Can you recommend a good recipe book?

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I have two recipe books that I've gone back to time and time again, but have already worked my way through the ones I think sound nice, so I'm after some more recommendations.

I'm vegetarian, but dh and ds are not. 'Normal' recipe books tend to have separate chapters on fish, chicken, meat, etc. and generally veggie recipes will only be found in the soup, salad, pasta and rice section. I do cook meat for dh and ds, so my ideal book doesn't have to be a vegetarian cookery book, just one that has a bit more selection for me than 'vegetable lasagne'. Can anyone recommend anything? Preferably something that has lots of relatively straightforward recipes, rather than fiddly, complicated things - I work and have a toddler, so time is really of the essence.

I already have Leith's Vegetarian Bible, and another one just called 'Vegetarian' and those are the ones that I go back to. Does anyone know of any other good ones?

Fay Ripleys book is good, it's called Fay's Family's food and I got mine on Amazon, it has loads of recipes and she tells you how to adapt for kids etc.

Cranks? here I don't have it but covet it!

We're not veggie but don't eat a lot of meat. My non-meat versions tend to be pulses or dairy or pasta.

The Riverford farm cook book (from the veg box people) is good and sometimes suggets things you could add to make it a "meaty" dish too so could be suitable for all of you.

thanks, I'll check these out

Garden cookbook by Sarah Raven

Also Ottolenghi is amazing but all veg I think, whereas Garden cookbook has about 20% meat dishes in too.

A decent everyday cookbook is the Good Housekeeping Vegetarian one. I was veggie till DS came along and still use it loads for straightforward yet tasty meals.

My SIL gave me Simon Hopkinson's book, The Vegetarian Option, but it is unbearably poncy and full of ingredients that no one has. It's in my cupboard in pristine condition, next to my food-stained GH one

Rose Elliot is very good and straight-forward. She is all veggie, but not scary-weird ingredient veggie. And she has a book for express recipes that I don't have, but which has been recommended on MN lots.

BBC Good Food have a whole series of little books which def include a Vegetarian one, plus their recipes are down-to-earth and reliable.

I got Nigel Slaters Kitchen Diaries book out of library last week and it is great. Seem to be quite a number of veggie recipes in it also.