I have a weakness.
It’s cookbooks.
I love cookbooks! 
I enjoy looking at cookbooks.
When I get a new one, I look at every single recipe and put a star by the ones I want to try.
I have a very large cookbook collection.
Maybe because I enjoy cooking and baking.
If I was stranded on a desert island and I could have just one cookbook, it would be this one:
This is an absolutely FUN cookbook to use! And everything I’ve made from it was delicious!
I know I’m going to be in trouble for doing this, because it will probably make me want to buy more (which I really don’t need, because it would take a lifetime to use every single recipe that I have a star on) but…
…I’d like to know which of your cookbooks you would take if you could only take one.
Thanks in advance for sharing!
If I could only take one food magazine, it would be this one:
15 Comments
April 10, 2008 at 6:05 am
Well, Tena, here is something else you got from your ol’ Mom. I collect Cookbooks also, as you already know. But, I can never figure out why when I try some of the recipes they never look the same as the pictures????
I love the “Pillsbury Bakeoff” cookbooks. I use a lot of recipes in them. But the one book I really love is “Treasury of Barbecue” even though since living in MS. we don’t have a barbecue grill. Have to get one someday. Love you…………..
Ha! They usually don’t look like the pictures, Mom. That’s okay, as long as they taste good.
Yeah, I have a bunch of the “Pillsbury Bakeoff” books, too. I’ve made a LOT of things from them.
April 10, 2008 at 11:03 am
Hello Sis Tena,
The top book looks like a fun book, think I’ll have to go purchase it, I love cook book to a point, I love learning new things, and making new recipes, it is sometimes hard to make new things for college classes on Monday nights at the church, but it is a challenge that I love to do, serving others is such a blessing to me, anyways, the book that I really like is called THE ULTIMATE COOKING WITH 4 INGREDIENTS by jean Coates, these are especially fun with kids, it isn’t so hard for them
Love you
Cher
Hmmm…I’ll have to check that one out.
Thanks for sharing. Love you, too.
April 10, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I don’t have a favorite cookbook, but I would have to say I would be lost without Foodnetwork.com.
Mindy, my neice, Chloe, absolutely loves Foodnetwork! I like it, too, because of the videos.
You make the BEST potato salad I’ve ever had!
April 10, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I love cookbooks too…now if only I loved to COOK!!! The Joy of Cooking is my favorite. It tells me how to do things like make sour cream, which I’ve used, and how to skin a rabbit or coon…as if….!
Ooooo…barbequed racoon. Sounds yummy. N-O-T!!!!!!
April 10, 2008 at 9:25 pm
I’d have to say my favorite cookbook is the one we put together in Wichita Falls as a fundraiser!! I would definitely grab that one if I could only keep one. My next favorites are a couple I got by Paula Deane!! Absolutely love those two, also.
Paula Deane is great, I agree. She really LOVES food.
Thanks for sharing, Sis. Holley.
April 10, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Tena:
My Mom has a similar weakness. Her weakness is for recipes! She cuts them out all the time and saves them I don’t know where! She doesn’t use but maybe 1% of them. It’s just a compulsion I guess. I saw that Cooking Light cookbook today at Costco. My favorite cookbook is my Fix it and Forget It crockpot cookbook. Since I work fulltime, I use my crockpot alot. It saves me a lot of time, and gets us at the dinner table a lot earlier. Enjoy your cookbooks!
Love ya,
I like crockpot meals, too. I seem to have to try several recipes, though, to find ones we like. I guess I just need ano-o-o-other, cookbook. 
Love ya, too.
Karen
That is funny about your mom, Karen.
April 10, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Oh My! I love recipes. And I absolutely love the Cooking Light Magazine. I don’t think I could do without it.
I love your cooking too. “hint” 
I’ll take the hint, Sis. Hurst.
And, thanks for the compliment.
Hey, I like your new avatar photo!
April 11, 2008 at 12:26 am
Tena,
I have the same problem you do i just dont use them enough. my faverit is a dutch pastery book and joy of cooking . I have found i ketchen is not complet with out the joy of cooking its the bassics . my dad tought cooking and that was alwasy his fav and now mine. injoy your cook books connie
M-m-m-m-m…dutch pastry sounds yummy! I have to hold myself back from baking so much, because I don’t want to make my family unhealthy, but I LOVE baking! Yum, yum!
Do you have a blog?
I just counted my cookbooks because I was curious how many I had and I have close to 180 cookbooks! And over 100 cookmagazines! Oh, my!!!
But, can you believe? I don’t even have The Joy of Cooking!
Thanks for visiting my blog, Connie, and for your comment. Hope you stop by again.
April 11, 2008 at 5:42 am
Roxana, that sounds like a Souther Mississippi cook book. Yep! they would use that one down here a lot. But, not me…………… We even have a “Fried Rabbit” fast food. Yuk!
April 11, 2008 at 12:15 pm
a 180 cook books .lol…. now i can tell my sis no i am not a collector of cook books… i don’t have near
enough. lol…. i think i only have about 20. i will have to look up some of the names and see if we any that are the same for fun…. latter.
But, Connie, this collection began 25 years ago, when I got married. So, it doesn’t sound as bad, right?
That’s only 7 per year! 
April 11, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I have to make a confession … at least once a month I go to bed with a cookbook or two. When I am dead tired and don’t feel like investing myself in the current book I am making my way through, hunkering down with one of my cookbooks is a great way to shut down and slip into dream land.
I often purchase a cookbook for one recipe produce it and don’t head back to that book for a long time, possibly years. Eeek!
A favorite? Can’t name one. It depends on what mood strikes me that day. Couldn’t live without? Depends on where I am stranded — what’s available around me in terms of ingredients, etc. Good question though.
Thanks for the great post!
April 11, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Well, I’m almost up to you Tena. I have 157 besides a few magazines. Mom
April 11, 2008 at 5:04 pm
i need a bit of help . i see you use flicker for your photos . i have gone in and started an account. but i cant find on my flicker home page where it says feed link. am i missing something ???
please advise. connie
Connie, I emailed you the answer as best as I could. Good luck!
April 11, 2008 at 10:58 pm
I can’t think of one particular cookbook that I would just have to have with me. I probably couldn’t do without my over 20 years old recipe box that is rusting on the bottom. It has a lot of favorite recipes that I’ve used over the years.
Thanks for sharing, Sis. Carol. Have a wonderful day!
April 13, 2008 at 11:53 pm
And did you buy the newly released cookbook from the California Ladies Ministries?