Recipes to make mealtime memorable!

Product Information

There is nothing quite as warming to the soul as recalling holidays with family and friends. Cook'n for every Holiday's food treasures are sure to recall delightfully nostalgic memories and bring your friends and family back year after year.  Although our holidays--cultural, national, or local--are as diverse and unique as the people who celebrate them, all holiday celebrations still have one thing in common: food--and lots of it!

Searching for that perfect Thanksgiving entree or a light and celebratory family Easter meal? Search no further than the Cook'n for every Holiday CD. Whether your family's tastes run to the traditional or more adventurous, each holiday can be the tastiest one ever with the help of the Cook'n for every Holiday CD.  Celebrate--or even create--your family's holiday traditions with this source of hundreds of unique recipes. Prepare a traditional sit-down Hanukkah meal for your family, celebrate Independence Day with a rip-roaring multi-course buffet, or even make spooky treats to hand out at Halloween.  From first course to last, cooks and families will find everything they need for a delicious holiday gathering.

Product Features

• 582 recipes
  

Cook'n will:

• Search thousands of recipes in seconds--just tell it what you have on hand
• Adjust recipe serving sizes automatically
• Demonstrate preparation techniques with video clips
• Display hundreds of full-color food photos
• Organize your own recipes
• E-mail recipes to your friends
• Print your recipes on decorative 3x5 cards
• Create weekly menus
• Make grocery shopping lists
• Search the internet for coupons
• Analyze the nutritional value of your recipes
• Download recipes & shopping lists to your Palm Pilot!

Recipe Manager:

• Organizing your family recipe collection in the computer is easy with Cook'n. You already know how to put in your recipes, that's because Cook'n's recipe window looks just like a recipe card. And, "Quick-Fill" editing does much of the typing for you.
• Cook'n has simple cookbook-like chapters and categories that make it easy to find your recipes fast.
• Cook'n's Recipe Manager makes entertaining a snap. Simply select the number of guests you will be serving and enter it into your favorite recipe. Cook'n calculates the new ingredient amounts for you.

Menu Planner:

• Build your own weekly and monthly menus
• Drag and drop meals to make your menus
• Combine recipes and food items to make complete meals. Then, drag and drop meals to make your own weekly or monthly menus.
• Menu planning instructions teach you how to cut prep time in half by using dove-tailing techniques when preparing your menus.

Grocery Shopping Assistant

• Compiles your family's shopping list automatically
• Organizes shopping list items by aisle
• Converts to package sizes (e.g., tablespoon tomato paste to 8 oz. cans)
• Calculates your grocery cost

Personal Home Nutritionist

• Analyze the nutritional elements of recipes and menus (even the ones you add!)
• Choose between brands to satisfy dietary needs
• Cook'n will analyze the nutritional value of any recipe or menu (even the ones you add!). You don't have to be a nutritionist to understand it either -- that's because Cook'n nutrition facts window
• looks just like the label on a can.
• Cook'n has nutrition facts from the labels of 10,000 food products. You can choose between different brands to see what the nutritional effect is. Stop the guesswork among different brands and
• know which one is most appropriate for your needs.
• Now you can plan menus based on dietary needs and tastes. Prepare one delicious meal for the entire family.

System Requirements

• Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
• 486 or better processor
• 8MB of RAM
• 30MB hard disk space
• 2x CD-ROM drive