Good Cookbooks?

[OakLeaf]

The Joy of Cooking (old and new)

Yeah, gotta keep the old edition for the wild game recipes and the bartender's guide.

Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home is a bit more "everyday" than their other cookbooks.

Honestly, I get most of my recipes from the Internet. Recipesource.com, foodtv.com or just Google. Google indexing is a lot better than it used to be - they finally figured out that when someone googles a couple of ingredients, they're not looking for restaurant menus. Look at three or four recipes, see what they have in common and where there's room for variation, mash 'em up.

[Tuckervill]

cookingforengineers.com is one of my favorite recipe sources. Usually it is just a refinement of something I've made many times, or wanted to try, like pecan pie without corn syrup.

The 1948 Good Housekeeping cookbook is the one I keep open all the time, and which taught me to cook many many things as a young mother. It was passed down from my grandmother, and I bought one in better condition to use instead of the one with her handwriting in it.

Most other recipes I get online, even though I have a huge stash of cookbooks. Most of them are fundraiser cookbooks from churches and the Jr. League, which I LOVE.

Karen

[Blueberry]

Another good resource (aside from the internet) is Everyday Food. It's a tiny magazine, but most recipes are (relatively) healthy, simple, and reasonable to make for a week night dinner.

Truthfully, I use a big binder of recipes I've put together from the internet as much as anything, though. Foodtv is a good source.

[Blueberry]

Yeah, gotta keep the old edition for the wild game recipes and the bartender's guide.

Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home is a bit more "everyday" than their other cookbooks.

And "new and improved" means corn syrup added to some recipes I have the old and the middle version. I need to get the new version, as I understand it really is improved. Hopefully, I'll never have to cook possum, but at least I'd know how

Good to know about the Moosewood. I'll have to check that one out.

[7rider]

Yeah, gotta keep the old edition for the wild game recipes and the bartender's guide.

I don't know how "new" my Joy of Cooking is. It's about 10 years old now. I know it's not the OLD one....but I'm unsure if it's been re-done yet again. I pull mine out frequently for information on the basics.
- "How long am I supposed to roast that [insert food item] for and at what temp?"
- "How do I truss a chicken again??"
- "I have a [blank]. What on earth can I do with it??"
It's a good book for that. I rarely follow specific recipes from it (or any of my books.)
(Come to think of it, tho', I never did check it for puffballs.)