Table of Contents
1.3. Structure of the menu window 4
2.1. Main Recipe Sub-categories 8
2.2. Other Recipe Sub-categories 9
5. Adding Further Recipes to the Menu 15
6. Adding Your Own Main Recipe 18
7. Adding an Own Recipe other than Main 24
11.1. Viewing a Recipe’s Ingredients 29
6.4. Adding an Ingredient to a Recipe 29
11.2. Adding a New Ingredient Category 30
11.3. Including Ingredients 31
11.4. Adding New Ingredients 32
11.5. Removing an Ingredient from a Recipe 33
11.7. Adding a New Ingredient Category 35
12.1. Adding the Ingredients You Need 35
12.2. Creating the Shopping List 36
12.3. Adding Menu Ingredients to the Shopping List 36
12.4. Opening the Shopping List 36
12.5. Planning Menus in Advance 37
14.3. Adding a Basic Recipe to a Other Recipes 42
14.4. Deleting a Basic Recipe from Another Recipe 44
15.2. Vegetable, starter, pudding 47
Introduction
Recipes and Categories
The application
Starter
Main
Accompaniment (such as potato, rice, pasta)
Vegetable
Pudding
Menus
Recipes
A menu must comprise one main (and only one.)
A menu may also contain one or more of any of the other categories.
For this tutorial, the name of a
menu is the same as the name of the Main recipe.
When you open the
Structure of the menu window
The
The pane on the left is the
The pane on the right is the
You can increase or decrease the size of the
The
Form
Ribbon
Title
(the grey section at the top)
GENERAL
(general menu information)
MAIN
(details of main recipe)
SIDE
(details of side or accompanying recipe[s])
VEGETABLE
(details of vegetable recipe[s])
STARTER
(details of starter recipe[s])
PUDDING
(details of pudding recipes[s])
SEARCH
(to search for a particular recipe)
FILTERS
(to filter menus on a particular category)
Existing Menus
I have already added
Click the
<untried> button in the FILTERS section:
In the
In the
Title section, the filter “Untried Recipes” is displayed:
TIP: you can drag the dividing bar to the right to increase the size of the summary pane.
In the General Section,
This is because the recipe has not yet been added to a menu. Or to put it another way, you have not yet prepared the recipe.
Main
Recipe Sub-categories
You also see that the
vegetarian
Cheese
egg
soup
fish
restaurant
Other Recipe
Sub-categories
For the other recipe categories, I have predefined the following sub-categories:
Side
potato
rice
bread
pasta
couscous
other
noodles
Vegetable
recipe
salad
plain
Starter
cold
hot
Again, you can also add your own categories to these.
You will notice that some supplementary information is provided in the
Such as
These can also be customized –
Creating a Menu
You start by adding a
Click the<
untried> button.
Then click the
<Copy Main> button in the ACTIONS section of the Menu Ribbon:
General Section
Menu Date
Today’s date is added to the
To Change the date:
Click in the date field (either in the
Summary Pane, or the GENERAL section)
A small calendar symbol appears to the right of the field.
Click this symbol:
Select the date you plan to cook the recipe. The new date is filled in:
Note: if you select a date in the future, the background colour is changed automatically to red
Cook
In the
Click on the arrow next to
cook
You will notice the list is empty. You need to add your name to the list of cooks (or the name of the person who will cook the recipe.)
To do add your name:
double click in the rectangle next to
cook, a ‘dialog box’ opens:
Fill in the
name, and click OK. Click on the arrow next to
cook:
You should see that the name
Select, and the name is added as
Cook
Tip: fields that are coloured light green will open a ‘dialog box’ when double-clicked.
The other information such as rating, time and cost you would fill in after you have prepared the recipe
Viewing the Recipe
To see the recipe:
double click the recipe
(ratatouille pie) in the MAIN section:
The recipe is opened in a separate window: