Cookbook for someone who CANNOT cook

[AreYouRightThereSkippy]

Can anyone recommend anything?

Asking for a friend

The Roasting Tin cook books! Lots of different ones and all VERY easy.

The roasting tin books are amazing - really easy to use and interesting meals, and the results are really impressive for the amount of work that gets put in!

Roasting Tin books.

DH cannot cook but he can roughly chop some veg and chuck them in a roasting tin.

Gives an immediate sense of achievement and builds confidence to move on to something else DH is yet to move to that level

Delia's How to Cook? She also has a Learn to Cook section on her website.

Pinch of nom are easy to follow for a novice cook although you do need to buy quite a few different store cupboard ingredients.

For curries, I'd recommend The Spicery, you get a book and a set of spice mixes and they are really simple..l

Jamie's Ministry of Food

I’d say get a classic like Nigella’s How to Eat.

There’s nothing complicated in it, but puts some amazing meals together.

I love the green roasting tin, but I found it uses a lot of ingredients once - quite faffy to shop for.

The Joe Wicks cook books are full of really straight forward recipes.

Jamie Oliver's mission food is good, but I would start with you tube, easier than a book

"Oh Cook!: 60 easy recipes that any idiot can make " by James May. It goes with a tv series on Amazon Prime. Nice straight forward classic recipes.

I found Delia's ones were too complicated with too many ingredients when I was starting out. Obviously not now.

Sometimes chefs feel they have to put their own take on recipes.

ministry of food Jamie Oliver

Have a look at student cookbooks - mine even explains utensils and different kinds of pans etc.

Mary Berry's Complete Cook Book.

Delia’s are generally very beginner friendly
I’ve a few friends who weren’t confident cooks who liked Joe Wicks

Thank you for these! I have an ancient Delia book which was my mum's. She was no chef herself, (I've clearly inherited this from her). So if she could use that book, perhaps I can too!

Will have a look for the others and buy a few secondhand I think. If I cook anything which doesn't end up disgusting, I will report back, gleefully

I've ordered the James May and Jamie Oliver ones. Got them for a few quid each secondhand.

I find these recipes super easy to follow! You can't go wrong

www.spicepots.com/collections/indian-recipe-books

Oh thanks for the link too and website recommendations. Will have a look.

If you can afford it I found getting a few gusto boxes gave me a confidence boost and a set of recipes I knew I could replicate.

Any adult human of reasonable I Q who says they can't cook is telling you that they don't cook, won't cook and you will be wasting your money tbh