Kitchen

Despite a lack of in-depth features, this program makes a handy solution to the need to catalog your collection of recipes. Kitchen stores your recipes in a FileMaker database, but fortunately its main window looks more appealing than a standard database and displays clearly labeled icons for most major functions. However, we wish the program offered a few preinstalled recipe templates to reduce the learning curve. When adding a new recipe, you can enter such information as prep time, cook time, calories, fat, carbs, and difficulty level. You then head to a screen where you list all ingredients and detailed instructions. Kitchen lets you search your database by keyword and sort by category, cuisine, time, and difficulty, but since the trial version only lets you add 15 recipes, you probably won't need these features. You also can make and print shopping lists, as well as e-mail recipes from directly within the application. We think all cooking enthusiasts could benefit from what Kitchen has to offer.