MacGourmet workflow request

[drking]

I love to cook and am in/out of MacGourmet 3 frequently.  Can someone help me in getting a workflow together--or lead me in the right direction in how to put this workflow together?  Or is this even doable?  

 

This is what I'd like to do:

1.  be able to search for a recipe name or ingredient, including the ability to search multiple ingredients.

2.  Not require the MacGourmet application to be open in order to do the search -- only have it open when selecting a recipe. 

 

Note:  or if someone would like to make the workflow, that too would be very much appreciated.

 

Thanks.

Edited April 1, 2013 by drking

[drking]

Okay, I figured this out on my own and was actually quite proud of myself.     But the workflow isn't reliable.

 

When the workflow works, it searches the recipes title and content.  For example, if I want to cook something that has the ingredients chicken, onions, carrots, etc, I can search all recipes with these ingredients.  Awesome!  

 

But, I notice any cleaning of caches (with a program like Onyx or other) will cause problems to the workflow, because I have the data being pulled from the ~/Library/Cache/Metadata/MacGourmet folder.

 

I can remedy this of course by restarting the MacGourmet program and rebuilding OSX metadata

 

So my options so far (I think) are:

1. don't do any cache cleaning

2. if/when caches are cleaned, restart MacGourmet /rebuild data

 

Any other ideas how I can build this workflow?

 

Thanks.