We must be kindred spirits! My favorite show as a child was Julia Child and to this day, Cooks Illustrated is my go to for any home cook who is looking to develop their basic skills. I can’t get into all the cooking competition shows that dominate today (except Masterchef, since I secretly wish I could do it,) but I love classic Food Network and Saturday afternoon PBS cooking shows.
I’m a professional chef and the Betty Crocker cookbook is very useful and definitely got me into cooking at a young age! It was my Grandmothers edition from the 1970s, but let’s not hate on good ol’ Betty Crocker!
I’m a huge Rachael Ray fan too and remember watching the first 30 minute meals recipe! She came to Kansas City several years ago on a book tour for her Burgers cookbook and I was SO excited to see her and listen to the Q&A. I got an autographed copy of the cookbook and she even drew my name for a prize 👍🏻.
When my mother in law passed away she had at least 1500 cookbooks we quit counting after that. It was overwhelming. I am trying to keep my collection around 20 cookbooks for my children's sake. I use to watch 30 Minute Meals every night at 6:30 and love food network shows! Thanks for sharing!
@@tammymyer5347 well, if you aren't in a hurry to get them out, you could give a stack of them, with a personalized note to friends as wedding gifts, housewarming and graduation gifts.💗
I still have a slew of Southern Living and Cooking Light cookbooks. My first was Better Homes and Gardens. I think everyone started with either that one or the Betty Crocker one!
My first cookbook was the 1980 edition of the Joy of Cooking. I've used it so much that the pages are falling out and I have to hold it together with string. I love the fact that I can find everything from how to make a basic cake to how to skin a squirrel (I've never tried that one, but I love that it's included) I know that I can read about the science behind cooking certain ingredients and the minutia about them. I understand that the latest edition is very good too.
OMG, I miss the OG Food Network and just regular cooking shows. Not into the competition and reality cooking shows. Soooo happy for the Pioneer Woman and the revamp of 30 Minute Meals.
It’s all reality shows now with the exception of a few hours a week. I hate the reality shows and the only cooking competition show I enjoy is the Great British Baking Show, it’s great because the competitors are so dang polite. Haha
I could sit and read a cookbook like I’m reading a novel - but one of my favorites are the magazine and cookbooks from Taste of Home. Never made a bad thing from any of their publications.
I was born in 1967 and my mom bought me “Betty Crocker’s Boy’s and Girl’s Cookbook” for Christmas 1976. She even wrote me a message. One of my most cherished possessions I own.
I think it would be really cool for you to cook the from the Rachael Ray magazine I am also a big Rachel ray fan and I started watching her when I was like 10 years old
Oy...i learned to cook from the Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook, way back in the 1950s-1960s. I bought a reproduction a few years ago, for Nostalgia purpose only......You rock, Jen
I actually love a great deal of pioneer woman recipes, but I did not have the money to buy the actual cookbooks but I have ink, printer paper, and sheet protectors so I printed all the ones I love or want to try and put them in a 2 inch binder (even though it is packed to the brim). I am also putting together a TH-cam Favorite recipe binder. It includes Kimmy from Shes In Her Apron, you of course, Sam from Happily A Housewife, Amy Mary on, Jamerrill from Large Family Table, and many more.
Yes for the Rachel Ray throwback! I’m going to have to check out a couple of these 😊 One of my favorite cookbooks is “The Farmers Wife”. There are no pictures but the recipes are great. I collect and enjoy cookbooks from the 30s-50s and that cookbook has a wide collection.
Well, I'm showing my age but my mother and I had every Southern Living cookbook from 1979 to 2007 ..I think 2007 might have been later. We spent hours reading them and discussing recipes.
Try the German chocolate pie from Southern Living 1993. And for people who don’t like coconut and nuts, I just leave them out and make a chocolate pie.
Girl. I am so happy to have found you. I love Rachel Ray and ATK. I don't think I've ever had a recipe from Rachel Ray turn out anything but unbelievable.
I think my favorite cookbook is Taste of Home’s “Best Loved Recipes.” My mom bought it for me when I moved out. Some of our favorite recipes are the Fast and Fabulous Thai Chicken Salad and Lentil Spinach Soup!
So great to see your cookbook recommendations. When my husband and I married we tried to collect a cookbook from every new place we visited and in the earlier years he traveled a lot with the Federal Government and would try to find a good cookbook from those cities. I need to put them back within my everyday reach and shake up our boring menus. Love you friend and thank you for you wonderful videos❣️
This was a great video. I always find at least one take away and I am inspired every time. I plan to ask for Cook's Country for Christmas. Thanks for the ideas!
Love Cook's Country and Americas Test Kitchen. We used to watch those episodes a lot and I totally look to them first for my kitchen things. Love my bread knife, sheet pan and more that have been recommended by them and I love them all!!! My go to is my Betty Crocker plaid looking cookbook which I got for free when I opened by bank account at college. Totally agree! My biggest flop cookbook is the Joy of Cooking which I registered for with my wedding and I literally haven't even picked it up because they are all too complicated but I could sit and read cookbooks all day!
