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Can you recommend a good cook book for someone who doesn’t like cooking and is rubbish at it?

Dr Oz 30 January 2009 Cooking 79 views 18 Comments

I really want to get enthusiastic about cooking but I think the cooking gene passed me by.

I’d like a book with lots of pictures and detailed step by step instructions so that I can’t go wrong.

Thank you and sorry Carl for openly admitting this, don’t hate me!!!
I am in the UK and I do have a DS!

Thanks Carl, I’ll be able to cook you dinner now x
Phil, are you suggesting I just get takeaways?
Sir Alan, could you rustle me up something delicious?






18 Comments »

  1. I don’t know you have Southern Living magazine by you, but The Southern Living cookbook is really awesome. My mom just got this book, and I was looking trough it, and It gives you the basics. Like for ex ( the different kinds of sugar) We both really like it. I’m enthusiastic when I cook.

    http://www.creativecookery.org/images/SouthernLivingCookbookWeb.jpg

    //_lt_3_Snow
    30 January 2009 at 4:12 am

  2. Anything by the queen of simple Delia Smith.

    //Steve_UK
    30 January 2009 at 4:20 am

  3. Any cookbook will give you step by step instructions and pictures. Try a recipe a week and you will be able to do it yourself after a while.

    //____
    30 January 2009 at 10:10 am

  4. cooking for dummies

    //tanzzy_bby
    30 January 2009 at 10:27 am

  5. i would get rachel rays 30 minute meals very good , basic and easy to follow and the food is not just the basic foods it gives you variety

    //cin2win
    30 January 2009 at 11:41 am

  6. jamie oliver Ministry of Food

    //rab
    30 January 2009 at 1:10 pm

  7. Try: Nigella Express.

    //Hubert_P
    30 January 2009 at 2:31 pm

  8. The Heinz Baked Beans recipe book (bought it for my sister for christmas as she is rubbish at cooking)

    //Kerry_K
    30 January 2009 at 4:26 pm

  9. Oi Mink,
    Back in the 70s I bought Lady Ann one of them Madhur Jaffrey Indian cookbooks. It woz the biggest mistake I ever made, she gave me curries every night for a month. My poor old stomach ain’t never recovered from it!

    Delia Smiff is probably your best bet, I couldn’t make toast before I read her book. Now I’m cooking up Crispy Chicken Pattie with Thai Relish and Beef Malay with Pineapple Salad every night of the week for her indoors.

    //Sir_Alan
    30 January 2009 at 4:34 pm

  10. i would go for one of the great children’s cook books out there. go on amazon and have a look at their selection.

    //ididntknodat
    30 January 2009 at 5:39 pm

  11. have you got a nintendo ds by any chance? theres a few cooking guide games you can buy (don’t know if they’re any good) but i think they give clear step by step instructions.

    //AngelHeart
    30 January 2009 at 6:26 pm

  12. The Yellow Pages

    Edit: I certainly am! If you are no good at it and do not enjoy cooking, then why not save time in that area to pursue a passion of yours…nursing perhaps… ;)

    //goatboy
    30 January 2009 at 7:17 pm

  13. the joy of cooking. its an awesome book, gives details on everything

    //asailorsstar
    30 January 2009 at 8:29 pm

  14. Try Delia’s "How to cheat at cooking". Author: Delia Smith - a British chef who’s well known for easy to follow recipes for all kinds of food.

    //akroj
    30 January 2009 at 9:14 pm

  15. Looney Spoons or Eat, Shrink and be merry

    //David_B
    30 January 2009 at 9:33 pm

  16. Lynn, i must admit Delia’s how to cheat is a good book to follow, although i don’t approve of it. I have an excellent James Martin book, and a lot of his are simple too

    LOL, I thought you were a good cook! :O <—shocked face

    //Chef_Nudo__
    30 January 2009 at 10:06 pm

  17. I can’t remember who wrote it but there is this cook book called How long do I cook a three minute egg? Or if you have food network channel you could think about watching How to boil water or Good eats, both are great for cooks who feel completely incapable.

    //nicole_p
    30 January 2009 at 11:07 pm

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