What is your favorite cookbook?

[seemunkee]

Which one do you make recipes from the most?
Which one inspires you to make your own dishes?
What was your first one?

[sniffa]

1. "Eat Well, Stay Well"

The majority of "recipes" we use come from that book. Yes, it was published by Readers Digest but it's a great f'n book. :bounce:

[OmahaBlueDog]

2. NY Times Cookbook

It's very old-school, but it's almost like a reference book -- like Betty Crocker, or Julia Child's Art of French Cooking

[femmocrat]

3. My old Betty Crocker cookbook from the 1970s.

It is stuffed with notes on recipes and companion side dishes. Over the years I have written in it exactly what to make and buy for each holiday menu. It's held together with book tape, but it's still my favorite. I couldn't put together a holiday meal without it.

[triguy46]

4. Don't know if its a favorite, but the one I refer to most is the old Betty Crocker...

for basic information and instruction. Not necess the recipes, though the bread section is good.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Better Homes and Gardens--MrG bought it for me on our first anniversary

and I still keep the card he gave me inside the front cover. Everytime I would make something from the book I would write the date I made it, what we thought of it and any events that happened that day. I haven't been able to open it since. But we've been living on frozen and/or takeout pizza, and pre made meals since then.

[seemunkee]

9. Put it in a safe place

I'm sure one of the kids will treasure it when the time is right.
:hug:

[Raven]

6. The Joy of Cooking & America's Test Kitchen.

[trof]

12. I have my mom's original hardback J.o.C. Falling apart.

I bought a newer paperback copy at a library book sale a while back for actual use.

[seemunkee]

7. The Creative Cooking Course

Old school French, got it back in high school. Its my reference.
The one's I probably have made the most recipe's from are The Great Chefs of New Orleans and The Great Chefs of San Fransisco, from the Great Chef's TV series.
I'm really liking Keller's The French Laundry. Gets me thinking in new ways.

[bicentennial_baby]

8. Joy of Cooking

1973 edition :)

[Inchworm]

37. 1975 edition here

:)

[trof]

10. Current fave: 'Crazy sista cooking' -Lucy Buffet

Jimmy's crazy sista.

[Jean Louise Finch]

11. I've got three

They're all vegetarian, though the Moosewood Collective one does have a few fish recipes in it. I so strongly recommend all three of these books to anyone strapped for time but wanting to eat healthy, nourishing foods.

Better than Peanut Butter and Jelly, Revised Edition, by Marty Mattare and Wendy Muldawer

Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Gourmet, by Nava Atlas

Simple Suppers: Fresh Ideas for the Weeknight Table, by the Moosewood Collective

[seemunkee]

14. I have the original Moosewood book

One designed for quick weeknight meals sounds interesting

Wish I had known about the Better than Peanut Butter and Jelly when my kids where still at home.

[Jean Louise Finch]

19. i don't have kids

but still the better than peanut butter and jelly book is really useful -- some of the casseroles are so delicious and feed my partner and I for quite a few nights! and the ideas for healthy breakfast are really good, quick, and keep me running til lunch.

the original moosewood books are amazing, but i find they take SO long to make that those books never got much use. this simple suppers one is much better!

[dembotoz]

13. label on the back of the product

I mean with frozen pizza is it
450 for 10 minutes
or 425 for 14 minutes
all so important.

[seemunkee]

17. Highest temp your oven will go to

and a pizza stone. Will improve any frozen pizza.

[Ptah]

15. The Fannie Farmer Cookbook

[bicentennial_baby]

31. Yes yes, that one too!!

The one I got from my Mother is old and falling apart. I love it. :)

[Ptah]

35. Mine is falling apart too.

I treasure it.

:hi:

[Forkboy]

16. The Anarchist one.

:evilgrin:

[bicentennial_baby]

21. dood, I saw the subject line first, and...

I knew it was you! :rofl:

[Forkboy]

25. I don't know if that's a good thing.

I'm getting predictable...I'll have to tell people I like Republicans at this rate, just to keep them on their toes. :)

[mondo joe]

18. No single one. There are two Tom Douglas books we use often; Lidia Bastianich is

another favorite; the Scott Peacock/Edna Lewis book is a gem. My partner has some treasured bread and pastry books but I don't use them.

Oh, and the Mediterranean Kitchen is an old favorite.

