My Cookbooks

About me and my books

I am lucky to have an understanding boyfriend who is happy to indulge my love of cookbooks and build space for me to store them, so I now have 2 shelves of books, magazines and recipe collections; but there is still room for a few more, though only just!

All of my cookbooks are well loved and have been used and read at some time, with each one having its own special purpose at some point in my life. I still have my first ever cookbook that I received when I was about 6 years old – Let’s Cook! by Mary Danby. We used to eat a lot of fruit salad then as it was the recipe that I was able to make on my own and I loved to follow the recipe exactly. My first real cookbook then came from my Uncle on my 13th birthday, it is a Mrs Beeton book.

A lot of my cookbooks I buy myself from charity shops but I have also had lots as presents from friends and family for which I am very grateful. So, thank you to everyone who has bought me cookbooks as presents – I love each and every one!

The List

Here is a list of my cookbooks that I have. If I mention a recipe used in a cookbook then you will be able to find the name, author and ISBN number or date published if they don’t have an ISBN. Please note that this list isn’t yet complete, but I am finally about half way through.

Baking, Cake making, Cake decorating, Deserts – Any cookbooks based around something sweet

100 brilliant baking ideas	Olive Magazine	978-1-846-07812-5
100 comfort food classics	Olive Magazine	978-1-846-07569-8
A zombie ate my cupcake	Lily Vanilli	978-1-908170-09-5
Cakes and Slices	Australian Women’s Weekly	0-949128-10-4
Children’s birthday cake book	Australian Women’s Weekly	0-049128-03-1
Classic Cakes	Barbara Maher	0-7445-0655-7
Cupcakes and muffins – 100 everday recipes	Love Food	978-1-4454-3041-6
Everyday muffins and bakes		1-40548-679-1
Favourite teatime recipes		0-906198-24-0
Fondue	Lorraine Turner	1-40541-981-4
Hamlyn’s Fondue Cookbook	Jill Spencer	1-85152-774-5
Let’s cook	Mary Danby	0-330-31258-8
St. Michael Harvest desserts and ices		0-706-440-021
St. Michael Just Deserts	Jeni Wright	0-906320-11-9
Sweet Maria’s Italian Cookie Tray	Maria Bruscino Sanchez	0-312-15670-7
The big book of beautiful buscuits	Australian Women’s Weekly	0-949892-10-6
The complete book of home preserving	Mary Norwak	1978
The Hummingbird Bakery cookbook		978-1-84597-803-3
The Primrose Bakery book	Martha Swift and Lisa Thomas	978-0-22-408688-2

Meals, Cooking, reference – These are general all purpose cookbooks. They usually have a combination of different recipes and styles of cooking to allow you to cook a 4 course meal.

All-about cookery – New edition	Mrs Beeton
Almost Vegetarian	Australian Women’s Weekly	1-86396-015-5
Barbeques and patio meals	Caroline Ellwood	0-85941-859-6
Easy Food		1-84400-133-4
Enjoy one pot	Love Food	978-1-4454-2786-7
Jamie’s ministry of food	Jamie Oliver	978-0-718-14862-1
One pot cooking		1-90393-834-1
Saturday Kitchen best bites	James Martin	978-1-86-07283-3
St. Michael Casserole Cooking	Myra Street	0-904230-43-0
The farmhouse kitchen	Mary Norwak	0-7063-4194-5

Italian, Chinese or Indian cookery – These are cookery books based around a country’s cusine.

Top 100 stir fry recipes	Ken Hom	978-0-563-52164-8
The new curry secret	Kris Dhillion	978-0-7160-2204-6
La vera cucina Italiana	Donaldo Soviero	0-285-63103-9
The Carluccio’s Collection – Pasta	Antonio and Priscilla Carluccio	1-899988-44-0