Allrecipes for Windows 10

Organize and share your recipesAvid cooks will know that as you pick up recipes, tips, cookbooks and ideas, your culinary collection can get a little out of hand. It's not a problem, however, if you have a decent recipe management program to keep it all under control and ready for use when you need to cook up something really special.BigOven is a recipe management program from the BigOven.com community. You'll need to register (free) on the website to get full use of the trial version, as the program features a browser specifically to check out recipes from the site and add them to your collection. Apart from that, you'll be able to use the program's meal planning, shopping and nutrition functions to make sure that every dish you prepare is perfect.sam.cmd.push(function() { sam.display('review-app-page-desktop'); });The trial version of BigOven doesn't actually allow you to input your own recipes, but it does come already programmed with lots of recipes from the website, and of course, you can import recipes you find when browsing BigOven.com. You can edit these, changing the servings and ingredients, adding notes, viewing nutritional facts, adding tags for easy searching and even adding the dish - and its ingredients - to the BigOven meal planner and shopping list.BigOven also has a good selection of configuration options that will allow you to play around with the way the program is displayed and other settings. It also allows you to display recipes in metric, but unfortunately European users will be disappointed to find that they are displayed in milliliters, which is practically useless. Current users of BigOven.com are sure to love this app. It is very complete in the range of actions it can perform, but unless you are a big fan of the website, you might feel restricted, as you can't import from other websites or create your own recipes.BigOven is the ideal program for fans of BigOven.com.

Cooking on Gas with Christmas KitchenUnlike other free cooking apps, Christmas Kitchen is designed for the time of year that many of us dread, in terms of displaying our culinary skills. Thankfully, this app is full of advice, recipes and alternative ideas for all sorts of budgets during the festive season. From turkeys to Christmas puddings, it is all there waiting to be discovered.A Feast of an App?Although Christmas Kitchen covers all of the ground that you would expect it to, there are some novel ideas in it which really make it stand out from the crowd. As well as the usual recipes for roast fowl and joints of red meat, the app has a section entirely devoted to Christmas trimmings, such as a DIY cranberry sauce. You'll also find a section on vegetarian recipes, which is ideal if you are catering for a variety of dietary requirements at short notice. There's also plenty of advice on what you can do ahead of the big day to ensure your workload is not too heavy on Christmas morning. Finally, it also offers guidance on how to prepare a seasonal feast on a budget and how you can cook things to give away as presents – all very thrifty indeed!sam.cmd.push(function() { sam.display('review-app-page-desktop'); });An Appetising PropositionSome of the content in Christmas Kitchen, for example, its section on buffet recipes and winter cocktails, means that you won't just use this app on Christmas Day. It is useful for the entire party season and just as appropriate for other times of the year, too. Never panic again when preparing Christmas lunch with this truly useful app.

Your personal portable recipe boxCookbook Portable is a virtual recipe book where you can safely enter, organize and store the recipes for your favorite meals.At first sight Cookbook Portable looks really simple, but it includes all the tools and options you would need in a recipe database. You can organize recipes in categories, create and edit custom menus, export your recipes to various formats and also print them out with several configuration options – which is quite handy, since cooking with the computer beside the saucepan is not a very good idea.sam.cmd.push(function() { sam.display('review-app-page-desktop'); });Each recipe in Cookbook Portable includes ingredients, preparation, cooking time and servings. You can also rate them in terms of difficulty and how much you like them, and add a photo as well – though only one.Cookbook Portable also includes a powerful built-in search tool which lets you easily locate any recipe on your database. If you’re looking for a simple recipe app, this is it.It may not be the most feature-rich recipe application, but Cookbook Portable works great and includes all the basic tools you need to manage your recipes.

Create a digital library for your recipesCookDiary is a tool that lets users compile a comprehensive digital recipe book on their Windows PC.Add another solid recipe catalog tool to the growing list of great options. Much like RecipeMaster and Living Cookbook, CookDiary is an easy-to-use program that in some ways is even more than just a library.sam.cmd.push(function() { sam.display('review-app-page-desktop'); });First, you'll want to add your favorite recipes into the program. CookDiary's interface is set up so you can create different categories of recipes, such as desserts, Italian food and breakfast items. These categories will appear in a narrow pane on the left side your screen. Once you've created the categories, then you can begin adding recipes to each one. CookDiary allows you to add a picture, a rating between one and three stars and even an icon to indicate if the recipe is spicy. Then, add the ingredients, serving size and cooking instructions and you're good to go.It's the little features in CookDiary that make it really stand out. If, for example, you need to change the number of servings you need to make, you can do this easily and CookDiary will adjust the ingredients as necessary to meet your new serving size needs. In addition, there's a cooking instructions view that shows every instruction in large print for easy reading while you're in the kitchen. There's even a calendar and a feature that lets you create shopping lists.If you want to store your cooking recipes on your PC for ready access, CookDiary makes it easy and enjoyable to do so.