Your favourite recipie book

[parakitaMol.]

I live by the work of the great 'Mrs Beeton'.

Additionally, my house runs like clockwork thanks to her wise words.

Who is your food guide?

I've got Plotters down as an Oliver choppy-chops pervert.

The Dude is Floyd...

[The Dude]

parakitaMol. said:

I live by the work of the great 'Mrs Beeton'.

Additionally, my house runs like clockwork thanks to her wise words.

Who is your food guide?

I've got Plotters down as an Oliver choppy-chops pervert.

The Dude is Floyd...

Bang on. Actually Floyd is one of my heroes. If I was an orphan, I'd hope he was my real dad.

[TpdNotts]

Got many recipe books and although they're all good, at the end of the day I always refer back to my 15 year old Good Housekeeping book.

The Be-Ro Book for pastry is a must.

[parakitaMol.]

TpdNotts said:

Got many recipe books and although they're all good, at the end of the day I always refer back to my 15 year old Good Housekeeping book.

The Be-Ro Book for pastry is a must.

Absolutely agree - but nobody gives advice like Mrs Beeton.


She makes a damn fine gravy too.

[Plotloss]

Jamie @ Home is quite good admittedly though I'm not sure of the justification for calling me a .

I love the Dean and Deluca book, its fabulous.

[parakitaMol.]

Plotloss said:

Jamie @ Home is quite good admittedly though I'm not sure of the justification for calling me a .

I love the Dean and Deluca book, its fabulous.

I didn't I said you were a choppy-chops loving pre-vert.

[TpdNotts]

Have you ever seen Tamsin Day Lewis on tv doing her cookery programme? Good recipes but strange-looking gal!

[Plotloss]

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Have you tried the crumpets in chilli and egg with bacon effort?

Its suprisingly nice.

However he'll always be a for featuring a fish finger sandwich, with photographs, in one of his earlier books.

HFW's Meat is also a cracker.

[The Dude]

My Ainsley Harriot book is indispensable.

His signature im-a-little-teapot seasoning technique had me baffled for ages but once it's explained to you it's a skill for life.

I even use it when filling my car up with petrol.

Edited by The Dude on Thursday 7th February 15:02

[parakitaMol.]

Ahhh but does choppy-chops give you all this....?

Mrs Beeton said:

1. AS WITH THE COMMANDER OF AN ARMY, or the leader of any enterprise, so is it with the mistress of a house. Her spirit will be seen through the whole establishment; and just in proportion as she performs her duties intelligently and thoroughly, so will her domestics follow in her path.

Mrs Beeton said:

3. EARLY RISING IS ONE OF THE MOST ESSENTIAL QUALITIES which enter into good Household Management, as it is not only the parent of health, but of innumerable other advantages. Indeed, when a mistress is an early riser, it is almost certain that her house will be orderly and well-managed. On the contrary, if she remain in bed till a late hour, then the domestics, who, as we have before observed, invariably partake somewhat of their mistress’s character, will surely become sluggards

Mrs Beeton said:

7. FRIENDSHIPS SHOULD NOT BE HASTILY FORMED, nor the heart given, at once, to every new-comer. There are ladies who uniformly smile at, and approve everything and everybody, and who possess neither the courage to reprehend vice, nor the generous warmth to defend virtue. The friendship of such persons is without attachment, and their love without affection or even preference

Mrs Beeton said:

9. IN CONVERSATION, TRIFLING OCCURRENCES, such as small disappointments, petty annoyances, and other every-day incidents, should never be mentioned to your friends. The extreme injudiciousness of repeating these will be at once apparent, when we reflect on the unsatisfactory discussions which they too frequently occasion, and on the load of advice which they are the cause of being tendered, and which is, too often, of a kind neither to be useful nor agreeable.

[parakitaMol.]

That's really beautiful.

Poetry and cooking in one corner.

[mechsympathy]

Plotloss said:

HFW's Meat is also a cracker.

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Also a fan of Jamie Oliver.

[jmorgan]

Ceserani and Kinton. Get the basics right.

[SpydieNut]

i like georgio locateli's made in italy.

a great read and some lovely recipes.

also like jamie, nigella () and floyd

[littlegreenfairy]

TpdNotts said:

Got many recipe books and although they're all good, at the end of the day I always refer back to my 15 year old Good Housekeeping book.

The Be-Ro Book for pastry is a must.

Agreed - its been reprinted eleventy billion times has it not? The jam cake thingies are just heavenly.

[Gretchen]

Unfortunately I can't read. So I have to rely on my extremely vivid imagination.

Shame really.

[sniffler]

TpdNotts said:

Have you ever seen Tamsin Day Lewis on tv doing her cookery programme? Good recipes but strange-looking gal!

but god she is good looking

[sniffler]

Gretchen said:

Unfortunately I can't read. So I have to rely on my extremely vivid imagination.I want tamsin to have my babies

Shame really.

[navier_stokes]

Can't help but use Jamie's recipes all the time...

Other than that there's the bible of Italian food - the Silver Spoon which is great for pretty much anything.

Heard good things about Mr. Locatelli's too so thats next on my list

[Watch-Collector]

Ask any Top Chef and Robert Carriers boooks are the ones to have , Traditional French cooking leads the way!

Wc

Edited by Watch-Collector on Thursday 7th February 23:47