Cooking Apps

My Recipe Book 3.0 review: keep your cooking recipes synced between iPhone and iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Apr 9, 2013 a 11:11 am

My Recipe Book is a cooking app that lets you store and organize recipes you find into one convenient location -- your iPhone or iPad. With the new KitchenSync introduced in My Recipe Book 3.0, you can actually now store all those recipes on as many devices as you want.

$1.99 - Download now

Healthy Desserts by Green Kitchen for iPhone and iPad review

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Mar 14, 2013 a 2:24 pm

Healthy Desserts by Green Kitchen is an iPhone and iPad app that features 48 desserts that use only natural sweeteners, healthy fats, and whole grains and fruits. The app is gorgeously designed and features mouthwatering photography that will make you dying to get in the kitchen to whip one of these up.

$1.99 - Download now

Cooking Light Recipes: Quick and Healthy Menu Maker for iPhone and iPad review

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 a 8:54 pm

It's Fitness Month here at iMore and Mobile Nations and part of getting in shape involves eating better which is why this week we're focusing on nutrition. When it comes to nutrition, the first step is to say goodbye fast food and eating out, and hello to healthy home-cooked meals. One such app to help you with this endeavor is Cooking Light Recipes: Quick and Healthy Menu Maker by Time Inc.

$3.99 - Download now

iCookbook dishes up CROCK-POT recipes at Macworld|iWorld 2013

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Feb 11, 2013 a 6:10 pm

This year we went straight from Macworld|iWorld 2013 to Mobile Nations Fitness Month, but who says we can't have some overlap? iCookbook was on the show floor with their new CROCK-POT app, and while not everything you slow cook may be healthy, it will come from home, and that means you can choose to make it healthy! Just pick great ingredients and let the flavors do the work.

$3.99 - Download now

Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking: Selected Recipes for iPad review

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Jul 21, 2012 a 1:55 am

Julia Child is famous for revolutionizing home cooking in America by bringing us the essential French repertoire of classic dishes and now 32 of her recipes come alive for the first time on the iPad. These 32 recipes are the most often prepared and best-loved dishes from the book Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1 and include careful explanations of technique, discuss buying the right ingredients (or finding substitutes), and planning ahead. In addition to the recipes, Mastering the Art of French Cooking: Selected Recipes includes colored photos of each finished dish, 30 video clips from The Way to Cook video series, audio pronunciations of the names of French dishes, and more.

The Photo Cookbook - Baking for iPhone and iPad review

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, May 10, 2012 a 9:49 pm

If you're looking to bake some delicious cake, pastries, cookies, or breads, look no further than The Photo Cookbook - Baking for iPhone and iPad. It's packed with gorgeous photos of not only the final product, but also of what each stage of the process should look like.

The Photo Cookbook - Baking is a universal app for iPhone and iPad, but I'm going to be using screenshots from the iPad version. Both versional offer the exact same functionality and content.

Quickly and easily build an organized collection of recipes with Basil —A Smart Recipe Book For iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012 a 3:30 am

Basil — A Smart Recipe Book For iPad is app that lets you save recipes for around the web and keep them organized. It features a very simple and basic UI so that it's easy to see and use while cooking.

Eat healthy with Trufflehead for iPhone and iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Jan 9, 2012 a 7:52 pm

Trufflehead is a healthy cooking and recipe app for the iPhone and iPad. It features over 260 recipes including vegetarian, dairy-free, gluten-free, low-cal, and low-fat dishes as well as hyperlinks to find more information about ingredients.

Roast your holiday meals perfectly with Is It Ready Yet?

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Nov 24, 2011 a 1:19 pm

Is It Ready Yet? is a new iPhone app that helps you determine the perfect temperature and cooking time for roasting beef, pork, and poultry. Put the cookbooks away and use Is It Ready Yet? to cook your Thanksgiving Turkey and even use the built-in cooking timer to remind you when it's done.