Have you cooked through an entire cookbook?

I would love to see a blog or something like this. I don’t have a cookbook that has enough recipes I want to try snd I am more likely to look online these days than a cookbook. I need to try more new recipes though.

In 1980-81, when DD a baby, I cooked through the Joy of Cooking - definitely not every recipe, I'd probably still be trying to finish, but I read it like a novel and tried recipes that interested me. After she started walking, my cooking ventures took a rapid decline.

The one I have not forgotten was making bagels from scratch. What a process, that included boiling the dough. Total PITA and I decided Lenders' Bagels were much easier and almost as good. I don't know if I'd feel the same now that good bagels are more readily available or not.

I think I focused too heavily on the chapters of desserts and sweets.

I LOVE cookbooks and read them like novels sometimes! I do prefer getting recipes from cookbooks over the internet.

I have actually been thinking about cooking trough a few of my favorites, but I would skip the sections with seafood. We don't really eat it. What I really need to get better at cooking are vegetables and side dishes. We prefer our vegetables with nothing on them just steamed or roasted, but I think it could be fun to make something simple like green bean almondine or similar.

Of course, I'd also be happy to cook my way through the bread and dessert sections!!

Mine too!!!  

Just about to do the same 

I love some cookbooks...when I get a new one I tend to go from front to back and make a list of the ones I'm likely to like/make, then I refer to that list usually when I'm planning my week's meals. I make something new maybe once or twice a week. At the moment I'm particularly loving Jamie Oliver's 7 Ways. There's just a lot of things in it that work for us and things that are easily tweaked depending on our preferences.

I've never cooked through a book...I don't think we're adventurous enough for that - sometimes I just look at a recipe and think that I just don't even recognise half the ingredients and I'm not willing to buy loads of stuff we might never use again.

I also get a lot of recipes from Delicious magazine website.

As an home economics major we had a basic food preparation course that was the first cooking course you took. The "textbook" had recipes to cover all the basic techniques and processes. So of course we had to cook all the way through the book. We learned everything from white sauce to yeast breads, and had to prove we knew how to do them. Of course, this was in the 70's, so most of us were born in the 50's and had been cooking for our families for years already. But we learned how the ingredients worked together and how they reacted to the other ingredients. There were formulas we had to master such how much baking powder to use for each cup of flour or how much soda or flavoring.

I still have that book and some of the extra recipes we were given that semester. That was more than fifty years ago and I still remember some of the things I learned in that class.

Probably not a whole cookbook, but many, many dog-eared pages of various Sunset, Joy of Cooking and other cookbooks from back in the day (80s and 90s). Before internet access and in the days of real books, I would go through every page of a new cookbook and mark the pages I intended to try. Those old books have been in storage so many years now, hope they survive till we go home again (we're currently expats in Japan). Still make some of those recipes quite often today...when the ingredients can be found.

I haven't even LOOKED through an entire cookbook. I admire those of you who pursue cooking.

In my earlier years, pre-Fibro and CFS, i loved cookbooks and trying new recipes. It is greatly missed. And, I grieve the time my son and I could have spent cooking and baking.

I still enjoy cookbooks. Making every recipe in a cookbook is a hard no. I struggle with food.

OMG! Thank you for suggesting her. Asian street food is our first love! She is also so lovely to listen to and watch. I swear, I am practically full-time YouTube watcher now. I might as well cut my cable.

Thank you!

I haven’t but I want to. We have a bunch of Anthony Bourdain’s books. We’ve made a couple of recipes from each one, ans they’re always great. I also have a Thomas Keller cookbook that I adore. I have like 30 thinks marked to cook in that one, but they are quite involved. The few that I have made have been spectacular though. Also, we’re doing low carb/keto, and most recipes would have to be modified to accommodate that. And I’m sorry, but cauliflower does not taste the same as a potato, no matter how much you season and butter it. 🤣🤣🤣

That sounds like something I would do!  I bought those ingredients for a copycat recipe for PF Changs lettuce wraps on the damndelicious site.  I recommend them if you're ready to give up on remembering what you bought them for originally.

Mine too