Category Archives: recipe

Youate

Posted on by

Youate is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

“Youate” is an app that aimed to become the simplest meal balance in the world.

What will you eat at the next lunch?

We know the dietary balance to be important for health and beauty. Moreover, we know it only has to decide the dish in consideration the balance. However, it cannot be done. Because the management was very troublesome.

For example, I ate a salad and bread for breakfast. They mean “principal 1 and side dish 2”. I should write it down in the notebook and calculate the relation to the amount necessary for a day. Next, it is lunch. I ate soup and pasta. So, the record is “pricipal 2 and side dish 2”. And, it is dinner… I had to take out the management table every time to know an insufficient item at each meal, and to fill it in. It was necessay to calculate before the meal.

Can you continue such work of disgusted every day?

Then, “Youate” appears.

With “Youate”, you only choose what you ate. And, it ends. Youate will calculate the recommended food for the next time. You can refer to it before hesitating what you eat.

[Feature]

1.Balance graph

It is difficult work to understand bias of food only in the head. Youate shows you the balance for a day or 1 week in the bar chart. You intuitively understand the food that your body requests.

2.Recommendation

It is complex work that deciphers a past graph. Youate advises on the best recommendation dish by an original computational method. You are liberated from the hesitation at the dish choice of the lunch.

3.Easy input

The input of the name of a detailed dish and the place where you ate is time-consuming. Nevertheless, it is not so useful. Youate doesn’t request a useless input. You choose the eaten dish from the list. It is only it. Therefore, it is easy to continue.

Please use it once. Thank you,

[How to use]

1.Let’s record what you ate.

Push “Record” button. ?Push “+” button. ? Choose an item near the food you ate. ? Push “Save” button.

2.Let’s see “Recommendation”.

As a result of the automatic calculation, it is added to “Recommendation” items of “Balance” page. Let’s refer to them when being eat next time.


iCooking Salads – It’s Easy Eating Greens

Posted on by

iCooking Salads – It’s Easy Eating Greens is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website


iCooking Salads – It’s Easy Eating Greens

Price: $0.99   Score: 9/10    By Nancy JonesiCooking Salads

Craving crispy, nutritious salads?  Looking for an opportunity to dress up your greens with colorful, nutritious veggies and fruits?  Look no futher, iCooking Salads, developed by Apps of All Nations, Inc., is a great new addition to their growing list of cooking apps.  You can get new ideas for salads, make your own dressing, improve your own and your families health and have it all available on your iPhone. Does it get any easier than that?

Just like the other iCooking apps, this one is really easy to use.  The main screen offers you a choice of scrolling through all the recipes or sorting them by type.  You can also view your favorites or your own special recipes.  Choosing the “All Recipes” option allows you to scroll through 67 recipes.  The “Types of dishes” option allows you to choose from options categorized as Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter or Sauces.  You can make any of these recipes a favorite by tapping the heart at the top right hand corner of your screen.  For each recipe, you can see a photo of the finished product, the ingredients and preparation instructions.  You can also tap the “More” button and add or remove the recipe from your favorite list or send it to yourself – or friends as an email.   Another cool feature is the ability to add your own recipes into the app.  You can take a picture of it, add the list of ingredients and the prep instructions and “presto,” your salad is a part of the app.

I have found it quite useful to have a number of cooking apps on my phone.  When I am at the grocery store, I can open an app, see what ingredients I need and, by reviewing the preparation instructions, determine how much time I need.  You may wonder if you will really use these apps, and I can only tell you my personal experiences.  I’ve made dishes from the apps, shared recipes with my friends, and just the other day Iastranger walked up to me at the grocery store and asked me if I knew what kind of cheese went into quiches. I opened up the app and gave her several options. This app, and a few of the others, has definitely helped me get out of my same-old recipe rut.

As part of each cooking app review I try to make at least one of the dishes so I can give you my feedback on the process.  For this review, I chose one of my favorite salads – Caprese.   It is a simple dish – just mozzarella, tomatoes, basil leaves, olives, olive oil, salt and pepper.  There is not a lot to this salad other than slicing tomatoes and mozzarella, sprinkling it with olive oil and staging the dish to show off its beauty.  Some of the joy of this dish is in how beautiful it looks when it is done.  The crisp white mozzarella against the red tomatoes really sets it off. This is a great dish to prepare in advance of a meal and to impress your guests.  This salad goes with almost any meal – or to my mind, makes a great meal all by itself.

Could iCooking Salads be improved? It doesn’t currently have a search feature, but with only 67 recipes, it’s not that difficult to scroll down the list.  When preparing multiple dishes from the iCooking apps I would like to have an option to create a grocery list. Neither of these are showstoppers, but they would be nice to have.

I’m writing this review in the summer and it’s a great time to be making salads.  With 67 choices of salads and sauces, I can envision some great meals ahead.  It’s up to you, but for 99 cents this app seems like a bargain to me. Whenever I am looking for something quick, easy and nutritious to prepare, I’ll be opening this app.

iCooking Salads is compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Salads Main Screen 200x300 iCooking Salads – It’s Easy Eating GreensSalad Choices 200x300 iCooking Salads – It’s Easy Eating GreensSalad Photo 200x300 iCooking Salads – It’s Easy Eating GreensSalad Ingredients 200x300 iCooking Salads – It’s Easy Eating Greens

Share/Bookmark


Cooking with Eat Drink Talk – Lighter than Air Flatbreads

Posted on by

Cooking with Eat Drink Talk – Lighter than Air Flatbreads is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Eat Drink Talk has a cult reputation for having ’the best cooking classes in London.”  Now with the release of our cooking apps for Iphone, you can enjoy the experience of one of our cooking classes right from your own home!

Each app features one full-length video, step by step instructions, and a comprehensive ingredients list ensuring foolproof results.

All our recipes are aimed at enthusiastic home cooks ready to move on from spaghetti and meatballs. 

Our first app recipe – Lighter than Air Flatbreads – covers everything you need to know to make your own delicious flatbreads at home.

Demystify doughs and be more comfortable working with yeast and kneading. Our easy to follow instructional video will guide you step-by-step.

Frequently referred to as the ‘hipper younger sister’ to more stuffy, traditional cooking schools, classes at Eat Drink Talk are informal, fun, and filled with interesting ingredients and flavours reflecting the way that modern, home cooking enthusiasts want to cook and eat today.

Regular releases will follow so you can build your own library of Eat Drink Talk recipes on your iPhone or iPod touch.


Recipe Binder

Posted on by

Recipe Binder is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Based upon the popular Recipe Binder Facebook application, which has over 5,000 daily active users and over 20,000 recipes, Recipe Binder for iPhone allows the budding chef to search for and manage their favourite recipes on the move, in the kitchen, or when you’re doing your groceries and need to check on the ingredients!
Features
For just $1.99 you can:

access all of the 20,000+ recipes on Recipe Binder through the keyword search
access the recipes you’ve submitted to Recipe Binder via Facebook Connect
access your favourite recipes
add and remove favourite recipes, all synchronised with Recipes Binder for Facebook in real time
In future versions:

we hope to add support for storing your recipes and favourite recipes on the iPhone, so you don’t need to go online to access them
we’ll allow you to rate recipes
add new recipes on the move
and incorporate any other suggestions our users may have!

Recipe Binder has been developed and maintained by myself in my spare time, with an API created for me by the Recipe Binder creator, Chris Riley. We are passionate about making this as successful as the Facebook application has been, with the focus on making the application as useful to the end user as possible, and would appreciate any comments/reviews you could add to your site.

If you require any information/promo codes, feel free to contact me directly.

Thank you for your time,

Dave Marsland


iCooking Desserts – A Perfect End to a Meal

Posted on by

iCooking Desserts – A Perfect End to a Meal is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Price: $0.99    Score: 9/10    By Nancy JonesiCooking Desserts

Having a dessert at the end of a meal is often the reward for a hard day at work (or school). For many of us, just thinking about our favorite dessert can send us to a relaxing land of enchantment. I’m sure that a lot of people use recipes that have been handed down over generations, but some of you may not be that lucky. What can you do?  iCooking Desserts, by Apps of All Nations, is the answer to your dessert-making prayers. You can cook traditional American treats or impress your friends with Hazelnut Samosas or Berries in Beaujolais. With 58 recipes to choose from the search can be a lot of fun!

