Recommend a cookbook

gimpymoo

I need something which covers a variety...

From Humous to Prawn Cocktail

From Quiche to Chicken en Croute

I like Nigella Lawson and Anthony Worral Thompson.

Thanks for any recommendations.

Preferably one which covers savouries and sweets.

Bad-Boy-Button

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larousse_Gastronomique

All you'll ever need

Trying_really_hard

My mum bought me Pru Leith's Cookey Bible. I love it!! Covers the basics through to more complicated "show-y" dishes. Sweets and savouries. I couldn't do without it.

buxtonrabbitgreen

maguritte patten step by step cookery and the readers digest cookery year. I have loads of cookery books but these are the 2 I use all the time. I dont know if you can still get the maugeritte patten as I have had it 35 years. Anything that I have ever thought of cooking seems to be in one or the other of these.

victory

I saw today in WHsmith for £6 a cook book compiled by celeb cooks, nigella, anthony etc they were all there, it looks a great big cook book, cheap and has it all in there. They had stacks of them from floor to 4 foot high so there are plenty! xx

gimpymoo

Many thanks for all your replies. Am currently looking through them all online.

The main reason ive decided to get one is that we like to eat Organic, but I just begrudge paying over odds for say something simple like Humous, just because its organic. Would rather buy the organic ingredients myself and spend time with the little one teaching how to cook (only 8 months old, but never too young to learn to cook). I also enjoy cooking and now have more time to do so, so why not?

ALSO, being able to plan a weekly shop by planning meals by recipes I would hope will save us some money

victory wrote:

I saw today in WHsmith for £6 a cook book compiled by celeb cooks, nigella, anthony etc they were all there, it looks a great big cook book, cheap and has it all in there. They had stacks of them from floor to 4 foot high so there are plenty! xx

Was it this one:



Anymore suggestions appreciated.

Many Thanks.

gimpymoo

Well, the current contenders are:



The contents pages alone for this reads like a novel.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Larousse-Gastronomique-Greatest-Cookery-Encyclopedia/dp/0600602354

And:



http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leiths-Cookery-Bible-Prudence-Leith/dp/074756602X

Has anyone read both of these? What are the differences? They both appear to be similiar?

Is Larousse-Gastronomique more "European"?

gimpymoo

If anyone is interested, I have found Larousse Gastronomique for an amazing £23.50 (That includes postage) at:

http://www.thebookpeople.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/productSearch_10001_10001_35535_100___10_SimpleSearch_2_1_2__basicSearch_

Seems a steal at that price for a 1350 page hardback book.

Glad

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Karnam

i have about 15 cookbooks maybe more elsewhere.

i recommend nigella lawson's how to eat as a general one. its got loads of different sceranios, a good selection of different things, interesting philsophy of eating (which might suit you as she advocates organic) and some good easy recipes.

it might not be money saving (ie there is no 'cheap eats' section) but i find it brilliant... the only thing is there are no pictures so no food '!!!!!!' but plenty of description, she's a v visual writer so not hard to see if you are going wrong

also if you go to tescos you might be able to get it free (i got a free one to replace my lost one) check out the misprice board on the grabbit board for more details.

stu3105

Probably not the most popular choice but Delia Smiths Complete Cookery Course does it for me, I have tried most of the recipes over the last 15 yrs and they never fail.