Such a great list! I also LOVED the food network from way far back. I remember when it was still Food TV. I also remember the premier of Rachael Ray’s 30 min meals and many other awesome “OG” shows lol. And the Pioneer Woman show premiered on my birthday and I distinctly remember watching it while eating cake and ice cream for breakfast haha! I loved her blog too!! So awesome to hear someone else that loved her before she was a food network star too. Have you read Ree Drummonds actual book on the story of her life? It’s great too! I got to meet her at a book signing a few years ago and she was so genuine and approachable.
Fantastic! I love and collect cookbooks too. My" Go To " is Betty Crocker 's 3 ring binder cookbook I got years ago. I read them all cover to cover! Great vidoe!
I have been a big man of RR for YEARS - basically learned to cook by watching the original 30 minute meals on FN. I have also been watching her on Instagram during COVID and love what she and John are doing to communicate with folks/record from home - and how real they have been throughout it all. She is awesome! I gave many of the same cookbooks as you as well!
I just received the “ Cook Once Eat All Week” book for my birthday after seeing your videos...it’s everything you promised and more! My favourite cook books are by Nigel Slater, a British cook who writes beautifully. All his recipes work, and most are for normal everyday meals. I have all his books, and my favourites are The 30 Minute Cook and Real Fast Food.
I’m a big fan of Rachael Ray too, and I think I have all her cookbooks except her burger one. I also have all the Skinnytaste cookbooks and have her new one preordered on Amazon. I’m a cookbook junkie and have a big bookcase filled with them, plus some.
Walmart used to publish yearly cookbooks with employee recipes. I have several and I highly recommend them if you can find them. The Ultimate Southern Living cookbook is also excellent. And I’m surprised you didn’t give a shout out to Fine Cooking.
I luv this video my go to cookbook is America Test Kitchen Family cookbook.Another older cook book I enjoy is the Silver Palate Cook book I have the basics one but all versions are good. I recommend the pasta Raphael and the veggie chill but there many awesome recipes in these books
Hands down the Better Homes & Gardens 1976 red plaid cookbook. I wore out one and had to replace it from a used book source. Also I stood in line for 5 hours to get a signed copy of Ree Drummond’s first cookbook when she was just starting out. She was cheerful and gracious after hours of signing autographs. I think the bookstore was unprepared for how wildly popular she was. I also have a well loved copy of a checkout aisle cookbook from Lawry’s seasonings called Weekday Gourmet. I have lots of other cookbooks but rarely use them.
Same here I was obsessed back then with the OG’s. Rachael, Bobby, Giada, Ina, & Paula too! They’re like the equivalent to Cindy & Naomi & the others of the 90’s Supermodel Era! Great video as always I picked up the bowls cookbook because of you & I think I’m gonna try Pioneer Woman I didn’t know her books were so detailed. Look at Adam being all mushy ❤️
Love this!! I so enjoy getting to see what other cooks' essential cookbooks are. I love to read cookbooks in bed at night - not necessarily to find recipes, just because it's relaxing and enjoyable! I got a big America's Test Kitchen cookbook for Christmas and have been picking up their magazines when I see them at the grocery store; I think that their recipes are both interesting and accessible.
I have all of the Pioneer Woman cookbooks, and I have one called Cooks Illustrated Cookbook that I love for everything.. I have the required Betty Crocker and Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks from the early 80s. I also have several Taste of Home binder cookbooks.
My favorite ever cookbook is The Great American Brand Name Cookbook. Its old and very well used (the binding is so old and used the pages are falling out) my next favorite is my great grandmother's hand written one.
Love Rachael Ray since her 30-minute meals show too! Met her at at cookbook release in Boston and have my very own Rachael Ray autographed cookbook! She was so sweet and kind in person and I still have a fabulous selfie with her from that day!
Thanks for sharing! I love collecting cookbooks too! “Cook Once Eat All Week” has been my fave for the past several months, especially when I really don’t have the energy to meal plan.
Have u seen Rachael and John at her house while on quarantine? They even showed around her house a bit, and outdoors in her garden in such.. was luvin them.. she has done a few..
Yes I loved them. They were cute and then people thought they should comment on how much they drink, how cluttered her home looked, how her hair wasn't to their standards! Bunch of a**holes! Think she slowed or stopped after all the crap comments.
@@dawnmontoya4444 IKR! I mean why do people think it's any of their business?! Ya I haven't seen very many either..😪 well, we know who the good peeps are right..lol😂
I was OBSESSED with Week in a Day, it was my favourite cooking show, I’ve bought the cookbook twice because I lost my old one, going to make the braised chicken this weekend.
I became a SAHM in 2000 when my son was born and I spent A LOT of time watching Rachael Ray! When he was about 2 and the show would come on he would recognize the music and jump up and down saying “mommy’s cooking show”! 😜 I used to make her recipes about 2-3 times a week-she has great ideas!
Just found your channel! I just got into cooking a couple of years ago. A favorite cookbook of mine is The New Complete Book of Pasta by Maria Luisa Scott. It came out in 1968 but it's still great! Easy to follow recipes and beautiful pictures of Italy.
I also started watching food network way back in the day and it taught me how to cook. I am a self taught/food network student!! Lol. I love Rachael Ray, Ree, Ina... girl... I have all but 3 of these cook books.... amazon here I come!!! I was watching when Emeril was a hot show.... yes I’m old. And I also have the first and maybe the first 10 everyday racheal ray.... Thanks again, great information and description of each of these. My day is made!!! I love vlogust!!!! Yay a video on how you organize recipes!!!! Yes yes yes... I need help with this. My husband has a box labeled... “cookbooks and recipes Dusti will want to keep but will never use” ... we moved 7 years ago..... it is still in the attic.... taped shut bc it overwhelms me...
