OK, long explanation warning. If you can't cope, just have a look at the photo and thank you for that!
When I first started cooking for the kids, I was into whatever could be taken from the freezer and whacked into the oven for 20 minutes. After a while I started thinking "If I'm going to be cooking, I might as well do something a bit more adventurous than a chicken and ham pie" (not that I'm averse to a chicken and ham pie, mind you!). So, someone bought me my first recipe book. 20 years later, and much poorer, here are my most used books.
Jamie Oliver would be amused that lurking in the back of the shelf somewhere are 2 Gordon Ramsay books that are rarely consulted...
Thanks for all your recent comments - much appreciated.
great collection of books - I have a couple of Jamie Oliver books and like them - but cooking for my daughter around her allergies stopped using his stuff, i must rediscover it, you've reminded me
Ooh, I want to come over to your place for dinner! :D Do you, ahem, do Nigella too? :D :D (Sorry, that was BAD, but it sort of just had to come out...)
Haha! I know what you mean about Gordon Ramsay... I have two of his that I have flicked through and looked at the pictures but not cooked one recipe! Lovely photo and story!
Nice one Peter! Money spent on preparing proper food is money well spent I say! Can't be doing with all that ready made, frozen, chilled or otherwise concoctions marketed as food. Been like that since I first had to fend for myself at the age of 18 when I realised that I could better Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney Pie!
@maina Well, I have a book by Rick Stein (who served his apprenticeship in France) called "Rick Stein's French Odyssey", which is wonderful and we have enjoyed some lovely traditional French recipes from that!
