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.