Book Club

[bachspal]

I love America's test kitchen tv shows, and often copy recipes from there. They work really well. So your suggestion is tempting.  Also anything Ina  G , aka barefoot Contessa, will not disappoint.

[Drythe]

A must if you cook for your dog (s)

[speedy girl]

I love all the cookbooks that use to be put out by churches and clubs, where everyone would send in their family favorites. I seem to always go to one of those when looking for a recipe. They are tried and true and usually easy too! 

[Ilovetea]

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@Desert Lily wrote:

My favorite was my mother's Old Settlement Cook Book. I learned a great deal from that book, along with watching Julia Child and my grandmother. I have and love my grandmother's filled recipe box. I also liked a Betty Crocker cook book.

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I used to have that one. Someone borrowed and kept it in the last 10 years. 

[Ilovetea]

The ones I use the most are The Glory of Southern Cooking by James Villas, Trisha Yearwood's Family Favorites and Delish, Eat like Every Day is the weekend. 

[coffee drinker]

@AuntG @alliswell This book is available on Amazon $9.11 Free shipping.  Check it out. 

Coffeedrinker 

[alliswell]

@coffee drinker 

@AuntG 

Do you mean this one:

                          

[coffee drinker]

@alliswell Yes, looks like the same book.

[alliswell]

Before I forget, from 1971, "The Chef's Secret Cook Book," by Louis Szathmary.  Everything in this book is as "spot on" today as when it was written over 40-years ago. The recipes are well illustrated and easy to follow.  This cookbook is one of my favorites.  It is relaxing just reading Chef Louis' recipe secrets.

        

[GingerPeach]

That's adorable, @Drythe 

I have some cooking for dogs books, but had not seen that one. I may just add that to my collection.

As to cooking for humans, it's changed over the years.

I still have my falling-apart copy of Betty Crocker's cookbook, which still reveals some basics that some other cookbooks may not have.

Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah [Shore] has the best recipe for cornmeal pancakes!

In later years, I liked Craig Claiborne's NY Times International Cookbook. It has a delicious caraway seed soup with dumplings that I used to make every winter. 

These days, Ina Garten is the one I use most often, if I'm looking for a particular recipe.

On the other hand, grilling salmon and eating it with a green salad doesn't really need a recipe. Nor does making an all-vegetable soup like I did today. All it took was raiding my freezer!