Cooking Guide My 11 year old son would you believe has taken a real interest in cooking over the school holidays. He has been peeling and chopping veg. cooking salmon fillets, marinating steaks etc. and seems to be getting a real kick out of it. I do think there is a cunning plan behind this sudden involvement as he has recently started to show an interest in girls, coming home from hols with a couple of mobile numbers so is presumably learning to cook to impress them in the future. Or is it because if he can cook he reckons I'll allow him to come home from school and stay on his own as long as he cooks dinner. Yeah right like that's ever going ...  Read the complete review

I had such high hopes for this game but was ultimately a little disappointed. It's still getting a good rating, I'm just here to warn those like me. I'll start with the good things. Incredible interface - They could have added 50 more recipes (there's already loads) and sold this glued into a ds as a cooking tool. It stands by itself, it's rare to come across a product with an interface as good as this. It looks fantastic, it works brilliantly. It is everything you could want it to do and more. You can even make it generate a shopping list for you. So easy to use - The instructions are amazing with plenty of text and videos and speech to get you on ...  Read the complete review

The Cooking Guide is a recipe book for the DS. It costs £25 normally and I managed to get it for £20 in the sale. It contains 245 recipes from different countries. When you go on to the game the options are cooking guide, cooking A-Z and shopping list. The cooking guide is the option you choose to find a recipe. There are a number of different ways to find a recipe which I find useful. You can view all 245 which are split in to categories e.g. salads and soups. You can also search by country, ingredients or requirements. If you search by county it will show a world map and put points on the country where the are recipes available. ...  Read the complete review

I bought this for myself when it was released and I have cooked with it about a dozen times now. My favourites are Lemon Chicken and Sticky Toffee Pudding, both of which I have made twice. I especially like how the recipes can be 'filtered' - by country, by main ingredient, calorie count, cooking time, cooking method, and by difficulty, or combine the settings to narrow down your options further. Some of the recipes do require a sense of adventure, as this game was originally developed in Japan, before being tweaked for the Western market, but if you want expand the horizons of your tastebuds, this is a great way to go about ...  Read the complete review

Don't confuse this game with cooking mama as it is nothing like cooking mama what so ever. This game actually contains real life recipies and also a few tutorials on how to cook! I refer to this game as a game but don't get confused, cooking guide is not a game it is like a cooking book with recipies, list of ingredients and different techniques. Cooking A-Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is like a cooking dictionary. It contains things like big lists of what every ingredient is, substitute ingredients, utensils, preparation, chopping and cutting terminology, helpful tips, home made ingredients (and how to make them), important ...  Read the complete review