Home Cookin is an application that provides the perfect support for creating a personalized recipe database. In addition, you may use it for planning meals in advance for your family, either for special occasions or just for ordinary home meals.
The first impression upon the program may not be extraordinary. But you will definitely fall in love with it when you have made the configuration of the program to correspond to your needs. For this, you should work on the "Index" tab and create as many chapters as you want, to fill them with categorized recipes. Finding recipes shouldn't be a problem; the Internet provides more than sufficient sources of inspiration.
An imported recipe can be used as such or can be modified at will. An interesting feature, and very useful as well, is that of resizing ingredients. In case you have guests to dinner, you need to prepare a bigger quantity of food. Home Cookin helps you with calculating the ingredients. A simple click on the "Resize" button, followed by noting down the number of people invited, are enough for getting the correct quantities necessary for your special meal.
Finally, a concise overview of the program would present Home Cookin as a reliable tool in terms of personalized recipe collection, meal planner, as well as grocery list editor.
v6.4 [Apr 9, 2010]
Version 6.46 - Jun 22, 2010
•Screen font now defaults to "Microsoft Sans Serif" for improved compatibility. "MS Sans Serif" or "Arial" are used as alternates if the default is unavailable before letting Windows make the substitution.
•Added option on Options screen to let user select the display font and size, with button to revert to the default font and size.
•Ingredient formatting now affects the first measure only. This fixes problems with recipes that have "1 cup tea" or "1 can (8 oz) tomato sauce).
•Added an option to disable the automatic formatting of recipe ingredients.
•Fixed formatting errors in PDF cookbook generation.
•Reduced PDF index to two columns to allow for larger fonts and reduced text wrapping.
•Added photo support to PDF cookbooks, with an optional outline.
•Increased maximum pages in PDF cookbooks to 2000, with warning for documents exceeding 400 pages.
•Added "iPhone Grocery Gadget" format to grocery list exporting. The resulting CSV can be uploaded to the web portal for the iPhone Grocery Gadget app.
Version 6.47 - In Development...
Fixed problems with long filenames in file selector.
Added support for external minimize commands (such as clicking the program button in Windows 7 taskbar).
New object oriented user interface.
