What is your go to cook book?

[lily1062]

I'm looking for a go to cookbook, so can you all tell me what your go to cookbooks are? Ideally a family one! Thanks

The Roasting Tin and the Green Roasting Tin by Rukmini Lyer. These are so well used in our house at the mo they’re sticky!

Pinch of Nom

Thanks @alphasox I have heard good things about the roasting tin book.

@ItWasntMyFault I do have both pinch of nom books

I have a couple of Sainsbury's ones - they did a winter recipe collection - they are good reference books.

Also Jamie Oliver Superfood Family Classics.

I am always reaching for VEG by jamie Oliver at the moment

Delia for the classics. Or Larousse Gastronomique for complicated classics.

Black Axe Mangel for dinner parties.

Jamie Oliver - Jamie's Dinners
Fay Ripley - Fay's Family Food

I like Nosh for Busy Mums and Dads.

Pinch of Nom.

From previously replies I don't think this is what you mean but -

My go to cookbooks for anything basic re:

Bero, slim brown one, but wish I had kept my original original, even though it was falling apart.
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Stork, that I was given when I first started doing cooking at school in the late 60s

Nigella Express! I'm not a keen cook and these are quick and tasty.

Elizabeth David for ideas, but most of my cooking is made up using the basic principles taught me 40 years ago. I have learned is that making your pasta is a fool's errand, that a breadmaker will make you gain weight, you must resist deep fryers, and that I can't do desserts.

I have loads of cookbooks and read them for fun but when I’m looking for ideas I find BBC good food online is excellent.

Delia's How to Cook (3 books) for most of the basics and classics.

For baking, I usually default to Peyton & Byrne.

Nigella Express & Jamie's 30 minutes. Yes there is a theme to my go to cookbooks - quick & easy!

Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course.

Nigella’s How To Eat, Domestic Goddess and Express.

Jamie Oliver’s Jamie’s Dinners.

I have tons but these are the ones I turn to, and the ones that have the recipes that have become part of my daily repertoire.

Tamasin's Kitchen Bible by Tamasin Day-Lewis. Covers pretty much everything but a bit more ambitious than Delia

Another vote here for The Roasting Tin and Pinch of Nom. Also got Pinch of Nom Everyday Light for Christmas which is great too.

A student one called The Really Useful Ultimate Student Cookbook by Silvana Franco. I have had it since I started uni nearly 20 years ago, and still cook recipes from it most weeks. I had to buy a new copy a few years ago because it fell apart. After uni I moved in with DH who didn't know how to cook anything, so it also taught him to cook. I also have a notebook in which I have copied out (or more recently just shoved in between the pages) recipes from magazines my mum gives me or websites that we have tried and liked. Last year DH turned vegan and bought a couple of recipe books. The best one so far is What Vegans Eat by Brett Cobley for realistic, fairly simple recipes that don't require lots of obscure ingredients and there is a chance DC will eat.

Cooking on a Bootstrap
Sainsbury’s Little Ones

Delia's Complete Cookery Course is my absolute go-to.

I have loads of cookery books, but this is my favourite. She's down to earth, no nonsense and taught me how to cook. I got it for my 21st birthday, so 35 years ago this year.

Going old school here, but it has to be the Good Housekeeping Cookery Book, 1966 edition. It's the one I remember most from childhood!

From Oven to Table by Diana Henry
A bird in the hand, also by Diana Henry - it's all chicken dishes

Fay Ripley's books I bought after a MN recommendation and I use them a lot still.

Jamie's 30 minute meals.

If you have teens in the house or aren't a very confident cook then the Jamie 5 ingredient book is great. It's a bit too simplistic for me but DS is using it very successfully and I think it would also be great for anyone on a budget.

Thanks so much for everyone's suggestions, keep them coming

The ones I have consistently used, even just for a handful of recipes, have been nigella's domestic goddess, Hugh f-w veg everyday, nigel's kitchen diaries 1, and jamie 30 min meals.