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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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really quick question
i need to buy someone a cookbook with some great meaty recipes. as (i) i don't cook much; (ii) i never use a cookbook when i do; and (iii) i don't eat meat, i am completely in the dark here.

any recommendations? the guy it's for has a griddle pan, a slow cooker and a wok, so it can be pretty much any nationality...

THANKS!
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:51, 129 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Any of Hugh Fearnley Whitteringonabout's books are great for meat recipes

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:53, Reply)
^This
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Meat Book rocks.

Meat Book

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:15, Reply)
You cheap and pikey bint..

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:54, Reply)
my brother's fiancee will love how you reacted to her suggestion
i will pass it on
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:54, Reply)
Thanks very much!
*BEAMS*
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:56, Reply)
As long as he doesn't try out any of the recipes on a woman he likes
it'll be ok
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:07, Reply)
I've got this one
www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Slow-Cooker-Delicious-Recipes/dp/0600618951/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298375675&sr=1-3

Some cracking recipes in there
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:54, Reply)
Ooh, I just bought a Slow Cooker recipe book (see below)
I'll have to check this one out too.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:41, Reply)
The Complete Meat Cookbook is very good.
www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Meat-Cookbook-Authoritative-Selecting/dp/061813512X
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:54, Reply)
This looks useful.
www.amazon.com/Steak-Lovers-Cookbook-William-Rice/dp/0761106316
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 11:59, Reply)
THIS ONE, WITHOUT A DOUBT
www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Roadkill-Cookbook-B-R-Peterson/dp/0898152003
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:02, Reply)
Chinese Food Made Easy by Ching He Huang, because
1. There's lots of stuff you can do with a slow cooker and/or a wok
2. Most of the recipes contain meat or fish
3. Most people like Chinese food and it looks impressive if you can cook it
4. She's hot
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:03, Reply)
oooh thanks all
i like the roadkill one.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:03, Reply)
I generally find, in order of easiest-to-hardest food wise, the authors tend to go like...
- Nigella Lawson
- James Martin
- Jamie Oliver
- Nigel Slater
- Gordon Ramsey

I want to get one of those books by that black girl who's after Saturday Morning Kitchen, oh gee oh gosh, she's so swell.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:04, Reply)
Nigel Slatter is great for a mix of both meat and veggie dishes.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:05, Reply)
Oh she the one with the gran's name, like Eileen or Doris?
I don't think she's that good. I think she's lying about being able to cook.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:06, Reply)
Not that I really know her, but she doesn't seem the "Proffesional Kitchen" type, more the "Make nice food for friends and family", like Slater and Lawson.
When I watch the cooking shoes on the telly, I catagorise them differently.
- Cooking shoes: stuff I would make
- Chefing shoes: Food porn
- Food Shoes: Stuff about where it's come from and travel.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:10, Reply)
one of the best gonzisms ever
I want some cooking shoes
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:11, Reply)
I make it a point never to laugh at your spelling, Gonz but it’s ‘shows’ old boy.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:13, Reply)
Oh man, I'm still a bit "wooooohhhhhhh" from all the loldrugs yesterday.
I know that one, I knew it was wrong as I was typing it, but the effort to go from E to W seemed a bit much, my fingers wanted to type 'shoes' so I thought I'd give them a treat.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:18, Reply)
I like Nigel and Nigella, but LORRAINE, that's it,
well I don't know. It seemed clumsy. I only watched one show so I should shut up.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:13, Reply)
That's the one ! Lorrain.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:19, Reply)
I hate that vacuous Paddy woman that AA likes.
She's a cunt. A fucking smug one too. Rachel someone.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:38, Reply)
Allen?
I quite like her cooking, aye
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:39, Reply)
She's fucking shit. I want to hit her.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:45, Reply)
I don't like her at all.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:00, Reply)
As a fat girl with a sweet tooth
I love Nigella.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:07, Reply)
As a formerly skinny girl who can't stop eating
I adore her.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:08, Reply)
I rather like Yottam Ottolegnhi or whatever his name is
writes in the Guardian. And Dan Leppard for baking. I also use my parents' The Cookery Year occasionally. Lots of fun.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:11, Reply)
I like Yottam Ottolengegege too
but I never make anything of his. I just read and drool. *lazy*
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:14, Reply)
Plenty is excellent. Really, really good.
Made about 10 recipes from it when at home.

Our Christmas dinner was fantastic this year. We had roulade, roasties (first time ever), assorted other things and then I made a fuckoff huge Baked Alaska.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:20, Reply)
Try making Dan Lepards lemon curd cookies
(omit the ground rice; you don't need it) my GOD they are fine. My carrot cake recipe is also based on his.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:18, Reply)
forget that
find his parents and force them to tell you why they didn't name him Jeff
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:19, Reply)
I'll have a look
I made his chocolate fudge banana cookies once, and I think I ate them all. And it made a lot.

