Whats your favourite cookbook and why?

[amberj]

I'm surprised so many people like Jamie's cookbooks. I have two of them and I can't get in to them, but then I am particularly un-gourmet.

My fave cookbook is a women's weekly one, called "Quick Short Recipes". Yummy, easy food.

I also just bought "The $21 Challenge" and am enjoying that, because it shows you how to use up all the bits and pieces in your pantry.

[Freya]

Great suggestions! Sounds like I should hunt up a copy of this Cooks Companion book, sounds like my kinda cookbook.

I also would love the Jamie Oliver cookbooks. Im not a fabulous or adventurous cook so he seems like he goes at a speed I can keep up with lol

[Phteven]

Does the internet count lol?
I usually google a recipe I want to cook, read about 10 versions and then make up my own.

[anney]

Same as Pony!!! Have sold most of my cook books but still keep a collection of the old womens weekly ones. I like the internet as you put in the ingredients you have and it comes up with something.

[jamakin]

Another Jamie Oliver fan here! i have never had any of his recipes fail me, and i also make at least one of his a week, they've become our staples.
Also use Stephanie Alexanders too, great referance book, especially if you have something unusual in the fridge and you have know idea what to do with it!

Anyone going to see Jamie's live show in Melbourne?

[fourthontheway]

I like Jamie Oliver's recipes, and Nigella, and High Wittingstall (I'm his groupie lol)

But my favourite recipe book .... is actually a magazine! I love super food ideas! They come out every month with amazing, simple, budgeted meals and every time I buy one I use atleast 4 recipes from it, sometimes more! My friends all borrow them too lol I posted some to FNQ not long ago, so they traveled about 2000km and back again lol

[human bean]

I am not the most skilled in the kitchen, and I find my huge Women's Weekly 'Cook' book to be the one I refer to the most. It's big and chunky, divided into eggs, lamb, beef, pasta etc and best of all it's simple. And that's what I need!

[Laranna]

Yup another Stephanie Alexander fan here.

My first cookbook was Family Circle Cookbook - it taught me the basics.

My other faves are Charmaine Solomon's Asian Favourites and the CSIRO ones for healthy family dinners.