If you had to work your way through one recipe book which book would you choose?

[Kellamity]

Just wondering, need inspiration!

River Cottage Veg - by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
I bought it a few months ago but keep forgetting I've got it. I haven't made anything out of it yet, but the recipes do look very nice.
I'm too much of an impatient cook to follow recipes really.

Plenty - Ottolenghi.

Upto - fab someone else cooking Japanese! What's your favs thus far?

Another vote for Nigella's How To Eat.

I LOVE this thread! I'm crap at following recipes though I love cookbooks - inspired to try some new books now!

Here it is on Amazon.

(Non-feast) day to day, it would probably be Nigel Slater for me.

And now Nigella Kitchen is on my wishlist! I need to shake up my cooking patterns (got into the "7 meals" habit).

Valentine Warner's Autumn/Winter cookbook. Really lovely recipes and everything I have tried from there has been excellent.

What have you tried from it Getorf?
I did the beetroot side, and the fennel puree recently, and loved both.
I've just bought his What to eat now, More please.
God, he pissed me off on TV, but I love his writing.

Still wouldn't choose it to cook my way through it though, not enough recipes, or variety, though I've loved everything I've made.

I've ordered the curry book you recommended on another thread too.
I may be a tad addicted to food books

I am a bit of a carnivore so I like all the strange game recipes.

I have cooked the lamb birra, the macaroni cheese with apple, the dressing for the autumn/winter salad is gorgeous, the empanadas (but not with mussels), the boar stew with polenta, and a few others I can't remember.

I have never seen him on telly, I am quite glad because curly haired posh men give me the creeps

I really hope you like that Curry book, the vindaloo recipe is brilliant, I cook it a lot. I really like that Mamta's kitchen website you have linked to previously as well.

Blackduck - I like almost everything I've tried from that book: the chicken with mayonnaise and parmesan (odd but strangely nice), the spicy leek + chili mix, the mackerel in miso, the mackerel flake (cheat and use tinned mackerel ), the miso marinade, the coleslaw and the pickled carrots, just off the top of my head.

I would vote for Nigel Slater's "Kitchen Diaries" too, a fantastic cookbook though you do have to be a basically competent cook already, it leaves a certain amount to you (e.g. timings, basic techniques). Bit more specific, but I also love the politically-incorrectly titled "Indian Housewife's Cookbook", my paperback copy is almost destroyed and I've only had it a year or two.

Madhur Jaffrey Curry Bible is another contender. And How to Eat (the Tenderest Chicken recipe is fab).

Edmonds Cookery Book, It's been the best selling cookery book in New Zealand for decades. Surprised it's not better known in the UK. I only discovered it a a few months ago. It's good old plain cooking for families. I also like Delia Smith.

Grandmas Recipes Loveit and have actually done most in it.

The Hummingbird bakery - i only need to do the savoury muffins and have done the lot.....ok not a huge amount in there.
I have probably done the most from the Good Housekeeping book over the years, I would like to try Nigellas stuff but on TV she has lots of ingredients that I can't get....
Also a Ready Steady cook book I was given has come up trumps on many an occasion.

What do you like best from the Hummingbird book, Rosa? I've had it since it came out and still haven't cooked anything from it.

HFS Everyday. Everything I have done from it has been excellent.

I love Nigel Slater's books as well. Also recently started cooking from Lorraine Pascal's book.

Red Velvet and Chocolate Heartache by Harry Eastwood. But then I love cakes!

River Cottage Veg - even if you are not veggie. We were major carnivores. It is absolutely life changing.

Anything Nigel Slater. Appetite, Real Fast Food, Kitchen Diaries ...

Nigella has lots of good recipes but her tastes are quite different from mine.

The Ottolenghi cookbook could be a contender - healthier than Nigel Slater...

Cranks Fast Food: For Vitality and Health
Nadine Abensur (Author)

AND

Jamie's Dinners
Jamie Oliver

Flavourful, reliable and opened my mind to new ways of cooking.

Getorf, Val's Alpine macaroni is the best version of that I've ever tasted, and also, I'm sure, the richest dish known to man.

I've just ordered the Japanese book recommended on here. No more food books for at least a week month.

The Moro cookbooks (there are two of them).
Was disappointed by Veg Every Day, but that's probably because I was veggie for 20 years.