Your favourite cookbook?

[binny]

I collect cookbooks, I love them. I love to look at the pages and my mouth waters over some of the ideas in them but I find I use just a few of the cookbooks and one in particular gets most of the use.

Do you have a cookbook like that?

My favourite cookbook is called 500 treasured Country Recipes by Martha Storey and Friends. Its has recipes for every season and has tips and hints on when to buy things. It even covers making things like cheese and your own ice cream. It has tips on how to plant a garden, how to can what you sow, bake sale ideas, how to sew easy gifts... this is the all in one book! In fact I am making chocolate bars from it right now


So how about you? Do you have a favourite cookbook?

 

[binny]

http://www.amazon.com/Treasured-Country-Recipes-Martha-Friends/dp/1580172911


just linking to it if you want to check it out.

 

[chrisw127]

Judy Rosenberg's All Butter Fresh Cream Sugar-Packed Baking Book, which came out in 1991. Every recipe I've tried has been amazing and it even won over a boyfriend or two back in my single days.

Here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Rosies-All-Butter-Fresh-Sugar-Packed-Baking/dp/0894807234/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224088611&sr=8-2

I also like just about any Ina Garten cookbook. You really can't go wrong with her recipes. Well, your cardiologist might not agree.

 

[lovesmurfs]

When I was student teaching some 18 years ago, I bought the Family Circle Encyclopedia of Cooking from a traveling bookseller. It remains my favorite printed cookbook because it covers just about everything I've needed to know.

I also love the ones put together by church and civic groups. My favorite is "Christmas Gems" by the Garden Club of Georgia in 1984. It gives great entertaining and gift recipes as well.

Now, I my favorite recipe resource is www.allrecipes.com.

 

[Praying Colonel]

My favorite is "How to Cook Everything" by Mark Bittman. Focuses on simplicity of preparation to focus on the flavor of the food. Definitely worth a look, IMHO.

 

[blanq]

I also collect cookbooks and love to read them. One of my favorite things to do on rainy weekend days is to curl up in my comfy chair and read cookbooks. Cookbooks are like music is to me though, in that my favorite is always changing. Right now, at this moment, my favorite cookbook is Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes. It is the most beautifully photographed book, and the recipes are wonderful. I am enjoying trying out recipe after recipe in this book.

 

[MeanLaureen]

I love cookbooks as well. I don't think I have one stand out favorite. We just bought the Fix-It and Forget-it Big Cookbook because we have been getting into fixing food in a crockpot.

When I was student teaching some 18 years ago, I bought the Family Circle Encyclopedia of Cooking from a traveling bookseller. It remains my favorite printed cookbook because it covers just about everything I've needed to know.

I also love the ones put together by church and civic groups. My favorite is "Christmas Gems" by the Garden Club of Georgia in 1984. It gives great entertaining and gift recipes as well.

Now, I my favorite recipe resource is www.allrecipes.com.

I love Allrecipes.com. The only thing that bothers me about it is lately the measurements have been coming up as metric and you have to keep clicking on the link to have them show up in US measurements. It wasn't like that in the past. Is there a place where you can pick your default for what the measurements will show up as? I've looked and can't find anything.

 

[bambootinker]

I also collect cookbooks and love to read them. One of my favorite things to do on rainy weekend days is to curl up in my comfy chair and read cookbooks. Cookbooks are like music is to me though, in that my favorite is always changing. Right now, at this moment, my favorite cookbook is Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes. It is the most beautifully photographed book, and the recipes are wonderful. I am enjoying trying out recipe after recipe in this book.

I'll take cooking magazines, too.

my favorite is Laurel's Kitchen. Old and crunchy.
http://www.amazon.com/New-Laurels-K...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224090209&sr=1-1

She also wrote a nice cookbook for those that are caring for others.
http://www.amazon.com/Laurels-Kitch...=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224090101&sr=1-5

I also like "Whole Foods for the Whole Family" from the La Leche League.

 

[lovesmurfs]

I love Allrecipes.com. The only thing that bothers me about it is lately the measurements have been coming up as metric and you have to keep clicking on the link to have them show up in US measurements. It wasn't like that in the past. Is there a place where you can pick your default for what the measurements will show up as? I've looked and can't find anything.

