Cooking Books

[indy]

I inherited that book off my gran as well...Hamlyn's All Colur Cookbook Also the matching how to freeze book...Love them both....freezing book extremely useful should anyone ever see it in a charity shop when they are rummaging

[Green Aura]

I've got loads of cookbooks, but like many others I usually look online for recipes these days. I've good a recipe database of 900+ and find I use that much more often than any of the books. I love looking through them though and often have that "duh" moment, when I've spent an hour or so searching for something online, only to pick my HFW book and find exactly what I wanted!

There are a few tomes I use fairly often though. One is a huge volume on South-east Asian Cooking, another on Indian Vegetarian Cooking, and Nourishing Traditions. I also am starting to use my preserving books more often.

I did try to cull them last year. I sorted out a huge pile to add to my readitswapit list. After a couple of months of finding excuses to not put them on just yet, I finally put most of them back on the shelves. A few found their way to the charity shop though.

[bonniethomas06]

I second HFW's - in particular 'River Cottage Year', which is signed by the beautiful, floppy haired one.

And the Riverford cookbook is brilliant for vegetable side dishes. Other than that, sadly, I rely on the internet. I love the romanticism of looking up dishes in cookbooks, and scrawling personal twists into the margin like my mum does, but I am just too impatient and often decide at work what I will eat when I get home, so look it up then.

So the 20 or so in my kitchen just sit there being steamed every time I put the kettle on beneath the shelf.

[Green Aura]

Mmmm, lightly steamed cookbook - with a little tamari, sesame seeds and spring onions

I'll get my coat

[snapdragon]

Mmmm, lightly steamed cookbook - with a little tamari, sesame seeds and spring onions

I'll get my coat

mmmm tasty - if it's veg pages does that count towards my five a day?

[mrsflibble]

I collect old cooking books i find which look interesting. my rarest is a beautiful 1950s english/cantonese one by the hongkong gas board. it has loads of "worldwide" recipes, each on two pages. one in english, one in cantonese. the same as my older marguerite patten "worldwide" recipes seem to have been dulled for the british taste, the cantonese versions of the recipes have been pepped up lol!

I've been collecting cook books for years. some i just read for fun, some are for reference, some are actually used. the one i use most (surprisingly) is one called "practical cookies" which james bought for me from aldi when i was at university. he likes the rock buns.