Favourite Cook Book/Recipe/Food-related Site?

http://thefirehouse.ie/

The chef/baker behind the great baking book 'Bread Revolution' (and BBC TV show 'The Big Bread Experiment'), Patrick Ryan, has set up a cookery school on a lovely island in West Cork using a wood-fired oven.



Full disclosure: Paddy is a good friend of mine, and an amazing chef. Last time I was down I had some amazing sourdough bread with a dinner of 12-hour wood fired pork belly, and a strawberry/elderflower tart for desert.
Next morning awoke to lovely breakfast of fresh coffee with just-out-of-the-oven croissants, pain au chocolat, and an a tough to describe delicious Danish pastry with a maple syrup type of sauce.
Needless to say, I rolled off the island.

If you liked the sound of any of the above, check out the website, and thank me later.

Just bought some new cookery books (like i need anymore! I think I have an obsession with them!)

Good Housekeeping Cookery Book - looks good - plenty of recipes and variety
Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days - OMG the recipes in this look divine! I've only made the vanilla cupcakes so far but they were the nicest cupcakes I have made - so moist and fluffy and still as fresh the next day - normally when I make cupcakes they're nearly stale the next day.
Primrose Bakery Book - lovely book also with plenty of scrummy baking recipes!
Donal Skehan - his new book, looks ok, have his last book and that's good, haven't really looked at the new one too much but looking forward to giving some recipes a try:)

I can't believe how many cookbooks I actually have now - can't wait to get my own house and I'll be cooking up a storm!:D

What's a lot when it comes to cookbooks?

Nody wrote: »

I did a quick search in this thread with out luck; I'm on the search for something less mainstream I guess.

I want a purely vegeterian soup only cookbook and it should not be some extreme style (i.e. Asian only etc.) but rather easy, down to earth day to day type of soups

I got Love Soup by Anna Thomas on my list as it's highly recommended on Amazon but are there any other suggestions?

Have you tried asking in the Vegan & Vegetarian forum?

Ive been using 'how to cook the perfect.....' weekly column from the Guardian. It's available online.

I am looking for some recommendations of very good Receipe Books

I want something that mixes some nice traditional receipes with some receipes also for entertaining guests or family at home. I also have a young family so I would like to start cooking/baking a lot more and give them taste for it too.

I don't mind if it is 1 or 2 books that would suit me.

One I did view recently was Rachel Allens Entertaining At Home - Any views on it, Thanks

Sparky100 wrote: »

I am looking for some recommendations of very good Receipe Books

I want something that mixes some nice traditional receipes with some receipes also for entertaining guests or family at home. I also have a young family so I would like to start cooking/baking a lot more and give them taste for it too.

I don't mind if it is 1 or 2 books that would suit me.

One I did view recently was Rachel Allens Entertaining At Home - Any views on it, Thanks

"Step by Step cookbook" by Good Housekeeping. It has a huge variety of recipes as well as instructions on different ways of preparing, cooking and serving food. It's my absolutely favourite cookbook of all time. It's usually about €50 but it's currently on bookdepository.co.uk for about €24 with free postage. Can't recommend it highly enough.

Photo-Sniper wrote: »

Marco Pierre Whites "White Heat" and nothing even compares to it.

Amazon prices:

3 new from £39.99 7 used from £57.98

That sound right?

On the book side I think I would probably go with Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cookery Course. My Dad bought it for me last year and it has been a God-send as she has literally got everything you can think of in there!

LaRousse Gastronomique is also another great one but is very heavy for the kitchen and not something you'd want to get food over while cooking!

On the website side, I have a folder of goodies in http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/ which has an amazing selection of alternative recipes for the one dish - great to read through and then create your own version.

What is your go-to cook book and/or website and why?

my favourite website is ukfood.co.uk
Favourite cookbook depends on my mood really

I rarely use my collection of cookery books these days, they're all just gathering dust on a shelf in the kitchen. Like someone said, Google and/or BBC GF is effectively my cookery book these days, and even then I rarely follow one single recipe but take an 'average' of all the different ones I find, usually because at least one has some overly complicated and largely unnecessary ingredient or step in it, or else I just don't have the ingredients to hand.

website www.saveur.com or bbc.
Book the silver spoon.