Cookery Books read in 2016

Yes, Agent, yes it was!! Paradise! I was v disappointed. When dude brought our starter he showed us how to eat it by consuming half of it. It looked so good as well

Agent, was it the one with the waterfall in the window on GWR?

To be fair I bought Veg everyday to be just that, I wanted something for everyday cooking that wasn't either quorn or pasta etc. I have ha some really good staple meal from it, nothing fancy or expensive or posh but just a little bit different. Something the whole family can enjoy on a weekday night.

I think the problem I have with Veg every day is that too many of the recipes are basically things I'd make already and view as quite boring everyday sort of meals. But on a re-read, there are actually some interesting looking things that would be a bit different.

I suspect actually the real problem is that there is only so much you can do in January with squash, kale and brussels sprouts

Ooh, fellow Agent, I've not tried that one but I did have something that sounded an awful lot like it in a Persian restaurant in Glasgow and it tasted like feet! Acquired taste, maybe?

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Great idea for a thread remus !
I too am a veggie and enjoy reading/using non-veggie cookbooks. And I just ordered Feast, my first Nigella book :) Can't wait to try some recipes. And thanks so much for your chilly recipe, it sounds awesome.
I have HFWs veg everyday, it has a few nice recipes in it. I highly recommend the butternut squash and chickpea stew, DH and DCs aren't veggie but we all love it and it's a firm staple in our house.

I suspect it's probably the same version of Eastern Veg., Remus - yellowed slightly sticky pages and all. It must date from the early 90s. The distressing thing is that's quite new by my recipe book standards Hence the need for some new ideas . . .

Great idea for a thread! I love reading cookery books.
I recently got Neris and India's Idiot Proof Diet Cookbook. I actually meant to order their Diet book for the theory as I was thinking of trying low carbing.
As is sadly too usual it's full of things I wouldn't try in a million years- courgette soup with gingered onions, Thai green avocado soup. Things that are far too expensive for me- champagne salmon, lots of crab recipes, steak. And things which would take too long for me to prepare at the end of the day with three children clamouring for food.
However it is an entertaining read.

Other Agent , I'm enjoying Persiana, but had an absolute disaster with one dish from it. It was for guests, and we rushed out at the lady minute to get steaks instead. The recipe was chicken in a walnut and pomegranate sauce. DS1 has NEVER in 21 years refused to eat anything, and even he hated it. It was truly bouffing - simultaneously flavourless but with a horrible taste.

There was a radio 4 programme about reading cookbooks recently and although massive I remember a highly recommended one this year was the Nordic cookbook.

Tom Kitchin Kitchin Suppers has a few interesting recipies

Calvados Pork for example.

Great thread :) I'm aiming to cook one new thing a week this year, so looking forwards to reading other people's recommendations/favourites

So far I've been working from cookbooks I already own - I've recently reclaimed The Great Green Cookbook by Rosamund Richardson from my parents, and had another look at River Cottage Veg Everyday which I dismissed rather when DH bought it a few months back.

I haven't read World Vegetarian, but I use Madhur Jaffrey's Eastern Vegetarian Cooking quite a bit.

It's a beautiful book, Remus, one of those that's tempting just to sit and read but it's absolutely worth cooking from.

My two favourites at the moment are Mamushka by Olia Hercules (Ukrainian and East European/Eurasian) and Persiana by Sabrina Ghayour. I made ras el hanout chicken wraps out of Persiana and they were lovely. I haven't made anything out of Mamushka yet but it's a beautiful book to sit down with The meat dishes and breads look amazing.

I agree. Delia does brownies in our house.

My copy of feast is awol! Disaster.

I have made the Brownies from Feast, which were great and the Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake which is my staple birthday cake. Made the Cramberry tart at Christmas. It looked beautiful but too sweet. The Buche de Noele was similar, making the Swiss Roll was a bit of a faff
Then the icing was so thick you couldn't tasted the sponge. Kids loved it though.

I love reading Nigella books though. Still want her hair although it is never going to happen without a personal stylist.

I don't think I have cooked an awful lot from it - I am so rarely called on to feed 20! I do like Nigella though so in a minute when I can drag myself off my sofa I am going to get it and see a/ if I have done anything non-meaty from it and b/ if I fancy trying something this week.