So happy you included a Keto Cookbook. I have to follow a low carb lifestyle for health reason and Keto adds a lot of inspirations for that. I have a ton of traditional cookbooks that I cherish as well. ❤️
Two more favorites 1)the America’s Test Kitchen TV show cookbook with all the recipes that were on the show. 2) King Arthur Flours Complete Cookie Companion. This has every cookie imaginable and different versions-crunchy, chewy, soft, hard. It’s a great high school grad or birthday gift because sooner or later everyone bakes cookies.
How sweet is the comment Adam made. 😍 That was really beautiful to hear, thanks for giving us some snippets of your life. This was a great episode for Vlogust. Loving the content as always. I need a couple of those cookbooks.
I recently bought a Six Sister's cookbook. The 52 weeks of recipes. I've made multiple recipes out of it, so I feel like I got my money's worth. I used to buy Rachel's cookbooks, but she uses a lot of ingredients that I don't always keep on hand so I would find myself at the store a lot. Based in your recommendations I am definitely going to try the cook's country stuff and the cook once book. Thanks 👍
Great collection Jen! I love Cook's Illustrated....I have framed their pictures from the magazine...so pretty. Emeril Lagasse, Martha Stewart, Ina Garten......I too hate what they've done to the food network....it's all chopped, guy fieri…..bring back the days. I too have all of RR cookbooks love her!
I started cooking in my preteens. My first cookbook was Rachel Ray 30 Minute Meals 2. I still have it and actually flipped thru it recently and found new recipes I’d like to try. I have lots of Ina books and the first four or five Giada books (before she got snooty and did more Californian cuisine.) I rarely buy cookbooks anymore because I Pinterest more than I use my books, but maybe that will change once we finish building our house and I have the place to store all my books.
Yes Jen I have collected cookbooks for over 40 years. What a addiction lol I read them like love novels. Love Cooks Country, test kitchen barefoot Contessa much much more. Love your channel
Love most of the same cookbooks and magazines. Several years ago I decided that to decrease the clutter of all the magazines, I would just take out the recipes that I liked and put them all in sheet protectors in a large 3 ring binder. Cooks county ones are my favorite because they have the recipe cards that you can rip out.
Hi, Jen. I have a Betty Crocker cookbook from the late ‘80s, the same Pioneer Woman cookbook and I got the Simply Keto cookbook last Christmas because of you. I have a few others as well. I love the Pioneer Woman cookbook as she’s never let me down. Thx for sharing. ❣️🦋
I have seen the Cook Once, Eat All Week on the Minimal Mom. Maybe you saw it there? I love the videos Dawn and you have done showing the recipes from it
I love the Betty Crocker cookbook-I wore mine out (ring binder) so I bought the same book on Amazon again. My other go-to is the Living on a Dime cookbook. I currently have the two newest ones on pre-order.
“Good & Cheap” is an amazing cookbook, it’s designed to meet the national food stamp budget but you’d never really know that. Lots of veggie recipes and some meat, and the author does a “buy one give one” where she will donate one to a family on food assistance for every one you buy. I’ve made almost everything in it and I think it’s great! Big fan of the Moosewood books too but those tend to be a little fancier.
This is the my favorite video so far! I also love anything by ATK/Cook's. Would love to see more recipes from inside each book. My favorite granola recipe is also from ATK. I literally just opened up the slow cooker ATK cookbook for my husband (to make the 2 hour mac n cheese for dinner tomorrow night).
I too have a Rachel Ray's Cook books, I watched food network also, with Giada, Ina, Paula Deen etc, but I do have a prized cook book that I never take out, in fact it's somewhat tattered, it's a 1961 Red Roses Cook book, all the old sayings, a pinch of this and a dash here, lard and some ingredients I have no idea, but it's a keeper for me because it belonged to my Grandmother.
I love cookbooks as well and have a lot of the same ones as you. Right now though the one I have been reaching for and my current favourite is Yum & Yummer by Greta Podleski.
Great choices on cookbooks Jen! I am a collector of Ina Garten's cookbooks, I have the entire collection, some even signed. I too feel like the Food Network has declined. We only record certain programs so we can watch them during dinnertime. Thanks for sharing! I'm loving Vlogust!
Would you happen to have a suggestion for a good gluten free cookbook? My husband was just diagnosed with celiac disease and I need an easy reference for quick recipes as we stay pretty busy.
Hi. I'm gluten free (and vegetarian) I have a big collection of cookbooks. Most paleo and ketogenic books (for meat eaters) are amazing... personally I like low cost or easy/fast recipes. One of my favorites is "4 ingredients gluten free"
I only buy used books at library sales & used book stores, so I build my collection slowly & cheaply. I buy used, online, after I checking it out at library, so I know if I'll like it.
Love Cook's Country, and was a 'charter subscriber' to boot, but finally canceled it this spring. I realized that I hadn't read the last three issues (still had the paper mailing jacket on them!) and had to be honest with myself that I have never made a recipe from ANY of the issues. 🤦🏽♀️ Loved the regional features, page layouts, reviews, and 'feel' of the magazine, but I went back to Taste of Home because I actually cook what I read in that magazine. 🤣
Love this!! I collect cookbooks too and America's Test Kotchen always knows what's up! My fingers are crosses in the hopes you'll make a vegetarian meal prep video during Vlogust!!
