What is your favourite cookbook?

[Creepyrosemary]

I really need some inspiration for new recipes, could you please tell me what your favourite cookbook is?

My past favourites are The quick roasting tin and Comptoir Libanais.

Can I be greedy and have 2? If so, it would be Falastin and Simple. If I can only have one then it would be Falastin.

Nigella’s Feast. Both one of my most used but also a pleasure to read.

Nothing fancy by Alison Roman.

Pretty much anything by Diana Henry.

Top 3? 😉
A Modern Way to Cook, Anna Jones
Fresh India, Meera Sodha
Plenty, Yottam Ottolenghi

Taste Tibet by Julie Kleeman and Yeshi Jampa. Beautiful book and an interesting read as well as utterly delicious food.

All Time Fave
Made in India, Meera Sodha

Everyday
East, Meera Sodha
Mezcla, Ixta Belfrage

Baking
Short & Sweet, Dan Lepard
The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook

Top Non-Recipe-Book Inspiration
Ethan Chlebowski, Youtube
Marions Kitchen, Youtube
The Guardian food column

Delia Smith - Winter Collection because it reminds me of my lovely mum who passed away

Recipe tin eats Dinner - Nagi Maehasi

Australian/ Japanese woman writes an excellent blog, the cookbook is a recent addition.

https://www.recipetineats.com/

Anna Jones all the way. We're now vegetarian but eat her food all the time.

NOT vegetarian

You can have as many as you like! Thank you for your suggestions

Thank you all for your suggestions, I'm going to have a lot of fun looking into them

I have so many cookbooks! The ones that I’ve used the most by far over the past year are my curry guy bible and my Ziangs Chinese takeaway cookbook. My all time favourites though are anything by Nigella or Nigel Slater. I’ve got most of their books and enjoy their writing so much.

I stopped counting my cookery books when I got to 500. Will have a think.

50 great curries of India by Camilla Panjabi. Everything works.

East by Meera Sodha is my most used cookbook. The recipes are perfect for midweek cooking - quick, work reliably, clear instructions, mostly without non-specialty ingredients and healthy.

Mezcla by Ixta Belfrage is also great. Everything I’ve made has been wonderful.

One: Pot, Pan, Planet from Anna Jones is a new book to my collection, but I’ve been really enjoying the recipes so far. The recipes are designed around a one pot or pan concept, so might appeal if you like the roasting tin books. I picked it up free on Prime Reading, so if it’s still there and you have Amazon Prime then could be worth checking out.

Oh god yes. Amazing!

I don't enjoy cooking but love the Bored of Lunch books.

Falastin and East are both excellent.

Any Rick Stein but really love India.

Any Diana Henry but particularly Oven to Table.

Jerusalem and Simple by Ottolenghi.

Taverna by Georgina Hayden.

Totally depends on what I want to cook. If it's a "classic" I check Delia and Felicity Cloake.

Cannot be doing with Nigella.

Delia Smith Complete Cookery Course, I learnt to cook using this.

Bored of lunch slow cooker book!

I came on to say exactly this.

Pinch of Nom books are my to go to for recipes on a daily basis. Other than that I look up recipes on line to search what I can do with food stuff I have I have in my cupboard/freezer

Bad Girl Bakery cookbook as recommended by Nigella. It would mean every meal is cake but that's a win win!