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Summary: taste of home cookbook awesome
Review: i use the cookbook at home and at work,,i work at a mission so the big recipes are cool,,the sloppy joe recipe i use is the best mix ive had..
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Summary: Cooking 101
Review: Salt of the earth people trading recipes over the back fence. Crushed soda crackers? Cans and jars and bottles, oh my. This type of cooking reaches the level of most high school students.
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Summary: Some software bugs- but not bad
Review: There are two reasons to buy recipe software. The first is for the recipes. I did not buy the software for the recipes and I have not tried any recipes. I bought it for the second reason: to manage my recipes using their software. Generally the software works and it is better than the old DOS based software that I have used for years. There are some problems:1) When printing, you can not specify how many copies you want. Each time you print, you must go through the whole routine. 2) Once you assign a recipe to a category, it stays. As far as I can tell you can not unassign a category. 3) The documentation is poor. The user has to be willing to experiment to figure out how it works. For example, the "Close" button is really a "Save and Close". If you use the little x in the upper right hand corner, nothing is saved. 4) On my computer, the mouse is deactivated whenever a pop-up box appears. To get my mouse working again, I have to press the tab key. This is true for the print box, the intro box, the exit box, etc... I e-mailed DVO about problems 2 and 4. For problem 2, I received no response (I sent 3 e-mails on this problem). On Problem 4, I received a prompt response requesting more information. I responded. I waited. After a couple of weeks, I was told that I my problem is unique. It might be my mouse driver. I downloaded a new mouse driver from Microsoft. No change. I have over fifty programs on my system. The only place this problem appears is on DVO software. I may have a system problem, but, something DVO is doing is contributing. This software is better than my old software. The software does have some nice features such scaling the menu for the number of servings requested and allowing photographs to be attached to recipes. I will continue using it but I have not ceased looking for better program. Maybe DVO will read this and fix the weaknesses. I never tried the software with my PDA since it does not work with Pocket PC's. It likes the Palm OS. The menu planner seems to work. NOTE: After I posted this review, DVO sent me an e-mail on how to delete categories from recipes. It works, but the documention still is missing this piece of information.
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Summary: Pretty good cookbook
Review: Well this is my first computer cookbook, and I'm a bit impressed but not overly so. 1, I still have not figured out how to make a shopping list based on weekly menu planning (one of the main reasons I bought this program) 2, the recipes do not include simple dishes that dont require a trip to the spice aisle, I attempted to use their feature which tells you recipes to do with what ingrediants you have in your kitchen... yah right. I couldnt find that feature either. 3) the helpful hint videos are a joke, unless you have 2-3 hours to play cook and are really worried about clarifying butter, or how to make fluffy pastry dough. Oh and forget trying to print these recipes to any standard recipe card... nooo you have to buy their special recipe cards or print on a 8 1/2 x 11 Now for the good things. The recipes I was able to try without a [$$$] grocery bill in spices were very good, and didnt require me in the kitchen forever. The photos are nice, and the selection of recipes isnt bad. I'm half tempted to write a software cookbook myself for idiots like me who want quick easy recipes without a lot of fluff. If this really such a difficult concept for cookbooks. We're not all cooking for sunday after meeting brunch, nor are we cooking for the church social all the time. Sometimes screaming kids want food and want it now... and parents want to feed wholesome nourishing, interesting food.
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Summary: Cook'n does the thinking for you!
Review: With all the reading and writing I do, I don't have a lot of time to plan the cooking I love to do. Cooking helps me think, but if I have to think about it too much it gets in the way. :-) I've already reviewed Cook'n 2000 which was, sadly, no longer available. Now you can have the latest and greatest updated software from DVO Enterprises and fly around the kitchen like I do! (Sometimes I fly on my broom, but not always!) I can plan my menu for a week, a month, or an entire year, and Cook'n will develop my grocery list and I don't have to think about it again! The helpful hints show me how to do things (like braiding bread) that I never even would have thought to try. Cook'n is fun to look at, to play with, to try and to experiment with. I can't recommend this software highly enough! Get yours now! You can even email your favorite recipes to your friends!
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