I RECOMMEND CHRISSY TIEGEN COOKBOOKS! Whether you like her or not, they are both great cookbooks. I like to read cookbooks and hers are a great read!! When I graduated from High School, 1992, our Future Homemakers of America teacher gave us all the paperback Betty Crocker Cookbook. It's pages are like newsprint and there are no pictures; however, the binding is destroyed due to so much use. Ive been a cooking show fan from way way back!! I'd watch PBS shows like The Galloping Gourmet, Justin Wilson Cajun cooking, and an Italian woman who I cannot remember her name, but taught me homemade pasta!! I inherited the love of cookbooks from a mother who could not resist the little books by the register. Shes had boxes and boxes of them and I saw one the other day from thw 80s next to her chair! I agree that ATK can't be beat. All around their TH-cam channel gives the most thorough teaching of a recipe. My most recent cookbook is from Snoop Dogg! A gift from my daughter who thought it was a joke, little did she know I had it in my Amazon cart at the time! Its good.
My first cookbook was the original Betty Crocker picture cookbook. I still make recipes from it. I managed to hold on to that all these years and can't find my Basic Training cycle (like a yearbook) book.
I am a huge cookbook fan! I read them like novels. I have to say I have all the ones you listed except for the Keto. I should do Keto but then I should be doing a lot of things I’m not😁 I get the Cooks Country magazine too as well as several others. I tried out the Pioneer Woman’s magazine but am not a fan. My Mom just gave me her Better Homes and Garden cookbook that she got as a gift when she was 13, she turned 76 yesterday so you know that sucker is old but I will value it always.
I watched Iron Chef all the time! I loved the OG Food Network :) Why do you prefer cookbooks over Pinterest or another online avenue? I remember my grandma writing in her cookbooks and which we still had them!
Are used to watch Rachael Ray and the Food Network religiously Wayback in the day. The same time you did and I agree it’s just not the same. I have the first issue of Martha Stewart everyday food. That was the best little magazine there’s so many great recipes in it I still make the turkey meatballs from there and I make a noodle kugel that a reader sent in.
I know everyone seems to have it, but I really like the Magnolia Table cookbooks. I have found many great recipes in both volumes that are easy to make and don’t include too many crazy ingredients. I bought Cook Once, Eat All Week per your recommendation and I’m making my first recipe from it tonight!
Love all these! I’m new to ATK but just subscribed to their emails and website access. I’m on the fence about which cookbook I should order...I may do the vegetarian one. I have the Rachael Ray 50 and PW. Do you have a method to how many new recipes you try from your cookbooks in a week or a month? I try to make a new recipe from one of my cookbooks each week ...I used to do a couple a week but realized the kids weren’t up for it all the time lol. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for this list! I bake a lot and my favorite baking book is the one by King Arthur Flour/ King Arthur Baking Company. I also like the ATK/Cook's Illustrated episodes cookbook. Just out of curiosity, have you looked at the Magnolia Table books?
I just realized I called the magazine an episode....so there’s that.
We must be kindred spirits! My favorite show as a child was Julia Child and to this day, Cooks Illustrated is my go to for any home cook who is looking to develop their basic skills. I can’t get into all the cooking competition shows that dominate today (except Masterchef, since I secretly wish I could do it,) but I love classic Food Network and Saturday afternoon PBS cooking shows.
I’m a professional chef and the Betty Crocker cookbook is very useful and definitely got me into cooking at a young age! It was my Grandmothers edition from the 1970s, but let’s not hate on good ol’ Betty Crocker!
Please do a top 10 Rachael Ray recipes video like you did for Pioneer Woman :) . I have been watching her since her 30 Minute Meals days too.
I’d love to see that video too!
I agree, but hope they aren't all chicken. I am not much of a fan of chicken. 😀
I have this on my list!
I’m a huge Rachael Ray fan too and remember watching the first 30 minute meals recipe! She came to Kansas City several years ago on a book tour for her Burgers cookbook and I was SO excited to see her and listen to the Q&A. I got an autographed copy of the cookbook and she even drew my name for a prize 👍🏻.
When my mother in law passed away she had at least 1500 cookbooks we quit counting after that. It was overwhelming. I am trying to keep my collection around 20 cookbooks for my children's sake. I use to watch 30 Minute Meals every night at 6:30 and love food network shows! Thanks for sharing!
Oh that's amazing and terrifying all at the same time lol. 1500+ cookbooks to find homes for sounds like no fun at all. 🤪
@@tammymyer5347 well, if you aren't in a hurry to get them out, you could give a stack of them, with a personalized note to friends as wedding gifts, housewarming and graduation gifts.💗
I love cook books too! My grandma collected them when she traveled and when she passed I received them, they are such a treasure to me!
I watch rachel ray at work and everytime she comes on I want to eat everything , easy meals for us people who arent the best at this skill as of yet
I still have a slew of Southern Living and Cooking Light cookbooks. My first was Better Homes and Gardens. I think everyone started with either that one or the Betty Crocker one!
I would LOVE a throwback cooking old Rachel Ray recipes from that magazine!!
The Joy of Cooking. I have several editions and I love this cookbook.
