What are your favorite cookbooks and online cooking resources?

[Trudie]

I love to cook.  If it weren't for MMM and my public library I'd probably own an entire bookshelf for cookbooks alone, even though I search for most of my recipes online.  When I travel to other countries, though, I do enjoy buying a cookbook as a memento (e.g., Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" when we were in Paris.)

Whose cookbooks and online resources do you particularly enjoy?  I'll start:

I love anything by Lynn Rosetto Kaspar (The Splendid Table, NPR).  Her radio show and podcasts are great fun and she's not a food snob.  Her cookbooks are fascinating.

Jacques Pepin  -- defines "joie de vivre."   He's the consummate teacher, and I think his videos are excellent at demonstrating technique.  He understands that the first step of any cooking demonstration is to open a bottle of wine.

Jeff Herzberg/Zoe Francois:  "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day" -- I bought this after hearing JH on a Splendid Table podcast.  After multiple failed bread-baking attempts with other methods, this has given me a new lease on life:
http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/

"Recipes from a Monastery Kitchen" blog:  I just found these gourmet nuns who do a fantastic blog.  The recipe descriptions are priceless, and I can say I now understand what hospitality really means:
http://monasterykitchen.org/

Kathleen Flinn -- has written several memoirs about her culinary training.  Fun reads.

There are so many outstanding FREE online cooking resources and video demonstrations.  I have culled my cookbook collection quite a bit over the years, but I'm still a sucker for PBS cooking shows and the cookbook section of my public library.

[PARedbeard]

I think I only own one cookbook, and it was purchased for me years ago by a former girlfriend: it's "The Joy of Cooking." As silly as it sounds, it was the book that pushed me out of my comfort zone and got me to consider HOW and WHY I wanted to make a dish.

Nowadays I use lots of blogs/recipe sites. At the moment, my two favorite are "Budget Bytes" and "Northwest Edible."

[Pigeon]

I love cookbooks, too.  I get them out of the public library and read them like novels.  Hands down, my favorite is the Joy of Cooking.  It's the first place to start and the one I use the most. 

I watch cooking shows and will use some recipe websites, usually the Food Network ones or budgetbytes.com or the King Arthur website.  I also have a KA baking book.

[Stache-O-Lantern]

www.thugkitchen.com

Vegan cooking for mutha fuckin' playaz.

[AmandaS1989]

www.thugkitchen.com

Vegan cooking for mutha fuckin' playaz.

Lol posting to follow. I'm hoping to find some cooking inspiration. My family's getting a little tired of turkey helper, turkey burgers, pizza, etc

[sonjak]

Appreciating the suggestions made so far.  I've bookmarked for future savoring.  :)

I have a couple cookbooks (I use Nourishing Traditions a lot for some staples - like learning to soak grains which has really helped me with digestibility) -  but I primarily find new recipes online these days.  I'm not vegan but I am fairly allergic to eggs and dairy so I'll often make recipes (particularly baking) that's geared for them.

Two of my current favorites:

http://helyndunn.com/recipe-index  (also doesn't use a lot of processed sugars, which I appreciate)

http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/

I also use allrecipes a lot, particularly when I want a nice reliable recipe to use for baking for others.  One of my favorite parts is all the comments where people rate something 5 stars and then change multiple ingredients or amounts.  Cracks me up.

[NYCWife]

My favorite websites are:

1. joy the baker
2. how sweet it is
3. kitchn

I have found the recipes on these sites to be down-to-earth, delicious, and not too complicated to prepare. I also really love the writing style for the first two websites, which are actually blogs.

[Rural]

I keep the Fannie Farmer cookbook and a recipe file box. Also have Putting Food By for canning, though most canning recipes come from my file. I have a TVP cookbook but have mostly transferred what I like to my file.


For websites, almost anytime I look something up online (which only happens with things Fannie Farmer doesn't cover), it's AllRecipies because I like their ingredient search feature. I do love to read Thug Kitchen, but haven't used it, or at least not consciously. I mostly don't cook from recipes, so it's quite possible I've made something inspired by the site without realizing it.

[serpentstooth]

KENJI LOPEZ ALT, KENJI LOPEZ ALT! He's got a book The Food Lab, which is awesome, and he's the managing editor of www.seriouseats.com, which is awesome.

I have had very mixed experiences with food bloggers. They are amateurs, and often do not have the skill to test recipes correctly. That doesn't mean I never use them, but I have moved away from them in recent years. Deb Perelman, behind www.smittenkitchen.com is very good. For books, in addition to The Food Lab I really like The Larousse Book of Bread, Baking: From My Home to Yours, The Betty Crocker Cookbook (1978 edition), The Gourmet Cookbook (out of print, but super cheap), How to Cook Everything and Ratio. King Arthur Flour has a professional test kitchen and their blog is excellent, as is their entire online recipe archive.

[La Bibliotecaria Feroz]

I got a lot of mileage from Cooking Light Slow Cooker Tonight, but I think you and I are different kinds of cooks :-).

