I love cooking for our family if 5, but if can easily get overwhelming. With instant access to google, the options can feel way too numerous. Instead I try to cook from the cookbooks I know and love. I’ll google a recipe when I need it, but I love co...
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Simple Dinners
Dinners that are a little more fun
Side Dishes
Kids
Baking
Simple Dinners
Excellent family recipes. This is the kind of book that I look in the fridge and see I have chicken, and open up to any chicken recipe and I can usually make it from staples in my pantry!
RecipeTin Eats: Dinner | Nagi Maehashi
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I was introduced to this book when I was an Au Pair in England and I’ve loved it ever since! The best curry paste recipes, winter stews and all the classics! My top recc if you’re new-er to cooking 😊
Jamie's Ministry Of Food | Jamie Oliver
In an attempt to start using my air fryer for more then just chips and nuggets, I got this book. I love how simple the recipes are, and how the air fryer makes them simpler, not more complicated! This book is almost all main meals too (not just root ...
Easy Air Fryer | Jamie Oliver
This is a great starting point for everything from Ramen to Cinnamon Rolls to fresh pasta! She covers the basics of a wide range of cooking styles.
Basics to Brilliance
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Dinners that are a little more fun
We were gifted this when we finished building our wood fired pizza oven and now it’s our pizza bible! The book is written for people cooking pizza on a pizza stone in their oven, but the recipes cover a wide range of pizza history and styles!
The Elements of Pizza
I have not link to the Philippines or experience with cooking Filipino food, but I’m obsessed with this book!! Such great recipes for when you feel like being experimental and trying something new.
Under Coconut Skies | Yasmin Newman
Can’t get enough of these recipes! The meatballs are worth the price of the book alone 🤤🤤🤤
More Is More
Side Dishes
There’s nothing wrong with loving steak and vegetables every night, I do! This book gives me so much inspiration for fun side dishes.
In Praise of Veg
As someone who isn’t a vegan, I love vegan cookbooks for side dish inspiration! So many creative ideas. I especially love all of Ellie Bullen’s books.
Simple (Mostly) Vegan Kitchen
Kids
This book is a dream if you have young kids. The recipes are full to the brim of vegetables without feeling like it. They’re meal the whole family can eat together.
Toddler to Table | Luca Mcabe
Baking
I was skeptical of this book (as I am with any viral cookbook) but I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how easy all these recipes are. The cookies are amazing and while very big, they’re simple to modify because you’re given all the details in specific...
Bake with Brooki | Brooke Bellamy
I grew up baking from one of Donna Hay’s classic cookbooks that are now discontinued. This is the closest thing I can find! Classic family baking!