 | The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook: Featuring More Than 1,200 Kitchen-Tested Recipes
Buy used from: $19.95 the best recipe cookbook in a family friendly format. I give this and Healthy Family by Sandi Richard to new brides of my aquaintance. No better kitchen companion.
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 | The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition by Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $19.75 Really is the best recipes, and why. The author put me onto Shirley Corriher below, and I wouldn't be without either resource in my kitchen.
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 | Baking Illustrated by Cook's Illustrated Magazine Editors
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $20.88 Same great info and recipes, this time for baking only.
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 | Cookwise: The Secrets of Cooking Revealed by Shirley O. Corriher
Buy new: $25.19 / Used from: $20.00 Why things work the way they do, and why some recipes fail. Great set of recipes that won't fail. My teaching resource for homeschooling home ec.
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 | Healthy Family by Sandi Richard
Buy used from: $6.86 She wrote 2 others in this series, available only here in Canada at Amazon, worth getting all three. My mainstay for doing dinner. Everyday great meals, menus, shopping lists all in one.
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 | Saving Dinner: The Menus, Recipes, and Shopping Lists to Bring Your Family Back to the Table by Leanne Ely
Buy used from: $4.65 this and her low carb book are great. Actually the best everyday set of crockpot, fish, and vegetarian meals that I have.
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 | More Food That Really Schmecks by Edna Staebler
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $1.89 her three are great,, the one before and after this are worth getting. I have all three and love them to death. Classic Canadian Mennonite food. Really really good.
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 | Taste of Home
Buy new: $17.98 My favourite cooking magazine. I get the annuals from this mag as they are full of favourite recipes. The 1999 and 2000 ones were especially good.
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 | The Secrets of Baking: Simple Techniques for Sophisticated Desserts by Sherry Yard
Buy new: $23.73 / Used from: $16.50 More on the lines of why and how recipes work along with a marvellous set of recipes to play with.
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 | The Simple Art of Perfect Baking by Flo Braker
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $17.49 This is a classic, and like Sherry Yard, I wouldn't be without this book.
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 | The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum
Buy new: $25.20 / Used from: $13.99 Classic on cakes by the master herself. I want to get her Pie and Pastry Bible.
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 | Rose's Christmas Cookies by Rose Levy Beranbaum
Buy new: $21.56 / Used from: $12.70 Inspiring.
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 | The Good Cookie: Over 250 Delicious Recipes from Simple to Sublime by Tish Boyle
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $9.98 yummy.
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 | Betty Crocker's Cookbook/40th Anniversary Edition by Betty Crocker
Buy used from: $2.70 my favourite basics cookbook, full of heritage recipes they pulled from bygone books, the ones they keep getting requests for.
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 | The Freezer Cooking Manual from 30 Day Gourmet: A Month of Meals Made Easy by Nanci Slagle
Buy used from: $4.45 When homeschooling I relied on this and the 1below to create my own frozen dinners. I use the methods, more than the recipes though on these two.
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 | Frozen Assets: Cook for a Day, Eat for a Month by Deborah Taylor-Hough
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $3.99 as above
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| Betty Crocker's Old-Fashioned Cookbook by Betty Crocker
Buy used from: $4.94 OH HOW I LOVE MY COPY! It's falling apart. What a classic.
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 | Betty Crocker's Best Christmas Cookbook by Betty Crocker Editors
Buy used from: $0.98 This is another family favourite. I haul it out every holiday.
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 | The Compleat I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken
Buy used from: $6.76 combines her I hate to cookbook and it's sequels. WORTH IT!!!! Also consider her I hate to housekeep and I try to behave myself. I adore her recipes, humour and approach to life. Love you Peg!
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 | Barefoot in Paris: Easy French Food You Can Make at Home by Ina Garten
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $21.24 I think she is my top favourite TV chef. Her breathy shy little giggles, her relaxed style and cheery attitude are enchanting.
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 | How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking by Nigella Lawson
Buy new: $15.96 / Used from: $9.85 My other favourite tv chef. Nigella's happy relaxed attitude in the kitchen is infectious. I have several other books of hers too.
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 | Lazy Day Cookin: Slow-Cooker Meals That Simmer to Delicious Perfection While You Work, Play or Sleep by Phyllis Pellman Good
Buy used from: $11.77 The fix it and forget author and Readers Digest present a best of her recipes compendium. I prefer it.
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 | Betty Crocker's Slow Cooker Cookbook by Betty Crocker Editors
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $6.95 The herbed chicken and stuffing recipe is terrific!
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 | Company's Coming: 150 Delicious Squares (Companys Coming No 1) by Jean Pare
Buy new: $14.52 / Used from: $0.34 This one and her Muffin book I consider a must have on my cookbook shelf.
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 | The All New Purity Cook Book (Classic Canadian Cookbook Series)
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.65 Reprint of the Canadian home cooking classic cookbook. Great recipes and techniques. I have my mothers battered original and bought this for my daughter.
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