What is your Favourite Cookery Book and Why?

MrsE_2

whats your desert island or holy grail cookbook?


Your most used, the one you would keep if you had to pick one.

Mine is still jamie olivers ministry of food I think its one cookbook every home should have!

I have a addiction & have all jamies, Nigella's, the hairys & others!!!
I'm eagerly looking forward to a girl called jack in the new year:j I thought disappointedly its going to full of veggie recipes (& im a low carber), but then I thought maybe its a good chance to try & develope a taste for non meat dinners, I'm sure they won't all be carb feasts, I hope some will be lentils & beans.
I would like to gather & print all she's posted so far, but I can only find a small section, is there anywhere where everything she has put out so far is parked?

I'm making it easy on myself this year, no starters as one of my guests is pregnant so prawns & pate & soft cheese are out of the running, we decided there is so much food anyway its unnecessary.
So turkey crown, turkey legs boned, stuffed & rolled with tom kerridges stuffing recipe & the rest as balls. Nigella gammon in coke. Pigs in blankets. Roast pots (prob hasslebacks), carrots, brussles & honey roast parsnips, gravy & cranberry.
Jamie olivers gingerbread & orange trifle (with the addition of orange jelly), xmas pudding & cream.
Later on we'll get the cheese & crackers out & crisps/nuts & chocolate (roses) & of course the turkey sandwiches.

Happy Christmas x

Aliceinfrugaland

I would fall back on the Cranks book but as you say high on carbs. We're having savoury stilton and port cheesecake. I've been doing it so long I don't Know where it came from. Sorry all vege household.

LameWolf

To be perfectly honest, if I could only grab one source of recipes as I left the burning building, it would be the flash drive where I store recipes from all over the place - many of them in fact posted on this forum!:T

Of actual published books, I'd probably choose the Readers Digest Cookery Year; I think it's the one we turn to the most often.

Another veggie here, btw.;) I'm quite adept at tweaking meat recipes to use vegetarian alternatives.:D

WantToBeSE

Mine would be JO's Ministry of Food too. I have tried almost every recipe in there, and love them all.

MrsE_2

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Mine would be JO's Ministry of Food too. I have tried almost every recipe in there, and love them all.

Its a real every night cook book isn't it.
I've even made the chocolate fudge cake.

MrsE_2

LameWolf wrote: »

To be perfectly honest, if I could only grab one source of recipes as I left the burning building, it would be the flash drive where I store recipes from all over the place - many of them in fact posted on this forum!:T

Of actual published books, I'd probably choose the Readers Digest Cookery Year; I think it's the one we turn to the most often.

Another veggie here, btw.;) I'm quite adept at tweaking meat recipes to use vegetarian alternatives.:D

If I love half a dozen recipes & the chef brings out a book, I will buy the book, even though I have printed the few I like.
Isn't that awful, I just can't move with the times with recipes.
I love recipes in cook books.

pollypenny

Lovely typo, Mrs E! Are we just thinking about puddings?

MrsE_2

Aliceinfrugaland wrote: »

I would fall back on the Cranks book but as you say high on carbs. We're having savoury stilton and port cheesecake. I've been doing it so long I don't Know where it came from. Sorry all vege household.

Stilton & port cheesecake? As your cheese board I guess?
Sounds interesting.

MrsE_2

pollypenny wrote: »

Lovely typo, Mrs E! Are we just thinking about puddings?

Lol - found it, damn samsung tablet!

pollypenny

My iPad changes my words into drivel!