Simple, yet tasty cookbook recommendation

Mrs Seabiscuit · 30 Jul 2019 at 07:34

Morning Gents!
I'm after a cookbook that had more traditional cooking recipes or simple dishes done well.
It's for someone who is older and just started to take over the cooking so isn't used to it yet.
Hope this makes sense?
No fancy pants equipment.
Oh we have bought them skillet as something fancy.

Thank you
Hayley

Squid Vicious · 2 Aug 2019 at 07:18

Leith's Simple Cookery is a good book to have, both as a reference covering a lot of technique in addition to a pretty extensive collection of recipes.

I still always recommend Jamie Oliver books, he has some good introductory ones like the 15 minute book, his recipes are all easy to follow and quite tasty - still go back to that one regularly.

kysafran · 6 Aug 2019 at 14:19

I have a book by Gary Rhodes called 'Great fast Food' that I still revisit even though my cooking skills & culinary tastes have ventured far from the day I bought it. Gary seems to have taken some classic recipes and simplified them. It's a great book for beginners. That reminds me of another book, one of Nigel Slaters early books called 'Real fast Food'. It was in paper back and I used it so much the pages started falling out and I stopped using it. Shame. Hope that helps. Safran

Mrs Seabiscuit · 6 Aug 2019 at 19:13

Oh thanks guys.

the_r_sole · 8 Aug 2019 at 10:25

Delia's How to Cook is the classic
there's a couple of the jamie oliver ones that are good and simple too

d_brennen · 8 Aug 2019 at 10:29

I just use bbcgoodfood.com, has a nice format of ingredients/method, lots of variety and some banging dishes that have come into my regular rotation.

Made these chicken wings for the clan yesterday and everyone was impressed

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1133653/sweet-and-sticky-wings-with-classic-slaw

Deviated from the recipe by making marinade and leaving the wings in it overnight, turned out amazing