Cook book buying addiction?!

MrsE_2

I'm an addict too.........

If I like someone, like Jamie, Nigella & the Hairys, I have to own EVERY single book they publish. I also own lots of others......

jeanniebeanie_2

jeanniebeanie wrote: »

Another addict here!:wave: I wish I had the discipline to copy out the best recipes and get rid of some, but I love the pictures- in fact I never buy cookbooks without glorious pics.

My addiction is worsening! I have just made myself into a liar and bought "The Good Granny Cookbook" by Jane Fearnley -Whittingstall. Not a single picture in the whole book! It was only £1.50 from a CS and it's in new condition.......It looks really good!

None of us could've resisted ..............could we?

softpad

I can join this club too. If there's a book that I only like a couple of recipes from, I have started to take a digital photo of the recipe and keep them on my computer. I find this saves a lot of space and time in not writing it out. HTH

grumswifie

I have over 300 cookbooks.

I have said it out loud now....

Sounds a lot :rotfl:

jeanniebeanie_2

grumswifie wrote: »

I have over 300 cookbooks.

I have said it out loud now....

Sounds a lot :rotfl:

Is that the first step on your road to recovery? :rotfl:

chirpychick

Do tell hubby but I cleared out about 50 and just brought 4!!!
One is that takeaway one, 1 is the paupers cookbook, 1 is baked brand and beyond and the other is a student one. We don't have any space hence the cull but I figured these new ones would help me save in the long run... And it was birthday money LOL

barneydee_2

can I join the club ? I love cook books, I have over four hundred :eek: I have two tall Ikea book cases in my kitchen which are ramed full. I have to sneek them in past my husband as he gose nuts, but then as others have said I can not see him getting rid of his collections of things. I have all of Jamie's books, the Hairy Bikers, Nigella. I have started buying a lot of Mary Berrry's books. I have loads of books on Italian (Ginos a Favorite) Chinesse, Indian, in fact most contries I think The only Country I don't have is Japaness. I do use a lot of my books as we quite often on a saturday night will have themed night where we cook everthing as authentic as possible to the county we are doing.

I have a 4 big ring binders allso where i file recipes that i have cut out of mags and also a hand written book of all the lovely recipes I have got of this lovley sit.

Dee

mi_jardin

I have about 20, though I have sold a few lately, maybe another 20. I have started getting the new ones from the library first to see if they actually have recipes I am likely to use. If they do I will buy it, but its not often. I find most of the "chef" ones use far too many expensive ingredients and I wont use them.

mummybearx

Well I had a few days off work last week, managed to thin out the supermarket magazines etc I had gathered over the years. Cut out the recipes that I liked, and binned the rest of the magazine.

First step to tidying up my cook book pile!

And I shall stay away from the shops today and for the rest of the month. Need to watch the pennies, don't let me spend what little I have left on new cookbooks :rotfl:

Swan_2

I knew I shouldn't have clicked on this thread, the last one we had like this cost me a fortune :rotfl:

one of my favourites recently is the aforementioned Dan Lepard's Short & Sweet, the Sticky Lemon & Poppyseed cake is absolutely sublime, & I don't even like cake!

I also like a good foodie read & food history & science books, I recently bought a second-hand first edition of Harold McGee's On Food & Cooking so I could compare notes with the latest edition & see how things have changed over the years


I do have a cull now & again, I'm particularly unimpressed at the moment with The Fabulous Baker Brothers and Ottolenghi: The Cookbook & I think they'll likely be heading to Amazon for trading in