Cookery Books read in 2016

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I know it's not fiction, but some of us on the 50 books thread fancy talking about cookery books, and fiction gets more traffic.

I've read two this year so far, dipping in and out of them when cooking/eating etc - neither are new but both are really lovely to read:

Madhur Jaffrey 'World Vegetarian' - I haven't made a lot from here, but what I have made has been good and there's lots more I want to try. My biggest problem with it is she says that things serve 4 or whatever, but it's often that they serve that number as part of a combination with other foods/recipes, and she doesn't always make that clear.

Nigella Lawson 'Feast' - The Guinness cake from this is sublime, and the veggie chilli is good, although my Mother of All Veggie Chillis recipe is better! I fancy trying the vodka pasta, but can't stand tinned tomatoes - I might try replacing with fresh.

Anybody cooked anything from either of these?

Yes, I think by day three you'd be sick of the sight of them! I think they're running out of ideas for their 'One pot of X, four meals'

The Rose Eliot Bean book was great - I gave it to my DIL as she was (at the time) a veggie. I still do many recipes from it.

Like the sound of the butter bean dip - but agree that I couldn't eat them for 4 days in a row.

The roof of the house might lift off, for a start

I love butter beans. Like, once a week. Max.

I dug out my year-old copy of Jerusalem and made the salmon steaks in chraimeh sauce. Big thumbs up.

My family love the lamb shwarma from Jerusalem. The leftovers make good sandwiches too.

But my most used cookbooks are Diana Henry's. Food from Plenty (cheap, seasonal and leftovers), A bird in the Hand (365 chicken dishes), Cook Simple (quick and easy).

Annabel Langbein is a Kiwi cook book author; the book of hers I love, and if I could only have one, that would be the keeper because it covers everything, but she has never been published in the UK.