LadyCook61
Master Chef
Just got "The Dutch Oven Cookbook" (recipes for the Best Pot in your kitchen) Also " Bread, A Baker's book of techniques and recipes" and "Artisan Baking "
just got two from the good cook book club. phillsbury best cookies and bars over the years. fun to see what was all the rage at different times.
the other is also phillsbury, and is bake off desserts. lots of pictures and yummy stuff.
babe
I just bough Jamie Oliver's "Cooking with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook", Tyler Florence's "Tyler's Ultimate", "Cooking with the Two Fat Ladies" and "Two Fat Ladies Ride Again". Jamie's is great. I have made several recipes from there already.
I like cookbooks I can just sit and read and get ideas from and these are good reads.
I got so excited about making the NYT bread and pizza dough that I went ahead and bought "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day." I just got it a few days ago, so I haven't made anything from it yet, but it's got about 100 recipes for all kinds of breads. I'm going to need a new fridge for all the dough!
I'm a member of the same book club, but I rarely buy books from them. I read the reviews and go to Amazon or another discount book place on the Internet and usually get them for half or less of the book club price. Shipping is usually about the same or less the way I buy them.
I need a new cookbook! Anyone want to recommend their favorite Italian one? I have a few on the subject, but only one is well-used (it's from a lady who had a cooking show back in the 70s called "Mama D"); the rest have too much seafood (ick).
I need a book on food 'construction'. Something that would teach techniques like what I did to my crab cake. Any ideas?
One of the books I mentioned earlier, here.
La Varenne Pratique by Anne Willan. The complete illustrated cooking course, techniques, ingredients, and tools of classic modern cuisine with more than 2,500 full color photographs.
How does that book compare to Jacques Pepin's Complete Techniques?
Holy schmolly. La Technique is a different book and presently a collector's item....... big bucks!
Jacques Pepin La Technique the Fundamental Techniques of Cooking: an Illustration Guide (Hardcover - 1976)1 Used & new from $249.99