I have their “seasonal” one. It’s worth having just for the astounding party suggestions. You’d have to be a gazillionaire to throw those parties LOL. Fun reading!
The book that taught me how to cook: The Healthy College Cookbook. I actually bought it when I got married for the recipes that didn’t take a thousand ingredients.
@Megan coconut-lime basmati rice, seared portobello mushrooms, tamari-roasted chick peas. I could go on since I’ve made a lot but just pick any and it will taste great.
Megan, so many are wonderful! Off the top of my head: the yeasted sugar cake, chocolate terraine, all manner of vegetable dishes… I’ve never eaten anything from the book that I didn’t like.
The Edmonds cookbook is my most used cook book (I’m in New Zealand and its a household book here) but I really want some recipe books by Chelsea Winter, another kiwi, she has some amazing recipes
Oh geesh. Now I am going to need to research cookbooks and I have NO room for them! Too many already…but I guess I could do without the Little Debbie’s in the pantry to make room.
The Junior League of Portland, Maine’s, RSVP (1982), along with its successor Maine Ingredients (1995). (My mother’s baked bean recipe is in the ’95 one.) @The
Feasts for All Seasons, a 1966 cookbook by Roy Andries De Groot that introduced me to the joy of seasonal cooking decades before I encountered it elsewhere. It was the second cookbook I ever purchased (Julia’s was the first, of course).
Better Homes and Gardens original printing 1930, My edition Bantam Revised October 1982, 3rd printing October 1984. AND The Vegetarian Epicures by Anna Thomas.
The More with Less Cookbook. Got it as a wedding gift in 1988. Dumped the husband but kept the cookbook! It taught me how to cook without recipes. I can make a soup or a casserole with any combo of leftovers. Also taught me that, for many recipes, you can use soft cheeses (cheddar, swiss, Monterey Jack, Colby, etc.) interchangeably.
I was gifted mine fifty-seven years ago; my first cookbook. It might not have made it when I moved. Still hoping it is in my storage shed. The memories, the notes, added recipes. Even the stains tell a story.
My 1977 copy of the McCalls cookbook. I don’t remember the exact title. Every recipe I have made from it has been fantastic. My copy is falling apart from age and use.
The only cookbook I consult on a regular basis is the one in my head. The one I love is an old Southern Magazine cookbook I found at a second hand bookstore that has recipes in it for baked ‘possum and how to cook poke salad greens. I just laugh and laugh cuz there ain’t no way in hell I would have cooked the way they did.
Fannie Farmer!
My sister and I share my mom’s 1935 edition.
Greene on greens. Not only did it make me want to eat veggies but he provides stories and background for over 30 vegetables.
Bert Greene is the author
I love that cookbook so much that I have a copy at home and another at the beach house – AND I gave a copy to my best friend!
The Wise Guys Cook book by Henry Hill. Fascinating x
Eat Like You Give a F!ck
America’s Test Kitchen Seasons 1-10 cookbook! Everything in there is a winning recipe ???
To Serve Man
LOL
@Susan Glad to see someone got it so quickly.
The one I couldn’t live without is the Joy of Cooking.
The Joy of Cooking.
Oof idk lol…
Google. Sorry.
I totally agree.
Paula Deen
How to Cook Everything
mine too, as far as the one book I use the most.
The Silver Palate
I have their “seasonal” one. It’s worth having just for the astounding party suggestions. You’d have to be a gazillionaire to throw those parties LOL. Fun reading!
Marcella Hazan
Fannie Farmer
The book that taught me how to cook: The Healthy College Cookbook. I actually bought it when I got married for the recipes that didn’t take a thousand ingredients.
Any of the Barefoot Contessa cookbooks! She never lets me down!
moosewood
Pinterest ??♀️
Down Home Cooking: The New Healthier Way.
I’m not a vegan but this is my favorite cookbook. I’ve made so many delicious recipes from this book. I also love the page layout and photos.
I have this one but never used. What recipes are your favs?
