Does anybody use recipe software?

Mastercook and MealMaster are the "de facto" standard in
exchanging recipes. I use Mastercook (version 7.0, it is
alive and kicking!) and have got easily over 25,000 in it. I
find it easy to go to any web site and do a cut and paste
into Mastercook. You do have to edit a couple of things but
95% of the work is done for you.

Check out this site: madsrecipes.commadsrecipes.comOpen ↗ and see
what all you can just import.

If you go with NYC just make sure that it works on
mastercook or mealmaster format files. Then google and find
the recipe sites for importing.

Bob

"Bill Boylan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Moving from one place to another during my long life I
have lost many good recipes. The software "Now You're
Cooking" was recommended to me. I'm wondering how many
good cooks use recipe software. Which software seems the
most practical to use? Is there a software into which
one can download recipes to save the bother of typing
each recipe

into

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the system? I'm sure I would eat much better if I had a
handy list of good recipes from which to make my day ---
or week. Suggestions on organizing

and

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keeping track of recipes will be appreciated. Thanks.
Bill Boylan

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"Bill Boylan"

Moving from one place to another during my long life I have
lost many good recipes. The software "Now You're Cooking"
was recommended to me. I'm wondering how many good cooks
use recipe software.

Good cooks don't need recipes. Did Michaelangelo decorate
the Cistine Chapel with paint by numbers... when was the
last time you saw Pavorotti perfoming while referring to
music.... how would you feel if while getting ready for
departure you saw the pilot board arms loaded with a stack
of flight manuals. If everytime you prepare a dish you
need to pull out a recipe then you're not any kind of
cook... you're less than a burger flipper... even they
don't need a recipe.

---= BOYCOTT FRENCH--GERMAN (belgium) =--- ---= Move UNITED
NATIONS To Paris =--- Sheldon ```````````` "Life would be
devoid of all meaning were it without tribulation."

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"Bill Boylan"

Moving from one place to another during my long life I
have lost many good recipes. The software "Now You're
Cooking" was recommended to me. I'm wondering how many
good cooks use recipe software.

Good cooks don't need recipes. Did Michaelangelo decorate
the Cistine

Chapel

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with paint by numbers... when was the last time you saw
Pavorotti

perfoming

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while referring to music.... how would you feel if while
getting ready for departure you saw the pilot board arms
loaded with a stack of flight

manuals.

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If everytime you prepare a dish you need to pull out a
recipe then you're

not

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any kind of cook... you're less than a burger flipper...
even they don't

need a

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recipe.

---= BOYCOTT FRENCH--GERMAN (belgium) =--- ---= Move
UNITED NATIONS To Paris =--- Sheldon ```````````` "Life
would be devoid of all meaning were it without
tribulation."

You did not spell Pavarotti correctly...AHAhahahahahahahaha

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"Bill Boylan"

Moving from one place to another during my long life I
have lost many good recipes. The software "Now You're
Cooking" was recommended to me. I'm wondering how many
good cooks use recipe software.

Good cooks don't need recipes. Did Michaelangelo decorate
the Cistine

Chapel

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with paint by numbers... when was the last time you saw
Pavorotti

perfoming

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while referring to music.... how would you feel if while
getting ready for departure you saw the pilot board arms
loaded with a stack of flight

manuals.

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If everytime you prepare a dish you need to pull out a
recipe then you're

not

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any kind of cook... you're less than a burger flipper...
even they don't

need a

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recipe.

How do good cooks GET good? By following recipes initially,
and then improvising on their own. Eventually you don't
need them.

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Mastercook and MealMaster are the "de facto" standard in
exchanging

recipes.

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I use Mastercook (version 7.0, it is alive and kicking!)
and have got

easily

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over 25,000 in it. I find it easy to go to any web site
and do a cut and paste into Mastercook. You do have to
edit a couple of things but 95% of

the

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work is done for you.

Check out this site: madsrecipes.commadsrecipes.comOpen ↗ and see
what all you can just import.

If you go with NYC just make sure that it works on
mastercook or

mealmaster

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format files. Then google and find the recipe sites for
importing.

Out of interested, I downloaded a trial copy of living
cookbook from a site someone recommended. I wasn't
impressed. Could not get Mastercook since I live outside
the States - not that I would have bought it anyway. They
don't offer a trial copy.
E.

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Being a good cook *requires/mandates* innate talent.
Following recipes is

the

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first clue that one is a lousy cook and will always be so.

---= BOYCOTT FRENCH--GERMAN (belgium) =--- ---= Move
UNITED NATIONS To Paris =--- Sheldon ```````````` "Life
would be devoid of all meaning were it without
tribulation."

Cooking *good* does not really take THAT much talent.. YOUse
can do it... right? Ahhahahahahahahahah

Recipes from the net? I just copy and paste them into
notepad and save them in a folder called recipes. But I also
have a ton of "favorites" in my food folder of IE.

REcipes from friends books.... scan them in and save them to
that very same folder. Do regular backups onto cd.

Keep in mind that there is a finite amount of time to try
all the recipes you get. Better get crackin'.

take care Liz

Hey! Look what "Bill Boylan" <[email hidden]> wrote :

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Moving from one place to another during my long life I have
lost many good recipes. The software "Now You're Cooking"
was recommended to me. I'm wondering how many good cooks
use recipe software. Which software seems the most
practical to use? Is there a software into which one can
download recipes to save the bother of typing each recipe
into the system? I'm sure I would eat much better if I had
a handy list of good recipes from which to make my day ---
or week. Suggestions on organizing and keeping track of
recipes will be appreciated. Thanks. Bill Boylan

Sheldon said:

"larrrrrrrrrry" lisped:

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You did not spell Pavarotti correctly...AHAha

Why, something about your eyes prevents you from you from
recognizing that

big

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mouthed WOP?

