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Tikatu · 07-18-2011, 10:03 PM

(07-13-2011 02:31 PM)drvenkman Wrote: Unfortunately, I'm not very good at organization consistancy. I have a mishmash of cookbooks with hand-written notations, index cards, and random printed or handwritten pages.

This is me. I'm beginning to think I need to add my best recipes to AllRecipes and print them out, then put the pages in page protectors and keep them in a binder. My handwriting is getting pretty bad on those little cards!

Let's see, my go-to cookbook is an old version of the Good Housekeeping Cookbook that someone left on my hubby's desk one day. Then there's Square Meals (which we like as much for the commentary as the recipes), Classic American Cooking without Fuss (we bought a second copy of this when one of our cats did something unmentionable to the first one), and Fix It and Forget It.

Hubby does a lot of cooking (so does the oldest boy) and he keeps picking up recipes from Publix to put in their binder. We've tried a couple; they're a nice change from the same old, same old. (He even bought a bottle of cooking sherry for one of them!)

**Presbygirl** · 07-19-2011, 09:38 AM

Quote from Tikatu: Hubby does a lot of cooking (so does the oldest boy) and he keeps picking up recipes from Publix to put in their binder. We've tried a couple; they're a nice change from the same old, same old. (He even bought a bottle of cooking sherry for one of them!)

Slippery Slope Warning Tikatu!!! Next you will "experiment cooking with vodka" and create the most fabulous dish like Penne with shrimp in a Vodka cream sauce and then you will be doing vodka shooters!! Let me know what night and I'll be there. Smile

drvenkman · (This post was last modified: 07-19-2011 02:34 PM by drvenkman.)

*drools*...

Don't forget to add some pancetta to it and cook it down so you don't get knocked over when you lift the first bite to your mouth Tongue

C_Fresh · 07-10-2012, 09:27 AM

To Serve Man

***Screams: IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!!***

I can't belive someone didn't take this opportunity already.

In all seriousness, I think I'm going to have to check out some of these online suggestions. I don't particularly like cooking since its just for me. Cooking with and for people can be kind of fun.

**myotch** · 07-10-2012, 10:33 AM

Favorite cookbook?

The Anarchist Cookbook.

**Phatchick** · 07-10-2012, 07:41 PM

(07-10-2012 09:27 AM)C_Fresh Wrote: To Serve Man

***Screams: IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!!***

I can't belive someone didn't take this opportunity already.

In all seriousness, I think I'm going to have to check out some of these online suggestions. I don't particularly like cooking since its just for me. Cooking with and for people can be kind of fun.

ROTFLMAO!!! Thank you, I love that punchline.

JLL · 07-20-2012, 11:22 AM

Love the Barefoot Contessa books, but my favorites are the old spiral bound church ladies league cookbooks from around 40 years ago. There's one I have called "Desserts: Favorite Recipes of Assemblies of God Women" that I couldn't live without!

**Phatchick** · 07-21-2012, 08:24 AM

I have Alton Brown's "Just Here For The Food" books and I love them. Very informative, not just about cooking but also the science behind it. I also love Paula Dean's cookbooks for when I'm looking for something out of the ordinary. The Bear was a big fan of Jeff Smith, the Frugal Gormet, but I always found his "Shame on You" attitude for taking shortcuts a bit off-putting. It's one thing to cook stuff for hours when you're a TV chef, who does it for a living but quite another when you both work and get home tired and hungry and just want something that's reasonably healthy and tastes good.

**Natalie** · 07-23-2012, 08:58 AM

My favorite cookbook is the one I learned a lot about cooking from. It's my Mother's Betty Crocker cookbook from the '60's. The first part of it, explains the basics of cooking, measurements, cookware, and even cuts of meat and where they are on the animal. The pages of the book have stains on them from where we cooked out of it growing up. It has simple custards to really elaborate recipes. I was fascinated by it as a kid, and love to flip through it now. It was written clearly for the housewives of that era when most everything was cooked at home. I'm guessing it was a wedding present to my Mother. I have it now, because Mom knows just how much I love it, and she's gotten her favorite recipes out of it.

lillypie82 · 07-23-2012, 02:17 PM

(07-23-2012 08:58 AM)Natalie Wrote: My favorite cookbook is the one I learned a lot about cooking from. It's my Mother's Betty Crocker cookbook from the '60's.

The only actual cookbook I own is (a newer version of) The Betty Crocker cookbook. So good for basic recipes and cooking techniques/measurements/info/etc. I like simple recipes, so I find most specialty cookbooks "too complicated" (really I'm just too LAZY!) so good old Betty is perfect for me when I need to look up a recipe for something basic like pancakes or biscuits.

The majority of the recipes I use regularly are printed from All Recipes and stored in a binder. I haven't organized them at all, and I need to.

I saw a copy of The Pioneer Woman Cooks at the library and I thought about checking it out, it looked pretty good.