Cookbooks I Own

I love cookbooks. I have far too many and try to resist buying more but occasionally something just begs to be brought home. I also have a subscription to Olive Magazine and BBC Good Food Magazine.

Why ‘too many’? Well, even if I cooked something different for every meal I wouldn’t get through them all. Of course, in every cookbook there are recipes that don’t appeal (as well as some that become favourites and get made over and over again). I keep promising myself that I will make something new, from book or magazine, at least twice a month. Perhaps I should add it to my goals? Thirty-six new recipes tried in the next eighteen months. That sounds easy enough, doesn’t it?

Here is a list of the cookbooks I own, listed by genre.

Healthy

• Cook Yourself Thin
• CSIRO Total Well-being Diet
• GL+ Diet Planner
• Healthy Eating – Good Housekeeping
• Low-Fat Food
• Low Fat Meals in Minutes – Australian Women’s Weekly
• Simply Lite Low Fat Feasts – Australian Women’s Weekly
• Slim and Healthy Cooking – Good Housekeeping
• Slimmers Cookbook – Judith Wills
• Slimming World Food Optimising
• Steam Cuisine – Marina Filippelli
• Ultimate Low-fat Cookbook

General / Assorted

• 200 One Pot Recipes – Joanna Farrow
• 30 Feel-good Suppers – Olive mini-book
• Best 30 Minute Recipes – Good Housekeeping
• Best Ever One-Pot – Jenni Fleetwood
• Bread Machine easy – Sara Lewis
• Comfort Food – Olive mini-book
• Cooking for Two – Richard Olney
• CWA Cookbook and Household Hints
• Delia Smiths’ Complete Illustrated Cookery Course
• English Food – Jane Grigson
• Falling Cloudberries – Tessa Kiros
• Fresh Family Food – BBC GoodFood mini-book
• Great Food for Kids – Olive mini-book
• How to be a Domestic Goddess – Nigella Lawson
• How to Eat – Nigella Lawson
• Lunches – Alistair Little
• The Main Course – Roger Verge
• Meals in Minutes – Ainsley Harriott
• Microwave Grill Combination Cookery Book
• New Step-by-Step Cookbook
• No Time to Cook
• One is Fun – Delia Smith
• Quick Cooking – Good Housekeeping
• Real Fast Food – Nigel Slater
• Rhodes Around Britain – Gary Rhodes
• Roasts – Janine Sarlin
• Salads – Clare Connery
• Salads – Good Housekeeping
• Soups – Arabella Boxer
• Stir-Fry, Step by Step
• Suppers – Valentina Harris
• Wild Food – Rowley Leigh

Chicken

• Chicken – Bruno Loubet
• Chicken & Poultry – Good Housekeeping
• Chicken Dishes – Jeni Wright
• Everyday Chicken Cookbook – Simona Hill

Fish

• English Seafood Cookery – Rick Stein
• Fish & Shellfish- Good Housekeeping

Pasta

• Pasta Sauces – Gordon Ramsay
• Quick After-Work Pasta Cookbook – Judy Ridgway

Seasonal

• Cooking for Christmas – Good Housekeeping
• Christmas – Delia Smith
• Easy Summer Entertaining – BBC Good Food mini-book
• Simple Summer Food – BBC Good Food mini-book
• Summer Collection – Delia Smith
• Winter Collection – Delia Smith

Vegetarian

• Quick After-Work Vegetarian Cookbook – Judy Ridgway
• Vegetables – Paul Gaylor
• Vegetarian – Rosamund Richardson

Foreign Foods

• 100 Hot & Spicy Sauces – Sally Griffiths
• 200 Cretan Recipes (Crete / Greece)
• 200 Curries: Sunil Vijayakar
• 250 Favourite Curries and Accompaniments – Pat Chapman
• 250 Hot & Spicy Dishes – Pat Chapman
• Balti Cookbook – Shehzad Husain
• Cooking Around the World – Weight Watchers
• Curries – Pat Chapman
• Far Flung Floyd – Keith Floyd
• Hot & Spicy – Paul Rankin
• Hot & Spicy – Good Housekeeping
• Meze, Tapas and Antipasti – Algaia Kremzi
• Risotto – Michele Scicolone
• Africa: Floyd on Africa – Keith Floyd
• Chinese: Chinese Food Made Easy
• Chinese: Chinese Cooking – Yan-Kit So
• Chinese: Fresh Chinese:  Wynnie Chan
• Chinese: Illustrated Chinese Cookery – Ken Hom
• French: French Cookery – Good Housekeeping
• French: French Country Cooking – Elizabeth David
• Greece: 200 Cretan Recipes
• Indian: Balti Curry Cookbook – Pat Chapman
• Indian: Illustrated Indian Cookery – Madhur Jaffrey
• Indian: A Taste of India – Madhur Jaffrey
• Irish: Gourmet Ireland – Paul Rankin
• Italian: Italian Food – Elizabeth David
• Italian: Simply Italian – BBC Good Food mini-book
• Italian: Floyd on Italy – Keith Floyd
• Mediterranean: Mediterranean Food – Elizabeth David
• Pacific Rim: Food from the Pacific Rim – Jill Dupleix
• Thai: Big Book of Thai Curries – Vatcharin Bhumichitr
• Thai: Stylish Thai in Minutes
• Thai: Thai – Good Housekeeping
• Thai: Thai

Cakes & Desserts

• 30 Irresistible Cakes – Olive mini-book
• Cakes – Carole Walter
• Cakes & Biscuits – Good Housekeeping
• Cheesecakes, Pavlovas and Trifles – Australian Women’s Weekly
• Chocolate – Good Housekeeping
• Chocolate Cakes – Australian Women’s Weekly
• Complete Book of Cakes – Mary Berry
• Cookies – Elinor Kivens
• Desserts – Good Housekeeping
• Desserts – Michele Roux
• Real Fast Puddings – Michel Roux

Mini-books are those which come free with issues of Olive Magazine and BBC Good Food Magazine.

I also have a 98 piece ‘partwork’ cookery book set called ‘Nice’n’ Easy which I bought int he 1980s. Some of my favourite recipes come from them.