What is your most used cookbook this year?

[EnglishGirlApproximately]

With my birthday and Christmas on the horizon its time for my annual cookbook wish list update! I buy quite a few but hoping for some gems i might have missed. We eat pretty much all types of food but my preference is for middle Eastern and Asian food.
I'll start with my most used books this year;
Turkish Delights
Persiana Everyday
Dominiques Kichen
Flavour

Variety of weight watchers books so far, although I've just purchased a Ninja Foodie so the Ninja UK Cookbook has now taken their place!

Love many of the books and writers mentioned Diana Henry, Meera Sodha, Anna Jones, Anna Dunk and Clare Thompson.

This years most used so far probably Clare Thompson's Camper van cookbook which has been brilliant for camping trips and at home (we don't have a van!), I made the Beef Rendang last night from it. Also One tin Bakes by Ed Kimber great for huge traybake type cakes and he had just released Smallbatch bakes for those whose families are less greedy for cake than mine.

Also love Gill Mellers books (a less irritating Hugh FW protégé) and following Rainydaybites cookbook club on Insta for cookbook addicts like me (your bank balance will not thank you for this one)

Thank you! I will head over and might post about the new Anna Jones recipe I’m planning to try this evening.

Meera Sodha, all of the “Roasting Tins” especially “Green”, and The Hummingbird Bakery book 😂

Oh and how could I forget my two mainstays - the two Alison Roman cookbooks, nothing fancy and dining in. They didn't spring to mind as not Middle Eastern but they just match how I like to cook so perfectly.

We pretty much live on recipes from the Green Roasting Tin cookbook. They are really tasty, low effort, and you can very easily sub in common ingredients for stuff you don't have.

Just thought of another book, if you like big bold flavours from around the world, then Jennifer Joyce's
My Street Food Kitchen and her more recent boom, My Asian Kitchen are some of my most used books ever. Her recipes always work and are always a massive hit & they are fun. She writes recipes and food styles for lots the main food magazines.

Love these too

Sorry another one.. Someone gave me The Borough Market Cookbook, and it's been a surprise hit. Used it a lot to great success. The recipes are written by Ed Smith who also has a book called Crave which is on my list.

Mowgli Street Food: Stories and recipes from the Mowgli Street Food restaurants
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we live Mowgli and the book is fantastic, my dad bought it recently and lives it too. I’ve just bought the 30 minute Mowgli one as well looking forward to giving that a try

James May "Oh cook" - DDs like these as they are aimed at people who can't cook
Hairy Dieters

An old Sainsbury one of 10, 20 and 30 min recipes
And Indian and Chinese one we were given years ago, Next I think.

@anchoviescapers I have Crave and recommend it - the chicken laab is fab

I have a Thermomix which I use all of the time. I'm addicted to the Skinnymixer's 'The Healthy Mix' series. Delicious recipes, my family love them.

The roasting tin cookbooks are great, just chuck it all in the tin and that's it! Great timesavers for weekday meals.

Modern pressure cooking by Catherine Phipps is wonderful.

I'll add Sabrina Ghayour to the list if you like Middle Eastern food. I have Sirocco and Bazaar, and enjoy both. I use Bazaar more as it's vegetarian and so am I, but food from both books has been delicious.

Some great ideas here thanks all. I have all Sabrina Gayhours, very much my lind of food. Also have one tin bakes which I do like. I have Mowgli on my wish list too. Interesting to hear people recommending the one tin series, I did have them on my wish list but tried a couple of recipes I'd seen online and was underwhelmed? May need to try them again the concept is exactly what I need.

@EnglishGirlApproximately I'd recommend the Roasting Tin Around the World cookbook, over either the Quick Roasting Tin or the original one. It does as it says on the tin, and I've had no fails from it - some of the things from the first two haven't worked first time (e.g. because too wet as some bits actually needs some precooking or cooking times badly out). There are some very good recipes in both the latter two, but i use a much lower proportion of what's in them compared to the Roasting Tin Around the World.

I don't have the Green Roasting Tin though, as I have DC who I can only get to eat standard veg at the best of times, so can't comment on that.

I was underwhelmed by the first roasting tin one as well but really like the green one. I’d recommend that.

I should add that the stuff from the green roasting tin is usually enough for DCs and I but DH might make himself a steak or something!

I feel the same about the roasting tin series...

@EnglishGirlApproximately @anchoviescapers I also felt the same, I find that Diana Henry's Oven to Table and Anna Jones One Pot Pan Planet have a similar concept but I prefer them. For some reason, the Roasting Tin books don't quite work for me - maybe I don't cut the food in small enough pieces or my tin isn't the right size or the oven isn't hot enough, but I've made a couple of things and they were all just a tiny bit off in terms of timings/liquid.

But I know loads of people absolutely adore the books so they must work for others!

Antonio Carluccio - An Invitation to Italian Cooking

Quick, simple, lots of recipes with fresh veg. It's decades old now and I'm still discovering things 🙂

Not cooking but more baking and sandwiches plus extras, the Dusty Knuckle baking book.

I like how it's written, very informal and obviously a work coming from a place of love for what they do...very interesting back story, which is why I bought it in the first place.

My current wishlist is the new Mary Berry one - Cook and Share and the new one from Rukmini Iyer called India Express, I heard her on a podcast (either Olive Magazine or maybe Woman's Hour) talking about it recently.

I have loads of cookbooks but sadly don't use them as much as I should as I just google recipes, save them in Copy me That and use those.

But I've just remembered some that I do use, is the Spicery's legend spice blends and the accompanying books. I have Mezze, Taco and both of the older Indian ones and I see they have a new Curry Legend book and spice set that is half price on an introductory offer, which I'm trying to resist.