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Lockdown has got Absolutely fed up of cooking and churning out the same old thing.

I have one cookbook (shame ) and must admit im not good a varying our menus ...
What cookbook would do this for me?

I LOVE the Madeline Shaw books - all super healthy but tasty recipes, her latest books are divided by quick/easy weeknight dinners and then more involved. Everything I’ve made from her books has been delicious and I’ve not had to do any amending. Lots of her recipes are now regular favourites.

Some of the Jo Wicks ones are nice although I’ve had to do a bit of amending. His Italian Stallion sausage casserole is delish (we use chicken sausages as they’re lighter. And substitute the stock for pasata.

Deliah is my go to. Always reliable

Another vote for the roasting tin

I'm alone but, I don't rate the roasting books. I've got the green one and the yellow one and whilst I've made a few things, which have been nice enough , I don't find the recipes particularly interesting or memorable.

I love Diana Henry simple and change of appetite. Nigella feasts. Nigel slater- the third kitchen diaries particularly. Sabrina Ghayours bazaar and sirocco. Ottolenghi plenty and Jerusalem. Meera sodha made in India. Elenoer Ford fire islands.

I have too many favourites to recommend just one

Depends on what cuisine you're wanting to cook. For me it's -

Easy mid week meals - Gary Rhodes Great Fast food is actually really good, predates Jamie's 20 min meals, but these ones you can actually do in 30 mons and they're not fussy.

Indian - Madhur Jaffrey Curry Easy
Thai - Stylish Thai in minutes
Italian - first River Cafe book (better than Jamie's Italian one imo)

I've got about 30 cookery books but these are the ones I use the most.

I’m a big fan of the roasting tin series by Rukmini Iyer,

Seconding! They're amazing. And cheap. And extremely easy to do, which is great for family meals.

Nigel slater real fast food got me back into cooking when loved on my own and ds is adopting as his... appetite also good..

Marcella Hazan Italian classic-dh swears by ...very prescriptive but excellent...
Jamie Italian good as well..

Moro -first especially although a bit restauranty ...

Hugh FW for preserving/game

Guardian/observer loads

This has inspired more though as mainly website searching recently

To be honest I'm not a fan of cookbooks. Some of my best meals have been made through recipes found online. I find so much variation there and love putting twists on things.

Here to say Veg Every day! By HFW as well. I love it, all the recipes are simple and tasty.

@Calic0 oooh I almost bought plenty by Ottolenghi today. Is it defs worth it? (I’m a vegetarian and I would describe myself as a good cook but mostly simple unfussy food?)

@ilikebooksandplants Ottolenghi is always good. I've not seen Plenty but I've got three of his others, they're reliable and interesting.

Hairy Dieters - nice chilli recipe.
Love Mary Berry usually when entertaining or Christmas.
Tried a few Pinch of Nom recipes from 2nd book and online recently and enjoyed them.
Use BBC Good Food website regularly.

Meera Sodhal- Fresh India
The Moro cookbook
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Veg Everyday

Hairy bikers' Great Curries and Asian Adventure both excellent.

Also rather love the Urban Rajah's Curry Memoirs that I picked up in The Works. A lot of his recipes are online, which is even cheaper than the £4 the book cost me!

I'm currently using The Bodybuilder's Kitchen by Erin Stern. After competitions are over for the season, I can relax a little (but only a little) and I'll revert to one of my many WeightWatchers books: probably Cooking for One — cos I'm on me bloody own

I've been working my way through that one, @gavisconismyfriend

Made the cauliflower with coconut and cashew nuts, last weekend as a side for roast chicken and it was quite delicious. I fancy trying the salmon curry. Lots of the recipes seem to be very simple but tasty.

@PersonaNonGarter I have a copy of 50 great curries that I picked up in a charity shop. It's amazing and a few recipes have become favourites but itt has so many errors that I couldn't recommend it to a novice. One recipe omitted to tell you what to do with the shit ton of onions specified in the ingredients list! Presumably stare at them sitting on the worktop while wondering why your chicken stew was a bit bland and soupy :o

@PickAChew that’s true! The lamb and plum curry is my all time favourite curry. Freezes brilliantly too.

Arabella Boxer's Mediterranean Cookbook. It's a paperback without pix in and is full of fantastic recipes. Also Elizabeth David's Italian cookbook.

@sashh - indeed - a fabulous book . Also

Delia and Nigel

But none matter a jot without Elizabeth David.

I have the complete set of Good Cooking Partworks. I think from the early 80s - the recipes are all rather 70s but still really good. For the first time EVER I looked for a specific recipe and it wasn't in there - I'm still in shock....

A bit oldschool but for lots of really decent basic recipes that are always very tasty this is my go to. I also like the Roasting Tin books and this one has some lovely recipes especially the chicken tarragon stew.

I have shelves and shelves of cookery books. If I could only save one or tow it would be Delia Smith's complete cookery course or Nigella Lawson's how to eat.

My go tos are;

Anything by Marcella Hazan, Patricia Wells and Alice Waters,

Quite like the Moro books and love Patience Gray’s Honey from a Weed.

Of newish books, Anja Dunk is great.

Two Chubby Cubs.

Easiest recipes I've ever used, you can sub in different ingredients easily, and every meal turns out a winner.

PON ripped off a lot of their recipes from 2CCs blog, so buy any book except for the PON ones!