Hummingbird Bakery's chocolate cookies are delicious. They get a cracked sugary shell around them, and are still gooey. Nom nom nom.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:21, Reply)
I was not overly impressed with the Hummingbird bakery book
I've always found the best way to make something is to read as many well-reviewed recipes as you can lay your hands on - well, eyes - and then make your own mind up. You can always tweak the recipe if it doesn't turn out quite right.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:23, Reply)
I've not made much yet.
Got it in a holiday and I daren't cook in London. Will go back and experiment. Do want to find tinned pumpkin though.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:31, Reply)
As a bloke, and as a bloke who likes caring women.
I <3 her.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:12, Reply)
As a man who likes breasts
So do I
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:12, Reply)
As a red-blooded male with eyes, class and style
I would boff her until her eyes fell out.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:11, Reply)
Very much this.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:12, Reply)
I would boff them back in again
my mrs can't stand her, doesn't understand why people think she is hot, despite actually looking a bit like her.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:13, Reply)
As a mostly straight girl who appreciates the ladies
I would finger the eyesockets until you were done and I could have a go.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:13, Reply)
I love her X rated christmas video
that Cassetteboy made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wncEeJZqzM&feature=related
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:22, Reply)
As a straight man who finds her intensingly irritating
I would nail her into a coma to make her shut up.

Irritating people shouldn't be sexy, it confuses me.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:19, Reply)
Nigella is ace

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:11, Reply)
Get him something funny and outdated
like Marguerite Patten.
My mum still has that, it was a wedding present.(It's actually very useful if you ignore the bizarre 1970s presentation and outright weird shit.)
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:08, Reply)
This is the best choice. You now owe me sex.
www.amazon.co.uk/Nose-Tail-Eating-British-Cooking/dp/0747572577
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:09, Reply)
I just looked at the restaraurant that book is from
I laughed to see they had the (V) symbol at the top. I think only a couple of the puddings were veggie.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:18, Reply)
It's an amaaaaazing restaurant.
I had squirrel on toast as a starter.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:24, Reply)
sure thing
when do you want to claim your prize?
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:23, Reply)
This very night.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:24, Reply)
marvellous
i've got a senior solicitors dinner party, so i'll be a bit late and a bit drunk. will i leave the french doors wide open for you as usual?
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:31, Reply)
also, just stumbled across this in an old lease
The Master and Wardens or Keepers of the Art or Mystery of Girdlers London

what an AWESOME job title!
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:32, Reply)
Girdler? Do they make girdles?

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:33, Reply)
You would think so.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:39, Reply)
i think hundreds of years ago they very probably did
hence the word mystery, as men weren't supposed to know that women wore such things, maybe.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:39, Reply)
I want a mysterious girdler.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:42, Reply)
*sings Peter Andre*

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:44, Reply)
Hahahaha

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:45, Reply)
fucking hell
i will be singing this all day now.

no reward sex for monty later, he has un-earned it.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:48, Reply)
But if you brought you a mysterious girdle...

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:54, Reply)
But mii-iisss, that's not fair!

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:55, Reply)
Perfection.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:35, Reply)
Wagamama cookbook
You cannot go wrong
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:10, Reply)
I wanted to get that, but I fear I would never be able to get half the ingredients.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:12, Reply)
Not an issue when you're earning what RSwipe is
She probably has her own orchard growing them
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:13, Reply)
it's not for me though!

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:22, Reply)
In North London? Don't be silly.
What about those Asian hypermarkets on the North Circular?
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:14, Reply)
I'm a non driver, and it's very very rare I would travel far for ingredients.
There are amazing turkish places near me, I got some aspagoose that is really thick at home, and a nice looking artychoke. If I'm at a place, like the amazing butchers and fishmongers and greengrossers in Cockfosters, I'll get stuff. But I wouldn't make a trip down there _just_ for that.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:23, Reply)
Make TGB take you.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:26, Reply)
She never takes me out anywhere anymore.
It's been weeks since I've been watered.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:30, Reply)
I'll get Lusty to sort her out.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:34, Reply)
I was given a copy
Only made one recipe from it so far, but from a cursory inspection I think you can get most of the odd ingredients in Chinatown
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:14, Reply)
I've got the noodle one
it's alright, but I wouldn't recommend it. Too limited.

I use cookbooks for inspiration and to get an idea of proportions when I'm making stuff up.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:14, Reply)
I thought you guitarists couldn't get enough of a good noodle?

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:16, Reply)
how droll
you are right though, but I find the Wagamamma recipes a bit shit.

It's not the best out of the two noodle places in Exeter either. If I could get a recipe book from the independent place then I'd be well pleased.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:17, Reply)
I'm not sure if this is genius or LTI material

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:18, Reply)
The latter.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:19, Reply)
You prefer the 'Whatabummer' cookbook

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:54, Reply)
I have the wagamama cookbook
Its ace and even in darkest Cornwalland I can get all the ingredients
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:11, Reply)
If you like soup then you need a copy of this
www.amazon.co.uk/Covent-Garden-Food-Book-Soups/dp/075220503X
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:13, Reply)
I have that
The problem with it is that if you have the required ingredients, only an imbecile would make a soup out of them.