It doesn’t take to long to learn to maneuver around this app. You can sort through all the recipes or narrow your search by looking through recipes by Continent (Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Other) or select one from the Favorite list. You can also search through recipes you’ve added to the app.  Once you make your choice, you’ll see a list with thumbnail size photos. Selecting one of those will bring up a full-screen size photo, a list of ingredients, preparation instructions and a More tab. Through the More tab you can add or remove favorites or send the recipe to your own email – or someone else’s. Any time you are looking at a recipe you can click the heart symbol at the top right hand side of the screen and it will add it to favorites. On the My Recipes tab you can click the plus sign at the top right hand side of the screen and then add your recipe name, category, ingredients, preparation instructions and photo. It is a great way to store the recipes you prepare frequently.

You might wonder if you would want to have a recipe app. After all, cookbooks aren’t very expensive, but they’re rarely just $0.99 either. However, what an app offers that a book can’t provide is the mobility and easy of use.  If you are at the grocery store and you suddenly remember you need to make a treat to send to your children’s school, you can pull up the app, shop for the ingredients (checking prep time) and be good to go. Another benefit is the ability to send the recipe via email. I use this to print out a copy before I cook. I know, that flies in the face of my living green philosophy, but it does allow me to check off steps and ingredients as I cook. In addition, I have a lot of people asking for my recipes after I make a dish from one of the recipes offered in any one of the 15+ Apps of All Nations apps. So, the email feature makes sharing recipes a breeze.

I try to make at least one recipe as part of my review – today’s choice was brownies. Brownies are a family favorite – and who am I kidding – one of my favorites. One of the ingredients is a dark chocolate bar, allowing me to tell myself I am having them for their anti-oxidant benefits. The rest of the ingredients are pretty much household staples (flour, butter, sugar, eggs, etc.) I put it all together, followed the easy steps, filled my house with the smell of chocolate and then sliced into a pan full of heaven. I may have to go back for another one when I finish this review.

When I tried to think about how to improve this app, I realized that it already had a lot of benefits that a cookbook just doesn’t offer. Availability is a key factor. One improvement that I would like to see is a grocery list option. I would like to select an ingredient and have it transfer over to a shopping list. That would be a kind of marriage between this app and a grocery list app. You can still use the ingredient list as a grocery list, but that doesn’t allow for what you might already have in your pantry. It’s not a deal-breaker – but it would be a nice option to have.

With the current economic times, I find myself cooking more and eating out less. This app is priced right (99 cents) and it offers a lot of convenience for the money. Try it for yourself and see what you think. I’d like to hear how you enjoyed the recipes, if you found this app convenient or if you would rather just have a book.

iCooking Desserts is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

icooking desserts main 200x300 iCooking Desserts – A Perfect End to a Mealicooking desserts types 200x300 iCooking Desserts – A Perfect End to a Mealicooking desserts photo 200x300 iCooking Desserts – A Perfect End to a Mealicooking desserts ingredients 200x300 iCooking Desserts – A Perfect End to a Meal

Share/Bookmark


iCooking Mexican Cuisine – A Step Up From Ordinary!

Posted on by

iCooking Mexican Cuisine – A Step Up From Ordinary! is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Price: $0.99    Score: 9/10    By Nancy JonesiCooking Mexican Cuisine

Mexican food is extremely popular.  People routinely dine out at Mexican-style fast food, local favorite or fine dining restaurants.  But what if you could make those dishes yourself? With iCooking Mexican Cuisine, developed by Apps of All Nations, LLC you’ll be able to create all the dishes you love at home.

iCooking Mexican Cuisine is an easy app to use.  Recipes are sorted in categories – you can see all at once, or view by types of dishes (starters and vegetables, fish and eggs, meat, poultry, desserts and drinks).  You can sort through the list, select favorite recipes and also add your own recipes to the app. Open a particular recipe and you’ll see a photo of the completed dish, an ingredient list, preparation instructions and by tapping “more”, you can add or remove it as a favorite, or even email it to a friend.

