Hey, it’s me, Maria. I have a special treat for you today. You have probably noticed we’re rolling out a bunch of new series on TMH, and this new monthly feature is a fun one. In Show & Tell, once a month we’ll pick a topic for a few great bloggers to share their favorites on, and then we’ll bribe you (we have no shame :)) to share yours too. Fun right? I get to go first, and decided that cookbooks are the perfect place to start (you can tell a lot about a person by their favorite cookbook). I picked four bloggers that I think are awesome. These talented ladies have great content and are in line with the type of recipes I know our busy readers love. So be sure to take a browse through their sites and pin a few. Let’s get this party started – and remember to be eligible for the giveaway you need to share your favorite too (more at the end of the post on this)! *Giveaway is closed.
Favorite Cookbooks From Favorite Food Bloggers
Yours Truly
Would you believe I have actually never bought a cookbook in my life? My mom gives me a cookbook almost every year for Christmas and I have many family and church/community cookbooks that I cherish and use frequently, but my favorite cookbook is one that I got as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. It is called “The Essential Mormon Cookbook.” I love this cookbook! It has many practical and delicious recipes that I love. The book is divided into four sections, one for each season. I have too many favorites to name, but there are some yummy salads and salad dressings in there, that have gotten me many a compliment over the last eight years. My two favorites are Crunchy Cabbage Salad, and Spinach Cheese Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing.
Bree from Baked Bree
Having to narrow down my favorite cookbook is like asking me to pick my favorite child.
I have a large cookbook collection and love to add to it. I have amassed quite a few. The book that I probably use the most is by Dorie Greenspan, Baking From My Home To Yours. It is a book that I use often for solid recipes and to find inspiration. It’s perfect for beginning bakers up to advanced. Each recipe has a story attached, and I read it like a novel. This book also holds a special place in my heart because Dorie signed it for me a few years ago.
Ashton – Something Swanky
My favorite recipe book is Biggest Book of Cookies, Better Homes and Gardens. My favorite recipe in the book is for Chocolate Chip Cookies. Which I know isn’t super exciting to anyone else but me. I spent forever trying to find the perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe when I left home for college. For some reason, my mom’s recipe just didn’t ever turn out right for me– they were always flat! But these are the perfect cookies for me– fluffy, soft, and chewy, but crispy on the outside in all the right places. I’ve used it as the base for lots of my cookie recipes on Something Swanky, like: Pretzel M&M Rolo Cookies, Everything But The… Cookies, and White Chocolate Toffee Doodles!
Kristi – I Should Be Mopping The Floor
My favorite cookbook {besides the standby church & community ones I regularly use} is The Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook. I love it because it uses simple ingredients and has recipes for delicious, uncomplicated dishes that my family always enjoys. My favorite recipe in it is the Beef Stroganoff…yum! I’m also in love with the Artichoke Dip and use it for lots of parties and gatherings. You can tell it’s my favorite cookbook by how many pages have “splatters” on them…I’m a messy cook!
Jo-Anna – A Pretty Life in the Suburbs
My favourite cookbook, hands down, is the Joy of Cooking book. I got this book as a gift for my wedding over 13 years ago, and it’s the cookbook that I always find myself going back to over and over again! If I ever have a question about cooking, or if I’m looking for an idea for dinner, I start there. I love all the recipes and great information it’s packed with! My most favourite, and most made recipe from it (besides the pancake recipe), is the Beef Stew. It was also one of the first recipes I tackled after I got married! This book is well loved, and treasured!
$30 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway
Okay, now it’s your turn. What’s your favorite cookbook? If you don’t have one, tell us which one of the above you would like to have. Leave your response in the comments by midnight on Sunday, September 30th and will randomly pick a winner for a $30.00 gift card to Amazon so you can buy a new one! One comment per person please, and we’ll share the winner right here on this post Monday.
*Congratulations to comment #37 Mrs. Schmid. She is the winner of our $30.00 Amazon giftcard. She said:
“My favorite cookbook is Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook. It’s got a lot of recipes I use on a regular basis, like stuffed peppers and banana nut bread!”
Thank you for all of your fun comments! I loved hearing about all of your favorite cookbooks.
Maria
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Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron convinced me that I could make lots of my daughter’s baby food on my own, and I did! I’m not one who yet feels too confident in the kitchen, so that’s saying something.
