cook book

[mirna05]

Hi! I have plenty of low carb cook books, but I am looking for a good regular cooking book with all kinds of foods, breads, side dishes and desserts, (I have to cook for other people and not just me!) Please if you know a good cooking book I can buy I will appreciate your suggestions.

[not2late]

Re: cook book

The Joy of Cooking: If I had to pick just one general cookbook for simple, straight-forward recipes it would be this one. The others below are good too. But some of the dishes are more elaborate.

The Bon Appetit Cookbook
The Gourmet Magazine Cookbook
The New York Times Cookbook

But whatever book you choose, you'll be surprized at the number of naturally low carb recipes these books contain and at the number of recipes that need only a minor subsitutions to be low carb. In fact, many 'regular' cookbooks are like this and that's why I don't waste my money or time on low carb cookbooks anymore. I bought 2 Dana Carpender books and Mrs. Atkins' cookbook when I started Atkins, I haven't bought another low carb cookbook since that time.

[mirna05]

Re: cook book

Thank you very much Megs, I will consider buying "The Joy of Cooking" then.

does it have illustrations?

[not2late]

Re: cook book

Joy has very few illustrations. If you want something that is more instructional, I suggest Julia Child's The Way To Cook or Delia Smith's How To Cook.

If you want something with pictures of the food, some instruction, food articles, I would suggest you subcribe to either Gourmet Magazine or Bon Appetit. These two magazines have more innovative and perhaps more "restaurant-like" recipes, but I've found dozens of naturally low carb recipes in them and I also get ideas from them on how to prepare some foods. One of my most favorite recipes from Gourmet is the pecan-stuffed mushrooms: naturally low carb and appropriate for OWL phase and my dinner guests have loved them.

Cook's Illustrated magazine is good for instruction and getting tips on cooking techniques.

[mirna05]

Re: cook book

thank you very much megs!!!

[slimndown]

Re: cook book

My favorite is The Joy of Cooking. True, the book has few illustrations, but the CD I bought had pictures. It's my favorite book because whatever recipe I might need - it will be in there. That is really important for me because I didn't have an opportunity to ever learn how to cook when I was growing up and it has so much input on things like etiquette or how to carve a turkey, the history and how-to's of making fondue, etc. Anything I could EVER want to know about cooking in general is in there.

[not2late]

Re: cook book

Yeah, Joy is a great book! I have the older version from the 60s or 70s (bought it at a used book store years ago) and I've borrowed the newest version from the library recently. Very good book.

When I started Atkins, I almost tossed out all my non-low carb cookbooks. But then I looked through Joy one day and realized that there are PLENTY of naturally low carb recipes and PLENTY of recipes that can be made low carb by a substitution or two. Same goes with other regular cookbooks---PLENTY of low carb recipes or recipes that can be easily modified. That's why I don't waste my time on "low carb" cookbooks anymore.

[mirna05]

Re: cook book

My favorite is The Joy of Cooking. True, the book has few illustrations, but the CD I bought had pictures. It's my favorite book because whatever recipe I might need - it will be in there. That is really important for me because I didn't have an opportunity to ever learn how to cook when I was growing up and it has so much input on things like etiquette or how to carve a turkey, the history and how-to's of making fondue, etc. Anything I could EVER want to know about cooking in general is in there.

Hi slimdown,

is the cd as complete as the book?, I found the book yesterday, it is THICK! I did not know where to start reading, I would need to buy some book holder so I could put it in my kitchen and be easier to read as I cook.

[sadie147]

Re: cook book

I'm big on searching for recipes on the internet over books lately. I found this site last year, and it's wonderful: http://www.joyofbaking.com/ There are some recipes in there that are wonderful when low carbed. I made made the pumpkin pie, and the chocolate almond torte low carb and they came out great.

Oh and the individual cheesecakes are wonderful too! word of warning though...the pictures are very tempting!

[mirna05]

Re: cook book

Wow!! dont look at that link while induction!!! tempting!!! really tempting!!

Looks great!!!

[lowcarbing4ever]

Re: cook book

There are 2 sites that have great cookbooks. One, J ennifer Eloff's site, http://low-carb.us/ is an excellent site especially for desserts! and www.sugarfreesheila.com is good, too, especially for inductioners! Hope that helps!