Your favourite cookbooks

Squidgy

I love cookbooks. I read nigella like it is fiction. I have got loads of old hand me downs and ones I've brought from jumble sales etc. I read through them all frequently for ideas.

Snowyowl, perhaps you could make your recipe book available to other MSE'ers like Martins remortgage guide?

vanoonoo

Squidgy wrote:

Snowyowl, perhaps you could make your recipe book available to other MSE'ers like Martins remortgage guide?

great idea

moggins

I wrote a recipe book years ago, keep meaning to get it typed up and sent off to a publisher somewhere, all the recipes are cheap, easy and quick to cook.

Hopefully I will be able to share a few when I've settled in a bit

Squidgy

moggins wrote:

I wrote a recipe book years ago, keep meaning to get it typed up and sent off to a publisher somewhere, all the recipes are cheap, easy and quick to cook.

Hopefully I will be able to share a few when I've settled in a bit

oh, i'd definatly like that one

Tanya_3

Sarahsaver wrote:

My ideal would be down one bottle, then go and catch me something to cook in the other one:)
You try costing any of delia's recipes, expensive. She tells people they MUST have free range eggs from hens that face south or something, my puddings with cheapo eggs are yummy.

Sarah - I'm not a Delia fan either. But if you saw the conditions that the hens who lay the cheapo eggs had to live in, you'd have to have one rock-solid heart to keep buying them.

Penny-Wise_4

MATH wrote:

Not one of them tells me how to make fish fingers interesting!

Try Jamie Oliver's "Fantastic Fishfinger Butty" in 'Happy days with the naked chef' or click here

MATH

In defense of Delia (and I don't use her books often either) but if you ever have a problem,ie your yorkies won't rise, your meringue always colapses or you don't know how to cook fennel, then get her book and do it the Delia Way - success

vanoonoo

MATH wrote:

In defense of Delia (and I don't use her books often either) but if you ever have a problem,ie your yorkies won't rise, your meringue always colapses or you don't know how to cook fennel, then get her book and do it the Delia Way - success

absolutely agree MATH - delias recipes work and her methods work but i also hear what the others are saying about related costs. mind you wrtt jamie and nigella are as bad imo

carol_a_3

They are selling the Be-Ro books at my local co-op for 99p at the moment, so check out your nearest branch. Next to the flour etc.

nearlyrich

"The Dairy Book of Home Cookery" I'm on my second copy cos I wore the first one out.
Deilia's Cookery Course is also well battered and well worth a thumb through when you are confronted with a freebie crop of unusual vegetable and don't know what to do with it.

I got a copy of the dairy book as a present in 1982 when I moved into my first house, fantastic recipe for Leek and potatoe soup( Viscysoisse) which I make lots because we all love it and it's nice and filling. I have Delia's Cookery course, and some of the how to cook series, I can't beat the clear instructions for things like roasting different cuts of meat and making gravy and yorkshire puddings and her perfect fluffy rice method is a winner for me too. I used to have 2 big shelves of cook books in my old kitchen but they were mainly dust collectors, I put the ones I wanted to keep in my bookcase and sold the rest at a car boot sale. I just keep Delia in the cupboard near the cooker for quick referece . Sad but true I sometimes read my cookbooks too, looking for ideas to feed the family or for dinner party menus.