My first cookbook was the 1980 edition of the Joy of Cooking. I've used it so much that the pages are falling out and I have to hold it together with string. I love the fact that I can find everything from how to make a basic cake to how to skin a squirrel (I've never tried that one, but I love that it's included) I know that I can read about the science behind cooking certain ingredients and the minutia about them. I understand that the latest edition is very good too.
Sent here by Christine at Frugal Fit Mom. 🤗💛 Enjoyed both of your cookbook recommendation videos. I also collect cookbooks and I love Rachael too! 🥰💚🙌
OMG, I miss the OG Food Network and just regular cooking shows. Not into the competition and reality cooking shows. Soooo happy for the Pioneer Woman and the revamp of 30 Minute Meals.
It’s all reality shows now with the exception of a few hours a week. I hate the reality shows and the only cooking competition show I enjoy is the Great British Baking Show, it’s great because the competitors are so dang polite. Haha
We need to get you on Rachael's show!!!
Omg I would DIE
Omg...you totally should. All your subscribers would be so proud!
yesssssssssss :)
I could sit and read a cookbook like I’m reading a novel - but one of my favorites are the magazine and cookbooks from Taste of Home. Never made a bad thing from any of their publications.
Yes! My fave TOH cookbook is from 2006:)
That was very sweet of Adam saying his favorite thing is you smiling! Very cute!
I would love to see a kitchen tour! Pantry, cabinets, drawers, all the goods and tools. Thank you for rocking vlogust! ❤️
I so agree...Cooks Country turned my co-workers on to it. We have even done a potluck named Cooks County meals only. So fun.
I was born in 1967 and my mom bought me “Betty Crocker’s Boy’s and Girl’s Cookbook” for Christmas 1976. She even wrote me a message. One of my most cherished possessions I own.
I think it would be really cool for you to cook the from the Rachael Ray magazine I am also a big Rachel ray fan and I started watching her when I was like 10 years old
Oy...i learned to cook from the Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook, way back in the 1950s-1960s. I bought a reproduction a few years ago, for Nostalgia purpose only......You rock, Jen
I actually love a great deal of pioneer woman recipes, but I did not have the money to buy the actual cookbooks but I have ink, printer paper, and sheet protectors so I printed all the ones I love or want to try and put them in a 2 inch binder (even though it is packed to the brim). I am also putting together a TH-cam Favorite recipe binder. It includes Kimmy from Shes In Her Apron, you of course, Sam from Happily A Housewife, Amy Mary on, Jamerrill from Large Family Table, and many more.
You should check out Moss Family TV! She does great recipes and overall lovely family!!
Yes for the Rachel Ray throwback! I’m going to have to check out a couple of these 😊 One of my favorite cookbooks is “The Farmers Wife”. There are no pictures but the recipes are great. I collect and enjoy cookbooks from the 30s-50s and that cookbook has a wide collection.
Well, I'm showing my age but my mother and I had every Southern Living cookbook from 1979 to 2007 ..I think 2007 might have been later. We spent hours reading them and discussing recipes.
I ❤ southern living!!
My mom has quite a few Southern Living cookbooks. In fact, our chili recipe is from one of them
What are your favourite cookbooks? Just trying to grow my collection!
Try the German chocolate pie from Southern Living 1993. And for people who don’t like coconut and nuts, I just leave them out and make a chocolate pie.
Girl. I am so happy to have found you. I love Rachel Ray and ATK. I don't think I've ever had a recipe from Rachel Ray turn out anything but unbelievable.
I think my favorite cookbook is Taste of Home’s “Best Loved Recipes.” My mom bought it for me when I moved out. Some of our favorite recipes are the Fast and Fabulous Thai Chicken Salad and Lentil Spinach Soup!
So so happy you are doing vlogust! Extra videos for a whole month is so exciting!
So great to see your cookbook recommendations. When my husband and I married we tried to collect a cookbook from every new place we visited and in the earlier years he traveled a lot with the Federal Government and would try to find a good cookbook from those cities. I need to put them back within my everyday reach and shake up our boring menus. Love you friend and thank you for you wonderful videos❣️
This was a great video. I always find at least one take away and I am inspired every time. I plan to ask for Cook's Country for Christmas. Thanks for the ideas!
Love Cook's Country and Americas Test Kitchen. We used to watch those episodes a lot and I totally look to them first for my kitchen things. Love my bread knife, sheet pan and more that have been recommended by them and I love them all!!! My go to is my Betty Crocker plaid looking cookbook which I got for free when I opened by bank account at college. Totally agree! My biggest flop cookbook is the Joy of Cooking which I registered for with my wedding and I literally haven't even picked it up because they are all too complicated but I could sit and read cookbooks all day!
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Such a great list! I also LOVED the food network from way far back. I remember when it was still Food TV. I also remember the premier of Rachael Ray’s 30 min meals and many other awesome “OG” shows lol. And the Pioneer Woman show premiered on my birthday and I distinctly remember watching it while eating cake and ice cream for breakfast haha! I loved her blog too!! So awesome to hear someone else that loved her before she was a food network star too. Have you read Ree Drummonds actual book on the story of her life? It’s great too! I got to meet her at a book signing a few years ago and she was so genuine and approachable.
Fantastic! I love and collect cookbooks too. My" Go To " is Betty Crocker 's 3 ring binder cookbook I got years ago. I read them all cover to cover! Great vidoe!
I have been a big man of RR for YEARS - basically learned to cook by watching the original 30 minute meals on FN. I have also been watching her on Instagram during COVID and love what she and John are doing to communicate with folks/record from home - and how real they have been throughout it all. She is awesome! I gave many of the same cookbooks as you as well!
I just received the “ Cook Once Eat All Week” book for my birthday after seeing your videos...it’s everything you promised and more! My favourite cook books are by Nigel Slater, a British cook who writes beautifully. All his recipes work, and most are for normal everyday meals. I have all his books, and my favourites are The 30 Minute Cook and Real Fast Food.
Thanks Jen, great cookbook picks! I enjoyed your video.
I’m a big fan of Rachael Ray too, and I think I have all her cookbooks except her burger one. I also have all the Skinnytaste cookbooks and have her new one preordered on Amazon. I’m a cookbook junkie and have a big bookcase filled with them, plus some.
Walmart used to publish yearly cookbooks with employee recipes. I have several and I highly recommend them if you can find them. The Ultimate Southern Living cookbook is also excellent. And I’m surprised you didn’t give a shout out to Fine Cooking.
I luv this video my go to cookbook is America Test Kitchen Family cookbook.Another older cook book I enjoy is the Silver Palate Cook book I have the basics one but all versions are good. I recommend the pasta Raphael and the veggie chill but there many awesome recipes in these books
Hands down the Better Homes & Gardens 1976 red plaid cookbook. I wore out one and had to replace it from a used book source. Also I stood in line for 5 hours to get a signed copy of Ree Drummond’s first cookbook when she was just starting out. She was cheerful and gracious after hours of signing autographs. I think the bookstore was unprepared for how wildly popular she was. I also have a well loved copy of a checkout aisle cookbook from Lawry’s seasonings called Weekday Gourmet. I have lots of other cookbooks but rarely use them.
Same here I was obsessed back then with the OG’s. Rachael, Bobby, Giada, Ina, & Paula
too! They’re like the equivalent to Cindy & Naomi & the others of the 90’s Supermodel Era! Great video as always I picked up the bowls cookbook because of you & I think I’m gonna try Pioneer Woman I didn’t know her books were so detailed. Look at Adam being all mushy ❤️
Your bloopers at the end just make me love ya even more! Thanks, Jen!
Love this!! I so enjoy getting to see what other cooks' essential cookbooks are. I love to read cookbooks in bed at night - not necessarily to find recipes, just because it's relaxing and enjoyable! I got a big America's Test Kitchen cookbook for Christmas and have been picking up their magazines when I see them at the grocery store; I think that their recipes are both interesting and accessible.
I love Rachel Ray’s and The Pioneer Woman’s cookbooks!!
I have all of the Pioneer Woman cookbooks, and I have one called Cooks Illustrated Cookbook that I love for everything.. I have the required Betty Crocker and Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks from the early 80s. I also have several Taste of Home binder cookbooks.
“My favorite thing in the world is you smiling” awwwwwwww
Always love to hear about new cookbooks you are getting. Another vlog soon like this!
My favorite ever cookbook is The Great American Brand Name Cookbook. Its old and very well used (the binding is so old and used the pages are falling out) my next favorite is my great grandmother's hand written one.
Love Rachael Ray since her 30-minute meals show too! Met her at at cookbook release in Boston and have my very own Rachael Ray autographed cookbook! She was so sweet and kind in person and I still have a fabulous selfie with her from that day!
This helps me in gift giving ideas for my daughters, thanks!
Thanks for sharing! I love collecting cookbooks too! “Cook Once Eat All Week” has been my fave for the past several months, especially when I really don’t have the energy to meal plan.
Have u seen Rachael and John at her house while on quarantine? They even showed around her house a bit, and outdoors in her garden in such.. was luvin them.. she has done a few..
Yes I loved them. They were cute and then people thought they should comment on how much they drink, how cluttered her home looked, how her hair wasn't to their standards! Bunch of a**holes! Think she slowed or stopped after all the crap comments.
@@dawnmontoya4444 IKR! I mean why do people think it's any of their business?! Ya I haven't seen very many either..😪 well, we know who the good peeps are right..lol😂
I was OBSESSED with Week in a Day, it was my favourite cooking show, I’ve bought the cookbook twice because I lost my old one, going to make the braised chicken this weekend.
Oh yes I have that one too!
One of my favorite cookbooks is the Taste of Homes "Big book of Soup". I've made several of the recipes.
I became a SAHM in 2000 when my son was born and I spent A LOT of time watching Rachael Ray! When he was about 2 and the show would come on he would recognize the music and jump up and down saying “mommy’s cooking show”! 😜 I used to make her recipes about 2-3 times a week-she has great ideas!
Just found your channel! I just got into cooking a couple of years ago. A favorite cookbook of mine is The New Complete Book of Pasta by Maria Luisa Scott. It came out in 1968 but it's still great! Easy to follow recipes and beautiful pictures of Italy.
I also started watching food network way back in the day and it taught me how to cook. I am a self taught/food network student!! Lol.
I love Rachael Ray, Ree, Ina... girl... I have all but 3 of these cook books.... amazon here I come!!! I was watching when Emeril was a hot show.... yes I’m old. And I also have the first and maybe the first 10 everyday racheal ray....
