What's your favorite cookbook?

**3-boys-4-me** · 10-02-2006, 01:28 PM

I was just wondering what everyones favorite cookbook is.
I LOVE cookbooks, and usually get a new one for my birthday.
My favorite would have to be either Cheap, Fast, Good or Bisquick Impossibly Easy Pies.
Please share, I need ideas on which cookbook to ask for this year.

Thanks!

**northernmom2boys** · 10-02-2006, 01:35 PM

Rachel Rays 30 min meals is my current favorite.I have tons and seem to go back to the Joy Of Cooking

**Strawberry** · 10-02-2006, 01:49 PM

Right now my favourite two are both by Sandi Richard. Cooking for the Rushed - The Healthy Family and Cooking for the Rushed - Life's on Fire. Margery suggested them awhile back and I'm so glad I purchased them both.

**Dedlered** · 10-02-2006, 01:51 PM

I love my Better HOmes and Garden Cookbook
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**kabin63** · 10-02-2006, 02:32 PM

I like my Dining on a Dime cookbook. It's full of all kinds of useful information. I also have a cookbook from 1895 that I love to read, but some of the recipes aren't practical for today. Still, two of my favorites.

**Darlene** · 10-02-2006, 02:38 PM

I can't pick just one! No way!
Learned to cook with Betty Crocker and still use many of the recipes in that 1978 book.
Other favs are~
Cold Weather Cooking ~Sara Leah Chase
The American Country Inn & Bread & Breakfast Cookbook Vol 1&2~ K&L Maynard
Favorite Recipes From Quilters & The Best of Mennonite Fellowship Meals~ Stoltzfus
My new fav is Great Good Food ~ Julee Rosso

I could go on (since I have over 100 cookbooks)& on but I'll stop.

**Amanda W** · 10-02-2006, 04:25 PM

My favorite is How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. I think of it as a much hipper version of The Joy of Cooking.

**severina** · 10-02-2006, 04:35 PM

I love the "More With Less" cookbook. Very frugal recipes but also a lot of ethnic stuff, so there are lots of new things to try. I think it is published by the Mennonite church?

Also I love my 1950's "Joy of Cooking". Simple, straightforward information and fun to read!

**FrugalMomof3** · 10-02-2006, 04:42 PM

I am totally into Rachel Ray as well but I totally use Emeril's recipes too but I just go to the Food Network website.

**3-boys-4-me** · 10-02-2006, 05:07 PM

Thanks ladies for all the suggestions. Keep em' coming!

**Laurie in Bradenton** · 10-02-2006, 06:49 PM

Can't pick one! I've got a collection of over 1000!
My favorites would be Amish and Mennonite ones!
Also love my Jr. League Ones
Gooseberry and Hoilday Ones
I read cookbooks like some folks read romance novels! My friends and family

all know I love cookbooks so I'm always geting them as gifts. I pick them up off freecycle and get them from the homes I clean out. DH took a closet out of my office and built me floor to ceiling shelves 12 feet across to hold my collection. Yes, I do cook out of them. When I read throught them I make on postits recipes I'd like to try. Then I make notes in the cookbook as to weather we liked the item or not. When I get a new to me Hoilday Cookbook I'll make note on my December calendar with the title of the book and any recipes I'd like to try. We already have a list going for this hoilday season and DD is adding to the list of folks who will get cookie plates when we have bake days. She has 2 girlfriends who look forward to those Saturdays when we do cookies.

I love cookbooks that have been used and show lots of use. Notes and names make them more special. If I buy a cookbook from a church group or booth at a fair I always ask, "Do you have a recipe in this book." If the person says yes I ask them to turn to the page and sign their recipe.

Laurie in Bradenton

**DixieJ** · 10-02-2006, 06:52 PM

My favorites are

Paula Deen's cookbooks
The best of Southern Living's cookbook
plus several of the cookbooks by the women's clubs around here...gotta love that good old southern cooking.

Dixie Jean

**nuisance26** · 10-02-2006, 08:20 PM

~I use my Better Homes & Gardens Red & White cookbook the most, but I'm pretty attached to my set of Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur. I RARELY get to go to restaurants because the budget won't allow it, so I often pull out these books and make a restaurant copycat recipe. Tonight I made a Bloomin Onion just for me and it was awesome! They're my emotional pick-me-up books.~

**DorothyBeverly** · 10-03-2006, 11:07 AM

DH just got me a cookbook called 1001 best short, easy recipes...it has a lot of good ones in it. I also have all 3 volumes of the 4-ingredient recipe cookbooks that I picked up at a yard sale. I also love my Kraft food and family mags, I keep them all.

**pkellyc** · 10-03-2006, 12:39 PM

Better Homes and Gardens I have 2 issues. My first issue is 27 years old and my second is around 5 years old. My dd's bought me the second book thinking my first book looked a little used and abused. I was 18 years old when I was married and couldn't cook a thing. The Better Homes and Gardens cookbook was wonderful with standard recipes and ingredients.
I own several cookbooks a collection to be sure.
I do love my McCall's cooking school books and a small book called Comfort Foods. I also have my mothers cookbooks the pages are crumbling but where else can I find a cookbook that tells you how to build a smokehouse and has the spice cookie recipe that I grew up on?