Cookbook and Recipe collections

Women who love to cook buy cookery books. If they are like me then they start off with good intentions for new exciting reci[pes, but after a while fall back on the old favourites. However it is good to take time out and get familiar with something a chef has invented. I do look back from time to time and get some new ideas and the other plus is that I love to look at the photos. They can be more inspiring than the directions.

Sounds like a hobby of collecting cookbooks and recipes.Here in India also I know a lady who has the same hobby.She lives just at one hour's drive from my place.She has a huge collection of cookbooks in Hindi.A couple of bookshelves in her husband's study are packed with them.Besides,she has a lot of cuttings from newspapers and old magazines containing recipes.Last year many of her books were eaten up by termites and she had to throw them in the dustbin.I can't understand why she takes so much pains in collecting these books.She herself is no less than an encyclopedia of recipes.I suggested her to write a cookbook,but she does not have any interest in writing.

I don't have 100 but I used to have alot..but did I use any? No, not really, I always went to my favorite books and back to the same ones... they were so good, why change? But what I was bad at was cutting recipes from magazines or newspaper and intending to bake/cook them...and never did! I have created so many cookbooks of my own collections, but still never made any of them! So when I moved 3 times ago.. I finally got rid of it all...I had athem for years, never made any and now with the internet...if I need one, I just do a search so why save it all!!! I still keep some..just cause I can't completely break the habit, but I haven't made anything new! I also got rid of all my cookbooks but my absolute favorites..and still... I look at them, but always go to my favorites I have always done! But it is a fun habit to have!

I love to cook, but I haven't bought any cookbooks. There are already available online. Sometimes, I just took note some recipes in cooking shows. Sometimes, I just go back to online or my notes.

I do not collect cookbooks but I sure do collect a lot of recipes.I have not tried all of the recipes I collect.I just tried a new recipe the other night and it was really good. I only keep recipes that I have tried and my family has told me they want me to make again.

I only have 1 official cookbook and I've used it a few times. I also have a folder with printed recipes fastened on it, which I got from my mother. I use it a lot, too.

I think we tend to think about food as security and being able to make tasty food makes us feel like we are good homemakers. It is also just fun to taste new things. My husband actually collects more cookbooks than I do. I keep trying to get him to stop. Most of the time I just use something I find online. I know that publishing cookbooks is a good fundraiser. Yum, this is making me hungry.

I cannot speak for others but, for me, I will buy cookbooks in thrift stores, yard sales and many other places like Goodwill. If I find a cookbook that just catches my eye, I will look through it to see if there is a recipe that I would like to make in the future. I will usually buy it, if there is one. Several years ago my sister and her husband made a family cookbook and gave them to family members so they could make some of those old recipes whenever they wanted to. I make things out of it fairly regularly.

Lol...collecting recipes has become a hobby of sort for me. I have been collecting recipes since I was young. All sorts of cooking and baking books are in my collections. I intend to keep the recipe books and pass them down to my children who are interested.

we used to have a few. My mom is a great cook and can learn recipes just by asking the ingredients. She's great! Also, the internet is a treasure trove of recipes. When we want to make something we've never cooked before, we just look for recipes on the Internet

I also collected cookbooks and recipes. When our previous house was burned, some of my recipe collections and books were gone. After that I again collect but it's not as many as before the fire. I can not use all my books but I just love to see them on file.

I normally don't cook but then I try to cook and use online recipes. People who loves to cook sometimes ran out of something to cook for the day so they ended up collecting diffferent recipes. If they found a real good one, they tend to save it. But cooking is a forever process so everyday they find it harder amd harder to thing of what to cook. ,

This discussion could also have been placed in Books as this is a general question whether we use all the books which we have. Anyways, in response to the cookbooks, well it depends but I dont think so that on having a lot of books will make you to read all of them and prepare all that is given. We have choices in them, we can make a dish which can be liked by all of them or may be some of them and also the ingredients of which will be easily available and it will not be having too much of complexities. A tasty,good looking with good ingredients dish will always be liked and these type of dishes once made will be remembered forever by the person who had prepared it and by all those who had it. otherwise many books are lying in my house unread and we are also thinking of removing them. Sometimes we don't discard the book thinking that we might read it in future and if we might need them then we will feel disappointed. So with this mindset we keep a book which will never be read after that.