Do you have a favorite Cookbook?

[Diane U]

Hello, my name is Diane and I just joined this group. I love cookbooks and I can read them like books marking the yummy recipes along the way.

Right now, I am really into cooking in my slow cooker. I just bought a new 4 quart oval one last month. My favorite slow cooker cookbook is:

Fix-It & Forget-It Lightly: Healthy Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker

I love cookbooks with normal everyday ingredients, most of which are already in my pantry. Plus since I am back on Weight Watchers, the nutritional information is helpful for calculating the points value.

[Nancy]

Welcome Diane, Check out " Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook" by Hensperger. It's the best one I've ever used.

[Diane U]

Thanks for the suggestion! I got the one for entertaining as a free kindle download last week. I'll look into that one too!

[Amy]

Currently I am loving Nigella Express and How To Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson. Great for quick weekday meals and basic baking.

[Bev]

Recently I've been immersing myself in Judith Fertig's Artisan Bread Book (the exact name escapes me at the moment). The set-up is right up my alley as she encourages the reader to go through the book from beginning to end, working through each recipe in order. Is there anyone else out there who is a bit Obsessive Compulsive when it comes to making their way through a cookbook in this way. I'm a bit anal when it comes to this. Just a quirky little rule I have that I try to abide by.

Kitchen Monkey

[Martha]

To me, some of the best cookbooks around are those written and sold by the local churches. The recipes there are really tried and tested. But my favorite has to be my own.. Stir, Laugh, Repeat

[Nancy]

Just got a new book in the mail today. "Mixt Salads" by Andrew Swallow. Not a big book, but jammed with info on various types of greens, veggies and how to make seasonal salads, etc. Haven't tried anything yet, but the pictures are gorgeous.

[David]

Tender 1& 2 by Nigel Slater and Falling Cloudberries Tessa Kiros is also quite superb.

I love food, see my passion here;

http://www.youchew.com.au

[Martha]

My favorite cookbook is my own Stir, Laugh, Repeat..Finding Joy While Playing in the Kitchen and my second favorite is my next book which is the first in a series, Think With Your Taste Buds - Desserts. All recipes are simple, easy to follow, use ingredients normally found in most kitchens and delicious!
Martha A. Cheves

[Mina]

My go-to cookbook: The Joy of Cooking. But I just love reading cookbooks. :)

[Emily]

I have to cook foods that are heart-healthy 'on purpose' due to a heart condition. That unfortunately means that I have a rather limited collection of cookbooks that I can actually use! However, my all-time favorite has to be "Heart Easy Cookbook" by Kac Young - http://www.hearteasy.com

Delicious food that's relatively simple to prepare.

[Global]

Hi everyone,
great group discussion here. well as for me, my all time favorite cookbook, will have to be "Mine", of course. It took me so long to make it, that i am definitely voting for it. on the other hand, another one that i like is:
from no less than Anthony Bourdain les halles the cookbook.
Simple traditionnal french recipe. back to basics but oh, well, very good indeed.

culinary your
David marteau
Global Chef

http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Cookin...

https://www.facebook.com/ChefDavidM

[Endre]

Global wrote: "Hi everyone,
great group discussion here. well as for me, my all time favorite cookbook, will have to be "Mine", of course. It took me so long to make it, that i am definitely voting for it. on th..."

Global wrote: "Hi everyone,
great group discussion here. well as for me, my all time favorite cookbook, will have to be "Mine", of course. It took me so long to make it, that i am definitely voting for it. on th..."

David, very funny, since I raised this question quite some time ago, I am glad it continued, BTW I would expected you to tell us it was either one of James Beard's books like "Cooking to Entertain" or one of Auguste Escoffier's Books:)) So what is your style?:)

[William]

The Les Halles Cookbook has emerged as my favorite go-to. I like Ming Tsai's Blue Ginger a lot too. For baking; The Bread Baker's Apprentice has taught me just about everything I know on the topic.
Looking forward to Laura Calder's new book. Her TV show is probably my favorite cooking demonstration show but I haven't been able to find my happy place with her previous book.

