Cookbooks

Thought I should do something different, you know, instead of writing just reviews. Its just a random thought that came to my head.

I love to cook and I enjoy looking for new recipes and trying them out on my partner, friends and family. The thing is, you start to run out of ideas fairly quickly with one cookbook, so you buy another and another and another, until you run out of shelf space. Or what people do, which I erge more people to do is, getting them online, eg GoodFood, or Channel 4 Food. Most of the time you end up with something as good as out of a cookbook.

But anyway back to what I was saying. The thought of getting a cookbook from a library has never occurred to me until yesterday when I was retuning The Shack to my local library. They had a fair number of these books which were varied, eg for diabetes, low fat, low carb, Indian, Thai, Italian etc.I got a couple of  them (Just Five ingredients by Ainsley Harriot & 5 nights a week by Valli Little) and I  must say it works out a lot cheaper than buying them from Waterstones or any bookshop. And the majority of the time, in these cookbooks, you only want to do about a 1/2 of the recipes, so why pay the extra for only 1/2 a book.

So it would be cheaper to either get a cook book from the library, copy a couple of the recipes for yourself or get them online. One final thought before I go and cook my tea, Why are there less cookbooks with pictures? Wouldn't we like to see what the end product will be? I personally cook better if I know what it will eventually look like. It seems like someone giving you some lego, the instruction book but without the pictures of what  it will look like at the end, you want to know if the effort will be worth it in the end.

Happy Cooking and Happy Reading Everyone!!!