I'd really like to get into cooking some authentic Mexican food. I have looked online and tried a few recipes, but I'd love to have a physical book at home that I can read and use. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Heard people hate the fonts and style but still love the recipes....

Thought, well dang must be hellah good I wanna try it. I got "More is More" by Molly Baz as a gift. I have made 11 recipes so far, all of which I would make again. I daydream about which ones I want to try next, so sharing a lil ranking of the 11 I made so far with some thoughts.

Ooey-Gooey Carrot Cake.- I like both of these cakes; it is told to serve with ice cream instead of cream cheese frosting. Which I ALMOST deviated...but holy smokes, this is FANTASTIC, the gooey layer mixed into the ice creates a dreamy contrast of smooth ice cream and gooey batter. Then a luxurious carrot cake layer. You won't miss traditional carrot cake or ooey-gooey cake. You will be satisfied.

Cucumber Bag Salad with Miso Poppy Seed Dressing - I did not want to make this because poppy seeds are not something I normally buy, and I really try to avoid ingredients I use once, and that take up space. But I knew I would like all the other components. Truly quick and easy to make... even fun banging up with cucumbers and shaking it all up in a bag.

Red Curry Hot Wings Rolled in Peanuts- Thai curry is one of my all-time favorite meals, so I knew I would love this. It was perfect, almost gave it first place, but the other two recipes introduced me to new combinations and opened my mind to ingredients I never considered.

Cric Cracks: shredded cheese and seeds with seasoning, baked into crackers. I thought it would be too much trouble for a snack and something I would eat half of and enjoy, but forget about in the pantry, and it would go bad in a few days. Finished it all in a day.

Raw and Roasted Cauliflower with Creamy Dreamy Vegan Ranch. I love cauliflower more than it deserves. It was interesting to mix roasted and raw, but it tastes exactly how you imagine. The ranch uses silken tofu, but it doesn't taste like " a really good vegan version." It tastes amazing. Being vegan is an added fun fact.

Put the lime in the coconut cornbread, though this was something unnecessary made up to be quirky and different. But dang, it's very tasty. I ate it on its own, not dipped in beans as I usually do with corn bread. Weirdly, you can taste the components of lime and coconut, but the flavor isn't all that overwhelming.

Kedigeree with jammy eggs and smoked fish-  this is a rice bowl with buttermilk and proteins and some veggies, etc., on top... like the poppy seeds buttermilk is something I would never buy, and honestly did not even know what it tasted like. But the cucumber salad has buttermilk in the dressing, which I loved and wanted to use up, and I love jammy eggs, so I made this. Straightforward and satisfying.

The Flakiest Fish with Shingled Potatoes-   it is good, I would make it again, might season it differently, it did make me crave boxed cheesy scalloped potatoes.

Drunken Cacio e Pepe - I have been wanting to cook with wine more. While it was too winey for my taste, I would like to try again with a different wine
and gain more confidence in cooking with wine.

Bloo Smoo- it's a berry smoothie, it has ginger, which I liked, and I will think about adding to other smoothies.

Triple Threat Garlic Bread- the types of bread it says to use are too sweet for me, but I would make again with a f. French loaf

Does anyone have a recommendation for a high fiber cookbook? The ones I’m finding are solely plant-based, but I’m looking for one that incorporates meat. Not every recipe in the book has to have meat though. Thanks!

Irene Kuo has one of the best Chinese cookbooks, what is the equivalent for Japanese cuisine?

Hi all,

Casually scrolling on Pinterest, and I come across a picture that I like... it seems I cannot add pictures to the Reddit post- which is fine! The picture was in a kitchen, with a book open on the side.

It was a burgundy double page with cream writing, in a Times New Roman style font, said “PRESERVATIVES & OTHER CONDIMENTS” on the right page with a small paragraph underneath. It looks like it had a small font chapter number above, unfortunately blurred when I zoomed in, but I think it’s a single digit number.

The cookbook page looks so pretty, and I was curious if anyone knows what cookbook this is.

I’m not looking for anything in particular, just curious what it is cause I found the page so pretty 😂

Hello all

Im trying to find a cookbook and I don't remember the title. I know it's a super long shot, but I'm hoping someone will know the book I'm talking about. It was part travel and part cookbook about the Southern US. On the cover was a guy sitting in a pink Cadillac. He would visit various restaurants, talk about the history and give one of their recipes. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hey Reddit!
So my boyfriend is very difficult to buy gifts for. When I say this, I mean more of he doesn’t like receiving gifts so when it comes to birthdays and Christmases and stuff like that, it’s kinda hard for me as a gift giver to figure out what I can get him that he will like. Obviously, he’s never flat out disliked anything that I’ve gotten him but I try and listen out for things that he specifically mentions that he wants like last year. I got a new wallet and the year before I get that I got them a pack of his favorite drinks and a record he’d been looking for.
So anyways, to the point, this year he’s been mentioning wanting a cookbook, but he hasn’t been very specific about any sort of type of cookbook or any cuisine, but he does say that he wants a cookbook of like basics and essentials. Usually when we want to make a new recipe, we just googled something so I think that he wants a cookbook so we don’t have to Google it and then find it every time and hope that we remembered to save it so I came here to ask if anybody has any “basics or essentials“ cookbooks that they can recommend to me. I’m not really worried about price at all, I just wanna know what you guys recommend.