Having a recipe app on your phone allows you to have your ingredient list and prep time available at any time.  You can be standing in the grocery store and wonder if you have time to make guacamole from scratch and know what you need to buy as well as how long it would take. With 52 recipes in total, iCooking Mexican Cuisine offers a range of enticing recipe options, without being overwhelming.

One of my favorite Mexican dishes is fajitas. I usually get chicken but occasionally beef or even shrimp, so how could I resist trying this dish myself?  The ingredients are colorful (part of the appeal of this dish) – as well as being good for you.  I purchased my peppers, onion, zucchini, tomato and spices using the ingredients list in the app, and I was ready to cook. I cooked it all in an iron skillet and served it with rice, guacamole and Pico de Gallo (this recipe is on the app as well).  You could wrap all this up in tortillas, but I have always enjoyed it without them.  I did serve it with tortilla chips, but that almost goes without saying. It turned out great, and now that I have the basic recipe, I can branch out and add other meats or maybe just have vegetarian fajitas.

While a solid app, there are a number of ways to improve iCooking Mexican Cuisine.  Although not strictly a dish – a recipe for margaritas would have been a worthy inclusion. In any case, mastering all of the 52 recipes would take a while, and for just $0.99 – one can’t complain. One feature I would like to see in both this app, and all of the iCooking apps, is the ability to select ingredients from recipes and to create a grocery list.  It’s not a critical addition, but it would be handy in the supermarket.

Say goodbye to dining out – connect with your family and take back the kitchen.  With apps like iCooking Mexican Cuisine, you can learn to cook dishes that are both nutritionally sound and taste good. And for such a low price, that’s not such a bad deal.

iCooking Indian Cuisine is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Mexican Main page 200x300 iCooking Mexican Cuisine – A Step Up From Ordinary!Mexican Types of Dishes 200x300 iCooking Mexican Cuisine – A Step Up From Ordinary!Mexican Picture 200x300 iCooking Mexican Cuisine – A Step Up From Ordinary!Mexican ingredients 200x300 iCooking Mexican Cuisine – A Step Up From Ordinary!

Share/Bookmark


iCooking Japanese Cuisine – Healthy, Tasty, and Easy to Prepare

Posted on by

iCooking Japanese Cuisine – Healthy, Tasty, and Easy to Prepare is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Price: $0.99    Score: 9/10    By Nancy JonesiCooking Japanese Cuisine

Looking for an app that offers a variety of Japanese dishes from sushi to tempura? iCooking Japanese Cuisine, developed by Apps of All Nations, LLC, could be just what you are looking for. There is an excellent selection of traditional grilled, stir-fried, battered, vegetarian and raw choices for your cooking pleasure.

The first thing you need to know is how this app is organized. You can view recipes by type – starters; pasta, rice vegetables; meat; fish and eggs; or desserts.  There is a photo for each dish so you know how it should look when you are finished. You can look through a list that includes all the recipes. After sorting by type or all recipes, you can select your favorites by tapping the heart at the top right hand corner of the screen. You can also add your own recipes into the app, as well as a photo of the finished product.

Having a source for good recipes is of course the obvious benefit of this app. Added to that is having the ingredient list available all the time. Whenever you get an urge to fix a dish you can see what goes in it and pick up what you need. Another feature that I used regularly is the ability to email recipes to either my friends or myself. I like to print out the recipes so that as I prepare them I can check of the ingredients and the steps – I always seem to have a tendency to leave things (or steps) out.

I really like foods prepared in a Japanese style. There are many dishes in the app that my family has prepared for years. Asian Beef Patties are our normal substitute for the American version of hamburgers. We have a number of dishes that are accompanied by a teriyaki sauce that is similar, if not exactly, like the one used in the app and Soba noodles are a staple in our house. For something different, I decided to try making Cucumber maki. I love sushi but I have never tried to make it myself. I was thrilled to get a recipe for sushi rice – it’s the secret ingredient in sushi. Well, that and wasabi.. The steps were well described and easy to follow. I cannot say my sushi rolls were as pretty as the ones that I order in restaurants, but I am learning. Like many people, I consider the preparation and presentation of sushi as an art form. A couple more attempts at this recipe and I will be dazzling my friends. Now I have the skills to try the other ones like, Futo-maki (Large Maki) or Tekka-Maki (Red Tuna Maki).

