 | Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes by Tessa Kiros
Buy new: £12.50 / Used from: £10.90 Lovely to look at, nicely written but also one of those cookbooks where you want to cook almost everything in it! Apples for Jam is good too, but more basic.
|
 | Favourite Recipe From Books for Cooks 1,2 & 3 by Victoria Blashford-Snell
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £3.28 Compilations of favourite recipes from the Books for Cooks test kitchen/cafe at the back of their London bookshop with their favourite recipes from each year. Faves: Best of 1,2, 3 and # 7. (try ebay)
|
 | Appetite: So What Do You Want to Eat Today? by Nigel Slater
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £6.92 Full of the kind of everyday food you want to cook everyday rather than restaurant or posh dinner party food, plus good advice on equipment, seasons. Each recipe is a 'template' with lots of ideas.
|
 | Don't Sweat the Aubergine: What works in the kitchen and why by Nicholas Clee
Buy used from: £4.14 Essential! Not really a cookbook but a great read, packed with tips, techniques and advice. I always use this when I am unsure about something and I usually find the answer!
|
 | Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon by Claudia Roden
Buy new: £17.50 / Used from: £11.98 I love this kind of food - full of flavour. Check out the Moro cookbook and Casa Moro too (by Sam Clark) and anything else by Claudia Roden.
|
 | The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Buy new: £19.50 / Used from: £14.43 Hugh's huge book with some good recipes but also lots of interesting and thought provoking reading.
|
 | New Food for Thought by Jane Noraika
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £6.00 From the wonderful Covent Garden vegetarian restaurant/cafe. To balance the Meat book above, this is my favourite vegetarian cookbook. Great soups!
|
 | Roast Figs, Sugar Snow: Food to Warm the Soul by Diana Henry
Buy used from: £11.00 Lots of tasty warming winter food from Northern Europe.
|
 | Something for the Weekend: With Eight Around the Table by Ruth Watson
Buy used from: £5.50 Amusing, well written and good recipes and tips on cooking for a crowd without getting too stressed out!
|
 | Good Tempered Food: Recipes to love, leave, and linger over: Recipes to Love, Leave and Linger Over by Tamasin Day-Lewis
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £6.24 Lots of robust flavours in this one, some nice ideas. Check out her 'Kitchen Bible' too.
|
 | Exploring Taste & Flavour: The Art of Combining Hot, Sour, Salty and Sweet in 150 Recipes by Tom Kime
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £7.24 Amazing combinations of flavours, great book especially for the more adventurous cook. Try the Vietnamese pork with aubergines.
|
 | Soup Kitchen by Thomasina Miers
Buy used from: £7.98 'Bubbling under' my top 10 - this is a great book of soup recipes contributed by well known chefs and divided into seasons. + it's for charidee!
|
 | The Divertimenti Cookbook by Camilla Schneideman
Buy new: £10.41 / Used from: £8.42 Excellent - one of those rare cookbooks where you want to make almost everything in it. Have tried several recipes and all have been great.
|
 | Apples for Jam: Recipes for Life by Tessa Kiros
Buy new: £12.50 / Used from: £4.61 Also 'Bubbling under' my top 10 - not quite as good as her 'Falling Cloudberries' (see above) but still good especially if you have kids (family recipes). Try the granola - yum!
|
 | Amaretto, Apple Cake and Artichokes: The Best of Anna Del Conte by Anna Del Conte
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £4.95 If you love Italian food then you will love this book! Check out her Food of Northern Italy book too and Marcella Hazan as well.
|
Listmania!