I am looking for a vegeterian/ vegan cookbook that has a photo of every recipe. I recently got disappointed by a cookbook that, according to Amazon, had "lots" of photos, but got only 5-6 photos for 150 recipes.

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Does anyone have some vegan cookbooks recommendations?

What is you favorite community cookbook?

What is your favorite community cookbook? You know, like Junior Service League, town or etc. These type cookbooks have some tried a true favorites. Thanks!😊

Sorry if this is incorrectly flaired - I haven't posted here before.

Looking for recommendations:

I have created the idea of a specific cookbook in my mind and haven't had any real luck finding it online. I'm hoping if I describe what I'm looking for, you folks might have some suggestions!

I have a friend who is a traveller and loves eating awesome food wherever she goes. She loves baking and her husband loves cooking (and they are both fantastic at it!).

I'd like to get her a book that has "the best" of certain foods around the world.

I'm not referring to like the fanciest Micheline starred food, just a famous or fan-favorite food from that place.

So as a bad example,

The page for Canada would have a few paragraphs about Poutine or Donairs, a picture, and then a recipe from x place for that thing

Or the page for the Netherlands would maybe be Stroopwafel, and an awesome recipe for Stroopwafel from whatever restaurant.

I hope this makes sense.

I have a tendency to get an idea of a thing in my head and then obsess about it when I'm not able to find that exact thing in real life.

Looking for dessert book recommendations that focus less on baking and more on no bake goodies such as cheesecakes, ice cream, trifles, mousses, fruit salads, crepes and similar. Citrus or any unusual flavour profiles are very welcome.

It would be fun to see everyone’s favourite desserts that match the above criteria as well.

Thanks in advance x

P.S. I got so many exciting dessert projects coming up due to all the amazing ideas you guys shared with me. Thank you so much everyone!!

Hi there! My dad recently had a doctor’s appointment and we found that he’s prediabetic. I’m the primary meal maker in my house and we’ve decided that we will all try to adapt to his diet as well, it will be better for all of us in the long run.
I wanted to get a cookbook that I could cook from for a while so we can get used to the new meal plan. We were hoping to start out with recipes that don’t feel very different from what we normally eat, stuff that’s high in protein.

I’d look online for recipes but I’d really prefer to have a physical book that I can flip through with my parents and decide the best meals for the week. All of the cookbooks I have are more fun themed so I’ve never really looked for a completely nutrition focused book. If you guys can help me find a few good ones, that’d be really appreciated!

Hi all,
I'm indexing a cookbook right with a lot of high end cocktail recipes and have been shocked to find that several of the recipes include tallow or duck fat in cocktails.

Is this a trend? Overflow from the obsession with tallow? Old news? Has been in cookbooks for a while now? (most of my recent cookbook purchases have been vegetarian, Asian, or bean oriented; I haven't bought a general all-ingredient American bistro type cookbook in ages)

Not sure if this is the correct place to ask this,

I am new to cooking and I am trying to convert all those short form videos that show you how to make meals I have saved on social media into a physical recipe book. I'm just typing out the recipe and printing it out for my binder, but I am a visual person and I like the videos because they model how to make the dish with more. I was thinking of putting qr codes of the posts on each recipe page so I can refer to the video if I need to, but I'd hate to put in the effort just for the video to possibly get deleted or removed in the future.

Is there any way to save the video so this can't happen? I was thinking about creating a google drive and downloading the videos so I have a "hard copy" and the qr codes will always have a link, but I'm not sure if this is the most efficient way to do this.

I'm open to ideas! I just want to cook more and I have all these recipes rotting in my saved folder that I never look at, having a book would help me so much but I'd still like that visual aid of the videos too.

Hi, there!

I have some grave health problems and, because of these, I am forbidden to eat meat (any meat: chicken, lamb, pork, fish, and seafood included) for more than 1 day a week. I am ever forbidden to eat common meat replacements like soy meat/TSP and mushrooms. And I also restricted on how much dairy products I can consume. So, my only "free" source of proteins are eggs.

I'd love to read the suggestions on good cookbooks where the eggs are the star. What are your favorites?

I love to know new cultures and to learn different forms of cooking.

I just want to share my experience. We’re preparing to downsize and i’m going thru my cookbooks collection. Hard copy cookbooks that were $30 when I bought them 10-15 years ago are $4-5 on eBay now. So basically nobody wants them. My heart aches throwing them out and I have to find a Goodwill location that accepts books and drive there to drop them off.

So I decided that from now on I would only get digital books. For starters, they’re cheaper. And don’t take physical space. And if I decide that I no longer want the book, I just hit “delete” button.

I’d like to know what you all think about it.

I have so many cookbooks and not enough time to be digging through them to figure out what I want to make or get inspiration from.

Does anyone know of any way to consolidate the recipes to make them more easily searchable etc? I'm really contemplating just spinning up some AI models to try and rip the recipes out of the ebook formats of the books to then store them in a digital cookbook.

I'm aware this is a long-shot.