I'm collecting for a "hope chest" - can anyone recomend a GOOD cookbook that will have recipies for many things I will be cooking?
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The Joy of Cooking or "la joie de la cuisine"
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The Better homes and Garden Cookbook, I think will have the majority of what most people cook.
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Betty Crocker Cookbook - See http://www.amazon.com/Betty-Crockers-Cookbook-Everything-Today/dp/0764560794
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The Joy of Cooking actually has recipes for absolutely everything you could possibly want to cook from venison to frog legs and everything inbetween.
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Be healthy and get the Cooking Light cookbook. I assume you are young, but it is never too early to lighten up on the fats and cholesteral that will get you later. I also agree that Betty Crocker is a mainstay.
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Anything by Rachael Ray. Her recipes are delicious and easily adapted to your tastes and supplies. Personally, I love 365: No Repeats!
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I agree, I love to cook. Stick with the Betty Crocker.
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COngratulations on your foresight! Not sure what your level of comfort is in the kitchen, so I'd like to offer my opinion on three books, and suggest that you never --ever-- buy a paperback cookbook, if you intend to use them. The spine will break and you'll chase your favorite recipes all over the kitchen... Beginners level: I still prefer Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, because it doesn't rely on pre-packaged goods Intermediate: The New Basics by Rosso & Lukins (of Silver Pallette fame) Expert Level: well, you'll know what you want by then! Enjoy the ride, --Max the Baker--
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The Joy of Cooking has been around for years. I would recommend it.
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Are you kidding me? How can I POSSIBLY make a decision like that? Choose a single cookbook over another? Start another 'hope chest' and FILL it with cookbooks! This is important! ;)
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Buy a good quality crockpot and a cookbook for it. It's what I did when I was younger.
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...I received the "Joy of Cooking" as a young bride...it is fabulous...and I still use it today...a true classic!
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Put a lifetime subscription to "Cooking Light" in there and keep you and your husband healty.
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I can't recommend Joy of Cooking more highly but I wold say to get either a very recent copy or one from the 1970s as they lost their way in the middle there for awhile and tried to change, and not in a good way. But they re more on track now. I wouldn't trade my 1973 copy for anything. Another good one is How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. And if you want to understand what you're cooking and why things happen the way they do, and also how to avoid repeating mistakes, I love Cookwise: The Secrets of Cooking Revealed by Shirley O. Corriher..awesome book!
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Why not make your own. Ask all the people you know and like what they cook, to share their favorite recipies. If they are handwritten, it will mean all the more after they are gone. Ask each for their family favorites or for ones that you like that they cook. You will gather quite a few really good recipies and you can put them in an inexpensive book for safe keeping. After they are gone, you will wish you had known how they made those great pancakes or brownies or beef roast that you remember so well. Just something to think about
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