[Kori]

I don't really have a favorite. I collect recipes from so many different books, but there's not one specific book that I absolutely love. A lot of my best recipes come from people (especially if they share secret family recipes).

I also like to check out cooking blogs.

[Natalie]

Mark Peel's Family Dinners is full of delights. We made (well, she made and I enjoyed;) his Campanile gourmet mac and cheese and it was even more mouthwatering than the book's pages would have you believe.

[Janna]

Right now I'm loving this Italian one dish = meal cookbook. Ingredients are easily substituted if you cant find exactly the right thing, and its still delicious

http://www.amazon.com/Piatto-Unico-Co...

[Jennifer]

I am with other posters that it is incredibly hard to pick just one! My current most used cookbook is:
Southern Living Fix It and Freeze It/Heat It and Eat It: A quick-cook guide to over 200 make-ahead dishes

I also recently came across this book that is teaching me how to can and preserve my garden stuff!

[Dewayne]

"The 411 cook book"seasoning mixes and homemade fixes. Is on amazon.com for $2.99 as a e book and it teaches you how to make your own seasoning mixes and tons more.

[Eric]

"Cooking by Hand" - Paul Bertolli.

start with the chapter on Ripeness

[Jody]

I have many, but "Appetite" by Nigel Slater is probably my favorite.

[Valerie]

Tara wrote: "I own a few hundred cookbooks and if I had to choose my favorite it would have to be "The Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook" by Berolzheimer. It came out in 1948 and I love the pictures."

Nice!

[Monica]

Is it just me or does "The Joy of Cooking" have everything anyone needs. Whenever I am stuck, I go there!Monica DiNatale

[Valerie]

Mine is Vincent Price's A Treasury of Great Recipes. Yes, that Vincent Price. I grew up cooking from it, my mother gave it as wedding shower gifts to everyone, and we both still love to pore over the magnificent photos and read the head-notes and recipes. Frankly, I'd have to say it is the cookbook that inspired me to write my mystery novel that is set in a cookbook shop, Cinnamon Girl: A Village Cooks Mystery.

[Laurie]

I love Zuni. I also love the Smitten Kitchen blog. Her recipes have always worked for me.

[Nancy]

Next time I'm asked what my favorite cookbook is, I have an easy answer:"Cozy Food." In the interest of fairness, I have an interest in this cookbook because I edited it.

What happens when 128 cozy mystery writers get together to do a cookbook? You get more than 220 recipes that are as varied and interesting as an amateur sleuth’s day job. Regional recipes come from every part of the United States and England — a couple find their way from Australia and Italy, too — and from diverse times. There are recipes from people looking to keep gluten out of their lives, eat vegetarian, or make a treat or two for their furry four-legged friends. And yes, there are recipes that appeal to the sweet tooth, lots of them, in fact.

There’s no mystery about what happens when cozy writers get together. They bring the wit, inventiveness, and adventure found in their books right along with their recipes. The recipes are introduced by their authors and linked to the writer bios in the back of the book. You can look up your favorite cozy writer and see which recipes are their favorites; they'll tell you what the recipe means to them. Or you can enjoy a dish and then link to the recipe's author's biography and books.

Either way you enjoy the cookbook, you're sure to find great new recipes to make and terrific new cozy authors to read.

[Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.)]

It is hard to say what my favorite cookbook is, as I love to read and cook from each one of them. Having said that though, my consistent go-to cookbooks are, in no particular order--

Around My French Table: More than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours
The Silver Spoon
The Bon Appetit Cookbook
The Bon Appetit Cookbook: Fast Easy Fresh
My Tuscan Kitchen: Seasonal Recipes from the Castello di Vicarello
Soup of the Day (Williams-Sonoma): 365 Recipes for Every Day of the Year

And, of course, all of Ina Garten's "Barefoot Contessa" cookbooks!