Gourmet Recipe Manager is really a recipe-organizer readily available for Home windows, Linux, along with other Unix systems (including Mac OS X, i.e. through the Fink or MacPorts package managers) that enables you to definitely collect, search, organize, and study your recipes. Gourmet may also generate shopping lists and calculate dietary information. It imports Mealmaster, MasterCook and KRecipe files and exports PDF s, webpages along with other formats. Gourmet is free of charge software and uses Python, GTK+ and SQLAlchemy.
For an introduction to the characteristics Gourmet Recipe Manager offers, you can check out the tabs on the top from the page. You are able to download Gourmet Recipe Manager in the GitHub project page and file bug reports making feature demands there. Our Launchpad project page will help you to seek help and subscribe to the subscriber list .
Simple Search
An easy index view enables you to check out all of your recipes like a list and rapidly sort through them by component, title, category, cuisine, rating, or instructions. Searching happens while you type in order to save you keystrokes, and multiple types of searches may be easily combined out of this same view (so that you can look for salads (category) with walnuts (component) without getting to spread out another dialog. It is simple to sort recipes by hitting the column you want to sort by. In addition, for advanced users, searching using regular expressions.
Recipe Card Display
Individual recipes open in their own individual home windows, much like recipe cards attracted from a recipe box. Recipes are attractively displayed with minimal controls and settings cluttering the interface. In the recipe card view, you are able to instantly multiply or divide a recipe, and Gourmet will adjust all component amounts as well as adjust the units to ensure that they're as readable as you possibly can (to ensure that 2 tbsp .. x 4 displays as 1/2 cup).
Because you frequently need to consult ingredients while you read a recipe, the component list is displayed inside a separate pane, to be able to take a look at ingredients while you scroll with the steps of the recipe.
The recipe card view includes dietary information for the recipe. Hitting the "Edit" button raises an easy wizard that will take you with the ingredients inside your recipe, enabling you to pick equivalences in the USDA dietary database or enter dietary information by hands. Gourmet does its better to choose good defaults because it takes you using your dietary information, also it remembers your settings for future recipes. The dietary details are in a roundabout way associated with the displayed component information, so that you can make reasonable substitutions and approximations for dietary calculations with no damage to the integrity of the recipes. You may also tell Gourmet to disregard certain ingredients you don't need to spend your time searching up dietary information for each last spice in the end!
Future versions of Gourmet may utilize this information to permit searching deciding on recipes by dietary content for the time being, we simply display the data we've and then try to allow individuals thinking about diet to go in within their data as rapidly as you possibly can. Later on, we'll offer more details automatically, so we could search for a method to produce a community-generated database of dietary information and equivalences.
Recipe Editor
Gourmet aims to create entering ingredients as intuitive and painless as you possibly can, while still permitting effective features. Features include:
- A keyed component list which enables searches and shopping-list generation to know synonyms (like aubergine and eggplant) and ignore component descriptions (i.e. to deal with "tomato plants, finely chopped" as "tomato plants" with regards to searching and generating shopping lists.
- An intuitive spreadsheet-like editing interface
- An alternate, fast form-like component entering interface (which enables you to definitely easily type component lists without searching in the screen.
- Drag-n-drop support for importing component lists out of your internet browser or any other application.
- Support for pasting component lists in out of your clipboard.
- Support for grouping ingredients inside a recipe.
- Support for calling another recipe being an component.(Note: this enables you to employ a recipe like a menu!)
- Support for optional ingredients.
Additionally to ingredients and directions, you are able to enter details about groups, cuisines, and ratings that you could use later to look for recipes. In every situation, Gourmet enables a drop lower menu of normal groups and groups you've used previously, but additionally enables you to definitely enter any custom groups you want.
You may also add images for your recipe to have an attractive display. Thumbnails is going to be displayed within the recipe index. Presently, only HTML export supports images.
Import and Export
Gourmet includes easy and effective import and export filters for several formats, including two of the most common recipe formats on the internet (mealmaster and mastercook).
Gourmet can import the next types of files:
- Mealmaster Files
- MasterCook text files
- MasterCook XML files
- Gourmet XML files
- KRecipe XML Files
- MyCookbook files
- Archives (for example Zip Files, Gzip Files, or Tarballs)
- Websites, for example epicurious and recipezaar
- Unformatted plain text files or websites (within this situation, Gourmet will request you to identify ingredients, instructions, etc.
Gourmet may also import component lists from the regular plain text list, which may be imported from the file, pasted in the clipboard or pulled to the editing view.
Gourmet can export the next types of files:
- PDF Files
- Recipe Webpages
- Wealthy Text Format
- Plain Text
- Mealmaster Files
- Gourmet XML Files
- MyCookbook files
Gourmet aims to import and export as numerous common formats as you possibly can. For those who have a format you want to import, please submit an element request, or, if you are a programmer, go on and start writing the filter yourself!
Grocery List Manager
Gourmet enables you to definitely instantly generate grocery list out of your recipes. It is simple to multiply recipes whenever you add these to adjust for the amount of people you are cooking for. When the units are convertable, different units utilized in different recipes is going to be added up properly in your shoppings list (Gourmet even knows the density of some common foods to permit volume-to-weight conversions!). If Gourmet can't convert your units, the grocery list only will display both units -- for instance, the screenshot shows both teaspoon. and cloves of garlic clove, as these units can not be sensibly combined.
If you have something that seems in your grocery list, you are able to drag it to your "kitchen" therefore it will not be incorporated! Products put into your kitchen is going to be appreciated later on (so it's not necessary to by hand remove products like "water" out of your grocery list whenever a recipe requires it). However, because the kitchen list is proven near the grocery list, you'll also have a listing at hands of all of the ingredients known as for from your recipes. (You are able to drag a product away from the kitchen towards the grocery list if you have go out.)
The grocery list can also be instantly sorted into groups. Gourmet knows the fundamental groups of numerous foods (produce, meat, fish), and you may create whatever groups are convenient for your own personel shopping -- I apply it sorting the fundamental sections and aisles of my local supermarket and individuals products which i receive from niche stores. You are able to setup shopping groups while you enter recipes, or move ingredients around inside the grocery list view by drag and shedding or utilizing a popup menu.
Credits
Gourmet Recipe Manager by Thomas Mills Hinkle and contributors.
Web Site Design by Bernhard Reiter and Kati Pregartner .
Cookie icon by Nyall Dawson.
Download button by Adam Willoughby-Knox.
Gourmet Recipe Manager is licensed underneath the GPL .
Lead
If you wish to lead towards the project and you are a python programmer, please check out the origin code (located at GitHub) and begin hacking. Because of its wordpress plugin-based architecture. Gourmet can be simply extended by additional features. If you'd like to make use of Gourmet inside a language apart from British, you can assist translate gourmet by using this web-based tool (this involves no programming understanding!).
