So which is yours?  Where do you turn most often?  What are the staple meals you and your family have again and again and where are they from? 

I think we mostly use Jamie Olivers recipes   Or variations of them…..  But I only have two of his books… Mmm the family dinner sone and the other one, er with the black and white cover!  I like the family one better, or at least have used it more often.

Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian Cookbook is good and I have a couple of others but I can't remember the name lol
Now I quite often search the internet depending what's in the cupboard and see what pops up  ;D

I mentioned it in another thread.  It is called curry and has a lurid green and pink cover but it has the best curry's ever, it converted me from being a madhur jaffrey fan.  

We have all the Janie Oliver books because DH is a fan and I like Jamies Italy best, but Jamie isn't my favourite because he doesn't do puddings!  Nigella I love to browse but never seem to get a good recipe out of her.  Gary Rhodes I love to browse because he has split the recipes into seasons but more just for inspiration.  Once I did his very posh apple pie, all his food is very posh.

I fall back on Delia alot, but mostly go to my very scruffy scrapboook of recipes cut out from Sainsburys magazine, and passed down from my mum.

Sausage, egg and chips tonight.  And for pudding Nigellas lemon and almond cake.  Very healthy, but it is that time of the month!!!  And its raining, so have spent the afternoon baking

I use some from one of Jamie's, but find all the recipe's really faffy.

My favourite recipe books say it all about me and my loathing of cooking i'm afraid - The 3 and 4 Ingredient Cookbook and Fast Cakes  ;D

Becky
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Oh Nigella - yeah my favourite recipe from her is th Elvis Sandwich!  So good:)  Toast two slices of bread, put mashed banana on one slice, peanut butter on the other and then fry in lots of butter, both sides.  So fantasic and sweet/savoury and chewy and drippy.  About a gazzillion calories worth of butter but just yummy.  One of my ds's loves this too!

For pudding's I like the Joanne Harris French Kitchen book.  The other recipes are a bit take or leave but the chocolate section is fab.  The chocolate cake using ground almonds instead of flour.  I make this for special occasions and EVERYONE, no joke, loves it.  This means we have more 'special occasions' than are really required… you know, like er, It is Spring Time, lets have THAT cake.

Also I like Lizzie Vann's Organic baby cookbook   I make lots out of there and jazz it up - like salmon fishy risoles (with added spices and garlic) or meat balls etc.  It taught me how to make the basics like that.  Not that I actually used it for baby food per se, my babies didn't like food until very late, but it just helped me out in the kitchen when I started making 'family' meals.

I'm a big Nigella fan.  More because she prefers to use proper ingredients (ie full fat milk etc), that goes down well with us!!

The 'More with Less cook book' by Doris Jansen Longacre.  It's great a really inspirational book.  I also have her 'Living more with less book'
Tania x

I like Rose Elliot's Supreme Vegetarian Cookery.  We do eat a little meat but have mainly veggie dishes and this has all the basics in as well as some more elaborate stuff

River cottage family cook book every time . Easy to find simple things. In fact both my sisters now have it as I use it so much.

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Jacqui

I'm a big fan of Ina Garten (the Barefoot Contessa) she is an American cook and uses lots of butter and cream; her recipes are delicious.  I have 3 of her books but I also I sneak into DD2's room when she's at work and watch Ina' on UKTV food (dd works for a well known satellite tv company and gets the service free).  I have actually just made a batch of her carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting tonight - supposedly for visitors tomorrow, but dh may have other ideas.

Mary Berry complete cookbook for us- never failed a receipe from it yet
River cottage meat book (sorry to admit to it as everyone seems to be veggie on here)- we do eat meat about 1xweek and I do subscribe to hughs ethos on meat…...ie respect and good living

I recently bought the Netmums 'Feeding Kids' cookery book which has become a bible in our house. Includes good advice on feeding kids and then has chapters on winter and summer cooking, lunch boxes, desserts, cakes etc and easy teas. What I really like is the nutritional information each recipe supplies plus they have loads of suggestions for changing/adding to the dish (ie vegetarian options, lower salt and sugar versions). At £14.99 it's pricey but it's been worth every penny.
I also have a well-loved but very battered copy of the original Cranks recipe book. Mine is falling apart and I think it's now out of print but there are some recipes I still use.

I've got a Sophie Grigson book which is about 15 years old called Eat Your Greens and its got loads of really good recipes in for seasonal vegetables. So if we've got a glut of something in the garden we have a few different ways of cooking it. I also use Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's Meat  and Fish books, also an older one of his called A Cook On The Wild Side which has lots of foraging recipes in it: we have used his ideas for nettle soup, chickweed risotto, elderberry wine, nettle beer and various casseroles using roadkill (although can't bring myself to do snails!)

Howie "Road Kill" AAAAAGGGG your a brave woman.

One of my favorites is Linda McCartneys "Linda's Kitchen", full of every day easy veggie recipes. I also like Roes Elliots "Not just a load of old lentils" and "Cheap and Easy". I do  have a bit of a thing about cook books and I seem to  have amassed a bit of a collection, most of which I love drool over knowing that I'll never cook anything out of them.

Lorna  

any of the river cottage books, i think.  tho i agree with an earlier post, the RC Family Cookbook is fab, and very well used in our house.  We love 'Gaias Kitchen' as well, though it can be a bit faffy in places

love skye x