@Megan coconut-lime basmati rice, seared portobello mushrooms, tamari-roasted chick peas. I could go on since I’ve made a lot but just pick any and it will taste great.
Thanks! Do you have any of her other books?
Thanks! Do you have any of her other books?
@Megan yes but this one is my favorite. Her chocolate chip cookies are also my favorite.
Betty Crocker for sentiment …?
“Any Fool Can Cook if He Can Read”
Got to check this one out.
It’s a real cookbook and it’s the best!
I want to answer this and I can’t, too many wonderful choices! ( I have a wall full).
Enchanted Broccoli Forest
Betty crocker’s
Vegetarian cooking for everyone by Deborah Madison
Second this!
Which recipes are good?
Megan, so many are wonderful! Off the top of my head: the yeasted sugar cake, chocolate terraine, all manner of vegetable dishes… I’ve never eaten anything from the book that I didn’t like.
I like her pea soup, stock, sesame tofu, tabboule. SO many of the recipes in this book have become standards for me.
I bought this years ago and then never tried any of them
Betty Crocker
It’s hard to just say one so I will give you one of my favorite series of cookbooks . Any of the Mr. Food cookbooks are great.
Margaret Fulton’s cookbook. The only cook book I think I will ever need. If she didn’t bother to teach you it in her book I doubt it’s worth knowing
Ooh, someone else to research!
Joy of Cooking
Joy of Cooking
Michael Symon’s 5 in 5
Joy of Cooking
Cravings by Chrissy Teigen
Every book from America’s Test Kitchen. The cookbooks chefs use. And there is one for every cooking taste. https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Mediterranean-Cookbook-Vibrant-Kitchen-Tested/dp/1940352649/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1532641479&sr=8-4&keywords=america%27s+test+kitchen+cookbooks&refinements=p_72%3A2661618011
My favorite because I’m getting to be a lazy cook: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Simple-Recipes-Flavorful-Foolproof/dp/1933615591/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1532641479&sr=8-3&keywords=america%27s+test+kitchen+cookbooks&refinements=p_72%3A2661618011
OMG this is going to kill me..I have 3 that I live by.
seriously?
I won’t say how many I have 🙂
@Sylvia I have hundreds, but 3 that I use every week!
I have so many, and get all my ideas from the internet
Ok, spill the beans, Monica, lol! What three??
@Anne I was wondering that too!
https://www.amazon.com/How-Cook-Everything-Simple-Recipes/dp/0471789186/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532705051&sr=1-4&keywords=how+to+cook+everything%27
https://www.amazon.com/Vegetables-Every-Day-Definitive-Cooking/dp/0060192216/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532705109&sr=1-1&keywords=vegetables+every+day+by+jack+bishop
Sorry I got crazy busy taking my daughter to the doctors yesterday! I love these three cookbooks.
@Monica that’s only two, what’s the third one?
@Cyndy classic home cooking, vegetables every day and how to cook everything
Joy of Cooking – I have a ridiculous number of cookbooks, but Joy of Cooking is the only one you’ll ever need.
America’s Test Kitchen Cooking School Cookbook is used as a textbook in many community colleges: https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Kitchen-Cooking-School-Cookbook-ebook/dp/B00FEIQ93K/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1532641479&sr=8-6&keywords=america%27s+test+kitchen+cookbooks&refinements=p_72%3A2661618011
Silver Palate (1st one)
Dorie Greenspan Dorie’s Cookies
mmm, cookies
Best Chicken and Dumpling recipe I have made. And I have made this recipe a million times:
I’ve made that so many times, and was never 100% happy with it. Reading the book, though, it does make you hungry!
Fannie Farmer. It’s basic American.
The Edmonds cookbook is my most used cook book (I’m in New Zealand and its a household book here) but I really want some recipe books by Chelsea Winter, another kiwi, she has some amazing recipes
Betty Crocker’s Baking Classics, because I grew up with it. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/betty-crockers-baking-classics_betty-crocker/393369/?mkwid=s79WclwC7%7Cdt&pcrid=70112914152&pkw=&pmt=&plc=&gclid=CjwKCAjw4uXaBRAcEiwAuAUz8ELMQPSMLdj-2JydxKlT7EkE6ORD9biXRQIVirU7yb1esxl5vKdvFxoCsMQQAvD_BwE#isbn=0394518837&idiq=2215789
Betty Crocker – red old book from my mom with yellow pages!
