Your favourite cookbooks

gettingitsorted

I tend to use my mum old Mrs Beaton cook book and The new art of cooking by Stork both are donkeys years old but like they say the old ones are the best

also bought my oh the cant cook want to learn book for christmas hes still not got to grips with it yet :rotfl:

seraphina

Best book to date has to be the Leith Bibles - I have Techniques and the Vegetarian Bible and they are clear and pretty foolproof.

I also have Delia's Cookery Course which is good for basics, Nigella's Domestic Goddess which is fantastic.

I have my mum's old copies of Rose Elliot's books, and a huge range of vegetarian books - Celia Brooks Brown is my current favourite.

I also love the Austrailian Woman's Weekly books - the Cheesecakes, Pavlovas and Trifles is particularly good!

Strepsy

Found the 'We'll Eat Again' cookbook for £1 in a charity shop this morning. Yay.

Loretta

I ordered Jeanette Orrey's new book Second Helpings from Amazon on Thursday and it arrived today and I love it, I have spent most of the day looking at it and feeling inspired. Mostly in any cookery book you do not make too many of the recipes but in this one I know I will probably make them all as I did in her last book

thriftlady_2

Mine's on its way.

lily_the_pink

My favourite book at the minute is the Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater - I love the fact that he cooks with the seasons. Its the first time since I got hold of How to Eat by Nigella that I have been really inspired to cook/eat new things. Both books arent too heavy on all the pornographic cookery techniques that put me off Gordon Ramsey recipies for example.

For basic recipies I have a copy of Leith's COokery Bible which has almost everything in (apart from a few very tradional english things like rock buns - but I have my Beero baking book for that).

pollys

My current favourite is The River Cottage Family cookbook, we made the flatbreads for tea tonight, it's a cookery book that the children like to look through. We made the butter and lots of other things. Think it'll be the Victoria sponge (again) tomorrow.

caroline1973lefty

"The Students Cookbook" by Jenny Baker (faber) has been on my shelves for 20 years and is amazingly comprehensive for such a slim volume - I use it all the time. Its got lots on all the basics you might cook from scratch - not 'how to open a tin of beans' like one or two other student cookbooks I've seen! For single people and couples I'd say it's the best, though I also LOVE Nigella - her instructions are really clear.

thriftlady_2

Loretta wrote:

I ordered Jeanette Orrey's new book Second Helpings from Amazon on Thursday and it arrived today and I love it, I have spent most of the day looking at it and feeling inspired. Mostly in any cookery book you do not make too many of the recipes but in this one I know I will probably make them all as I did in her last book

Just spent a couple of hours reading my new copy of this book and am very inspired.She's a fan of slow cookers.Recipes look as good and simple as her first book.She includes lots of advice on shopping and basic cooking skills too.The emphasis is on organic produce but the recipes will be delicious whether you choose organic or not - great family food.

mossy

Well I thought I had a large collection of cookbooks about 20 certainly compared to most of my friends but not you lot lol. Most of them I use regularly though, and I tend to grab a few on a Sunday evening and read through them when I'm planing the following weeks meals.

My favourites are Nigel Slater's real food umm yummy and as always I asked for a few new cook books for Christmas and I'm sooo impressed by Gary Rhodes Keeping it Simple there are some really yummy recipes in there. Faithful friends also include Nigella Lawson how to eat and good old Delia and her Complete cookery guide (even if it does stain my worktops when it gets wet lol).

I do have a very battered bero book around somewhere so I'm trying to find it as I feel loathed to buy a new one partly cost but mainly for sentimental reasons. I haven't really got any budget cookbooks so I've read through this thread with great interest, and have promptly searched our library's catalogue online unfortunately most of them are out but I'll pop in and pick up a couple to start with and then if I really like them I can buy them.