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. . . .

You mis - spelled Sistine as "Cistine", too, Sheldon...

--
Best Greg

Bill Boylan said:

Moving from one place to another during my long life I
have lost many good recipes. The software "Now You're
Cooking" was recommended to me. I'm wondering how many
good cooks use recipe software. Which software seems the
most practical to use? Is there a software into which one
can download recipes to save the bother of typing each
recipe into the system? I'm sure I would eat much better
if I had a handy list of good recipes from which to make
my day --- or week. Suggestions on organizing and keeping
track of recipes will be appreciated. Thanks. Bill Boylan

I am a BIG fan of Mastercook. I have heard "Now you're
cooking" recommended and might try it one of these days, but
MC has been the most useful thing on my computer...well ONE
of the most useful!

On 3/29/04 4:35 PM, in article
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"Bill Boylan"

Moving from one place to another during my long life I
have lost many good recipes. The software "Now You're
Cooking" was recommended to me. I'm wondering how many
good cooks use recipe software.

Good cooks don't need recipes. Did Michaelangelo decorate
the Cistine

Chapel

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with paint by numbers... when was the last time you saw
Pavorotti

perfoming

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while referring to music.... how would you feel if while
getting ready for departure you saw the pilot board arms
loaded with a stack of flight

manuals.

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If everytime you prepare a dish you need to pull out a
recipe then you're

not

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any kind of cook... you're less than a burger flipper...
even they don't

need a

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recipe.

---= BOYCOTT FRENCH--GERMAN (belgium) =--- ---= Move
UNITED NATIONS To Paris =--- Sheldon ```````````` "Life
would be devoid of all meaning were it without
tribulation."

You did not spell Pavarotti
correctly...AHAhahahahahahahaha

Pavarotti lost it a long time ago and there are tenors
around who can
a) phrase and b) are a hell of a lot more attractive to
look at. He quit vocalizing at one point and there was
the infamous performance where he ate on stage while
other singers were performing, claiming it would 'clear
his throat" He has been little but a personality for
about 20 years now. Pity. So I wouldn't care whether he
was following the music or not...that said: how do you
think he learned the parts in the first place? He
doesn't make "La Traviata" up as he goes along. And what
do you think the orchestra is doing? They don't memorize
EVERYTHING. Anyway, a recipe is sometimes something to
follow to the letter and sometimes just a starting
point. You really can't compare, unless you are citing a
musician who is improvising variations of themes, or
playing jazz. In Jazz, once the principles of music are
grasped, one can improvise freely...but jazz musicians
usually have a HUGE grasp of keys, chord progressions
etc. Otherwise, it's just noise. Yeah, I'm a little
bored today...waiting for deliveries, repairs etc (new
"old" house - 1818!!!!!) cheers

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Being a good cook *requires/mandates* innate talent.
Following recipes is

the

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first clue that one is a lousy cook and will always be so.

Durst speweth thou: "Playing from music scores is the first
clue that one is a lousy musician and will always be so."

Get thee to a nunnery.

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Daniel R. Levy said:

"PENMART01" writes:

Being a good cook *requires/mandates* innate talent.
Following recipes

is

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the

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first clue that one is a lousy cook and will always
be so.

Durst speweth thou: "Playing from music scores is the
first clue that one

is

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a lousy musician and will always be so."

Get thee to a nunnery.

Yeah, right... moi in a nunnery... anyone ever hear of a
nursing habit.

hehe

Get a clue - if you want "nurses" you will not find that in
a nunnery. Go to a hospital. Better yet, commit yourself
permanently to the mental health ward.

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:39:38 GMT, nck <[email hidden]>
arranged random neurons, so they looked like this:

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I am a BIG fan of Mastercook. I have heard "Now you're
cooking" recommended and might try it one of these days,
but MC has been the most useful thing on my computer...well
ONE of the most useful!

Do try the NYC program - I used MasterCook for years and
switched to NYC. Its import feature is a snap. Doesn't
have all the whistles and bells of MC, but I find that a
plus, frankly.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret
had been as old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had
been as full as the waitress', it would have been a very
good dinner." Anonymous.

To reply, remove replace "shcox" with "cox"

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Do try the NYC program - I used MasterCook for years and
switched to NYC. Its import feature is a snap. Doesn't
have all the whistles and bells of MC, but I find that a
plus, frankly.

I find the only bells and whistle NYC lacks from MC are MC
allows differing printing formats. in NYC you get limited
printing styles, but in MC you can move things about and
change every format or field. MC would be good for printing
up say a church recipe book or a collection of family
recipes. But for all purpose recipe storeage NYC is better.
MC has no tech support, NYC tech support is very fast to
reply and will consider ideas on how to improve the program.
MC if there is a new version...you need to buy the new
version. NYC if there is a new version if you bought the
correct initial package all updates are free. I find NYC
search engine faster and it's import features easier than
MC. Both MC and NYC have the nutrition info and the shopping
list not sure if MC has the supermarket Aisle layout or
coupon saver features of NYC...Plus NYC has that convert a
cookbook with an index to HTML which is nice if you want to
send a cookbook via CD to somebody

--
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on
nothing but food and water.
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FIELDS, W. C.

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(PENMART01) said:

Good cooks don't need recipes.

Not true, Sheldon. The popularity of at least one local
restaurant (Kincaid's, I believe) was due in part to the
head chef's insistence that the recipes be followed.
Happy patrons were thus assured of the same high quality
at each visit.

I've often thought that the downside of my cooking is that I
rarely measure things in most cooking and it's difficult to
reproduce a winner exactly.
--
-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> updated 3-29-04.