How many cookery books do you own ?

Samson

As per topic.
Give us a list if you can and tell us which are good and which are shite.

I'm bored.

mocar

god you are bored. i have 24 give or take a few. most are hand me downs from my mother when she died.
god im bored too i went in and counted them:)

OLDYELLAR

i dont have any , i`ve never even seen one in our house , the closest thing we have is my sisters first year home ec book.

bonkey

I guess I've somewhere between one and two dozen.
My GF (with whom I live) would have about the same I guess.

The best amongst them is the one I put together with my mates last year. More correctly - I contributed to it. My sis put it together.

Of the ones you can buy.....I'm actually quite a fan of the Jamie Oliver books - good variety. Good range of stuff from upmarket, expensive food to great cheap stuff (I love his burger recipe, which I have since modified and improved).

The rest are focussed on one particular region of cooking (Chinese, Thai, Indian, Scottish), or are themed around something (Liquers & Spirits, griddling, BBQing, Chicken, pasta, etc...)

I dont have any really crap cook books.

jc


jc

Krusty_Clown

I have one of Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery books, and everything has turned out great and very tasty..

Once you have the basic ingredients, and the basic utensils, you can create delicious meals with very little effort or expense..

Borzoi

Originally posted by bonkey

The best amongst them is the one I put together with my mates last year. More correctly - I contributed to it. My sis put it together.
.jc

Now that's a good idea, must get the family working on it (all of whom are better cooks than me)

kayos

Originally posted by Krusty_Clown
I have one of Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery books, and everything has turned out great and very tasty..

Once you have the basic ingredients, and the basic utensils, you can create delicious meals with very little effort or expense..

Yep his books are good alright I have his Thai book and everything comes out perfect.

kayos

bucks73

Ive 7 or 8 books and the best one is definitely Rick Steins seafood. Can be long and complicated but if done right delicious food.

The crab cakes are top.

Shad0r

Originally posted by bonkey
Of the ones you can buy.....I'm actually quite a fan of the Jamie Oliver books - good variety. Good range of stuff from upmarket, expensive food to great cheap stuff (I love his burger recipe, which I have since modified and improved).
jc

Yeah Jamie Oliver's cookbooks are pretty good I've found...good mix of stuff in there.

darthmise

Two.

100 ways with Chicken
and
100 things to do with cheese.

I bought the chicken one cos i saw it in a bargain bin for a squid, and the other one was bought for me by my ex-girlfriends mother who was amused by my love of all things cheese.

Kix

About seven, I think.

Mostly vegetarian but not all. My favourite is Nigel Slater's Real Food (Not vegetarian). I just love the way he writes about food, borders on filthy. Similar ethos to Jamie Oliver.

I also went mad a while back and bought a copy of the recent reprinting of Larousse Gastronomic, the famous encyclopedia of food and cooking. It's an enormous tome and was quite expensive. A remarkable book but not terribly practical

K

bonkey

For anyone who's interested, that cookbook that I mentioned can be d/l'ed from :

http://www.waider.ie/misc/dsp-cookbook.doc

Feel free to offer me any feedback which can/will be passed on to the recipe contributors, or to my sis for doing all the work.

File is about 2.8 MB, and yes, it could have been zipped, but wasnt.

jc

Samson

Originally posted by bonkey
For anyone who's interested, that cookbook that I mentioned can be d/l'ed from :

http://www.waider.ie/misc/dsp-cookbook.doc

Feel free to offer me any feedback which can/will be passed on to the recipe contributors, or to my sis for doing all the work.

File is about 2.8 MB, and yes, it could have been zipped, but wasnt.

jc

Bonkey,

I must say, I'm pretty fucking impressed with your DIY cookbook.

Played.

BuffyBot

I've only got two

An old hard back version of "Full and Plenty" by Maura Lavery - one of the best Irish cookbooks. It may be old fashioned (still some very good recipies in there - amazing considering it was published in 1960), but it covers everything you can think of from the basics up.

I also got an "Complete Italian Cookbook" or something like that...not half as useful as the old Laverty!

Thanx 4 The Fish

Have three but haven't been able to cook anything outta any of them coz the first line in each of the recipes is
"Take a clean ...."

Krusty_Clown

Very impressive bonkey...
Particularly like the conversational tone...

A cookbook for everyone!

EvenStar

like 3o that my mom gave to me. never really used them, so theyre collecting dust.

Samson

Originally posted by EvenStar
like 3o that my mom gave to me. never really used them, so theyre collecting dust.

Can I have them then?