I am OBSESSED with cookbooks! I curl up on the couch with a cookbook and drink in the pictures and marvel at the recipes! It’s so hard to name a favorite but if I had to choose, I would pick the first cookbook I bought when I graduated from college. It’s Madhur Jaffrey’s “A Taste of India” – the pages are spice and grease splattered because of how often I cook from it. It’s served me well for over 17 years :)
My favorite cookbook is one you can not buy. It is a 3-subject spiral notebook. I bought it many years ago (perhaps 40 or more). I worked with some marvelous cooks and every time we had treats or pot luck meals, I would collect more recipes. All of those recipes were copied into that notebook and it is so yellow with age and stained with greasy messes I should be ashamed to keep it. But it is full of great recipes and many memories of people I have not seen (many have passed away since) in many years that meant a lot to me during my younger days. I used to take that book on Sunday mornings and start at 4AM and cook/bake until noon. My parents and siblings most always appreciated a great meal when I did that. I believe the biggest grease spot is on the page of Chocolate Chip Cookies – probably the most regularly used recipe in the book.
My go-to cookbook is Recipes from Old Virginia. It was originally published in 1958. It’s a compilation of recipes from home makers at the time. I have found no better collection of good old fashioned southern and home cooking than in this book passed down from my grandmother.
Right now I really like The Taste of Home Cookbook.
The cookbook dearest to me is one my church compiled in the 50s that includes some of my grandma’s recipes.
What to choose? I think I would love the Southern Living Cookbook! Really nice giveaway. thans for the chance!
I like my better homes and graden cookbook
We love cookbooks around here. My husband reads them like novels!
I’d love the Essential Mormon Cookbook. I was lucky enough to live close to Greendale WI where Taste of Homes has their outlet. I picked up several cookbooks there but my favorite is Taste of Homes Casserole Cookbook. It even has info on how to freeze most of the recipes!
Joy of Cooking!
Nigella Lawson’s “How to Be a Domestic Goddess” is my favorite– great baking recipes, both sweet and savory, with introductory notes like the ones you’d get if your best girlfriend was e-mailing you the recipe.
My favorite cook book has to be “The Joy of Cooking” as a new wife in a forgein country this book help me navigate all the complicated stuff with simplicity.
Probably use the Betty Crocker cookbook from the 50′s the most, love all the conversion charts and substitution suggestions.
I don’t have a favorite but I’d love to try out The Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook! :)
my favorite cookbook is the georgetown cupcake book!!! i love cupcakes and theirs are so delicious!
ok, i LOVE cookbooks. i actually will sit down and read them. I have a few favorites, and they are all the classics. Joy of cooking is my favorite favorite though.
My favorite cookbook, at this moment, is a new one out by Joy Wilson – Joy the Baker. It truly is a joy to hold, read and bake from. My favorite book (memoir)/cookbook is A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg. My favorite movie/cookbook is Julie & Julia – of course! But my go-to cookbook will always be My Better Homes & Gardens cookbook. I am fortunate to have collected them thru the years dating back to 1939, my Grandmothers edition, complete with her handwritten notes. It always provides the perfect backdrop recipe. Cheers! and Bon Appetit
My favorite probably is the first one I received. I received a Heart of the Home book by Susan Branch a few years ago and I have since found a number of hers and bought them and a few others but my favorite is the first I ever had.
I love “How to Cook Everything” by Mark Bittman.
I’m a classic kind of a gal with the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook, the one with the red & white checked cover. I actually got a new one recently, but I still can’t bear to get rid of the 20+ year old one that’s falling apart.
Since I’ve had to turn over a new leaf b/c my husband is gluten free I’m going with… Gluten Free Country Kitchen: The Taste that Says Welcome Home by Marjorie Riggs.
I love my better homes and gardens cookbook
While searching the Internet for ways to save money, I ran across a series of videos starring a sweet 90+yr-old lady named Clara. Her Depression-Era stories and recipes really helped me during some very trying times, so much so that I purchased her little cookbook, Clara’s Kitchen. There are super-simple and very inexpensive recipes in the book. Clara also recounts stories from her past growing up as a teen during those difficult years. And yet there are stories of simple pleasures, of enjoying homemade sugar cookies, roller skating everywhere on old, used skates, playing outside with the neighborhood kids…it’s as if the reader is her grandchild listening to her stories. I love this book and highly recommend it for people who may think they have it tough now but will be reminded of how many treasures they truly have compared to those who lived during the Great Depression.
I love the Joy of Cooking. Answers all of my questions!
I agree with the Essential Mormon Cookbook.
I just got the America’s Test Kitchen family Cookbook and I am obsessed with it right now.
Canadian Living Everyday Cookbook is fabulous. So many great healthy and easy family recipes. Have a look!
Moosewood is by far my favorite cookbook.
My very favorite cookbook is The Joy of Cooking
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