This might sound weird, but I know I’m not the only one…I read cookbooks like novels. I love to read them cover to cover. You can learn many little things from different kitchens, cooks, chefs, and cultures from around the world. Well written cookbooks flow like a story. They start with a good foundation of learning about the author and chef of the book. They give you some ground rules about techniques that are used throughout the recipes. My bookshelves are loaded with cookbooks from all over the world – from celebrity chefs to self-published home cooks, like myself. I have pulled together some pretty good cookbooks I found on Amazon, and new finds for you to check out.
The Super Easy Crock Pot Cookbook (2024)
The Super Easy Crock Pot Cookbook is your ultimate guide to transforming everyday meals into healthy, delicious, and simple culinary experiences. Designed for busy individuals and cooking novices alike, this cookbook is more than just a collection of recipes—it’s your key to effortless, wholesome cooking with a Crock Pot.
Betty Crocker’s Good and Easy Cook Book (The 1954 American Classic)
In the middle of the twentieth century, Betty Crocker was a name trusted by American cooks. This timeless cookbook offers recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and even birthday parties, picnics, and afternoon tea. Whether you are simply preparing a family meal or planning a party and need fancy sandwiches or hearty meals, cakes for dessert or bread and herb butter to go along with dinner, this book has a fast recipe for everyone.
Fannie Farmers 1896 Cook Book (The Boston Cooking School)
A classic bestseller, the Fannie Farmer 1896 Cook Book contains an incredible offering of 1,380 recipes, from boiling an egg to preparing a calf’s head. Farmer’s instructions also go beyond recipes to include how to set the table for proper tea, full menu ideas for holiday dinners, housekeeping tips, and so much more. This book is known for pioneering the standardization of measurements in recipe instructions, which made the creation of better meals possible for even the most inexperienced of cooks. Farmer’s thorough text is chock full of fabulous Americana for cooks and non-cooks alike.
The Sheet Pan
Streamline your kitchen and cooking with 150+ recipes and step-by-step photographs for easy one-pan meals. The sheet pan is a cook’s blank canvas for creativity. Fill it up. Exciting possibilities open up when you turn to this sheet pan cookbook for all your weeknight dinners, breakfasts, snacks, and beyond. You’ll build extraordinary layers of flavor, while also streamlining the cooking process. Ingenious ATK techniques for the best-tasting roast chicken and potatoes, juicy seared steaks, and even curries, griddled burgers, and tacos await.
Homemade on a Weeknight
written by yours truly. This is was first cookbook, which I self-published and truly loved writing. It a collection of over 100 recipes that my family has loved over the years. It is a starting point for my foray into the cookbook authorship world and one I hope to follow up soon!
Beautiful Boards: 50 Amazing Snack Boards for Any Occasion
Make mealtimes, special occasions, and holidays extra memorable with these 50 delicious, inspiring, family-friendly, and easy-to-recreate snack boards. Visually exciting and deliciously enticing, these snack boards by Maegan Brown (aka The BakerMama) move beyond (and include) classic cheese and charcuterie and are comprised of easy-to-find fresh and prepared foods, arranged in beautiful, artful, and whimsical ways (think red, white, and blue snacks shaped into an American flag for celebrating Fourth of July and a fruit-and-veggie rainbow with cracker clouds to brighten any day).
Do you have any favorite cookbooks to share? Do you have any Cookbook suggestions that you want me to check out?
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Estelle Forrest self-published this cookbook after a lot of playing around in the kitchen. You can purchase your own copy here:
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Both the crock pot and the one sheet pan look good!