Cook books

So..I need to get back into cooking 😄. I am usually lazy to do it for myself but I love cooking for others.

Recently bought this and feeling excited over it:



Could you kindly share a list of books or links or anything you'd like 😄?

Looking at VB, Rabbit, cowpuncher and others 😄

I suck at cooking, but have had success making dishes out of a book called American Masala. The food is a blend of American and Indian influences.

Thank you J9.

You really studied there? I wanted to but it seemed too expensive when I was 19.

Thank you lots, feel free to add more if you have the time/if you're so inclined.

How Cancerian of you 😄

Posted by Whimsy
I suck at cooking, but have had success making dishes out of a book called American Masala. The food is a blend of American and Indian influences.

I just remembered how much I suck at baking. UGH.

Posted by Fox
Any good Rustic/traditional recipe books too?

I can cook Romanian dishes for you Fox...as soon as you change your perspective on the Virgo/Pisces axis *looking at you grudgingly*

Oh and I hear you on the knives..it's expensive but it's a solid investment. I will get there.

Any ideas there J9?

*totally following J9 around like a lost puppy*

Posted by Fox
LMFAO
What if I say you're an exception baby? 😏

I swear the emoticon looks like a pedophile.

*checks admirers list, Fox still isn't there -.-*

Posted by J9
Last piece of advice, VB knows her shit.

I have been lurking on this board a lot. I saved each advice I could get from VB.

Trying to lure her here 😄

And thank you Crab. Hope you'll decide to wander around here again 🙂

Ach du mein Gott, if I listed all my books..

I haunt charity shops, yard sales, antique shops and ebay for cookbooks. My favorites are 1800s-1950s and those gorgeous things that have fueled family and friends for decades: hand written notebooks and tins stashed with recipes.
These have provided me with my version of pornography for over 30 years. I have had the best results for canning and preserving all our jams, jellies, pickles and preserves from 30s-40s.
My forte is comfort and homely fare. Just filling and tasty. Most times economical as well.
Fresh fresh. I plant a garden every year and have fruit vines and canes as well. Underwent a move recently and I will miss my established peach and plum trees. I will plant here but it will be some time for heavy crop.
I do not strive for complicated, I strive for memory and all the gorgeous feeling associated with it.

🙂

Posted by J9
Last piece of advice, VB knows her shit.

😄

Three well thumbed books I love are:

The American Woman's Cookbook, 1938 first print.

The Good Housekeeping Cook Book, 1942.

Farm Journal's Complete Pie Cookbook, 1965. One of my Grans books.

YESSS I lured you in here.

Thanks VB! 😄

*clicking heels smartly*

😄

Posted by cowpuncher
What really got me started is the old tried and true Better Homes and Garden's cookbook, the big red and white checkered one in a three ring binder. Otherwise I just collected smaller cookbooks as i went along, seeing this or that here and there, and just grabbing it.

I have that one!