Love and Lemons Cookbook
Oh geesh. Now I am going to need to research cookbooks and I have NO room for them! Too many already…but I guess I could do without the Little Debbie’s in the pantry to make room.
Cook’s Country Eats Local
50 years old and falling apart, still my go to cookbook.
The old Joy of Cooking – my go to since 1978
I still have Julia Child’s cooking shows in my head. Sorry, not a book, but she taught me so much. Like how you have to cook with wine (in the cook) 🙂
So true. Wine in the cook may not be socially acceptable, but has made many of my dishes spectacular, although irreproducible, because, wine.
America’s Test Kitchens The New Best Recipe
Veganomicon by Isa Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero
The Junior League of Portland, Maine’s, RSVP (1982), along with its successor Maine Ingredients (1995). (My mother’s baked bean recipe is in the ’95 one.) @The
I ALWAYS buy self published cook books from small fundraisers. Especially vintage. Those recipes are priceless. ?
Following…
Whole30! It changed my life!
Feasts for All Seasons, a 1966 cookbook by Roy Andries De Groot that introduced me to the joy of seasonal cooking decades before I encountered it elsewhere. It was the second cookbook I ever purchased (Julia’s was the first, of course).
Julia! I love the name of your book…
Google
That’s certainly the one I use the most for jumping off points!
Diet for a Small Planet
Nom Nom Paleo.
“How to Boil Water”. Given to me by my Granny.
Thug Kitchen
My mother’s old Better Homes & Gardens, complete with all those ghastly gelatin side dishes.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/17-horrifyingly-disgusting-retro-gelatin-recipes
http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2015/09/california-prune-cream-salad-1934-a-mid-century-gelatin-recipe-test/
The Cake Bible – Rose Levy Berenbaum
Following ?
The Joy of Cooking. On my second copy. Burned thru the first one in 39 years.
I’ve had a couple of these too.
I’ve had the same copy for 41 – and it’s literally falling apart at the seams
I have 5 different editions! Including my mom’s, which I had re-bound.
Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan.
Homesick Texan.
Smitten Kitchen
The Joy of cooking
Mastering the Art of French Cooking – I have my mom’s 2-volume set from the 60s
The Art and Soul of Baking – by Cindy Mushet
The stuffed cougar from collegiate school Richmond va circa 1976
Forest Feast by Erin Gleeson. It’s absolutely beautiful and filled with easy vegetarian recipes
Little Red Gumbo Cookbook
The Pioneer Woman cook book
Old School…Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker. It’s a perfect basics cookbook. She taught me and now I use her recipies as a base and tweak them to perfection.
Me too. I probably have 5 or 6 with different publishing dates.
Me too
Better Homes and Gardens original printing 1930, My edition Bantam Revised October 1982, 3rd printing October 1984. AND The Vegetarian Epicures by Anna Thomas.
Me too! It is still the one I use the most and I’m a cookbook freak – can’t walk by a cookbook isle without buying one!
How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. I used it today.
Cook’s Illustrated New Best Recipes
Practical Paleo by Diane Sanfillipo.
Co… ook? *opens can of soup*
The Joy of Cooking is the one I use the most. Best of the Best from Louisiana is my favorite.
Good Housekeeping cookbook
Moosewood
I have all of these except Moosewood – where is that from?
Old hippie vegetarian cookbook from the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca NY. Some really good recipes!
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=eMgJAwAAQBAJ&source=productsearch&utm_source=HA_Desktop_US&utm_medium=SEM&utm_campaign=PLA&pcampaignid=MKTAD0930BO1&gclid=CjwKCAjw4uXaBRAcEiwAuAUz8Dgo7Nf8PMiSvvn19teknjvOzMVsajJmsbolg_eBEWYHyDcl4z838BoClLUQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CKbD9rqOvtwCFQgaAQodBVYOHQ
Love my Moosewood!!
