Recipe books that you use!

[HoarseMackerel]

Hi all,

Please can you tell me which recipe books you genuinely use?
I've had loads on my shelf over the years but most hardly used.
The last one I bought was New York Cult Recipes. Not cooked anything but I do read it a lot!
Also love my big book of baking just to remind me of the basics!

Thug kitchen, Nigel Slater, all of the River Cottage books, and the Be-ro book!

Nigel Slater's and Delia's. I also tend to use their recipes online. Delia's - How to Cook and Nigel's Real Food, Kitchen Diaries and Christmas Chronicles (Diaries and Chronicles are lovely to read)

Nigella Lawson’s are really useful.
Rachel Allen for baking
Nigel Slater
Leiths Vegetarian Bible and Baking Bible,

Covent Garden soup cookbook. Delia smith’s how to cook.

Moro books, Nigella, Nigel Slater (but have trimmed these back), Thomasina Miers, Diana Henry, Meera Sodha, Sabrina Ghayor, Maunika Gowharden, Fuschia Dunlop, Leon, Fortnum and Mason, Rachel Roddy, and Ottolenghi are probably my most thumbed...

Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients and The Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer are great.

Good Housekeeping Step by Step
Jamie Ministry of Food

Then an old Dairy recipe book (yellow book I found in a charity shop). It is brilliant

River Cottage meat book. Jane Grigsons Vegetable Book. Atul Kochhar Fish Indian Style. Fat Girl Slim Ruth Watson.

Nigella - How to Eat & domestic goddess
Huw F-W - veg every day
Anna Jones - a Modern Way to Eat
Clare Thompson - 5 o clock apron
Nigel Slater - Real cooking and appetite
Jamie oliver - 30 minute meals
Ottolenghi - First book & had sweet for Christmas so have been cooking from that but not sure if it's going to stay on the top shelf

Have lots of others but these are what I'm using at the moment or always revisit

Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course.

Nigella Domestic Goddess - in fact I need a new copy, mines so tatty
River Cottage Veg
Mrs Beetons - perfect for sauce recipes and baking. Very well thumbed!
Leith's cookery bible

I buy loads and read them but only a few get properly used. I love Rick Stein books but the recipes are too fiddly and ingredient heavy.

Madhur Jaffrey's curry bible is utterly brilliant, I use it loads and would recommend it to anyone who likes a curry. Rhodes Around Britain has some great classics in it too, some of it is a bit faffy but there's some really good stuff in there too

Mumsnet recipe book
Madhur Jeffrey quick and easy Indian cookery
Jamies 30 min meals
Slow cooking properly explained
Mary Berry's fast cakes

Out most used are: The Scandi Kitchen by Bronte Aurell and Simple bun Diana Henry.

‘Simple by...’

‘OUR most used... FFS!

Delia how to cook.

HFW veg every day

Ottolenghi plenty

Hairy bikers curries and diet books.

There’s about another forty I never use.

Thanks everyone!
I am going to convert these suggestions into a list and spend a couple of hours in Waterstones (and then obviously get them all somewhere much cheaper!)

Delia Smith complete cookery course
River cottage Every Day
Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate home cooking
Peyton and Byrne British Baking

Plus a few regulars from Nigelllissima and the earlier Jamie Olivers.

Also have some recipes from food magazines that I use all the time.

A Girl called Jack - used several times a week at the moment
Moosewood low fat cookbook (though I up the fat content a bit, just like the veggie/vegan recipes)
Madhur Jaffrey's Curry bible
HFW Veg Everyday
My grandma's old Be-Ro cookbook with handwritten recipes in the back

The original Rick Stein fish one. We've had it years and have used it loads.

Jamie 30 minute meals
Madhur Jaffrey Easy Curry

Currently working my way through Made in India by Meera Sodha which is wonderful - tried five so far and all faultless
Rick Stein India
Save with Jamie
Food for Friends and Family by Sarah Raven
Kitchen Diaries 1&2 Nigel Slater

For baking:
Clandestine Cake Club - first book
Hummingbird Bakery - first book
Domestic Goddess Nigella

Made in India - Meera Sodha (especially if you like tomatoes)
Jamie Oliver - 15 minute meals and the 30 minute meals one (I don't do some of the sides or the pudding/drink from this one). I also cook some stuff from Save with Jamie.

I had a massive cookbook cull a few months back as I only seem to regularly cook a few recipes from most books. I photocopied the recipes I use (Fuschia Dunlop, Ottolenghi, Bill Granger etc)and bookmarked and filed links online - most recipes are available somewhere online these days.

Anna Jones.

Currently loving Deja Food as full of historic British recipes and lots of things to do with leftover roast meat.

Anything Claudia Roden.

However Meera Sodha has been a big fail in this house and is going to get culled.