I’ve reviewed a number of iCooking apps and I waffle back and forth as to whether it needs a search feature. This time it would have come in handy. I wanted a quick reference of all the sushi recipes and had to go through the full list to find them. I would also like to be able to create a grocery list, but using the ingredient list as a shopping list is acceptable.

iCooking Japanese Cuisine provides you with 51 recipes that offer a decent variety of dishes from beef teriyaki to tofu sushi. There are plenty of options to allow you to try your hand at mastering Japanese cooking. If you are looking to add a little variety to your menus and you enjoy Japanese cuisine then it will be well worth the 99-cent cost. The app easy to navigate and has a range of dishes that will suit everyone from beginner to expert.

iCooking Japanese Cuisine is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Japanese Main 200x300 iCooking Japanese Cuisine Healthy, Tasty, and Easy to PrepareJapanese types of dishes 200x300 iCooking Japanese Cuisine Healthy, Tasty, and Easy to PrepareJapanese All recipes 200x300 iCooking Japanese Cuisine Healthy, Tasty, and Easy to PrepareJapanese ingredients 200x300 iCooking Japanese Cuisine Healthy, Tasty, and Easy to Prepare

Share/Bookmark


iCooking Indian Cuisine – Explore the World Through Cooking

Posted on by

iCooking Indian Cuisine – Explore the World Through Cooking is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Price: $0.99    Score: 9/10    By Nancy JonesiCooking Indian Cuisine

iCooking Indian Cuisine, developed by Apps of All Nations, LLC, invites you to journey through a host of dishes that are traditional favorites in both Northern and Southern India. Whether you are looking for entree’s, main meals or desserts, the 61 recipes provide you with opportunities to please your family and impress your friends.

Your first step after downloading iCooking Indian Cuisine is to choose what to cook. You can look through all the recipes or trim the choices down a bit by going through the types of dishes – appetizers, meat, fish and eggs, vegetables, rice and bread or desserts. Once you choose your target recipe, you can add it as a favorite by tapping the heart at the top right hand corner of the screen. Each recipe includes a photo of the finished product, a list of ingredients, preparation instructions and a “more” option which allows you to either add or remove it as a favorite or send it to yourself, or someone else, via email. One of the unique features of this app is that you can add your own recipes. Once added, they work just like the ones that come with the app.

You can choose to print out the recipe (you emailed to yourself) and use it as your grocery list, or just use the ingredient list in the app. That, actually, is one of the things that makes this app so appealing. I can be standing in the store, decide I want to prepare an Indian dish for supper, and have the ingredient list (and prep time) readily at hand. It is also really handy when someone says, “What a great dish, can I have the recipe?” to be able to easily send it their way. This app works like a mobile “Mom” letting you know how to assemble a meal.

I am a recent convert to Indian cuisine. My favorite dish is one of the simplest – lentils and rice. With that as the main dish, add naan and chutney and I am in heaven. When testing this app I was tempted by the Chicken Masala and the Black Pepper Chicken, but I simply had to know how to cook lentils. I went to a local spice store to pick up all the ingredients and some naan. I admit I substituted vegetable oil instead of ghee. I did a little online research and determined that was acceptable. Cooking the lentils was pretty much like cooking any beans. I did use a pressure cooker to speed things along. I also cut down on the red chili peppers to take a little of the heat out of the dish. The results were everything I had hoped for -  a simple meal that didn’t take a lot of time and ended up tasting great and with the added benefit of being good for me!

Could this app be improved? I would like to see an option to create a grocery list. It wouldn’t be too much of a leap to imagine that you are preparing more than one dish from the app. Combining all the ingredients into one list would be helpful.

If you like to try new dishes and impress your friends with your cooking expertise then it is hard to go wrong with iCooking Indian Cuisine. Your only investment is 99 cents and you have plenty of recipe options. For the cost of printed cookbook, you could buy this app and all of the other apps offered by Apps of All Nations. Test them yourself, you won’t be disappointed!

iCooking Indian Cuisine is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Indian all recipes 200x300 iCooking Indian Cuisine – Explore the World Through CookingIndian main dish 200x300 iCooking Indian Cuisine – Explore the World Through CookingIndian all recipes 200x300 iCooking Indian Cuisine – Explore the World Through CookingIndian Chicken Marsala 200x300 iCooking Indian Cuisine – Explore the World Through Cooking

Share/Bookmark


iCooking Greek Cuisine – Lamb, Moussaka and Baklava…Oopa!

Posted on by

iCooking Greek Cuisine – Lamb, Moussaka and Baklava…Oopa! is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Price: $0.99    Score: 9/10    By Nancy Jones

Trying to change your diet and include more healthy dishes? The iPhone recipe app, iCooking Greek Cuisine, developed by Apps of All Nations, LLC, includes dishes that form part of a heart healthy Mediterranian diet. And while the recipes are great for your health, the price is also great for your wallet – tou get 50 great recipes for less than a dollar!

Navigating your way through iCooking Greek Cuisine is easy.  You can choose to review all 50 recipes and select your favorites as you go along, or you can choose a dish by going through the different types of dishes – starters, vegetables, fish, meats or desserts.  Once you select a recipe you can see a photo of the finished product, view the list of ingredients, read the preparation instructions or through the “more” tab add/remove it as a favorite or email it to yourself or a friend. iCooking Greek Cuisine is a straightforward and easy app to use. In addition to these basic features, you will also find an option on the main screen to add your own recipes.

You will find having recipes with the lists of ingredients always on hand to be a real time saver.  You won’t need to stand in the grocery aisle wondering what ingredients are required for your next dish. When it comes time to do the food shopping, I find emailing the recipe to myself so I can print it out is particularly useful but it’s just as easy to check your items off the screen. You can also add your own recipes to iCooking Greek Cuisine – email them, print them out and, of course, have the ingredient list readily available when you are at the store.

With its range of iCooking apps, Apps of All Nations offers you an opportunity to explore the cuisines of different cultures. I don’t know a lot about Greek food, but I do know I love a simple Greek salads.  I considered making one at first, but thought I needed to get a little more daring. I decided to go with Greek Potato Salad.  There aren’t many ingredients – potatoes, green pepper, tomatoes, feta cheese, olive oil and vinegar – and the prep was equally easy. The end result was a tasty dish that was attractive as well.  This will definitely go on my list of things to bring to potluck dinners because it can be prepared in advance, it’s colorful (always a sign of a healthy dish) and it presents well.

I like exploring the food of different cultures and at this price (99 cents) it’s easy for me to justify the cost. iCooking Greek Cuisine has the added benefit of offering dishes that are recommended as part of a healthy diet. Now, if we could just somehow get an app that helps us control portions – that would really be great!

iCooking Greek Cuisine is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Greek main 200x300 iCooking Greek Cuisine – Lamb, Moussaka and Baklava...Oopa!Greek types of dishes 200x300 iCooking Greek Cuisine – Lamb, Moussaka and Baklava...Oopa!Greek all recipes 200x300 iCooking Greek Cuisine – Lamb, Moussaka and Baklava...Oopa!Greek ingredients 200x300 iCooking Greek Cuisine – Lamb, Moussaka and Baklava...Oopa!

Share/Bookmark


iCooking Italian Cuisine – Food, Wine, Life (Cibo, Vino, Vita)

Posted on by

iCooking Italian Cuisine – Food, Wine, Life (Cibo, Vino, Vita) is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Price: $0.99    Score: 9/10    By Nancy JonesiCooking Italian Cuisine

It’s been a long day; you are at the grocery store and have no idea what to prepare for dinner.  If that sounds familiar then iCooking Italian Cuisine, developed by Apps of All Nations, LLC, could be the answer to your culinary prayers. Whether you choose something easy to prepare, like Pasta with Pesto, or are feeling a bit more adventurous and decide to make Tagliatelle with Steak, you will not be disappointed with this app.

With fifty-two recipes to choose from, iCooking Italian Cuisine has a lot to offer.  The recipes are organized by dish type and you’ll find recipes for appetizers, pasta, risotto, meat and fish and desserts. The hard part is deciding which one will be your first.  On the other hand, you can skim down the list of all recipes and be inspired by recipes both familiar and new.  There is also one more feature to add to the mix -  you can even enter your own recipes, complete with ingredients and steps to prepare.

