No it's certainly not impossible, but you need to truly understand what it is you're trying to achieve. Once you know that the answers can be found in the cookbook.
I would imagine that any Menu can have any Recipe and as such you are looking at a HABTM association that requires a menus_recipes join table. If this is the case then have a good read of the following and see if it helps. http://book.cakephp.org/view/83/hasAndBelongsToMany-HABTM http://book.cakephp.org/view/85/Saving-Related-Model-Data-HABTM HTH Paul. Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://cakeqs.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en