>>> Basic functionality is pretty intuitive, but if you want to get into
>>> the advanced features the learning curve can be kind of steep. There
>>> are very helpful users in the forums, though.
>>>
>>> A word processor will be easier to use if you don't want to do much
>>> recipe manipulation or nutrition calculations.
>>
>>
>> I believe that the Recipe Fox add on for Firefox works with Living
>> Cookbook, too. I looked at it when it first came out and decided that I
>> liked the features I was used to in Master Cook better, but Living
>> Cookbook is a good program, too.
>
> Recipe Fox does work with Living Cookbook, but I didn't have good
> results with it. It was probably my dial-up connection, though, that
> was the problem, not the add-on itself.
>
> I used Master Cook for years, but there were some limitations that I
> didn't like -- and some things I just couldn't figure out enough to
> get them to work. Living Cookbook's "capture" feature, and the fact
> that you copy an image and just paste it to the recipe, rather than
> having to save, find and link it, are huge time savers that put Living
> Cookbook "over the top" when I was trying it out.
>

I have been using Master Cook since 1995 and I have no idea of what
"save, find and link it" is. Before I got Recipe Fox, I just
highlighted the recipe I wanted and pasted it into "import assistant" on
Master Cook. A little editing was probably required, but nothing more
than that.

I still use "import assistant" for text formatted recipes, like from
this group and for OCR read scans of hard copy, like from a magazine.
For internet recipes, Recipe Fox just can't be beat, IMNSHO.

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