recipe book recommendations please

PetuliaGristle

I'd recommend Delia's Complete Cookery Course, I learnt to cook from it back in the day, it was my bible!

1_step_closer

Wow! thank you! I will browse and see later. All good suggestions.

so what store cupboard ingrediants do you have? I also work odd hours which are very long so want something very simple when i get in and easy to cook.

sorry to be a nuisance

1 step

10past6

1_step_closer wrote: »

so what store cupboard ingrediants do you have?

Hi 1 step

I've just started home cooking after living on ready meals, I've obtained loads of recipes from this site, I really wouldn't bother purchasing a book at this stage as there are far to many to choose from.

Once you start cooking there is a sticky at the top of this thread for quick questions which you can ask if you're stuck with something.

As for ingredients, my suggestion is choose a recipe that you like, and build up your ingredients as you go along.

I had a fear of cooking, however, since starting I've really taken to it, today I made a vegetarian curry, veggie cottage pie, and some hobnobs.

This site is full of recipes, the problem for me is finding healthy / low fat recipes.

Good luck.

meanmarie

I love my Mary Berry, wide range of easy to follow recipes, I think that everyone needs a basic book like this to use when inspiration will not appear.

I would agree with 10past6 that there are wonderful recipes on this site...you need to be more organised than I am to gather them together in various categories.

I think that for store cupboard items you need various herbs and spices, tins of tomatoes, rice, couscous, pasta, various dried beans and peas, flour, dried milk, dried fruit, oatmeal, various oils, good old salt and pepper....really the list is endless but is best gathered over time at a pace your budget can afford.
Good luck with the cooking

Marie

ifonlyitwaseasier

i reckon "the dairy book of home cookery"

my mum has one from 1980 something and i got the updated version a couple of years ago.

it has so many different recipes and even has been updated with separate microwave cooking instructions for most recipes

isbn number is 1-86019-485-0 if you need it

count_rostov

It depends on what kind of food you like eating. Delia is of course great. However if you like curry then Madhur Jaffrey has real fail-safe recipes which mean you'll never buy jars of curry sauce again.
My personal favorite is Jane Grigson's English Food which has lots of traditional recipes like steak and kidney pudding, tea bread, etc, and the recipes are written in a way which encourages you to improvise.

1_step_closer

Thank you everyone for your help! I will take some time to browse through some of the recipes on here to get ones I like and go from there!

1 step x

pigpen

I picked up the complete mary berry one for £3 from the charity shop... I'd also be looking at an appliance of some kind or something else!

Burlesque_Babe

I'd also say Delia or Mary Berry.

I was given the One is Fun book by Delia 20 years ago when I started at Uni and it basically became my bible. Not sure if still in print, but her complete cookery books would be a good substitute.

I've also got the dairy cookbook - my Dad is a milkman and in the 80s a new one appeared every year as he used to sell them and always got a free copy - I used to spend ages reading them! I was given the updated on as a gift last year and it's excellent.

anguk

GirlySquare wrote: »

I'd recommend Delia's Complete Cookery Course, I learnt to cook from it back in the day, it was my bible!

I'd second this, I bought it for my son when he left home. It has everything from boiling an egg to lavish dinner party food.

There's also the Illustrated Cookery course, it's more expensive at £16.25 but you'd get free super-saver delivery.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Illustrated-Cookery-Course-Delia/dp/0563214546/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211110146&sr=1-6