With iCooking Italian Cuisine you’ll never be at the grocery store again saying, “I would make that dish but I can’t remember what goes in it?”  Once you choose your recipe, you can mark it as a favorite and it will be a snap to find when you are shopping for ingredients.  You can search for recipes in the comfort of home, riding the train to work or while eating lunch.  You can email the recipe to yourself (or a friend).  This can be handy if you prefer to use a printed copy as you cook.  I like to check off ingredients as I cook, so a print out was a big hit with me.

Earlier today I was looking through my pile (actually piles) of recipes and the good news is that now I can enter these recipes into the app – a great feature that helps you save both space and paper!  I’ll have the great recipes in iCooking Italian Cuisine, and my own favorites as well.  You could enter all of your recipes into one app, or chose any one of the other 14+ by this developer.

I love Italian food and the three little words that I want you to whisper in my ear are pizza, pasta and bruschetta.  Choosing a recipe to test from this app wasn’t easy – they all looked so tasty.  I decided to branch out a little and do something that wasn’t in my favorite trio. I made Chicken Rollatini and I’m glad that I did! It wasn’t a particularly complex recipe; all you need to do is roll chicken breasts with cheese and prosciutto.  A little bread crumbs, a few spices, some wine and dinner is served!

This is my fifth review of an iCooking app.  During this time I’ve seen updates come through so I know these apps will improve as time goes by.  I’ve passed on, through my reviews, my wish list for improvements or innovations.  As I use the apps more and more, I have fewer suggestions for improvement.  I have suggested a formal grocery list,  but the ingredient list serves nicely. A search feature would be handy, but it’s still pretty easy to scroll through the 52 recipes.  The only wish (not quite a need) that I’ve discovered is that I would like to share my recipes with friends who also use the app.  I can still email them, but it would be fun to send my recipe to their app.

If you are looking for an affordable, easy to use recipe app then iCooking Italian Cuisine is likely to be a favorite.

iCooking Italian Cuisine is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Italian main screen 200x300 iCooking Italian Cuisine Food, Wine, Life (Cibo, Vino, Vita)italian all recipes 200x300 iCooking Italian Cuisine Food, Wine, Life (Cibo, Vino, Vita)italian sicilian penne 200x300 iCooking Italian Cuisine Food, Wine, Life (Cibo, Vino, Vita)italian ingredients 200x300 iCooking Italian Cuisine Food, Wine, Life (Cibo, Vino, Vita)

Share/Bookmark


iCooking Pies and Quiches – Real Easy Quiche (and Pie)

Posted on by

iCooking Pies and Quiches – Real Easy Quiche (and Pie) is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Price: $0.99    Score: 9/10    By Nancy Jones

Some recipes are just basics in every cook’s repertoire. Quiches and Pies (dessert and pizza) are certainly in that category. You could search your cookbooks or the net, copy or print out the recipe or, even easier, download iCooking Pies and Quiches, developed by Apps of All Nations, LLC, and have the recipes on hand – all the time. You’ll always be ready to plan and cook a great meal or dessert.

Both Pies and Quiches start with a crust so it makes sense to pair these together. There are fifty-seven options for you to review. Once you start cooking, you’ll have your friends asking for your recipes. Open up iCooking Pies and Quiches and start exploring. Your can look through all the recipes, or you can browse recipes by type – sweet pies, quiches, pizza, salty pies or dough. Once you look through the recipes you can mark your favorites.  In addition, there is a place you can enter your own recipes.

You may be wondering if you’ll really find this app helpful. After the great recipes, the thing you will no doubt like the best is having the ingredient list handy so that you will be ready to pick up what you need any time. Another great feature is the ability to email the recipe to yourself (or friends).  I like to check of the ingredients as I work so having a print out was great for me.  Another plus is the ability to add your own recipes.  I’ll be adding my pecan pie recipe (we call it Southern Pie).

Personally, I have been a little timid about trying to make my own crust.  Once I read the ingredients and the instructions, I wondered why I was worried.  It’s really quite simple, so I decided to try the pecan pie.  I used to make it all the time and I wanted to see if it was still as good as I remember. The good news is that it turned out great – the crust was flaky and was just the right complement to the golden brown of the pecans. My mouth is watering just writing about it! We added a little ice cream and had the perfect dessert.