Thanks again, great information and description of each of these. My day is made!!! I love vlogust!!!!
Yay a video on how you organize recipes!!!! Yes yes yes... I need help with this. My husband has a box labeled... “cookbooks and recipes Dusti will want to keep but will never use” ... we moved 7 years ago..... it is still in the attic.... taped shut bc it overwhelms me...
Simply Keto is my favorite cookbook!! Love every recipe I have made!
I have been interested in getting that cookbook.
Suzanne Gaumnitz I also like her second book “Beyond Simply Keto,” but I do prefer the original Simply Keto.
So happy you included a Keto Cookbook. I have to follow a low carb lifestyle for health reason and Keto adds a lot of inspirations for that. I have a ton of traditional cookbooks that I cherish as well. ❤️
I love your picks! One of my favourites is “Taste of Home” Always good recipes I find.
Me too!!!! I have gotten them for yrs.. and then like the yearly cookbook of all the recipes.🥰🥰🥰🥰
I was given a Betty Crocker cookbook for my wedding in 1979. Then I got my mom’s and Grandma’s cookbooks. I need to go through them.
I’d love to see a video of you doing a full week from the cook once eat all week cookbook.
Hi Jen, love the daily videos! You are awesome! 👏🏻
Two more favorites 1)the America’s Test Kitchen TV show cookbook with all the recipes that were on the show. 2) King Arthur Flours Complete Cookie Companion. This has every cookie imaginable and different versions-crunchy, chewy, soft, hard. It’s a great high school grad or birthday gift because sooner or later everyone bakes cookies.
How sweet is the comment Adam made. 😍 That was really beautiful to hear, thanks for giving us some snippets of your life. This was a great episode for Vlogust. Loving the content as always. I need a couple of those cookbooks.
I recently bought a Six Sister's cookbook. The 52 weeks of recipes. I've made multiple recipes out of it, so I feel like I got my money's worth. I used to buy Rachel's cookbooks, but she uses a lot of ingredients that I don't always keep on hand so I would find myself at the store a lot. Based in your recommendations I am definitely going to try the cook's country stuff and the cook once book. Thanks 👍
Great collection Jen! I love Cook's Illustrated....I have framed their pictures from the magazine...so pretty. Emeril Lagasse, Martha Stewart, Ina Garten......I too hate what they've done to the food network....it's all chopped, guy fieri…..bring back the days. I too have all of RR cookbooks love her!
I also have framed the covers of the Cook's Illustrated magazine. So pretty!
I started cooking in my preteens. My first cookbook was Rachel Ray 30 Minute Meals 2. I still have it and actually flipped thru it recently and found new recipes I’d like to try. I have lots of Ina books and the first four or five Giada books (before she got snooty and did more Californian cuisine.) I rarely buy cookbooks anymore because I Pinterest more than I use my books, but maybe that will change once we finish building our house and I have the place to store all my books.
Yes Jen I have collected cookbooks for over 40 years. What a addiction lol I read them like love novels. Love Cooks Country, test kitchen barefoot Contessa much much more. Love your channel
Great recommendations! Some of my favorites right now are my Magnolia Table cookbooks. Amazing recipes.
Love most of the same cookbooks and magazines. Several years ago I decided that to decrease the clutter of all the magazines, I would just take out the recipes that I liked and put them all in sheet protectors in a large 3 ring binder. Cooks county ones are my favorite because they have the recipe cards that you can rip out.
Hi, Jen. I have a Betty Crocker cookbook from the late ‘80s, the same Pioneer Woman cookbook and I got the Simply Keto cookbook last Christmas because of you. I have a few others as well. I love the Pioneer Woman cookbook as she’s never let me down. Thx for sharing. ❣️🦋
The magnolia table cookbooks are amazing particularly her second edition!!! I use it about 3 times a week.
I have seen the Cook Once, Eat All Week on the Minimal Mom. Maybe you saw it there? I love the videos Dawn and you have done showing the recipes from it
Love the bloopers at the end Jen. 😁 The Cookbooks would be a great idea for Christmas gifts. I ordered my first gift today. Getting an early start.
I love the Betty Crocker cookbook-I wore mine out (ring binder) so I bought the same book on Amazon again. My other go-to is the Living on a Dime cookbook. I currently have the two newest ones on pre-order.
I love Rachel Ray, a video from her books would be awesome.
“Good & Cheap” is an amazing cookbook, it’s designed to meet the national food stamp budget but you’d never really know that. Lots of veggie recipes and some meat, and the author does a “buy one give one” where she will donate one to a family on food assistance for every one you buy. I’ve made almost everything in it and I think it’s great!
Big fan of the Moosewood books too but those tend to be a little fancier.
This is the my favorite video so far! I also love anything by ATK/Cook's. Would love to see more recipes from inside each book. My favorite granola recipe is also from ATK. I literally just opened up the slow cooker ATK cookbook for my husband (to make the 2 hour mac n cheese for dinner tomorrow night).
I too have a Rachel Ray's Cook books, I watched food network also, with Giada, Ina, Paula Deen etc, but I do have a prized cook book that I never take out, in fact it's somewhat tattered, it's a 1961 Red Roses Cook book, all the old sayings, a pinch of this and a dash here, lard and some ingredients I have no idea, but it's a keeper for me because it belonged to my Grandmother.
