App I Like: Best of French Cuisine

Oh my goodness this is seriously the most gorgeous app EVER.  And its FREE!  This is by far one if the best food apps I’ve seen, and I feel like I’ve been downloading all of them.  The graphics, the layout, the recipes…Y.U.M.

The other night I made Leek Gratin with Mince Meat and Potatoes and I thought The Hus was going to marry me all over again.  I’ll gladly be upgrading to the $4.99 version with 100 recipes! Happy Cooking!

App: Best Of French Cuisine
Description:
50 great recipes FREE! Time Limited Offer, be the first to download this new iPad app (normally $3,99).
Best of French Cuisine presents the top 50 unpublished recipes for your iPad!
Be tempted by 50 original tasty recipes, illustrated by mouthwatering images, available wherever and whenever you want!

New features, available only on iPad:
. Video seminar to take your cooking skills to the next level.
. 10 ideas to simplify your life: last minute menus, ladies night, romantic dining and more.
. Oenologist’s wine recommendations provided by vinobest.com.

Download “101 Traditional Recipes” into the app to complete your recipe collection.

A sudden craving for chocolate, cooking for a beloved person or hosting friends that drop in unexpectedly, “Best of French Cuisine” provides recipes for all tastes and occasions.

Features:
. All recipes are LOADED onto your iPad and available any time without Internet connection.
. Essential: Organize your favorite recipes and edit your own tips.
. Instantly recover recently viewed recipes.
. Find recipes by keywords.
. Share your favorite recipes by e-mail with your friends.
. A complete glossary so that the technical terms of cooking are no longer a secret.
Price: Free for now, normally $3.99
Worth the money? YES!! So much great info! I especially love the wine recommendations – they just recommend regions not specific wines you’ll probably never find. So helpful!
Why I Like: The design is just gorgeous and its full of really useful cooking how-tos I actually will use. Love that you can email a recipe with one click and love the glossary. Also it includes cocktail recipes. Tres bon.

App I Like: Remodelista

The Hus surprised me with an iPad last week.  Right in the middle of the kitchen, while I was washing dishes and recapping a madcap day he whips out a lovely little white box of joy and says Happy Birthday.  My birthday wasn’t for another 2 1/2 weeks, but that’s why I love my husband.

Anyway, I’ve been kind of transfixed with the iPad for a long time now…debating if it is something that could actually make my life easier, or if its a toy I just want to play with.  Over the past few months I’ve concluded concrete uses for the iPad which could in fact simplify my new work and mom life – which is a work-at-home life, and anything but simple. Long story short, I love it. Love, love, love it – and while I still have a ways to go to maximize it’s true and total functionality I sure am having fun downloading apps and gazing at its loveliness.

Which lead me to a new idea for the blog: App I Like.  There are so many apps out there, and I’m already a bit desensitized from all the kray-kray reviews (why WHY are people so mean AND unhelpful when reviewing things?), I thought it might help someone out there if I simply catalogue the Apps I’ve downloaded and truly like.

So we’re off and running and here’s my first app review:

App: Remodelista
Description:
Looking for the perfect couch, stylish DIYs, or inspiration to refresh your space? Get your daily deco fix with the new Home Design App from Remodelista, the online sourcebook followed by design devotees like Gwyneth Paltrow (she calls it her “obsession”) and stylists and architects worldwide, who consider it a must-read.

The Remodelista App makes it easy to browse Remodelista’s daily content, including inspiring architecture, stylish DIY projects, 10 Easy Pieces product roundups, and Steal This Look. Take control of your next remodeling or design project with the Remodelista App for the iPad and iPhone.
Price: $2.99
Worth the money? Yes, as long as they keep loading up great new content
Why I like: Simply put, it is house porn. Loads of gorgeous round-ups and ideas for furnishing and decorating your home.  I wish there was more content though, I fear I’m going to near the end with the amount of time I surf this app.  However, I can see it coming in very useful when furniture shopping in stores as you can add pages to your own folders within the app so if I can’t remember that couch I saw once and really loved, I can just look it up in my folder. Also, since its an app, all the links are hyperlinked, so a print you see on Remodelista is just a couple taps away from purchasing. Which could be dangerous when sipping wine and surfing house porn.