I like to cook on Valentine’s Day. I’d rather not fight the the crowds and try to get a restaurant reservation, so my tradition is to cook dinner on Valentine’s day (usually my famous pesto sauce with something).
That being said, I’ve found a nice little application to catalog all my recipes. Connoisseur 2.1 (US$20) by The Little App Factory is convenient, easy to use and for US$20 you can’t beat it. After a recipe is entered it can easily be scaled for larger parties and you can even print or export a shopping list to your iPod or PDA (via SplashShopper or HandyShopper.)
Connoisseur also has a sweet “cooking view.” Those fortunate enough to have a Mac in the kitchen can use the cooking view to follow along and it even speaks the instructions to you, if you so desire. My only real criticism is that I wish it did a better job of importing recipes from popular cooking sites like AllRecipes and Epicurious. The services menu didn’t work and I had to cut and paste. It would be nice if the next version could parse a recipe URL or, even better, capture recipes without leaving the application.
Cook dinner for your honey tonight guys, just ask her to make the dessert.
Update: The Little App Factory is also the publisher of another piece of must-have software: NetFlix Freak, which I reviewed in July 2006.
Connoisseur makes managing your recipes as easy as iTunes makes managing your music. From the elegant and snappy interface to auto-completing ingredients, we have put in the hard yards so you can focus on what is important; entertaining your guests.
The Little App Factory :: Connoisseur 2.1
technorati tags:connoisseur, recipe, software
I like to cook on Valentine’s Day. I’d rather not fight the the crowds and try to get a restaurant reservation, so my tradition is to cook dinner on Valentine’s day (usually my famous pesto sauce with something).
That being said, I’ve found a nice little application to catalog all my recipes. Connoisseur 2.1 (US$20) by The Little App Factory is convenient, easy to use and for US$20 you can’t beat it. After a recipe is entered it can easily be scaled for larger parties and you can even print or export a shopping list to your iPod or PDA (via SplashShopper or HandyShopper.)
Connoisseur also has a sweet “cooking view.” Those fortunate enough to have a Mac in the kitchen can use the cooking view to follow along and it even speaks the instructions to you, if you so desire. My only real criticism is that I wish it did a better job of importing recipes from popular cooking sites like AllRecipes and Epicurious. The services menu didn’t work and I had to cut and paste. It would be nice if the next version could parse a recipe URL or, even better, capture recipes without leaving the application.
Cook dinner for your honey tonight guys, just ask her to make the dessert.
Update: The Little App Factory is also the publisher of another piece of must-have software: NetFlix Freak, which I reviewed in July 2006.
Connoisseur makes managing your recipes as easy as iTunes makes managing your music. From the elegant and snappy interface to auto-completing ingredients, we have put in the hard yards so you can focus on what is important; entertaining your guests.
The Little App Factory :: Connoisseur 2.1
technorati tags:connoisseur, recipe, software