[no name no slogan]

20. Tell me, what is this cooking of which you speak?

/ kitchen at home could fit in my bathtub

[Sugar Smack]

22. Heh! Here---

PS- I wouldn't make whatever-this-is on a dare.:D

[seemunkee]

28. Is that from the Gallery of Regretable Food?

http://lileks.com/institute/gallery/

[Sugar Smack]

30. No, but it should be. I LOVE that site.

I've heard it was run by radical right-wing jerks, but that isn't going to make it any less hysterical to me.

[otherlander]

41. OMG... the horror...

[Zoigal]

23. Joy of Cooking..first cookbook i ever bought.

Mine is roughly sixty years old. Lots of discolored, worn pages. z

[La Lioness Priyanka]

24. how to cook everything. mark bittman

i adore that man

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. I hate cookbooks - I like books that teach me how to cook. Thus, "How to Cook" and "Meat" are tops

Julia Childs' "How to Cook" and by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's "Rover Cottage Meat Book"

And, of course, anyone who doesn't have Escoffier is just a blind jackass.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

27. i love how to cook too but i am a jennyass not a jackass

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. You're a prianka-ass, which is even worse.

:P

[edbermac]

32. "To Serve Man"

It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!

[otherlander]

33. The Tassajara.

Okay, so it's my only cookbook. But it's awesome. :D

[BOSSHOG]

34. Not a cookbook, but a magazine

We get "Cooking for Two" four times a year and it has great and easy recipes designed for small families. It was a gift from my wonderful mother in law.

[flvegan]

36. Vegan Vittles: A Collection of Recipes Inspired by the Critters of Farm Sanctuary

I actually have 4 copies (3 were gifts, 2 signed and personalized by the Baustons, 1 by the author). Nothing like a cookbook that not only has fantastic, easy recipes but also helps the critters at the Farm Sanctuary facilities.

[libodem]

38. No Man Knows My Pastries

a funny Morman cookbook with great recipes.

[libodem]

39. let me see if I can show you

No Man Knows My Pastries
The Secret (Not Sacred) Recipes of Sister Enid Christensen
ROGER B. SALAZAR and
MICHAEL G. WIGHTMAN
Paperback. 127 Pages. / 1-56085-028-0 / $8.95

"A Marvelous Work with Wonder Bread," "Jesus-Fed-the-Multitudes Tuna Helper," and "I Knead Thee Every Hour Rolls" are among the special heirloom recipes reluctantly shared by Sister Christensen in No Man Knows My Pastries. This faux cook book chronicles the special love affair Mormons have with lowbrow eating and provides easy, step-by-step directions for preparation of the likes of bologna mock chicken wings.

Sister Christensen illustrates her favorite culinary hints with photographs of herself with her buns in the kitchen and of Brother Christensen at his TV tray wolfing down her delectable delights. Her ingenious "Jell-O-Matrix" will help readers match flavors and ingredients with appropriate party themes; her "Mauve Wedding Punch" is guaranteed to match bridesmaids' dresses; and kids will "massacre" her "Mountain Meadows Muffins." From "In-Breads" to "Just Desserts," everyone can savor the self-identified "kreme" of Utah cuisine.

"I've been mobbed for a recipe after more than one pot luck," Sister Christensen admits in her preface. It "makes me sad to think there are brethren and sisters who have not discovered the joy of diced Spam casserole." Out of duty to the betterment of ward dinners everywhere, she was persuaded to go into print. "So, sisters," she concludes, "get out your aprons and let's get cooking."

Roger B. Salazar, a hairdresser, claims to have acquired cherished recipes from his Salt Lake Valley Relief Society clientele, which is how he conjured up "Sister Enid Christensen," the alleged co-author of his humorous book, No Man Knows My Pastries: The Secret (Not Sacred) Recipes of Sister Enid Christensen.




Michael G. Wightman, a Salt Lake City music composer (part-time) and house painter (full-time), says he inherited family cookbooks from generations of zucchini-loving progenitors. These, along with his keen sense of humor and natural "Mo-look," were invaluable contributions to No Man Knows My Pastries: The Secret (Not Sacred) Recipes of Sister Enid Christensen, which he co-authored and for which he posed as "Brother Christensen."

[LeftyMom]

40. The Joy of Vegan Baking.

:9

[Tektonik]

42. Jacques Pepin's Complete Techniques

http://www.amazon.com/Jacques-Pepins-Complete-Techniques-P%C3%A9pin/dp/1579122205/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205782070&sr=1-1

[Midlodemocrat]

43. all of the America's Test Kitchens books.

Along with the Barefoot Contessa series. Great, great stuff.