recipe book recommendations please

Caterina

The OS thread!

silverchair

The OS thread
Channel 4 food website for Gordan Ramsey's recipes
Delia Smith's website (some fantastic, easy recipes)
Nigella Lawson website
BBC good Food website
I suppose the actual recipes arent that ms but you dont need to buy the recipe book & you can batch cook them.

jennieshrew

I've just ordered Jocasta Innes so thanks for the reccomendation, I want to buy them all but thats not very money saving! I'll slowly add to my collection.

The practical cookery for all book looks fab so i'll try and get that when I get paid!

luxor4t

jennieshrew wrote: »

I've just ordered Jocasta Innes so thanks for the reccomendation, ....

I bought it when it first came out in the 1970s & I was very newly married, straight from Uni so we had nothing. In the end the first copy fell to bits :rotfl:
I replaced it recently as I was starting to get fuzzy about measurements etc, despite having cooked the recipes for so many years

anguk

jennieshrew wrote: »

I've just ordered Jocasta Innes so thanks for the reccomendation, I want to buy them all but thats not very money saving! I'll slowly add to my collection.

The practical cookery for all book looks fab so i'll try and get that when I get paid!

It's worth looking for it on ebay, they have a few a bit cheaper than Amazon.

pawpurrs

River Cottage Meat book, they also have one on preserving that looks fab but it was expensive, and I resited yesterday, I have sooo many cook books, and I dont think I have cooked anything from some of them!

foxgloves

I use several of these books.....also 'Cheap and easy vegetarian' , a pbk with lots of very cheap basics which also gives ideas for adapting recipes according to what ingredients you have. Also.....a small thin pbk from a charity shop on freezing food. It is an A-Z of just about every food you can think of with instructions on how best to freeze it. I do use the freezer a lot, but this book (which cost about 50p) has helped save money because there have been occasions when I've thought something can't be frozen then discovered from this book that it can.

Mrs_Monkey_Boy

I borrowed Gill Holcombe's book:
"How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three Saucepans (one with an ill-fitting lid) and no fancy gadgets ... - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher"

from the library - mainly because I liked the title but I found it really helpful - you can also get the whole text online:

http://www.howto.co.uk/wellbeing/quick-healthy-recipes/introduction_61/#where-did-we-go-wrong

Going to keep an eyes out in the charity shops for some others!

Trinny

Hi there

I recommend - the shirley good series
Also the victory cookbooks by Margeuritte Patten - for inspiration really
Food for Free - Richard Mabey - the newbie foragers bible

Otherwise - i also have the "how to feed your family" and the paupers cookbook.

To be honest -i usually look at Squeaky's recipe mega index if i want to make something - good tried and tested recipes, within budbet:T

BW

Trin

Sara784

I got it from the book people, was £4 i think, its a good housekeeping one. Just made a chicken bake thingy from it (leftover roast chic, thin sliced potatos, HM white sauce, peas, onions) and it was delish! Bought it cos i'm moving out soon and it has lots of good tips in the front for freezing, meal planning and ideas for using up leftovers, so quite OS Has lots of nice recipes in it so thought i'd recommend it. Also has a roast section in it, with different roasts and about 3 ideas for each type on using the leftovers from it :T