When you are reading a cookbook you don’t usually wonder how it can be improved.  However, when you use an app you start playing amateur developer. So, with that in mind I’d say that as a recipe app it works well. If I had to come up with something, I would suggest a way to increase the number of recipes.  That could be through allowing friends with the app to share recipes or maybe by creating a user community.  If you happen to buy more than one iCooking Cuisine app (they have 14+) you’ll notice that seven of the recipes (pizzas) in this app are also in the Italian Cuisine app.  I don’t have a problem with that; it makes since to include them with the other pies.

I have pizza at least once a week, make a pie every month or so and have quiche when it is offered on restaurant menus.  I have to admit I haven’t made one myself yet.  How often will you use iCooking Pies and Quiches? I guess that depends on your cooking habits, but I expect you’ll find that you use it a lot if you enjoy this style of cooking.  For about a dollar you can have a whole range of recipes readily available and have an opportunity to impress your friends and family with your cooking ability.

iCooking Pies and Quiches is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

icooking pies -mainicooking pie - sweet pieicooking pie - plum tarticooking - pie ingredients

Share/Bookmark


iCooking Chinese Cuisine – Great Recipes Lead to Great Results

Posted on by

iCooking Chinese Cuisine – Great Recipes Lead to Great Results is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website

Price: $0.99    Score: 9/10    By Nancy Jones

Cooking is one of life’s great pleasures. Take advantage of some great cooking ideas with iCooking Chinese Cuisine, developed by Apps of All Nations, LLC. It offers you some standards (like egg rolls or Chicken and Cashews) and some new and exciting dishes (like Spicy Cucumber Salad or Curried Salmon). This app helps you vary your menus as well as excite your taste buds.

iCooking Chinese Cuisine has fifty recipes that include everything from main dishes to dessert. It is easy to select a dish – you have an alphabetical list of recipes, a list sorted by types of dishes (starters, meat, fish and eggs, pasta and rice, desserts). As you sort through the recipes you can mark them as favorites so you have some options ready when you are at the grocery store. You could look at the recipe, while you are shopping, to see what you might need to buy and then come home ready to cook. If you prefer you can email the recipe to yourself, print it out and use it when cooking or shopping. You can also add your own recipes to the app – complete with a picture.

iCooking Chinese Cuisine, one of 14+ by the developer, offers you a chance to select new, and favorite recipes in order to vary your diet. It resolves that age-old question you are faced with in the grocery story, “what were the ingredients in that recipe?” It offers you an opportunity to review recipes, discuss them with your family or friends and select one that pleases everyone. There is also one unexpected benefit that iCooking Chinese Cuisine offers, which is the chance to organize all of your personal recipes. You can get rid of that stack of random pieces of paper and hand-written notes and have one go-to place to select tonight’s dinner.

I cook a lot dishes that include standard Asian ingredients. Searching through these recipes was a pleasure. The recipe I chose to test first was Stir Fried Beef and Peppers. I used to make this a lot and somehow got away from it. What’s not to like? The ingredients are simple – most of which I had on hand. The prep is not complex. You cut up the beef, chop and sauté some vegetables and mix up the sauce. Stir-frying is one of the healthiest ways to cook and the dish turned out spectacularly.  This is one that will become (again) one of my regular dishes.

I have already reviewed three of the iCooking apps and I’ve discovered something I would really like to have – the opportunity to create a grocery list. I haven’t had any trouble doing this, but being to create one from the app would be a useful addition.  I have mentioned in other reviews that I think the apps should include a search feature. There are only 50 recipes so that’s barely necessary, but it would be nice. Another suggestion for future enhancement would be the ability to share my personal recipes with others who also have the app. It would be nice if I could email my own recipes and make them downloadable by their iPhone.

At 99 cents, iCooking Chinese Cuisine is certainly affordable. It provides you with flexibility and choice with your meal planning. Whether you only have 30 minutes or plan to devote an afternoon to cooking this app will certainly meet your needs.

iCooking Chinese Cuisine is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch and requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Chinese - All recipesChinese - DuckChinese - IngredientsChinese - Types of Dishes

Share/Bookmark