How many cookerybooks do you own and

[ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn]

how many have you never used and which one is your fave?
We have 23 books and a tin full of recipes torn out of magazines
We have 3 that have not been used
At the moment the most used in The preserving Book (pickled cucumber is yummy)
The worst recipe is Jamie Olivers pasta with broccoli in his 30 min meals book
The best is Rick Steins med escapes Parmigiana di melanzana

Good Housekeeping: Low fat feasts
Nigella Lawson: How to be a domestic godess
The commonsense guide to cooking
Prue Leith's Vegetarian bible

6 and a box of handwritten/torn out/printed off recipes. The box sees way more action than any of the books. I do love this one for its prettiness factor, some amazing photography. I've only made about 3 of the recipes though

About 7, but the only ones that get used are Delia and the be-ro cookbook.

I have about 150 and I haven't used lots, but the ones I use most are:

Mai Pham's Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table (most regular recipes memorised now, book entirely splattered and dogeared)

The Silver Spoon (Italian cooking bible)

and a Simon Hopkinson one.

I'd say we have about 15. We NEVER use the one in my husband's language because the food in it is gross. I have two Delia books I'e never used. Rarely use the one pot book (one recipe we use).

Books we use all the time:
Ainsley Harriots low fat meals in minutes.
BBC Good food low fat feasts
200 slow cooker recipes
Slow cooker curries.
The tomato cookbook.

Oh, forgot David Lebovitz the Perfect Scoop (I make icecream once a week)

And the Fuschia Dunlop Sichuan book

And the Claudia Roden Middle Eastern ones.

Cookbooks sing a siren song whenever I'm in their vicinity and I've been known to read them in bed.

I have at least 800 from around the world plus several hundred assorted booklets; some that were supplied with various kitchen appliances (not all owned by me), some slim 'charity' cookbooks, and some from the war years that I've unearthed on my travels.

The most well-thumbed are Fanny Farmer and the Good Housekeeping Cookery Book (the Cook's Classic Companion), followed by an oddity entitled The Deaf Smith Country Cookbook.

Fanny Farmer's sour cream coffee cake and waffle recipes are in regular use, but I rarely follow recipes exactly and am not adverse to purloining parts of one and amalgamating it with a recipe from another source - I occasionally make boned shoulder of lamb en croute stuffed with a walnut, lemon, and parsley farce that I nicked from an Elizabeth David recipe for leg of lamb.

I have loads - 100+ - many of which I haven't used yet.
I really like Nigel Slater, Barefoot Contessa (although a bit heavy on fat - v tasty though!), Jamie & Delia - it's their books I keep coming back to.

For some reason I don't seem to have much success with Nigella's recipes - I love her books though, so I'll keep trying.

Confession time....... Over 80 have being counted on one shelf, but another 3 shelves to go and books dotted round house, before I even consider the magazines.

Rarely use any of them - as I love the bbc good food site!

Probably about 40.

Nigella's how to cook is always referred to as arr Donna Hays off the shelf and no time to cook.

My fave at the moment is Gordon Ramsay's Best Menus which is full of loads of quick easy to make recipes.

Rick Steins seafood is lovely but not really of practical use.

Erm..about 50. Used most of them, least favourite is a fish one as DCs don't like fish much unless it's battered and chipped

I use the Conran Cookbook a lot. Also, Nigella's domestic goddess is a tried and true friend for puddings.

I hate Prue Leith's Cookery Bible because there are very few photos and very sparse intos to each recipe. The best bit of Nigella is the opening blurb to each recipe, where she says things like, "I have always found cooking a ragu sauce a complete faff, untill I discovered this recipe in Southern Tuscany and adapt it, using rather more brown sugar than the original but then I always find a slightly sweet ragu so very reassuring. Try this on cold October evenings and I guarantee your children will come back for seconds, as will most right-thinking adults."

I have never used Jamie at Home: Cook your way to the Good Life and I find it really annouingly pretentious.

Falling Cloudberries by Tessa Kiros is beautiful but I have never been motivated to make anuything from it.

About 50, don't have any TV chef ones - the most useful for kids are the Good Housekeeping sorts and I like the ones from various countries we've visited. The Internet is probably the most used cookbook at the moment. Least is a fish one as kids don't like fish unless it's battered.

I have 31 cookbooks, a large folder of magazine cuttings, 37 Cuisine magazines, and a folder of favourites on my laptop.

The books I use the most are Stephanie Alexander's Cook's Companion, Hugh F-W's Meat (transformed the success of my roasts, nom nom), several Nigel Slaters, Donna Hay, and Good Housekeeping.

Most of my books have at least one recipe that I use, e.g. Rick Stein's French Odyssey for cassoulet, Jamie for making pasta, etc.

I have four volumes of Larousse Gastronomique which I have to date found neither useful nor particularly interesting. Quite disappointing.

I am yet to use The Poacher's Handbook, but only because I am waiting for game season to start so I can try out the recipes.

The books I would most like which I don't yet have are the Simon Hopkinson ones.

I've around 100,loads I've never cooked from but I've read tbem all.

I use Jamie's mof, Nigel Slater real fast food and Delia's ccc the most and I'm in love with Simon Hopkinson's new one.
Not cooked from it yet though as I've just moved house.

Oh, I really like Sam Stern's books too.

About 30. Most used are Jamie's ones, a Middle Eastern cookbook and street food one that is fab for summer (amazing zingy salads and meat marinades).

Lots. I use JO 30 minute meals and MOF the most.

Mainly use the BBC website tbh, I like the reviews.

i have none. DH is a chef and i've no idea, 50-75 i think. he reads them but he doesnt often cook from them directly.

I have about 40. Most used is Raymond Blanc's Cooking for Friends but mainly only when we do have friends round. The last dessert I made from it was gorgeous but takes 24 hours and a load of preparation so not sure if I will be making it again!

Never used is a Madhur Jaffrey one. I had great intentions when I bought it but find it so much easier to get an Indian take-away......

I have about 5. The Silver Spoon cook book is fantastic, also love Nigella. I tend to borrow cookbooks from the library and write down the recipes I really like in a big scrapbook. :)

It was either 60 or 80 at the last count and we've bought a few more since. Very few have been used yet.

Which Of the Ginormous books is worth getting?

Haven't counted but 40-50 books ... Nigella, Rachel Allen, a few Jamie booms, Delian, Hugh FW

Oops Gino

OMG .... have just counted (ish). There's at least 400 and they all live in a huge wide bookcase in my hall. The most reliable are the Delias, particularly the good old Complete Cookery Course - which is falling to pieces and must be 25 years old. The Nigella books get used quite often too, and HFW's Meat book is great. Admit that quite a lot of them fall into the cookery book porn slot ..... books from fancy chefs with fancy restaurants that I'll probably never go to, and whose recipes are beyond my skill, my kitchen equipment and my budget !!