DH got me the most awesome one for Christmas, the Woman's Weekly Slow Cooking one. MMMMM! I've been picking a recipe a week from that and we've had some gorgeous dinners.
Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food is also awesome, as is his Jamie's Italy.
I have a few Gordon Ramsay ones too and Bill Granger.
I'm such a cookbook $lut! I get a new one each birthday and christmas. A few years back my mum got me the Readers Digest Cookery Yearbook - it has all of the seasonal foods (European though) and menus for parties, Christmas etc. Also has a massive section at the back which tells you how to make pastries, bake, shows you the cuts of meat etc. It's my most favourite cookbook of all time.
Great thread!!
I also sometimes buy cookery magazines if there is something interesting in it to cook, cut out the recipes and they go in my recipe folder - which is now busting at the seams.
I have Jamie O's Ministry of Food book too, love it. Does anyone have his new one, 30 minute meals? I had a flick through it before Christmas but it didn't really appeal to me..I just don't think I like the layout of it (i.e. here is a 3 or 4 course meal with all the recipes for it on 2 pages..), just seemed a bit confusing and messy.
I also have the AWW (gosh don't they rock!!) 1000 recipes book which is quite good. Mostly use it for cakes/slices etc.
Netix- I think Cook (yep it is the red one) is the one I use the least out of the three in the series. Kitchen has a great recipe for sweet & sour pork and shepherd's/cottage pie which I use all the time. Bake is of course great for the sweet treats. I think Cook would be alright for beginning cooks/uni students for basic recipes.
I have a ton of cooking magazines too, mostly Super Food Ideas and one other I can't remember the name. I'm a sucker for magazines..then when I get home find there are only 2 or 3 recipes that I would actually ever make! Need to cut out the ones that interest me and chuck out the rest I think. For those that cut recipes from magazines, what do you do with the rest of the magazine? Just throw it in the recycling or file it away somewhere?
I have two large notebooks, one for mains/savoury meals and one for desserts/baking etc. Have written and typed out/printed recipes in them. Really need to do a cull though, most of the recipes I've put in there I haven't made and probably never will.
Cookery the Australia Way-Fifty Edition. Want to get the Anniversary edition. Just used it tonight actually for Meat Loaf..Yum! I bought this when I first moved out of home 20yrs ago.
Marie Claire Cooking
The Gourmet Slow Cooker by Lynn Alley
Jamie Oliver ones
Victor Chang Heart Cook Book (it is also called Fresh Healthy Sally James).
Family Circle Classic Curries
"FEASTING" by Karen Martini - a must if you want lush but not fiddly or expensive platters/sharing plates for casual, stylish get-togethers.
I have around 300 cookbooks and have cooked more from this book than any other.
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