How odd. Mine have always come up with US measurements. At the bottom of the page, is your version the US version? http://allrecipes.com/Help/questions/faq/Localization.aspx

I'd send an email to customer support. That would drive me nuts.

 

[DMickey28]

I don't have one set favorite. I am not huge on cooking out of cookbooks, i mostly use them for ideas.

I am a huge fan of allrecipes.com and getting ideas from the Food Network. I haven't noticed the metric thing on allrecipes. I was just on there yesterday and it was fine.

 

[RUDisney]

My favorite is "How to Cook Everything" by Mark Bittman. Focuses on simplicity of preparation to focus on the flavor of the food. Definitely worth a look, IMHO.

I met Mark Bittman at a food show a few years back and I told him that every time I picked up his book it never had what I wanted to make. The only thing is, I wasn't kidding. So many times I've gone to my big 3 books, How to Cook Everything, The Best of Craig Klaiborne, and The Joy of Cooking and none of them have had a recipe for what I wanted to make. When I hit right on one of these books, though, the results are usually very good.

I tend to like the locally collected and sold books for charities the best and those that have pictures of the food. If it shows me something mouth-watering, I usually have to try it.

 

[pittypat]

Anything by Susan Branch!

 

[Michelle67]

That sounds like a really neat book, Binny!

I have a bunch of cookbooks, but almost never use them. I'm a wing-it kinda cook. I do use them for baking, so I have more cookie cookbooks than anything else. We use those for our Christmas baking every year, but we transferred the ones we really like to cards so we can drag them around and have them on the counter more conveniently than a book.

I like the local charity ones too. I have a couple of hospital ones, and a really funny one from Head Start in my sister's school district. I love it because it has a section written by the kids and it is SO FUNNY how they imagine things would be made.

 

[Rora]

I love Gooseberry Patch and Paula Deen cookbooks!! I'm not much of a cook but those books make me want to cook.

 

[breezy1077]

I love Quick From Scratch Pasta. It's one of the only cookbooks that I can make the recipe as is vs. having to "tweek" it. And the recipes are just that - Quick!


ETA: my favorites from the book are...

Greek Ziti
Acadian Rigatoni
Penne Salad with Roast Beef, Arugula...
Tex-Mex Cavatappi
Cavatappi with Pepperoni
Spaghetti with Tuna and Fresh Tomato Sauce (but I omit tuna)

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

Joy of Cooking is our big, go-to cookbook. We also own How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian...both excellent. I love the NYTimes, but Bittman's "The Minimalist" column Wednesday's Dining In/Out is one of the reasons we subscribe.

 

[MeanLaureen]

How odd. Mine have always come up with US measurements. At the bottom of the page, is your version the US version? http://allrecipes.com/Help/questions/faq/Localization.aspx

I'd send an email to customer support. That would drive me nuts.

O..M..G Thank you so much for pointing that out to me! Somehow I ended up on the Australian/New Zealand site after using the US site for over a year. I had searched everywhere - through the profile settings, the FAQ section, etc to find out how to change the settings. Didn't look at the fine print at the very bottom

I guess that explains all the vegamite recipes

Thanks again!

 

[lovesmurfs]

O..M..G Thank you so much for pointing that out to me! Somehow I ended up on the Australian/New Zealand site after using the US site for over a year. I had searched everywhere - through the profile settings, the FAQ section, etc to find out how to change the settings. Didn't look at the fine print at the very bottom

I guess that explains all the vegamite recipes

Thanks again!

Vegamite .... LOL!!!

 

[daughtersrus]

I love Quick Cooking from Taste of Home. They have a magazine that comes out 6 times a year but they also put together a book with all of the recipes for that year. The part that I like is that most of the recipes are easy with common ingredients. I hate having to buy a special spice that I will only use for one dish.

To the OP, thanks for the thread. I had forgotten to purchase the 08 edition and just went to Amazon and found several listings for $0.01 + $3.99 shipping. $4.00 for that book!

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

My mom knows that I collect old cookbooks and recently gave me a bunch of them..mostly microwave cookbooks from the late 70s through the mid-late 80s.

One however, made me smile when I saw it. It's a big, thick, hardback book called "Women's Home Companion" and dates from the mid 1950s. Haven't actually MADE anything from there yet, except a chicken/corn casserole which was yummy. I LOVE to read through it thouogh and look at the illustrations.