How many cookbooks do you have?

[1969912 0]

I watched "Julie & Julia" a couple days ago, and it got me thinking about cookbooks. A quick estimate is that I have close to 60 cookbooks. Everything from White Trash Cooking to all of Julia's books. Is that a lot of cookbooks?

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[d_squared431 0]

I have the natural ability that comes from just being a female. I don't need no stinking cook books..

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Just one.... I call her grandma.

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[shropshire 0]

Only Yellow Pages..... have some good delivery service here

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[LisaH 0]

Too many to count.

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Too many to count.

Only the internet. Otherwise, I don't
own one. And my cooking proves it?

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[NWFlyer 2]

Probably about a dozen, plus two notebooks I've shoved full of printed recipes from the internet (been following a bunch of food/recipe blogs lately), and recipes I've cut out of various magazines, or inherited from family members. Every so often I'll consult one of my trusted cookbooks, but these days I'm more likely to go online to find a recipe for something (Epicurious is a favorite site).

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Just one.... I call her grandma.

One of the best wedding gifts we received was a "cookbook" compiled of all my family's favorite recipes. Mom, sisters, aunts, grandmas, etc. All chipped in. So nice to have in those first few years. A nice, thoughtful gift.

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[captain1976 0]

Don't own any. I just "Google" what I need

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[cocheese 0]

cook books?

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[IMALSUTIGERFAN 0]

Being from Southern La. we are all taught to cook...my only cook book is a hand written with all the famlies secrets.

[JohnMitchell 16]

We have maybe two dozen, way too many. They are just such great impulse items. Funny is that there are maybe twenty recipes we cook over and over. Don't really need all those damn books.

[PLFXpert 0]

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plus two notebooks I've shoved full of printed recipes

I have one giant binder I filled with clear sheet protectors and dividers for recipes torn from a magazine, printed from the internet, or hand-written on a piece of paper. I love it, because we only save the ones that we love. Over the years, it has really filled up.

Other than that, just Roy's Fish and Seafood.

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plus two notebooks I've shoved full of printed recipes

I have one giant binder I filled with clear sheet protectors and dividers for recipes torn from a magazine, printed from the internet, or hand-written on a piece of paper. I love it, because we only save the ones that we love. Over the years, it has really filled up.

Other than that, just Roy's Fish and Seafood.

i do the same thing. we probably have a couple dozen cookbooks, but i also rely in the internet a lot. once i use a recipe a couple of times, tweak it to make it my own, and it gets approved by the wife, i type it up in word so its on my computer and print a page to add to the notebook. the exception in hand written recipes from moms and grandmas. they go into the protective sleeves as is.

my wife and have been talking about doing our our family cookbook. some of the old recipe cards from passed away grandma's (and even a few from my wife's great-grandma) are pretty fragile. instead of putting a picture of the food with the recipe, we want to put pictures of the people they came from and the recipe card with their handwriting.

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my wife and have been talking about doing our our family cookbook. some of the old recipe cards from passed away grandma's (and even a few from my wife's great-grandma) are pretty fragile. instead of putting a picture of the food with the recipe, we want to put pictures of the people they came from and the recipe card with their handwriting.

That sounds wonderful!

I LOVE projects like that.

Whether it is recipes, or photos, or memorabilia, I can not stand boxes of disorganized stuff to store; I simply won't do it. It is a downward spiral, imo.

For anything worth keeping, I get creative and make something (like a scrapbook) that is easy to store/display and a lot more personal than a box in the attic.

The recipe binder is great because rather than have 10, 20 or 30 recipe books with only a handful of recipes in each you want to try/much less actually like, you have one binder that you can easily remove something you have tried that didn't work, and create your own sections for things/ocassions personal to you. I also love labeling, so the binder gave me another excuse to do that.

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i'm also in the process of putting my recipes on my website. i almost always have my laptop in the kitchen anyway. here's just one:

http://www.kjandmegan.com/Green-Bean-Casserole.html

it is a hybrid of an alton brown recipe and the recipe from the can of french fried onion (or is it the cream of mushroom soup? i can't remember.) i made a couple minor changes such as well.

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[Tuna-Salad 0]

2 and they are full of recipes and shit that I have created and wrote down so as to not forget how to make it.. Dunno if I would call a binder full of note cards a cookbook though

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[Orchid 0]

I have 2 total. 1 is authentic Vietnamese cooking & 1 is gourmet Italian dishes.

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[skydiverbry 0]

What's a cookbook????


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[Southern_Man 0]

I probably have 6 or 7. One general purpose and the rest are more specific. I use the internet and a binder w/ sheets for many recipes. A well written, specific cookbook will give you lots of tips and explanations that will allow you to understand cooking much better than simply following a recipe. I usually just use recipes as a jumping off point.

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[wmw999 2,515]

Ah, my impoverished student friend -- a cookbook is that thing that helps you save money on your food bills, so that you have money for other stuff.

I have 6-8, plus a large recipe box. I almost never follow recipes to the letter, though -- my favorite cookbooks are the ones that tell you what generally works together, and what food qualities matter. That way I can just make it up as I go along

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[skybill 22]

Hi 99999 and all,
Cookbooks? Hmmmm.. I've only aquired 2 or 3 +some of Grandma's stuff, my sister has the rest of the family stuff. My wife Peggy has all of them now along with her stash, a bunch!! "White Trash Cooking" you say, funny thing you should mention that!! Lou Land, all you old fart So. Cal jumpers know Lou, gave me a "White Trash Cooking" for Christmas some years ago!! Good ole' Earnie Mickler did a goodie when he published that book!! I got "White Trash Cooking II" also and is a great follow up to the first one. If 'ya see either one on the shelf in a book store, pick it up and thumb thru it....you'll probably take it home!!

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