Creating a Form for a Home Database

I have never worked with creating forms/databases and would like to great one form a friend.

the objective: create an "e-recipe book"

I would like to create a form so all she has to do is type in the info; [Recipe title, Season or Occation, yeilds, intro, ingredients, ...] and press a form button to save the "recipe."

Then I would like to be able to do a search by: Title, ingredients, or even season.

I am using Win98 with Office 2000 Standard [word,excell,ppoint].

?can i create this with what i have; if yes, where do i start and where to look for "how-tos"?

thanks, P-