Best language & DB for a home cookbook program?

[cforput]

I want to write a cookbook program for home. "I" use Ubuntu but I also want it to run on my wife's Windows computer (XP). I also need to have it tap into a database to hold the recipes.

Questions:
1. What is the best language to use understanding what I want to do?
2. What database should I use that the language above can tap into?
3. Can you point me to a free compiler / editor to use for what you recommend?

[Mirge]

Make it web-based :).

[denver]

Try Java or Mono (C#). They both work on windows and Ubuntu. As a database backend you could use sqlite. It does not require a server to work. It simply saves to a file.

As an IDE, Eclipse works fairly well.

Good luck!

[Ruhe]

Just as a variant Adobe Air + embedded sqlite.
ActionScript is easy to learn, mxml is much-much better than swing.

[sujoy]

python+django+mysql

choose whatever editor you are comfortable with ... vim/emacs/...