Favourite Cookbooks

[HelenD123]

The Moosewood book looks interesting. I'd never heard of it. I'd also recommend the BBC Good Food website.

 

[purpleR]

"Indian Housewife's Recipe Book" is very good and very simple - the going rate from abebooks seems to be 65p.
The weather seems to dictate which books I go to. At the moment it's cold, I want to eat stews and pot roasts, so I go to Nigel Slater (Kitchen Diaries and Real Good Food) and the River Cottage Cookbook.
Also, I don't own it but it's in the local library - the Cranks bible. Great broad bean pilaf recipe!

 

[barq]

In terms of information I'd have to say Larousse Gastronomique. It isn't primarily a cookbook, more of an encyclopedia but it does contain lots of recipes and technical information. Similarly Jane Grigson's Vegetable book is very authoritative.

Cranks Bible is excellent for vegetarian food that doesn't scream about it: food from all over the world that happens to be vegetarian, rather than omnivorous food with the meat taken out. There is an important distinction. I might go and check out that Moosewood book.

I love reading Nigel Slater and Heston. I don't use many of their recipes though I did faithfully make Heston's ketchup injected chips... Had a slightly unusual conversation with a medical supplier about what gauge hypodermic needles would be best for injecting something as viscous as ketchup.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

The Moosewood books are excellent (there are several of them, incuding one called The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, I think!), though they do tend to rely an awful lot of chucking lot so milk and cheese in everything from what I can recall! Maddhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian is my second favourite general veggie choice (after Colin Spencer), with a lot better recipes than Cranks' IMHO.

 

[snakehips]

It seems that Waterstones have some cookery book offers on at the moment , and probably for the forseeable future ......

http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA5405


Also there's The Testicles Cookbook - 'Cooking with Balls is a multimedia cookbook complete with how-to videos on cooking testicle dishes. Including Testicle Pizza, Testicle Goulash and White Wine Testicles'

http://beta.yudu.com/item/details/13884/Sample-Version---The-Testicle-Cookbook

Available in English and Serbian !

Bon appetit !

Snake

 

[derall]

The one cookbook I use all the time is 'The Silver Spoon'

Organised in a way that makes it very easy to find a recipe that matches whatever ingredients you happen to have in the pantry.

I also rather like the 'Two Fat Ladies' cookbook, if only for their Devilled Kidneys recipe.

 

[snakehips]

Wow , I've just been to my local shopping centre , there are discount cookery books staring at you from every direction .... it's a buyer's market out there all right


Snake

 

[BigonaBianchi]

they should make edible cookbooks

 

[vernon]

I still lament the loss of my 18th Edition of the Be-Ro cookbook. It was gifted to me when I went to university and its temperature settings pre-dated regulo/gas mark settings and used cool, medium and hot for oven temperatures.

My flakey pastry and puff pastry pies, pasties and rolls were always enthusiastically eaten by my house mates.

My current faveourite is out of print:

Pat Chapman's Curry Club Indian Restaurant Cookbook.

The recipes are idiot proof and the meals are indistinguishable from those served in restaurants. They are not too complex either.

 

[Abitrary]

I'm generally very busy so I use oliver.

If I have the time then I delve into the Galloping Gourmet Christmas Annual 1978.