recipe book recommendations please

peb

I think I tend to use the celebrity cook books for fancier things rather than day to day stuff so will be interested to know how it goes! Enjoy and please report back

CH27

Have you done the Ham in Cola recipe? I can't remember which Nigella book it's in though.

richardw

p-pincher wrote: »

To be honest any ideas from any of these books would be nice
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Nigella Kitchen....

see page 100 Pollo ​​español con chorizo y patatas http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/spanish_chicken_with_98922

easy and great on a cold day.

siws1

Hi I have done quite a few recipes from Hugh's River Cottage family cookbook:- The white bread and raisin loaf (both done in the bread maker on the quick cook setting - lush). Pizza, Scones, Rice pudding (quadruple the recipe and make in my slow cooker unless a Sunday and making a roast) and the Lentil and Bacon soup for lots of people. There are so many in there that I want to try but I just enjoy reading it. Have many other celebrity cookbooks and also just read them - but my family cookbook looks well used especially on those pages lol!

seafarers_wife

thank you, this has promted me to go and dig some of mine out the cupboard for a read before bed.

im liking the hairy bikers one and also the jamie oliver one where its american receipes. and of course the good old classic, delia smiths complete collection.

Rummer

Oh gosh I am exactly the same! Currently looking through one to meal plan for the week!

cooking-mama

I am exactly the same p-pincher I have river cottage cookbook(havent cooked anything from it tho,)Jamies 30 min meals(and jamies ministry of food,and cook with jamie and naked chef),and hairy bikers,delia,Gordon ramsay,Tana Ramsay..I made the Piri Piri chicken from 30min meals,and a few things from ministry of food when i first got it,so long ago,i cant remember now..my daughter regularly makes cookies from(i think)ministry of food.

Rummer

Just had a flick through my books and added some specific things to my shopping list so that I Can cook a couple of things next week. Hoping to do that every week until we have tried a few new recipes.

Lippycow

Same here shelves full of cookbooks but i never cook out of them..so it needs to change so i will go through some of them for inspiration:-)

p-pincher

Thanks everyone.

Had a good look through a few of my books last night at the reccomended recipes and going to start making a few this week.

Tommorrow i'm going to start with the raisin loaf (HFW)and the roast shoulder of pork (economy Gastronomy). One midweek dinner is going to be the bolagnaise rissotto (Nigella,the kids will love this recipe). Cant decide which cake to try from the hummingbird book as they all look so nice so might start with a really easy one.

I keep coming back to the ham in cola but never been brave enough to try it, is it really that nice? We love baked ham but couldn't forgive myself if i ruined it.