What Makes Soup So Good? - The Recipe Processor 2000 VR

Why is soup so common in all the world's cultures? What is it about soup that makes it so appealing, regardless of what local ingredients there are?

I think it is because every culture in history has had a "lower" class that has had to make do with the cheapest, least sought after ingredients. Higher "quality" ingredients often have as much to do with texture as with flavor, and the richest people in any society get the pick of the tenderest cuts of meat, the finest spring vegetables, and the freshest fruit. In contrast, the "peasantry" lives on the tougher cuts of meat, the bones often included, root vegetables and leftover fruit that has either been dried or fermented.

But these "lower" cuts of meat and root vegetables are not devoid of flavor, in fact they often have much more owing to what makes them less desirable: their texture. Tougher foods are denser, and contain more flavor, more varied tissues, and often more nutrients. Compare, for instance, an onion and an asparagus. Which has the more flavor? Sure, if you had to eat one raw you would probably pick the asparagus. But ask your self which one you would give up for life if you had to!

But using tougher foods does not mean you have to give up texture for the extra flavor; nor does intensity of flavor mean you have to have less subtlety. What it does mean is that you have to treat it differently from the way you treat "finer" foods.

The Recipe Processor 2000 VR is a feature full recipe management program. Enter and manage individual recipes. Search through recipes by name, category, sub category, ingredient, directions, or wildcard name. Adjust serving size and ingredient amounts instantly. Convert from one measure to another. Print either of two available shopping lists. Display two recipes side by side for comparison. Calculate recipe nutrition and cost.

Acacia Tree Software releases SousChef 1.2 - Digital Cooking Assistant

Acacia Tree Software has released its latest version of SousChef, the digital cooking assistant for Mac. SousChef 1.2 features metric system support and conversion between metric and SI/Imperial measurement systems, and is available as a free upgrade to existing SousChef users.

SousChef 1.2 offers you the option to automatically convert all recipes to a preferred measurement system (metric or SI/Imperial) when importing or downloading recipes from the recipe cloud, ensuring that international users will be able to better enjoy SousChef. You can also convert a particular recipe from your recipe collection, or even individual ingredients within recipes, to metric or SI units.

Other changes in SousChef 1.2 include faster and more intelligent recipe importing; paged search results; and an improved Grocery List feature. With SousChef, you can create grocery lists directly from your recipes - and now, items can be rearranged and duplicated, and individual ingredients from a recipe can be added to existing lists.

SousChef concentrates on helping you turn out amazing meals instead of just organizing your recipes like standard cooking software. Every part of SousChef has been designed to make your computer help you cook, start to finish. Find a recipe, modify it, create a grocery list from it, cook it, and share it with friends & family--all in one application. Unlike other cooking software, SousChef's recipe library comes from an online cloud database made of all other users' recipes. The cloud currently has over 60,000 recipes - and it's growing every day, thanks to SousChef's easy import tool that allows users to add recipes from the web or their personal files.

The Recipe Processor 2000 VR is a feature full recipe management program. Enter and manage individual recipes. Search through recipes by name, category, sub category, ingredient, directions, or wildcard name. Adjust serving size and ingredient amounts instantly. Convert from one measure to another. Print either of two available shopping lists. Display two recipes side by side for comparison. Calculate recipe nutrition and cost.

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The Recipe Processor 2000 VR is a feature full recipe management program. Enter and manage individual recipes. Search through recipes by name, category, sub category, ingredient, directions, or wildcard name. Adjust serving size and ingredient amounts instantly. Convert from one measure to another. Print either of two available shopping lists. Display two recipes side by side for comparison. Calculate recipe nutrition and cost.

3 Tips for Easy Meal Planning

One way to make family dinners easier to prepare is by planning ahead. Often times I find myself going to the grocery store every other day to pick up needed items, and this is how family time gets lost. Spend a little time planning out dinner ideas for the coming week. Pick meals that are quick and easy for your dinners during the week and save the more time consuming recipes for the weekend. Did you know that software has been developed that makes meal planning a breeze? With a click of the mouse you can organize your recipe collection into daily meal plans complete with nutrition facts and shopping lists. With the computer generated shopping list you won't have to worry about forgetting a needed item when you go grocery shopping.

Another great way to ensure that your family eats together most nights of the week is to share the responsibility of preparing dinner. It can be difficult for one family member to be responsible for cooking everyday. Each member of the family can take turns cooking each night. This is also a good way to add some new flavors to your meals since each member may have a different cooking technique. For those family members who don't cook often, this can prove to be a great learning experience. Review each family member's weekly schedule and delegate the meal preparation tasks such as grocery shopping, cooking, and clean up. Working as a team is a great way to build strength as a family.

Nothing is more important than your family. It's worth the effort to make sure that your family eats together daily. Besides the needed nutrition, this time spent together will help open the lines of communication and make your family bond stronger.

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The Recipe Processor 2000 VR is a feature full recipe management program. Enter and manage individual recipes. Search through recipes by name, category, sub category, ingredient, directions, or wildcard name. Adjust serving size and ingredient amounts instantly. Convert from one measure to another. Print either of two available shopping lists. Display two recipes side by side for comparison. Calculate recipe nutrition and cost.