Cookbook Suggestions

[lspst8]

I'm in the mood to buy a few new cookbooks, and I am looking for suggestions. I'd like to get one for myself and one for my husband. Now, I love to cook and bake, and sometimes I'll make time-consuming and difficult meals on the weekends because I actually think it is fun. So I'd like a cookbook with a good number of recipes, some easy and some on the hard side.

My husband is a beginning cook who doesn't have a lot of food experience, but he says he wants to learn more about cooking. He actually made a dinner last night with a Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade recipe he saw on Food Network, and it turned out pretty good! So, basically I'm looking for a beginner cookbook for him with lots of quick and easy recipes.

So, what are you favorite cookbooks?

 

[The Princess]

Try Taste of Home they have one for baking and one for cooking I really like both of them.

Another good one is The Joy of Cooking, loaded with information

 

[daughtersrus]

I LOVE the Taste of Home Quick Cooking books. The recipes are pretty simple with common ingredients.

You can either subscribe to the magazines (I think that they come every other month) or they put them all into a hardcover bound book at the end of the year.

I buy most of mine on Amazon. Some I've gotten for as little as 1 CENT plus $3.99 shipping.

 

[powellrj]

I have a wonderful Julia Child cookbook with wonderful recipes and pictures. I can't remember which one it is, but its huge! It has everything from easy to complicated recipes to make. I also have a James Beard one that has some really good recipes. I'm not at home or I would go and look to see the titles. For something more current Ina Garten has some really nice cookbooks.

For a beginning cook I agree taste of home has some great books and magazines. Better Homes and Gardens and Betty Crocker also have really good basic cookbooks along with the Joy of Cooking.