Can anyone recommend a cookery book?

magenta22

Good food recipe book is good, has loads of recipes from the website but in a book. Everything from one pot dishes, family favourites, budget meals.

Welshwoofs

Personally I'd forget all the big name celebrity chefs. Two cook books I come back to again and again are:

Simon Hopkinson's 'Roast Chicken and other stories'
Elizabeth David Classics
Leith's Cookery Bible

The River Cottage books are wonderful, but they are doorstops so probably not the best if you're going to send by post.

Caroline_a

This is one that I have had for many years, you can find everything in it, plus some quirky stuff that's quite fun to read inasmuch as it's how people used to do things! However, many of the recipes are classics. I originally bought it as a paperback as an impoverished student, but I see the hardback isn't too expensive for what is a very large and comprehensive book

onlyroz

Depends if you're talking about a "basic" cookbook that will tell you how long to roast a chicken for, and how to make yorkshire puddings (in which case I'd suggest Delia's "complete cookery course") or a book that includes recipies for specific meals (in which case I'd go with Jamie Oliver).

sassyblue

My faithfuls are:

Jamies 30 minute meals

CHINESE FOOD MADE EASY: by Ching-He Huang Hardcover £10.39

Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home: Nigella Lawson £13

They're all on Amazon and you get free delivery to them plus the option to gift wrap for you, much better than posting yourself.

BOBS

I have a shelf full of jamie oliver, hairy bikers the works. But the one I always go back to for staples and old fashioned puds is the dairy book of home cookery - definitely the most used in my collection.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dairy-Book-Home-Cookery-Nineties/dp/1860194850/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323694716&sr=8-1
this is amazon link but you can picked them up off ebay too.

dizziblonde

The Covent Garden Soup books are wonderful - I just photocopied any I fancied the sounds of from other people's (there are about 4 of 'em) and haven't had a dud recipe yet... but obviously all soups.

Gillyx

Another vote for Nigella - Kitchen, my most used cook book. The Spanish chicken is divine.

lostinrates

I love lots of thoe mentioned, but if they are foodies who love to cook together they might alrady have them. What about checking the price of ''the silver spoon'' which is the italian equivalent of something like the good housekeeping cook book or leiths....a sort of ''if you need to cook it in Italy its in here''. Its the sort of thing bride is given. Its a bit poor on the pictures side of things, but its a classic.

peachyprice

Thanks for all your wonderful suggestions!

They cook together because they enjoy it, so it's not really a basic or '30 minute' book I need. Something a bit more involved with some new concepts.

TBH, I'm not too keen on JO, although they might be

Callie I did look at the Heston At Home, that looks quite interesting and challenging.

Ooh didn't think of soups, that would be good, they both work outdoors regularly.

Oh so many to choose from, I wished they liked cakes, I'd find that really easy :rotfl: