Your favourite cook-book

[Edel2019]

As in the one that's just a classic for you, that you've gotten a good few classics out of.....

.....mine is Jamie's 30 Minute Meals.....

....love the Chicken Curry, mackerel pâté, pea and ham pasta (LOVE this), brownies, chicken stroganoff, pea soup, sweet potato and chorizo soup, tomato sauce for pasta (I add chorizo to it).

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie I love Oh She Glows the first one, Vegan Richa Everyday and Minimalist Baker

I also have an AMAZING vegan Japanese book called (drum roll) Vegan Japaneasy

@FloodedRoad

Jamie Oliver's 60 minute meals for me, I can to highlight the method so I can read just the bit I need as it's formatted in an irritating way

Highlighting is a good idea

I am so put off recipe books when they're hard to read....I find the instructions hard to process

I came on to say Jamie's 15 Minute Meals! Obviously they don't really take 15 minutes, but I don't need them to, and in fact I usually adapt them so they take a bit longer - eg cook chicken breasts in the oven instead of pummelling them flat and frying them. But it is the book I use most regularly - I especially love the fish tagine, the Asian fish noodle broth, the Greek chicken and the prawn linguine.

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie

Can anybody recommend lovely veggie books, with simple, everyday recipes? NOT HFW!

My favourites (although I rarely cook from recipe books tbh):
Madhur J World Vegetarian
Rose Elliot - forget what it's called but it's a big, fat, old fashioned one
The World Food Cafe books

The Green Roasting Tin

The Roasting Tin cookbooks, Nigel Slater (whatever the fast recipes one is) or Sabrina Ghayour for me!

Anna Jones Modern Way to Eat is a great veggie cookbook.

I've got the Green Roasting Tin and Anna Jones. I really like a couple of recipes in the former. The latter feels too faffy for everyday, after work stuff.

Thanks though!

I'm the Green Roasting Tin, our repeat recipes are the gado gado potatoes, the shallot tarts and the thing with puy lentils and feta.

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Nigel Sister's two veggie ones are lovely to read, but not much I actually want to eat in there.

Vegan Japanese sounds good.

Any by Hugh fearnley whittingstall, especially veg

My most often used cookbooks would be my Elizabeth Davids and Mrs Beeton's. I really can't stand cookbooks with illustrations of perfectly posed lit airbrushed/photoshopped meals. They bear the same relationship to real food as porn does to real people and set you up to be disappointed every time.

I have lots of cookbooks and love reading them and cooking from them.

The one I will send to university with each of my DCs is Jamie Oliver Ministry of Food. If they can cook everything (or almost) in that book they will be completely set up for life (food wise anyway!).

I have 2 books that I use most frequently:

Hairy Bikers, mums know best(the first book)
Joe Wicks, cooking for friends and family

I love the Pinch of nom books, I have all 3 & cook from them most of the week.

I love Nigella's How to Eat and Feast as they are so interesting and beautifully written. I do go back to Delia quite a bit as her recipes may not be as modern or inspiring as some but they are reliable and they work. I swear by her blinis and flaky pastry sausage rolls!

I agree with a PP about the Hairy Bikers curry book. I also still like and use the earlier Jamie Oliver books, esp his second Naked Chef book, 30 Minute menus and Italy, which is my favourite of his. I've recently moved house and had a cull of cookery books. I found lots of the books by celebrity TV chefs of yesterday were donated to charity as they hadn't aged well.

Love cookery books more than any other kind of book 😍

I love reading Nigella. Wish she'd being out a veggie book!

Morning everyone

Sabrina's "Simply" book is on sale on the iTunes bookstore today!! €0.99!

I have so many but keep returning to any of the lindsey bareham cookbooks for quick evening meals. She used to do a daily recipe in The Times which I really enjoyed following. We were also given an Australian cookbook In the Kitchen by Allan Campion and Michele Curtis which we have used so many times as covers just about everything. Donna Hay can be good though a bit samey, really liked Rick Steins France and have a few favourites from the ottolenghi simple. Others, as people have already said, as just full of pretty pictures and presentation is never my strongest point!

Anything by Nigel Slater. Appetite is probably my favourite.
Hugh F-W and Haidy Bikers too.
Jamie Oliver's recipes never really work out for me.