Cook'n & Grill'n - Barbecue Bible!

Live-fire cooking from America's grilling guru

Product Information

A tasty barbecue makes feeding your hungry family easy and nutritious. But there's more to it than just laying on the barbecue sauce. Steven Raichlen brings all the delicious flavors of summer right to your barbecue grill. From hamburgers to exotic specialties, The Barbecue! Bible has it all.
Outdoor grilling makes sense and tastes great. Keep the kitchen cool on hot summer days, enjoy a healthy way to cook, and have fun. Mealtime becomes family time when the barbecue grill is fired up.

The Barbecue! Bible has everything you’ll need; from appetizers to main dishes, from sides to salads, there’s even a section for desserts. You’ll find barbecue recipes that are easy to shop for and prepare. Unique rubs, barbecue sauces, marinades, and salsa recipes will liven up every dish. Prepare delicious burgers, steaks, poultry, kebabs, seafood, pork, veggies, and of course, ribs.

Learn how to grill to perfection...so your food is not under-done or over-done; juicy, not dry. Discover all the secret tricks of the trade the experts use to make your meals come out just right. The Barbecue! Bible helps you with new recipes or tips to spice up your old favorites.  Dust off the barbecue grill, stir up the coals, pull out the barbecue sauce and get Cook’n!


Product Features

• 500 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.

Software pictured here is represented by the packaging for easier viewing. You will receive actual software on CD.



System Requirements

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