Idea,s needed please

tab1967

Hi all, just wondered if anyone can help, my middle son is 19 and lives with his g/f he is off to uni next year and is keen to learn how to cook. Can anyone recommend an easy to follow cooking book that isnt too expensive, managed to pick up a Jamie Oliver xmas cooking dvd in home bargains but would love to get him a book for xmas. Thanks in advance
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C_J

Cooking for Blokes

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooking-Blokes-Duncan-Anderson/dp/0751515639

haylibo

Amazon has various student cookbooks and cooking on a budget which can be bought cheaply form their sellers.

earthmother

Nigel Slaters 'Real Fast Food' is good - it's paperback and has plenty of quick and easy recipes - both student-y and a bit posher.

If he likes his cakes and puddings, then I'd say the Be-Ro cookbook is worth picking up too - you can get it from their site, or it is often to be found at the tills in the Co-op for about £1.

You could do both for less than £10 and, as long as you tell him where to find the OS board, you'll have set him up for life

two_sheds_2

I used to use Cas Clarke's books all the time; cheap books and cheap ingredients but tasty recipes. http://www.whsmith.co.uk/whs/go.asp?isbn=0747261717&DB=220

oh, just Googled it and there's a website of the same name:
http://www.grubonagrant.co.uk/

C_J

You could make this into a really nice hamper - with the DVD you already have, a cookbook, and a few bits and bobs such as a pack of wooden spoons, a garlic crusher and a tin opener (which you could get from the pound shop, if you have one near you), and parcel it all up inside a big saucepan!

tab1967

:T Thanks everyone will look at them all and decide which will be best for him.
CJ love your idea of the hamper but already made him a retro sweet box and movie night in hamper thanks to all the great idea,s on this site, think one more hamper may just be overkill for him:D I love this site and all the idea,s so thanks to everyone that posts.