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OH!  I need a cigarette after reading that.

I love the book blog or the week! I collect cookbooks and this one sounds fabulous (definitely need to check it out next time I go to the bookstore). I usually go through phases in cooking, but the cookbook that stays in my kitchen and is the most dog-eared is Jacque Pepin’s “Fast Food My Way”. It gives hearty, delicious and simple recipes plus suggested menus if you are entertaining. However, the best part is the dessert chapter. 

If I had even an idea of what all that food is, I’m sure I’d be salivating right now!

I’d have a hard time choosing what to make out of that cook book. I’m from the South, so Paula Dean’s cookbooks are big here. Lady and Sons is one of the best.

LOL, I thought the same thing J Perry did!  Scarey, that!

That cookbook is a definate unbutton your pants and move back from the table kinda cookbook!

My all time favorite cookbook is still Joy of Cooking.  I don’t mind turning from page 230 to page 420 and back again to complete a recipe.  A new favorite of mine is Adriana Trigiani’s “Cooking with My Sisters: From Bari to Big Stone Gap”.  Her father was Barese (the same part of Italy my family is from) and it’s chock full of the recipes I grew up with that I’ll never find elsewhere.  It brings back gloriously delicious memories for me.

Thanks a hell of a lot, Connie and you other cooks. I have been trying to pare down the number of my cookbooks, and now I’m off to buy three more.

My favorite cookBOOKS are the old, really old, Women’s Day Encyclopedia of Cooking, a dozen books arranged in alphabetical order that talk about everything about foods. I love those books—they look so awful, the binding falling off, food stains all over, falling open to particular pages—because I’ve used them so much.

Oh my, Connie.  Those all sound delicious.

I love cookbooks and have well over 100 of them.  My JOY OF COOKING is almost 30 years old with pages falling out but still a favorite.  Some of my best recipes come from my SOUTHERN LIVING and JUNIOR LEAGUE cookbooks.  THE SOUTHERN JUNIOR LEAGUE COOKBOOK is a compilation of favorite recipes taken from Junior League cookbooks from Virginia to Texas.  It’s filled with incredible recipes that have been passed down through generations of Southern cooks.  For good old Southern comfort food there’s none better than Paula Deen.  Every cookbook she’s published has been great.  I have PAULA DEEN CELEBRATES.  For fancy chocolate desserts I love DEATH BY CHOCOLATE by Marcel Desaulniers but for my everyday chocolate fixes I go straight to the Nestle’s Tollhouse cookbook.  Mmmm Mmmm Good!

I’d have to say my favorite is Ina Garten, the Barfoot Contessa.  She doesn’t do wildly complicated things that take fancy schmancy cookware, but everything is so fresh and tasty, I’m salivating. 

She does a yogurt/rosemary/garlic marinated lamb that is so good, I want to slap someone.

Oh good grief - I’m three weeks into ultra low carb eating (Atkins induction) and your blog just about did me in

My favorite cookbook is actually google.  I can find a zillion variations on whatever I want to make to match the ingredients I have. 

If the computer were down, I’d have to say I’d end up in my Betty Crocker cookbook.  It’s a good jumping off place for me when I cook.  The brown sugar cookies are a personal favorite.

Connie--please share the recipe for Minnesota Fudge Cake with Milk Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting. yyuummm!

I have a whole bookcase of cookbooks but I always go back to the same ole stand by’s that never let me down.

Home Grown--compiled by our local newspaper from local cooks.

Better Homes and Gardens--the one that looks like a pinic table cloth

And like knitterlynn, the internet. I love http://www.allrecipes.com

1. Can I have your snow and you can have the 40oc heat?
2. my cook books are the 4 ingredient cookbook and the starving singles cookbook
Death by chocolate dessert book.

Oh my.  I just hit Amazon and bought that cookbook—even though I’m like Christina--I’ve been trying to pare down!

Eloisa

My favorite cookbook isn’t a cookbook anymore, just an accumulation of loose pages. I got it over 25 years ago in some used furniture I bought to refinish.  The store workers were going to throw it away but I told them to leave it, I thought it would be amusing to see what was in it.  It’s older than I am, the ingredients say siz #2 can of...., a pinch of this and a dab of that. lol I had to find a way to translate the can sizes to more recent offerings before I could even use it.  But the recipes are awesome.  Just down home cooking and it has the chess pie recipe in it that is very very close to the ones my MIL made for years so DH just loves it.  Best piece of junk I ever had!

My second favorite cookbook is by a former home ec teacher.  She has pared things down to her favorites and it is easily prepared, even for me, who is pretty much hopeless in the kitchen.  Thank goodness for teachers!

Umm, don’t own a cookbook, never used one.  Cook is a four-letter word for me.

I’m not good at it, never claimed to be good at it, and my goal in life is to never have to do it .  My kids suffer through my culinary failings, I hope it makes them stronger in life.

My father was the daily cook in my house growing up.  My brother is a fabulous cook.  God bless men that can cook.

My DH calls me the Imelda Marcos of cookbooks.  Nuff said?

My favorite cookbook is a handwritten one my grandmother and aunt made for me with all the family favorites passed down from one generation to another.  I made one for my niece when she got married, including recipes from her Mother’s side of the family, which my SIL sent.

We’re doing a modified lo carb too, right now, so they all pretty much sit and wait.  Southern cooking is definitely not known for it’s lo carb.

My Hubby calls me a “cookbook whore” for the almost 100 that grace our shelves.  We’d have more but they weigh a tonne so shipping them overseas from amazon costs too much.  :p

I love my Joy of Cooking and Doubleday cookbooks as they are great for refrence.  When we’re not sure what temperature something should be cooked to, or how best to preserve an open bottle of Port that’s thse are our go to books.  My go-to cookbook author is the Naked Chef - Jamie Oliver.  I have all his books and always find great recipies each of them.

My new fave series is from Food and Wine magazine: Best of the Best.  They take a few recipies from the 25 best cookbooks of the previous year.  I’m always proud when they’re in my collection and then add more to the wish list after i see what they’ve recommended.

My favorite is Ina Garten.  I have all of the Barefoot Contessa cookbooks.  Like J. Perry Stone mentioned, her recipes are not complicated.  They’re simple but packed full of flavor.  I also love watching her show on Saturday and Sunday mornings.