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

Delia Complete Cookery Course for all the basics, love Nigel Slater’s books as well, straightforward but ‘interesting’ ideas.

Nigella, Feast.

I've used it so much the the cover has fallen off and the pages are stuck together. Sign of a good cookbook!

Jamie's ministry of food and for really easy basics a student cook book.

I have a question for those who have both Pinch of Nom books.

I have the first one and I'm interested in everyday light but are there repeated recipes in the second one?
Ie, the everyday light recipes from the first book also in the second or are they all new?

New book is Roasting tin. old cookbooks eg 10+ years, Ainsley Harriot gourmet express book 1 & 2, Nigel Slater Real food and real fast food, Sophie Grigson country kitchen and taste of the times. Also Gary Rhodes around Britain, Keith Floyd best of Floyd, Delia how to cook and finally can't beat Good Housekeeping step by step cookbook. All well loved and food splattered cook books.

Also Fay Ripley
Not a cookbook (I have gazillions) but the BBC Goodfood website. I probably use that more than any of my books.

Seconding the recommendation of Nosh for busy mums and dads. My teens are starting to use it too.

The Happy Pear books are great for veggies.

Roasting Tin and the quick roasting tin.
Also Delia
And the Hairy Bikers Diet cookbook

@CanoeDoYouThinkYouAre the everyday light PoN only has one repeated recipe but it's got a different twist. I recommend it!

Marguerite Patten 1000 recipes
They're old school but it has all the basics in like white sauce, pancake batter, Victoria sponge. It's a useful resource for that sort of thing.

For actual recipes I usually use pinterest!

@LemonRedwood. My choices are identical.

Thanks Cactus.

BBC goodfood online

@TheWashingMachine Great minds think alike

BBC good food online too.

Ballymaloe cookbook, Avoca Cafe cookbook, Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible, and Thailand in the World Kitchen series (we love Asian food in this house!)

Roasting tin books and the Leon books are my faves

A Good Housekeeping compendium from 1947.

All the techniques can be adapted for modern dishes.

The random old country/rural cooking books that show up in the charity shop, particularly as they tend to produce handwritten recipes from long departed women.

Any other cookbook is bought for the pretty pictures.

Nigella, Delia, Jamie.
Nigella for quirky, Delia for standards and cakes, Jamie for curry.
For words and reading for pleasure, Nigel and Nigella.
Have just ordered Nigelissima, and Delia's old part 1, part 2 and part 3 to add to my collection.
If I fancy making something particular I'll Google recipe + Delia first, every time

Jamie's Ministry of Food
Good housekeeping step by step
101 square meals

Delia
Any of the Betty Crocker books, they're great.

Delia

Jamie's Ministry of Food.

I don't have a favourite book but I never go wrong with a Mary Berry recipe, I usually find them online though.