Suggestions for good recipie books please

[blossomhill]

I would really appreciate any suggestions of good recipie books for a basic, non-cook like myself. I am sick of eating over priced, unhealthy processed c**p and could really do with some ideas for "basic" recipies.
TIA BH

Delia - how to cook - great and very basic. loads of recipies on her website too - www.deliaonline.com

There was a useful thread on this a few months ago. People recommended Delia's Cookery Course (the big black book), Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson's How to Eat and books published by Good Housekeeping and by the Australian Women's Weekly. I would endorse all of these. They are all available from Amazon.

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DSs (with a little help from Daddy I guess!) just bought me Nigel Slater's Real Food for my birthday. It's a good read as well as having good recipes in. He also gives lots of ideas as well as formal recipes - highly reccommended!

anything by Donna Hay

I'd go for the ones mentioned here first but if you want to explore meat-free cooking as well, I'd really recommend Rose Elliot's The Bean Book. Very straightforward even for a committed carcass-gnawer like myself. Although the recipes are often improved by a bit of chicken stock or bacon.

I also have a personal liking for books that are a few years old and which talk about kidney beans as something you may be able to get hold of in health food stores.