What is your Favourite Cookery Book and Why?

tandraig

all recipes mentioned in book! along with some i had never heard of but tried some and found them delish! lets see - glamorgan sausages. llumery (flummery), and a lovely wine recipe my OH has done several times. I MUST get that book back off DS!!! winter is coming and i need it !!!! I can do the faggot recipe from memory now made them so many times!

cyclingyorkie

i grew up with my mum having a good Housekeeping cookbook.

When I got married 22 years ago I invested in one too!

I've since acquired plenty more - but i keep coming back to that one ....plus Delia's complete!

Would like Jamie's Ministry of Food...

kamperkat

Thank you for all your replies - whilst sittign here on my laptop (wasting my afternoon off:D) have I just found the wishlist thingy on amazon so am busy locating your books and popping them on my cookerybook wishlist (wish i had thougth of this years ago!!!)
We have a copy of the constance spry cookbook which is huuuuge but it's a really good one for finding slightly, may i say, older fashioned recipes - I love it!!!
My other faves are ones that i've picked up at The Works - totally random ones that were probably 3 for £10 jobbies but i've got the best indian cookery book and a spanish/tapas cookbook that i've ever read and they're full of recipes and the all important pictures!!!!
KKxx

p-pincher

I love all my delia and jamie oliver ones, got quite a few of each, the jamie one in america is great, didnt think id like it to much when i watched the programme but nipped into waterstones after work on friday and had a flick through and theres loads of good recipes and it was only a tenner so it seemed rude not to get it .

Also got the new economy gastronomy that im working my way through and i think quite a few of those recipes will become favourites in our house as well as an really old copy of the dairy family book of cookery which must be from the 80's.

But my absolute favourite is the Nigella Christmas book which combines my favourite things, food, cooking, recipe books and best of all christmas. Cant wait for the new Delia christmas book in october.

tandraig

can i just say - charity shops are a great source of cookbooks - my DS is into baking cakes - in his office they take turns baking a sweet treat on Fridays!.nice idea isnt it? so I have picked up a good few books for him.... a lot of my cookbooks are now living down his house! as I am not into baking - I dont mind, as most of them I havent done recipes from (too complicated) but I do want welsh recipes back!!! and there is NO way I would let him borrow Good Housekeeping book.

Meadows

Aldo Zilli's Foolproof Italian Cookery
This is a really good cookbook, full of good recipes and easy to follow.
My Husband who can cook but not as confident at cooking as I am had a go at the 'Romantic Dinner for 2'. What a good combination of courses, and every thing turned out very well, we have done the starter and dessert a few times since as they are so easy to do.

nodwah

Another vote for good housekeeping.. my mum has one from the 60s or 70s and it's great esp as it has lots of tips about why you food went wrong!

Anyway she won#t let me have it!

simpywimpy

I have to say Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food actually convinced me I could actually cook!

Now Im loving the Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten - an american lady whose recipes always seem to come out just as they should and easy to do as well..

tandraig

lol - nodwah - owners of GH books know they are worth their weight in gold - even if the exact recipe you want isnt in there - there will be a similar one you can adapt! also - the chapter intros - gives you so much useful info - my book taught me to cook - cheaply, healthily and tastily... er i mean tasty!

Steel_2

Nigella's Domestic Goddess - because no matter what I pick I've never had a failure even when I switch in cheaper ingredients. I also like her style of slinging it all together without a huge amount of effort.

Good Housekeeping Cookery Book, 50th edition - all the good basics are in here.