Can anybody recommend a cookery book for my son?

Dill

Hi Ollie

If your son has internet connection he might also find the VideoJug website useful. If you click on 'Food and Drink' there are short videos showing you exactly how to make a dish, what ingredients, what equipment is needed, etc
www.videojug.com

hth

LashyLashla

How about making him his own cookbook. You could include many of your own recipes that he wil no doubt remember from his childhood as well as having a nose about on MSE and Google for some other useful recipes.

I know id love a cookbook that my mum had put down her recipes in.

davefishfins

My brother who is in the resturant business but doesn't cook himself swears by Delia for no nonsense instructions and ease to follow. I have the Jamie cookbooks - but though he does the recipes he doesn't explain what a pinch or glug etc is.

lynzpower

the only dpwner I have with delia is that she always includes fairly annoying ingredients, that NO basic cook with a average storcupboard would have.

I have the Book of cakes, not only does it involve silly ingredients ( pinch of thai lemongrass essence type thing) but not one of the cakes out of the book has EVER turned out right and its fairly obvious in some of the recipes a step had been omitted.

kunekune

I would second the recommendation for Nigel Slater. I have carted his books from NZ to the UK, back to NZ, and then back to the UK again ... If I don't know what to cook and I'm in a hurry, then there is no-one better. However, if he is a very traditional eater, Nigel might challenge him a bit: I had never made a bean mash before I had Nigel helping me in the kitchen, though I do it quite often now. But his books are very male, which is why I thought of him: things like stuff on toast and quick savouries.

TheDoolallyDilly

I have a Good Housekeeping one which tells you how to cook and prepare everything. As well as recipes, it tells you how to prepare fresh veg, and cook it. It's a brilliant book, mine is falling apart, and every recipe I cook from that book turns out brilliantly.

This one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Housekeeping-Cookery-Book-Companion/dp/1843401150/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196618390&sr=1-2

kazmeister

Just had another idea - get him a subscription to easycook magazine, it is brilliant and I have all the copies from when it started, and they are used almost daily.

Gingham_Ribbon

Rose Elliot's Cheap and Easy is excellent, no nonsense stuff. It's veggie though so may not be great if he's a big meat eater.

CRANKY40

I have Marks and Spencers cookbooks that we were told to buy while at school 25 years ago. I haven't made anything from them yet that's gone wrong, and they're easy enough too, with plain ingredients.

I still make my christmas cake from the cake one every year.

rosy

Definitely recommend Alistair Hendy 'Home Cook' - every basic recipe you could ever need, very straightforward instructions and some funny blokey banter in between. I got a copy for my 19 year old son to take to uni and he thinks it's a great book. The Book People had it on offer a while back .

Edited to add- they don't have it any more but Amazon do and it has a lot more info on it there than I could post here. Honest I can't recommend it highly enough! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Home-Cook-More-Than-Recipes/dp/0755311582/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196635814&sr=1-2