{"id":4062,"date":"2010-02-25T08:01:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:38:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:38:41","slug":"a-chicken-in-every-pot-a-mac-in-every-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/4062-a-chicken-in-every-pot-a-mac-in-every-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"A chicken in every pot, a Mac in every kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I love to cook. I do 85% of the cooking in our house and create, test, alter and enjoy all types of recipes. My cabinet is full of cookbooks and three binders full of recipes I have printed out, torn from magazines or handwritten in the hopes of trying one day. It was a fine system, or so I thought.<\/p>\n

One day, my wife was looking through a magazine and came across an advertisement for a program that creates a recipe database. Ever the organizer, she recommended I check it out to tame the madness that is my recipe cabinet. I did, but found it was only for PC\u2019s. I thought, \u201cThere has to be something like this for Mac, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

I was not disappointed. Turns out there are several Mac-compatible programs out there.\u00a0 I downloaded a demo of MacGourmet<\/a> onto my MacBook Pro, tried it for a few days and\u2014wow!<\/em><\/strong> It wasn\u2019t long before I purchased the software (a mere $25) and was adding, searching and importing recipes.<\/p>\n

My first order of business has been to enter all the handwritten, faded, food-stained recipes I have stored in my binders. These are the recipes passed on from relatives that are irreplaceable, at least to a foodie like me.<\/p>\n

A great feature of the software is the \u201cChef View,\u201d an enlarged window with black and white text of the recipe in a large enough font that even my 75 yr old aunt Lois can read (she makes a darn good chicken parmesan). <\/strong>I take my MacBook Pro into the kitchen, open the recipe software and start cooking without the worry of spilling on my cookbook or measuring incorrectly because I can\u2019t read the smudged type of a recipe I printed out years ago.<\/p>\n

My Mac is not only a vehicle for audio entertainment, games, e-mail and web surfing. It is now an integral part of my family\u2019s meals. All I have to do is back-up my laptop\u2019s hard drive on my Mercury Elite-AL<\/a> external hard drive (plus a quarterly back up<\/a> to another drive I keep off site<\/a>, just in case<\/a><\/em>) and I no longer fear losing all the hard work and recipes I\u2019ve collected.<\/p>\n

To get you started on your own recipe collection, here is one of our favorites:<\/p>\n

Smoked Sausage and Sauerkraut<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • 1 Package smoked sausage, sliced<\/li>\n
  • \u00bd yellow onion, sliced<\/li>\n
  • 1 Can Sauerkraut, drained and rinsed<\/li>\n
  • 2 cloves garlic minced<\/li>\n
  • \u00bd tsp Caraway seeds<\/li>\n
  • \u00bc tsp cumin<\/li>\n
  • 1 Tbls brown sugar<\/li>\n
  • Oil for cooking<\/li>\n
  • Butter<\/li>\n
  • \u00bd cup water<\/li>\n
  • Salt and pepper to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Over medium high heat, heat small amount of oil in pan and working in batches, brown sausage on both sides,<\/li>\n
    2. Remove and set aside.<\/li>\n
    3. Heat some more oil and butter in pan and add onions, salt and pepper, saut\u00e9 until soft and brown, 5-8 min.<\/li>\n
    4. Add garlic, caraway seeds and cumin to pan, toast for 20-30 seconds<\/li>\n
    5. Add sauerkraut, saut\u00e9 for 2-4 min mixing well with onions, scraping up any brown bits on the bottom<\/li>\n
    6. Put sausage back into pan, add brown sugar and water, and stir to combine<\/li>\n
    7. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer 12-15 min.<\/li>\n
    8. Serve with dinner rolls or bread and butter, (yum)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Enjoy<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

      \n
      OWC has no affiliation with this software and receives no benefit related to this support (other than a benefit we all share in the continued support of these applications). If you appreciate the function or functionality this software offers, we encourage you to support the authors.<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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