I love cookbooks as well and have a lot of the same ones as you. Right now though the one I have been reaching for and my current favourite is Yum & Yummer by Greta Podleski.
Great choices on cookbooks Jen! I am a collector of Ina Garten's cookbooks, I have the entire collection, some even signed. I too feel like the Food Network has declined. We only record certain programs so we can watch them during dinnertime. Thanks for sharing! I'm loving Vlogust!
Would you happen to have a suggestion for a good gluten free cookbook? My husband was just diagnosed with celiac disease and I need an easy reference for quick recipes as we stay pretty busy.
Hi. I'm gluten free (and vegetarian) I have a big collection of cookbooks. Most paleo and ketogenic books (for meat eaters) are amazing... personally I like low cost or easy/fast recipes.
One of my favorites is "4 ingredients gluten free"
This link is for various ways to buy (google play, Amazon, and used book stores to save money).
Mostly I check out any GF books from the library. My library also has a huge collection of ebooks, so I get physical copies & ebooks too.
I only buy used books at library sales & used book stores, so I build my collection slowly & cheaply. I buy used, online, after I checking it out at library, so I know if I'll like it.
Love Cook's Country, and was a 'charter subscriber' to boot, but finally canceled it this spring. I realized that I hadn't read the last three issues (still had the paper mailing jacket on them!) and had to be honest with myself that I have never made a recipe from ANY of the issues. 🤦🏽♀️ Loved the regional features, page layouts, reviews, and 'feel' of the magazine, but I went back to Taste of Home because I actually cook what I read in that magazine. 🤣
I loved this video! I started watching Food Network in 2002...the OGs are still the best!
Love this!! I collect cookbooks too and America's Test Kotchen always knows what's up! My fingers are crosses in the hopes you'll make a vegetarian meal prep video during Vlogust!!
Just ordered the Cook Once Eat All Week one. Thank you so much Jen for your amazing content and wonderful personality. I Just love you.
I loved Rachael Ray's $40 a day travel shows.
One of my absolute favorite!
I RECOMMEND CHRISSY TIEGEN COOKBOOKS! Whether you like her or not, they are both great cookbooks. I like to read cookbooks and hers are a great read!! When I graduated from High School, 1992, our Future Homemakers of America teacher gave us all the paperback Betty Crocker Cookbook. It's pages are like newsprint and there are no pictures; however, the binding is destroyed due to so much use. Ive been a cooking show fan from way way back!! I'd watch PBS shows like The Galloping Gourmet, Justin Wilson Cajun cooking, and an Italian woman who I cannot remember her name, but taught me homemade pasta!! I inherited the love of cookbooks from a mother who could not resist the little books by the register. Shes had boxes and boxes of them and I saw one the other day from thw 80s next to her chair! I agree that ATK can't be beat. All around their TH-cam channel gives the most thorough teaching of a recipe. My most recent cookbook is from Snoop Dogg! A gift from my daughter who thought it was a joke, little did she know I had it in my Amazon cart at the time! Its good.
Such a helpful guide! Thank you!
My first cookbook was the original Betty Crocker picture cookbook. I still make recipes from it. I managed to hold on to that all these years and can't find my Basic Training cycle (like a yearbook) book.
Barefot contessa is my favourite. I use the family one the most.
I am a huge cookbook fan! I read them like novels. I have to say I have all the ones you listed except for the Keto. I should do Keto but then I should be doing a lot of things I’m not😁 I get the Cooks Country magazine too as well as several others. I tried out the Pioneer Woman’s magazine but am not a fan. My Mom just gave me her Better Homes and Garden cookbook that she got as a gift when she was 13, she turned 76 yesterday so you know that sucker is old but I will value it always.
I watched Iron Chef all the time! I loved the OG Food Network :) Why do you prefer cookbooks over Pinterest or another online avenue? I remember my grandma writing in her cookbooks and which we still had them!
Love your bloopers and the cookbooks!
Are used to watch Rachael Ray and the Food Network religiously Wayback in the day. The same time you did and I agree it’s just not the same. I have the first issue of Martha Stewart everyday food. That was the best little magazine there’s so many great recipes in it I still make the turkey meatballs from there and I make a noodle kugel that a reader sent in.
Thanks, Jen! 🧡
Great choices, thanks for sharing!
I know everyone seems to have it, but I really like the Magnolia Table cookbooks. I have found many great recipes in both volumes that are easy to make and don’t include too many crazy ingredients. I bought Cook Once, Eat All Week per your recommendation and I’m making my first recipe from it tonight!
Love Rachael Ray! What brand is your Apple Watch band??
Love all these! I’m new to ATK but just subscribed to their emails and website access. I’m on the fence about which cookbook I should order...I may do the vegetarian one. I have the Rachael Ray 50 and PW. Do you have a method to how many new recipes you try from your cookbooks in a week or a month? I try to make a new recipe from one of my cookbooks each week ...I used to do a couple a week but realized the kids weren’t up for it all the time lol. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for this list! I bake a lot and my favorite baking book is the one by King Arthur Flour/ King Arthur Baking Company. I also like the ATK/Cook's Illustrated episodes cookbook. Just out of curiosity, have you looked at the Magnolia Table books?
I get my cookbooks in the discount section at the bookstore. I have one that is just tacos. Just amazing.