So now that we know his favorite cookbooks, I wonder what everyone else's are.
Mine are:
1. The Barefoot Contessa cookbooks She has a new one coming out in the fall. I made her Engagement Roast Chicken for dinner today. Very good. While there have been some recipes I didn't particularly like, none has ever been a cooking failure.
2. Pam Anderson's (no, not that Pam Anderson!) How to Cook Without A Book. I like the master recipe/technique with variations. Some of her recipes in The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great follow that format as do some from her column in USA Weekend.
I'm also fond of the Create Your Own Recipe (aka Cooking Without Recipes) feature in Fine Cooking magazine. I like it better in the magazine than online.
3. Martha Stewart's Everyday Food magazine/cookbooks/TV show/blog. There's also an Everyday Food series on PBS.
4. Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything. I'm not as fond of his Kitchen Express, though I like the idea. I like his Bitten blog.
Then there are blogs. I get recipes I use the most from the following:
Simply Recipes I'm surprised at how often this one comes up when I google something I'm looking for.
Kalyn's Kitchen Don't care about the fact that everything is South Beach friendly -- there are some good recipes there.
The Pioneer Woman Cooks Half of her recipes have been a big success for me. The other half...not so much. There have been a few that my family has said "don't make this again." Some have been cooking failures -- the recipe just didn't work. Those that are good are very, very good. I've made very few of her dessert recipes.
I'm not fond of her cookbook. Most of the recipes are from the blog. The two I tried that were new weren't successful with my family. One of her recipes is the only thing I've ever cooked that after one bite went directly to the trash and we ordered takeout.
One thing I've learned: if I find a recipe somewhere and don't make it within a week or so (with some exceptions), the likelihood of me making it at all is slim.
