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Pad Patter: 12/10 - Cookbooks

I have less than 10 cookbooks and i really only use two of them. The Southern Living Our Best Weekday Favorites and my Betty Crocker one like my Mom's. Then I have a binder with sleeves in it that I use to hold my favorites that I've printed from online. I use that most because I can't make a recipe unless it has a picture to show my kids and husband. They have to approve a new recipe by the picture before I'm going to bother making it.
 
Peppermint said:
Like I have the annual Cooking Light compendiums from a span of years - and then some of the timeless ones, like Joy of Cooking, etc. Those come in handy when I need basic cooking instruction for classic things.
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GET OUT. I have the annual Cooking Light books from 2000 to now. Can't get rid of them.
 
I have most of the Taste of Home annual ones and a few Southern Living ones.
 
I just have a couple. One is pasta cookbook and the rest are goodies cookbooks (cakes, cookies, bakery stuff) Its seem everytime I open the cookbook I gain weight by just looking at the pixs. ;)
 
My mom and I were just talking about this yesterday! I have hordes of them. But now I mainly just use the internet. I have a 3 ring binder full of printouts. It's hard for me to make any recipe now without reading reviews for it first. LOL
 
Yes, I am a cookbook hoarder as well. At last count, I have around 50. I am a bit more discerning about what I buy now though because you can find so many good recipes on line. I use Tasty Kitchen website alot. I like when you can read reviews/adjustments about recipes. Some of my favorites are my Junior League cookbooks. Notably Nashville has been around the longest and still gets used quite a bit. I have some America's Test Kitchen books that I really love too. I probably should go through and purge, but I have an irrational sentimental attachment to some of them.
 
I have lots. Early on I decided that when I went on business trips to various places, that I wanted to pick something up, but I didn't want to accumulate knick-knacks. So I decided to collect cook books with local cuisine. I have some wonderful ones...a Wolfgang Puck cookbook from a conference in San Fransisco (and yes, we ate at Post Rio, spent a fortune on dinner, and never regretted a single cent...)...a Junior League cookbook from a trip to Atlanta among many others. Most of them I just read like a book, and don't make the recipes because the ingredients can be hard to find here.

I have a few that I use for reference over and over:
The Victory Garden Cookbook is an essential without equal for cooking with fresh produce (and a collectible apparently...Amazon shows sellers are asking between $134 to $497 for a book in new condition!!) When this book was republished in 2010, I bought 4 copies to give to my sisters and close relatives.

The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook from the '80s...my first cookbook and the one from which I learned to make basic things.

The Complete Cook teaches technique and formulas rather than individual recipes

The Essential Pasta Cookbook

One of my favourite books is a Ukrainian cookbook that my grandmother's church had made (which includes recipes for an authentic 12-dish Christmas Eve dinner)...

Plus my family has given me just about every book in the Company's Coming series.

Mostly I cook from a few collected recipes that I keep in a card box or in a white binder in the kitchen.
 
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