Your favourite cookbooks

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Anything by Cas Clarke. Cheap and dead simple too. :-)

mossy

For anyone thats thinking of buying The Dinner Lady by Jeanette Orrey The book people currently have it in their sale section 2 books for £7 or 4 books for £12. I've ordered two copies one for me and one for my bessie mate as a birthday present and got both books for £10.50 inc postage which is much cheaper than anywhere else I could find it.

Hopefully I'll receive the book in a few days and for a fiver!!!

Miss_Cinnabon

twink wrote:

I love recipe books, and love looking for them at car boot sales, i especially like the ones done by people for charity etc. one of my favourites is Fast Cakes by Mary berry but although i have a big box of recipe books and copy more out of magazines i always seem to cook the same things!

Will definitely second that! in case anyone is wondering that is my mum (twink) and she has loads of recipe mags, books etc but still cooks the same stuff, not that i can speak i do the same! she gave me a look at the dinner lady book which i am just going to buy and maybe the second book, does anyone know if this is any good ie for kids?

thriftlady_2

I have both Dinner Lady books and would say they'd be fantastic for kids to eat from,but also to cook from.My ds1 made a couple of recipes from the first one when he was 9.I haven't cooked much from the first one,but the recent arrival of the second (Second Helpings from the Dinner Lady) has re-inspired me,lots of excellent advice on shopping and nutrition plus good ,simple tasty recipes.

Philippa36

Ticklemouse wrote:

My faves are The Good Housekeeping Cook Book - been loving used over the past (ahem) couple of years. I've also got a Delia one - as you say, good for dipping into if you have problems and I do like her marmalade recipe. I have a Nigella one, but that's more a good read.

My mum had the Good Housekeeping cookery book and I learnt to bake using the recipes from there. When I got married I was given it as a gift and although it is very well used and very tatty now, I still wouldn't replace it with anything else.

My o/h is a fan of Jamie Oliver and I like Nigella. I do have a ton of books though that never even get looked in

I have a large ring binder full of recipes from magazines, newspapers and hand written notes passed on from friends.

nickinoo

mossy wrote:

For anyone thats thinking of buying The Dinner Lady by Jeanette Orrey The book people currently have it in their sale section 2 books for £7 or 4 books for £12. I've ordered two copies one for me and one for my bessie mate as a birthday present and got both books for £10.50 inc postage which is much cheaper than anywhere else I could find it.

Hopefully I'll receive the book in a few days and for a fiver!!!

What a great book this is, I used quite a few recipes from it when I did a cookery & they worked well. I think I might actually have to invest in a copy at that price.

HOLsale

did i do something to offend someone?

i posted a very long post with many recomendations complete with links to the books on amazon (like many others have done) and i cannot find it anywhere in this thread nor can i find it in my list of posts made

i spent a lot of time doing that post and even dragged my cookbooks into the study ... where has it gone and why?

Queenie

HOLsale wrote:

did i do something to offend someone?

i posted a very long post with many recomendations complete with links to the books on amazon (like many others have done) and i cannot find it anywhere in this thread nor can i find it in my list of posts made

i spent a lot of time doing that post and even dragged my cookbooks into the study ... where has it gone and why?

Your post is here under the thread The Most Useful Cookery Book Ever heading.

Only BG's' can *merge* threads of similar themes and I've recently read that we are not to bump up "older" threads.

HTH

moggins

LOL Holsale, I am frequently getting these two thread muddled too

Why no old threads? Some of the old ones have some great advice

Queenie

moggins wrote:

LOL Holsale, I am frequently getting these two thread muddled too

Why no old threads? Some of the old ones have some great advice

I know that's what I thought too, but, it's explained in this thread (post #175 )