KCON - Pi Chef Load up some Recipes!

1. Intro Blog
2. Unboxing
3. Setup
4. Gourmet Install
5. Load up some Recipes!   <<<---
6. Enclosure Planning.
7. 7inch Touchscreen Time
8. AIY Build / Google Voice
9. AIY API & Certs
10. Succes with Google AIY!

Welcome to another blog for the Kitchen CONsole.

Last blog we installed the Gourmet Recipe Manager and discovered that while easy to install it did not come with any yummy instructions, so this blog will cover a couple of ways to get some recipes into the application without having to hand enter all of the details.  Of course when you need to enter your Grammies County Fair winning Jelly you will probably need to hand enter that one. 

What we had been looking at was the Genius Kitchen website with a searchable database of recipes.  Oddly enough on the Find a Recipe option the Raspberry PI was repeatedly unsuccessful.

When the site would actually allow me to type in a search parameter it quickly returned this error every time. 

Since I am not trying to test the website or the web browser I used another system to perform the basic search and return of information.  To be fair the website is a pretty intensive site with lots of thing being pushed.

Here you can see where it actually allowed me to type in what I wanted to search/make.  For the sake of the Raspberry PI basis of the project I thought it would be interesting to see if they had any RPI.  :-)

Nope, no Raspberry PI.  But it did decide to check for some Pie for us and found some 120+ options out there!

Quickly scrolling through I found a promising looking Pie and clicked on it to take a look.  Rasberry Pie!  hmmmm....

The key part we want is the URL for that recipe, so here we can see http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/raspberry-pie-274472 is what I am interested in trying to pull into our application.

So let's jump back over to our KCON and put in this URL:

As you can see if you go under the File tab there are options for Import-ing a file and Import-ing from a webpage.  For this example we will choose the webpage option.

So let's enter our Recipe URL and see what happens!  http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/raspberry-pie-274472

While we seemed to have problems using our webbrowser the Gourmet program seems to be pulling the recipe fine.

So here is a glimpse of the "raw" data as the application sees it.  What you will want to do is some major cleaning.  The majority of the stuff showing "Ignored Text:Reveal hidden text" boxes are various advertising.  In fact I would say 95% of the page capture is advertising one way or another and may have been why we had problems earlier.  By clicking all the boxes and ample use of the delete key you can clean up this recipe.

So here I have deleted a bunch of the advertising and we can see they show the servings information and we have a tab to input servings.  By highlighting what you want under Servings and then clicking Servings you get:

I think I may have actually double clicked the Servings Button since we are showing two inputs.  By clicking the second "-" showing, I was able to remove one and it looked much cleaner.

Here we can see everything cleaned up, with Items like Ingredients and Instructions appropriately labeled.

At the bottom on the right hand side you can see the Import Recipe option.  Let's give it a try!

Here is an option to add graphics.  While the website actually does have a variety of graphics I am guessing they are concealed in some way to not allow the application to pull them.  So no pretty pictures are coming with this recipe.

Ah Hah!  The application is reporting a Recipe has been successfully imported and now we see in our list one Raspberry Pie recipe!

So opening up our Pie recipe shows what we were able to manually import over from the website.  Not too bad...

While we had success, I think finding complete Recipes and importing them as a file might be a little quicker.  Following this thought I did a quick google search.  This in turned revealed this Gentleman giving a review of the Gourmet Recipe Manager and also saying he has some Recipe Files he has shared over to a Google Drive so let's take a peek!

Yumm, I love Butterscotch.  Let's see what that Butterscotch Brownie recipe looks like.  Clicking on the file brings up:

So not exactly what I want.  Let's download the whole thing then pull the file in.

Remember our Import options under the File tab?  This time we choose Import File and navigate over to your Downloads section and click on the recipe.

Right away we see it successfully imports and now I have another recipe in my list, this one even has a picture preview!  Getting better!

Clicking on the Recipe pulls up all of the information.  Looks good.  I like the fast and easy method!

Now I had noticed one of the files having a generic Recipes name. let's see if that actually has more then one Recipe in there.

Wow, right away it is showing importing of 88 Recipes.  This should be interesting!

Scrolling through I see a Pink Lemonade Cupcake option let's take a look.  Who wouldn't want a Pink Lemonade Cupcake?

Looks good.  So now we have jumped up to 90 Recipes using a couple different ways of getting these in to our application.  This looks very promising!

Thank you for following along with this Project!