‘Take your haunch of venison and liquidise it with the foie gras…’
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:17, Reply)
real suggestion, better than everyone else's
get him a subscription to BBC Goodfood magazine. I've had one for a number of years now and constantly cook things from it and have a massive folder full of recipes I've taken from it.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:15, Reply)
Actually, this is the best one, I keep on meaning to do that.
In fact, I'm going to order it now.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:20, Reply)
you won't regret it
I honestly can't recommend it enough
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:20, Reply)
Can't you just go on the website?

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:21, Reply)
His missus won't let him go on the internet any more.
Not after she came home early from work that time he was 'off sick'.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:23, Reply)
I don't have a computer in my kitchen
or a printer

and they don't have all the recipes immediately, plus there is a load of other stuff that doesn't go on there. They have the main recipes, but they'll often have a page that suggest 10 things to do with a vegetable or something, stuff like that.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:23, Reply)
I only know 5 things to do with a vegetable...

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:26, Reply)
filth

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:27, Reply)
...and that's why you're marrying one?

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:29, Reply)
hahaha

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:30, Reply)
watchit

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:35, Reply)
*watches it*

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:39, Reply)
This is what a smartphone is for
I look up the recipe on my PC, bookmark it on delicious, then open the page on my phone to carry around in the kitchen.

Easy peasy.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:51, Reply)
I don't have a smart phone
nor do I need one
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:07, Reply)
The thing that I love about cooking, for me, is that it's away from technology.
As much as I'm an advocate of Kindle and the web, sometimes print and a pen so you can jolt down notes is so much better.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:27, Reply)
I always make scribbly notes so that it feels like it's my recipe

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:29, Reply)
My mother does this.
There are Christmas cake recipes with 'NOT THIS ONE!' next to it, and a hilarious stew one that reads 'tiny and vile'.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:33, Reply)
When my Mum died, there was an argument about which of us would get her handwritten cookbook
Tatty as fuck, half the pages falling out, but worth it's weight in gold to us.

My sister has it now, I doubt she's used it in the lat 5 years.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:36, Reply)
I can't think of anything I would want more in the world if Ma' went than a book of recipies the way she does things.
even if it's photocopies of other books with little notes in.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:40, Reply)
She had things like Banoffee pie, with chunks of Mars bar in there, fucking spectacular

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:42, Reply)
Did you see the Banoffee pie that Jamie Oliver did on sunday? de-fucking-lish.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:02, Reply)
I did, looked quick, easy and pretty tasty.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:04, Reply)
can you photocopy it?
not the same, but something.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:47, Reply)
If I can get my hands on it, I'll just take it off her outright
Then she can have the copies, haha
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:52, Reply)
Hahah that's like my dyslexic grandad with the Christmas Radio Times.
(although he may have meant Little & Large)
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:36, Reply)
This is a strong POTD contender on a day with stiff competition.
*clicks twice for luck*
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:40, Reply)
Why thank you, kind sir

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:41, Reply)
I keep asking for this for birthdays/Christmas
and everybody always forgets and gets me some tat I've no use for. (not to be ungrateful or anything) I've now resorted to nicking recipes out of them whenever I go to the doctors/dentists, because there's always a big pile of them there.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:20, Reply)
I keep asking for the Just Good Friends box set

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:21, Reply)
They get you Vipros?

Oh, some tat you've no use for.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:21, Reply)
"Dear cr3
Once again I must draw your attention to an intermittent fault with the 'popular' page..."
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:32, Reply)
PEBKAC

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:37, Reply)
Problem exists between dinner plate and anus.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:42, Reply)
my copy of Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever
by Diane Phillips arrived today, it looks fantastic.

Also, Amazon sell slow cooker liners, get him some of them - not having to wash the pot is a priceless gift. Well, about £6 a pack.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:39, Reply)
No idea, cooking is dull, repetitive and shite.
Buy him a scalectrix and some beers.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:46, Reply)
I thought you'd have suggested an ORIENTal
Cook book Bob.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:48, Reply)
If you are right, then you are the very definition of cooking.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:48, Reply)

cooking win
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:50, Reply)
If you really think that, then I feel sorry for you.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:01, Reply)
May I just say
that 'coloured lady' who does the baking on television these days is

a) fucking shit and
b) really, really irritating

I feel it necessary to administer a 'punishment shagging' for the good of mankind.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:46, Reply)
Lorraine Pascal?
She is beautiful but the fact the Beeb have had to resort to sexing up food programmes is hopefully a sign that they might begin to stop making so many of them and do more music stuff like they have been on bbc4.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:49, Reply)
BBC4 has been on fire of late.

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:54, Reply)
It's fast becoming my favourite channel
after sky sports news.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:55, Reply)
Pay attention, Montague
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1091046
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:50, Reply)
ello Roota, how are you?

(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:52, Reply)
Oh hiya Bob, I'm good ta
and you?
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 13:19, Reply)
I didn't know her name.
I find the raping easier if I don't, for some reason.
(, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 12:53, Reply)

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