N. SILVA  I got this program with MacHeist.

While it has a clever recipe import feature, it makes a lot of mistakes when identifying ingredients. "Kosher" is not an ingredient, darnit (it's "Kosher salt"). When a recipe calls for garlic cloves, I don't want to see "cloves" added to my shopping list. No matter how many times I corrected it, it never learned. I got tired of correcting every ingredient and so was never able to use the shopping list feature.

I have around 150 recipes in Yojimbo, but the process of importing them and correcting the ingredients took so long that I gave up.

The program also caused me to lose data in another program, TextMate, because of its Services shortcut key (Shift-Cmd-R). I accidentally pressed that key combination while TextMate had a file dialog open. SousChef appeared unexpectedly and TextMate locked up.

If I was starting a new recipe library from scratch, I would probably give SousChef another try. I liked the large-print display that I could easily read when my computer was sitting on the other side of the kitchen. The recipe search function was intriguing. It was fun to see what recipes other people have in their libraries (of course you can turn off sharing if you want to). I could not get the speech recognition to work, but I think that is a problem with my Mac, not with SousChef. It's a great idea if it works as advertised.  
(Version 1.1)

WINGSPAN  I got this in MacHeist. Editing a recipe seems to be very buggy and/or unintuitive. I like the look and feel otherwise, but I can't seem to enter one simple recipe of my own without glitches or a crash. Anyone else see this problem?  
(Version 1.0.3)

TAYLORBANKS  I am a registered user, and overall really like the concept and much of the execution. Sadly, I find the search function to be almost useless.

Search does not do partial text searches, so for example:

if I have two recipes, one of which calls for "buffalo stew meat" and another of which calls for "buffalo or bison," searching for "buffalo" yields no results.

Thus, you must know the /exact/ name of any ingredient you want to search for, and since there is no component to normalize ingredient names, I can't effecively search through my own (or online) recipes. In an email, the developer did indicate that he would look into this for a future version, but in the meantime, sadly, I'll have to resort to another tool.  
(Version 1.0.2)

FORCE DRAINER  A decent program, though I am partial to DigitalFriedChicken's program, called " Cookware".

http://www.digitalfriedchicken.com  
(Version 1.0.2)

GCOGHILL  Great-looking app, seems perfect. One thing that would be very nice -- a way to generate a shopping list for ingredients.  
(Version 1.0)

HARRY MACBETH  This is a very, VERY nice recipe organizer/presenter.

Sharp-looking interface; easy-to-use; and a good feature set.

The full-screen display in reversed-colour text is particularly effective.

A good solid debut that I may well purchase even before the first point upgrade!  
(Version 1.0)