Cook book buying addiction?!
mummybearx
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Anyone else think they have a problem with buying cookbooks?
I seriously need to get a grip!! Technically, I don't have that many, maybe about 30? Plus about maybe 40-50 A4 sheets printed off the computer, all inbetween the cookbooks. I just can't stop adding to my collection!
I actually lied to my husband about buying two yesterday I said I bought 'a cookbook' when in fact I bought two :rotfl:
First time I have ever lied about buying anything, I've never hid things from him before!
In my defence (honest!!) the two I bought yesterday were on sale, and one was a 3 or 4 ingredient cookbook, the other was an Over 400 family budget friendly recipes cookbook...... See how appealing those titles are?!?
Dh has now informed me that I need to cook at least one thing out of each cookbook or he is getting rid of them, and it can't be something I've already cooked lol
Anyone else have a mean DH? Sorry, I mean, anyone else have a cookbook addiction
I seriously need to get a grip!! Technically, I don't have that many, maybe about 30? Plus about maybe 40-50 A4 sheets printed off the computer, all inbetween the cookbooks. I just can't stop adding to my collection!
I actually lied to my husband about buying two yesterday I said I bought 'a cookbook' when in fact I bought two :rotfl:
First time I have ever lied about buying anything, I've never hid things from him before!
In my defence (honest!!) the two I bought yesterday were on sale, and one was a 3 or 4 ingredient cookbook, the other was an Over 400 family budget friendly recipes cookbook...... See how appealing those titles are?!?
Dh has now informed me that I need to cook at least one thing out of each cookbook or he is getting rid of them, and it can't be something I've already cooked lol
Anyone else have a mean DH? Sorry, I mean, anyone else have a cookbook addiction
Can't think of anything smart to put here...
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Yupp can I join>> I have tons, I even got one this morning from the charity shop for 20p!!! A nice retro 70's one. And I was going to buy three yes three from another charity shop. It reminds me an episode of the simpsons were skinners mother had a book full of pictures of cakes and she was showing bart, but he wasnt allowed to touch and she went 'this is a pretty cake ohh and this one' . I used to be a chef before I went and did different things. But I do love them, I like to look at them and swoon. My favourite one has to be my college one pratical cookery as it has everything in it! I feel quite sentimental now.Has anyone seen my last marble:A:A:A:A
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I have a couple of bookcases full, a smallish pile beside my bed and another pile next to where I sit.
Some are used for reference, some get read for pleasure, most do get cooked from. OH doesn't threaten to reduce the collection and I don't threaten to stop cooking. Though I really should reduce the size of the current collection so I can fit new acquisitions into the bookcases (there's another four in the post as I type).
Perhaps cooking something new from each of them might help me decide which should go.0 -
I had loads and culled them a while back and they were very quickly snapped up by friends. There were many that I had bought at car boot sales or in charity shops over the years, but that I never really used.
When I get a new one (mind you, don't know that I've ever actually bought a new one) I go through it and mark the ones I would like to try. Sometimes there are too many to mark, like in a Jamie Oliver one, and sometimes there would maybe only be a few that I have actually used.
During my cull, I looked at the ones that I rarely used, wrote out the recipes that I did want, then gave them away.Father Ted: Now concentrate this time, Dougal. These
(he points to some plastic cows on the table) are very small; those (pointing at some cows out of the window) are far away...
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I have ones that I have never used at all ,like Masterchef at Home, at least I won that and didn't pay £20 for it lol
More recent ones have been 50p ones from CS's, again never used..... My River Cottage Veg book has been used several times, but only to make the swede and potato pastries (yummy btw!)
I'm having a new shelving unit built for our kitchen, was going to use this to house the cook books. But maybe I should really properly read through them, type up what I will actually use, and sell/give away what I don't use.
(maybe dh was right.....ssssssshhhhhhh!!!!!)Can't think of anything smart to put here...0 -
Guilty as charged. I also have the cookbook addiction. I think I've gotten all at charity shops and table top sales for 20p to £1 max. And many of them I don't use.
Perhaps it's time to take the suggestion to copy down the one or two recipes in the ones I rarely use and move them on. Oh and if I do that, then I have room for more!Take the first step.
Even if you cannot see the whole staircase,
Just take the first step.
~MLK, Jr~
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Yes, love cook book however if you saw my monthly menu planner you would see I stick to the same meals!!! My DH has bought me quite a few but always says i never use any receipies from them. Anyway in my defence if I cooked anything different the family would moan!! And MIL buys me a Good food magazine subscription each year. The book I use most are delias cookery course and her baking book which is falling to bits. Actually i quite like the pictures!!!0
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I love the hairy bikers so I get other people to buy me them sneaky I know. But There was a Dutchy foods cookbook and a Marcus Waring cookbook that I wished I got today as these were only £1.99 each, but I really want Michel Roux Jr's But even in the works thats a Tenner. I will never cull my books never!!!Has anyone seen my last marble:A:A:A:A
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Love, love, love cookbooks. Just reading them and looking at the pics..I also like books about cookery or food and have a fair collection of those too. I don't make vast amounts from them but would like to do a bit more...Don't know how I could cull them...would find it incredibly difficult and yet, recently, have been thinking along these lines because of space issues..0
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yep me too....i have absolutely loads, i love to just read them cover to cover, i'm not one for following recipes for savoury dishes but they give me good ideas0
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My name is Alison and I am a cookbookaholic.
Also craft, household and crime fiction.Put the kettle on.0
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