Great recipes and not so great recipes from cookbooks

[judydawn]

I'm sure they will Chookie     I must get into the habit of taking 1 book from the bookcase perhaps monthly, have a read of it and convert one recipe each time.  So many books, so little time, so many recipes already available though    It is a nice addiction to have though, not causing any harm to anyone.

[mcmich]

I did get rid of about 30 cookbooks when we moved 2 years ago and from time to time
I contemplate lightening up a bit more. I do enjoy reading a cookbook with a glass of wine
and I have a very minimalist decorating style in my home. All the kids will really have to get rid of are the cookbooks
and all my baking pans, trays etc.

[CreamPuff63]

I got rid of 1 box of cookbooks, and 3 boxs of novels. What was interesting though is, before I chucked a cookbook I would flick through it just to make sure no hidden treasures were inside. Found a couple of old photo's of our kids when they were young, a story DS had written when he was 8, and a letter from my DD apologising for something silly she had done and how she would try to make up for it - she would do anything, except tidy up her room....(she must have been looking in her crystal ball cos she hasn't changed!). We all had a good laugh.

These are the things I treasure most, not the cookbooks.

[cookie1]

I love Lady Flo's books. They are so real and down to earth. I did a cull (that's what it felt like losing cookbooks) when we built this house. I still miss them. I still have hundreds though. As well as heaps of Delicious, BBC Good Food, Australian Good Food, Masterchef and piles of cut out recipes. I need to get a life I think, but I am happy with all that.

[achookwoman]

Cookie,  you have a life,  and a very good one at that.  Enjoy what you have.   

[cookie1]

I do, every single day. There is always something that is pure pleasure everyday. Some days it may be waking up but as long as I keep doing that I'm right.
My darling Dad as he aged used to look at the deaths in the paper and say' oh good, my name isn't there, I will go ahead and have a lovely day.'.. One day it was there.    Many years ago though.

[faffa_70]

I have many that I have acquired over my short life time (too many if you ask DH lol) but I have been in the slow process of going through them since I got my TMX (so 4 1/2 years later still doing it  ) and converting what I want to keep and then getting rid of the book to make room for new ones. A lot of the recipes just are not relevant to us any more for the way we eat so is easier to pass them on and get others that are more relevant for now - well that is my excuse for buying more anyway 

We are having a big cull of books in the whole house as we have THOUSANDS - yes thousands we are all book worms. I love my kindle and am trying to swap everyone over. Our school is having a fete next year and they are all going up there bit by bit for them to sell next year 

[bickie]

There is a site you might all be interested in called Eat Your Books. http://www.eatyourbooks.com/. It enables you to quickly search your recipe books (aslong as they are indexed) for a recipe. As you'll see, most of the popular recipe books are already indexed, and more are added all the time. See what you think.

[stacelee]

I'm gradually going through and scanning most of my cookbooks into PDF's.  I have a ridiculous number of cookbooks and can never find anything that I want so I have made the decision that some (at least) must go.  I would quite happily re-purchase a lot of them in electronic format but frustratingly most publishers haven't released many cookbooks as ebooks.  I was hoping that the latest Jamie Oliver would have been released as an ebook but NO!.  I love having them to hand whenever I need them.  I did my thermomix books just after I bought them and I never have the paper copies in the kitchen....just my Ipad.  Its great to be able to sit in bed and browse through a heap of different books while menu planning.

[jkmt]

Can't quite give up my cookbooks. I still love to sit down and browse through them and every so often convert something for the TMX. Fortunately DH is quite proud of my collection of books, magazines and clippings I have collected for more than 30 years - keeps telling me that not many people he has met has anywhere near as many as I do. I'm sure many people do have lots more - including my sister, who snaps up any 'name' cookbook the moment she sees it on special. Most of those will never see the inside of her kitchen though. Oh, how I would love to get into her bookshelves for a few days ...

I agree on the Lady Flo cookbooks. What a treasure!

[mcmich]

My darling Dad as he aged used to look at the deaths in the paper and say' oh good, my name isn't there, I will go ahead and have a lovely day.'.. One day it was there.    Many years ago though.

What a lovely out look. I must remember this when on days when I'm feeling frazzled.