Not exactly cookbooks, but I loved An Everlasting Meal and Make the Bread, Buy the Butter made me laugh out loud.

[schoopsthecat]

The Best Recipe from America's Test Kitchen is my go to for everything. I've never had a recipe not turn out well from that book. Nothing exotic, but great for standard dishes.

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[MauiNut]

http://myfridgefood.com/

Lots of good ideas and recipes, low-cost.

[Thinkum]

I was given an America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook many moons ago. I love their approach to cooking, but it's not always healthy. I basically try out new recipes as I come across something I love to eat. Websites like AllRecipes are great, as are numerous blogs I come across after googling terms, like tofu and udon noodle recipe, for instance. I recently though, just bought "The How Can It Be Gluten Free Cookbook 2" from ATK. We'll see how that goes, but I'm expecting it to be just dandy.

[flower]

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan.

One of my favorite websites is http://www.elizabethminchilliinrome.com/

[serpentstooth]

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan.

One of my favorite websites is http://www.elizabethminchilliinrome.com/

YES. Marcella is wonderful.

[letired]

+1 to Smitten Kitchen. She is a great writer, and I very rarely am led astray with her recipes.

I'm also a big fan of google in general for dish ideas, and Pinterest for inspration/new ideas.

[N]

http://minimalistbaker.com/ is one of my newer favorites.

I also like budgetbytes.com, smittenkitchen.com,

For books that I own and consult regularly:
Love Soup, Anna Thomas
How to Cook Everything, mark bittman
Food in jars, marisa mcclellan (blog also good)

I keep a couple of boards in Pinterest to save things I find online.

I also agree that americas test kitchen, serious eats, kitchn are good resources.

[Reader]

Not exactly cookbooks, but I loved An Everlasting Meal and Make the Bread, Buy the Butter made me laugh out loud.

^^ loved the book. it made cooking so approachable and simple.

[Kitsune]

Not exactly cookbooks, but I loved An Everlasting Meal and Make the Bread, Buy the Butter made me laugh out loud.

^^ loved the book. it made cooking so approachable and simple.

Seconding both those books, and also busgetbytes.

The homesick Texan (especially for the cornbread!), smitten kitchen, thekitchn (for the archive+search function), for blogs. Also, for those who don't know, foodblogsearch.com searches through about 3k food blogs... My standard trick is to just search for the ingredients I have on hand and interesting recipes using things I already have pop up. :)

[Embok]

I'm not mustachian in this area: I have a collection of over 400 cookbooks, collected over 40 years ( many bought used).

For basics, Joy of Cooking, The Gourmet cookbook, Saveur cooks American, More Taste Than Money, Leftovers, How to Cook (Julia Child).  The first two Silver Palate cookbooks.

For vegetables/vegetarian:  anything by Mollie Katzen or Deborah Madison; Vegetables by
Barbara Kafka.  The Chez Panisse vegetable book is a good resource.

For desserts/baking:  anything by David Lebovitz (who has a great blog), Rose Levy Beranbaum; Classic Home Desserts by the late lamented Richard Sax.  Also Lisa Yockelson's Country Cakes.

For Indian/Sri Lankan, there'sa great book on the cuisines of Asia by Charmaine Solomon.

For English food, anything by Elizabeth David, Jane Grigson or Nigella Lawson.

Patricia Wells has some great French cookbooks - and a good Italian one. 

Carol Field 's books on Italian/ rustic breads are phenomenal.

[AlwaysBeenASaver]

I cook a lot and love trying new recipes. With that said, I still use the basic "Betty Crocker's Cookbook" fairly often, for "normal" things such as pie crust, oatmeal cookies, drop biscuits, and so on. I like the America's Test Kitchen "New Best Recipe" cookbook quite a bit for fairly standard American dishes.

Other places I like to get recipes:

allrecipes.com - read the review/comments and change recipe accordingly

Magazines with recipes I tend to like: Bon Appetit; Cook's Illustrated; Cook's Country; Penzey's catalog (if they still do that?)

Cookbooks: I get random cookbooks out of the library. I usually find a couple recipes in each cookbook that I want to try. However our library has several Indian cookbooks by the author Mridula Baljekar and I have loved all of her recipes that I've made so far.

[Flyingkea]

For online websites, I love reading budget bytes, this forum put me onto her cooking.
Kitchenmeetsgirl is one that I want to check out more, her 30/40 minute dinner rolls are pretty good.

I have a copy of the Edmunds Cookbook, and their lite version Food for flatters. Edmunds is a NZ company who sells baking supplies, and their cookbook is really good. I also have Jo Seagars Lip Smackin', Fast Cookin', Hunger Bustin', Gr8 Tastin' Cookbook, which has some nice easy meals in it - like cheese muffins.
I also recently picked up The hands on home, which I have yet to see how practical it is for me, The food lab, which is a good read as well as good recipes, and the Larousse book of bread, which I really want to try out.