Now we’re cooking….

Ok, next on the list of porting of my stuff to Ubuntu - I have a fair number of recipes, and have stored them in a variety of ways over the years. Most of them are in a MasterCook file at this point. With a bit of digging around I found Gourmet - it had good reviews, so I decided to check it out.

Entering info is pretty easy, you type things in fairly naturally, and it recognizes quantity, unit and ingredient… and on many things it even knows what category to put the ingredient for your shopping list. If there’s special notes, put a semi-colon after the item and add this.

It’s supposed to be able to import a MasterCook file, but I’m wondering if my Version 5 isn’t too old, cause it choked on it. You’re supposed to be able to import from a website too. I tried one from foodtv.com and it choked on it, not recognizing where the recipe is. I tried my site at food.upmykilt.net - and it captures the text fine, then asks you to highlight portions from the page and assign them to title, ingredients, etc… but then it choked again.

So… I’m not sure on this one yet. There any alternatives out there yet? I’ll keep looking.

Gourmet Recipe Manager [SourceForge.net]