Silver Palate
Edmonds Cookbook . Its been around for over 60 years and still the best.
joy of cooking
Mennonite Fellowship Meals
Jerusalem
Joy of Cooking
The original Betty Crocker
Joy of Cooking.
Skinnytaste cookbook is the one I’ve used the most that had never failed. Pie in the Sky is the best for baking. Best writing is in Soul Food Love.
Three new-to-me’s! Thanks!
Good Times Cookbook.
Yogalosophy —the recipes were a sweet surprise!
Duff Bakes by Duff Goldman. I haven’t used it much, but I love how he explains things. “The dough should be pouffy.”
The complete America’s test kitchen
Sheila Lukins’s USA Cookbook
Following
Thug Kitchen
How to Cook Everything
Oh she glows!
The More with Less Cookbook. Got it as a wedding gift in 1988. Dumped the husband but kept the cookbook! It taught me how to cook without recipes. I can make a soup or a casserole with any combo of leftovers. Also taught me that, for many recipes, you can use soft cheeses (cheddar, swiss, Monterey Jack, Colby, etc.) interchangeably.
Mozzarella. Yes.
Silver Palate
My 1927 Electric Refrigerator recipes and Menus! Recipes are priceless.
Our local church cookbook
Those are always good!
I picked up one from a church over 20years ago. It’s still with me.
My husband uses ours at least once a week. Hes the cook, not me
The Multi-Cultural Cuisine of Trinidad & Tobago & the Caribbean https://www.amazon.com/dp/9768173653/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_jVPwBb553C844
Mastering the Art of French Cooking…as much for the descriptions as the recipes.
Cooks Illustrated
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science is my current favorite. Even learning something as simple as when to add salt to scrambled eggs was a revelation – what a difference!!
https://www.amazon.com/Food-Lab-Cooking-Through-Science/dp/0393081087
Betty Crocker. Mother gave it to me the Christmas before I was married . . . 53 years ago. Tried and true. Lots of recipes the family really likes.
Me, too. And my oldest, middle, and youngest daughters.
I was gifted mine fifty-seven years ago; my first cookbook. It might not have made it when I moved. Still hoping it is in my storage shed. The memories, the notes, added recipes. Even the stains tell a story.
Papa johns takeaway menu
The Federation of Women’s Institutes “Approved Recipes” given to me by my mother – all tried and tested and homely.
Totally agree. Always end up using them after looking at others. Truly tried and tested
Sweet & Southern by Ben Mims! Literally every single recipe is absolutely delicious and comprehensive.
From Cooks Illustrated – I love the details provided on how the best preparation method was determined.
The Veganomicon
Only one? I have hundreds but the one I would save from a fire is Crescent Dragonwagon’s “Soup and Bread”.
Love that cookbook!
Second Helpings. Norene Gilletz
My 1977 copy of the McCalls cookbook. I don’t remember the exact title. Every recipe I have made from it has been fantastic. My copy is falling apart from age and use.
The Junior League of Ouachita Parish (Louisiana) 1979 cookbook!
Betty Crocker!
John Folse.
The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Mollie Katzen
Joy of Cooking.
The Basque Kitchen!
Fannie Farmer Cookbook. Bought it 40 years ago and still use it.
The only cookbook I consult on a regular basis is the one in my head. The one I love is an old Southern Magazine cookbook I found at a second hand bookstore that has recipes in it for baked ‘possum and how to cook poke salad greens. I just laugh and laugh cuz there ain’t no way in hell I would have cooked the way they did.
Mastering The Art of French Cooking but Julia Child
Wasn’t she portrayed by Meryl Streep?
@Chloé I enjoyed the film but loved the book.
The Joy of Cooking. I received a copy as a wedding gift 40 years ago and still use it!
Better Homes and Gardens. Received mine in 1970. My mother had hers long before that. Plaid cover.
Me, too! I’m on my second copy now.