recipe book recommendations please

KAAT_LADY

why dont you try this :-


http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=710445

Hope this helps


KAAT

foreversomeday

I have a fantastic student cook book which is called "The Really Useful Ultimate Student Cookbook" by Silvana Franco. In fact, any student cook book is great because they contain really filling, tasty, cheap recipes and most good ones will stress the importance of a balanced diet too. Not something you usually think of either! I also find them great if you're not very confident at cooking from scratch as they tend to explain things very simply and don't assume you have all sorts of expensive or fancy equipment.

ShelBell

Can't fault the Dairy Book of Home Cookery.

kazmeister

I have posted this sooo many times its embarrasing now but I swear by Easycook magazine. It comes out every couple of months and a years worth subscription is £9.99. They have different sections including feeding the kids from school, storecupboard recipes, dinner menus, baking etc. Each recipe gives how long it takes, what it costs, what the calories/fat content are, and each one has a picture so you know what its meant to look like. Next one should be out in about a month and you can pick it up in Tesco, Sainsbury, WHSmith to name a few. Might even still have a few of the current issue about.

hotcookie101

ShelBell wrote: »

Can't fault the Dairy Book of Home Cookery.

I have a copy of this that belonged to my Gran (my mum has one already so thats how I ended up with Gran's), I hardly use it for much, but the curry sauce is the best one for leftovers, its so retro-my OH and I regularly have it with leftover lamb/beef/pork, rice and chips for a old skool pub curry night (sometimes its nice not to have authentic curries )

moanymoany

hotcookie101 wrote: »

I have a copy of this that belonged to my Gran (my mum has one already so thats how I ended up with Gran's), I hardly use it for much, but the curry sauce is the best one for leftovers, its so retro-my OH and I regularly have it with leftover lamb/beef/pork, rice and chips for a old skool pub curry night (sometimes its nice not to have authentic curries )

Can you pm me the curry sauce recipe please. Also, over on Weezles 50p a day thread ceridwen is looking for a curry sauce.

thanks,
moaners

mhe

try the somerfield website - they have a recipe section and some great ideas. We have a small somerfield by us and i always get their free monthly mag just for the great recipes in it.

Pink.

Hi cheap charlie,

There's an earlier thread where other Old Stylers have recommended their favourite recipe cookbooks that should help so I've added your thread to it to keep the replies together. You might want to have a look at some of the threads in The Complete Old Style Book Collection too.

Pink

foreversomeday

Just wanted to add another vote for the Good Housekeeping cookery book! My mum has an edition which is about 30 years old now and it's endearingly stained and the pages are bulked out by her own recipes taken from magazines and hand written over the years.

It has all the old favourites so is great when you're having a "blonde moment" and can't remember how long to cook such and such for! (I know I do this quite often!) It also has some lovely traditional puddings in.

ShelBell

kazmeister wrote: »

I have posted this sooo many times its embarrasing now but I swear by Easycook magazine. It comes out every couple of months and a years worth subscription is £9.99. They have different sections including feeding the kids from school, storecupboard recipes, dinner menus, baking etc. Each recipe gives how long it takes, what it costs, what the calories/fat content are, and each one has a picture so you know what its meant to look like. Next one should be out in about a month and you can pick it up in Tesco, Sainsbury, WHSmith to name a few. Might even still have a few of the current issue about.

Am a subscriber to this and feel exactly the same! In fact I keep all my old ones in magazine files