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I can’t even begin to count the many times I have walked into my kitchen, taken a look inside the fridge, and froze, wondering what food options I haven’t made that specific week and what I should make for my family. I know I’m not alone, and this often leads to bad and unhealthy habits of ordering take-outs.

This is why I decided to do thorough research on how I could solve this issue for myself and many other people who experience this. There’s many great resources I found such as The Recipe Book, that offer quick and easy solutions for anyone to be able to cook. The same rabbit hole also led to finding the best cookbooks. Having a great cookbook is an absolute package that will come with great and very beautiful pictures of food, inspiring and intriguing writing, as well as amazing food recipes that get us excited to cook and eat more often.

I am hoping these books would be helpful for all people including the beginners who aren’t familiar even with the basic things such as the difference between shredded vs grated or julienne vs baton cut among other things.

I have over 20 cookbooks in my collection, and I would recommend the following five books to anyone, even beginners.

The Joy of Cooking

This cookbook was published 88 years ago by S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, John Becker, and Megan Scott. Marion Rombauer Becker’s great-grandson later revised the book. His name is John Becker, and his wife, Megan Scott. This book is a masterclass for anyone looking to learn about the basics of cooking. The book has over 4500 simple recipes covering almost everything starting from popcorns, fillets, vegetables, and chicken recipes. The book also has three pages covering how to mix and match salad greens.

The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

  1. Kenji López-Alt compiled the big book with 958 pages. Don’t be scared off by the big-name “Science” on the title. The book has very many basic recipes that will help those who are starting their cooking experiences. The book has simple and basic recipes like boiling an egg, and a simple, foolproof recipe for making macaroni and cheese. This cookbook will give you the most basic recipes for several everyday quick-fix meals.

Small Victories

The book is a terrific guide for everyone who wants to start cooking to approach the monumental cooking tasks by breaking the process into small bits. The book by Julia Turshen has several recipes that one can hack without even trying hard. The recipes are organized in several lessons designed for self-empowerment and several tips on winning the recipe and still coming up with something amazing. Her recipes are so simplified and easy to follow that they can make even a newbie’s food taste like that of a professional chef.

The New Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone

This cookbook was first published in 1997 and until today, it has remained a leading cookbook for vegetarian recipes. There are not many vegetarian cookbooks for comparison, and even if there were, this cookbook would still take the win against most of them. The book was revised in 2014 and the new edition boasts 1600 wonderful and easy-to-follow recipes. The book by Deborah Madison is perfect for vegetarians and anyone interested in exploring plant-based proteins but has little or no idea where to begin.

Baking Illustrated

For newbies, thinking about baking may engulf you with fear of failure. Baking classes from somewhere like Instabake will definitely help, but this may not be an option for everyone. But there is an alternative: the Baking Illustrated cookbook. This book by the editors of Cook’s Illustrated offers very comprehensive and homey ideas and recipes for any baked goods you might think of, ranging from glazed lemon cookies to blueberry muffins and focaccias. The book has step-by-step illustrations for every baking procedure, for example, chopping nuts for certain recipes, cutting different shapes of parchment papers used for lining while baking different shapes of cakes, etc.

Simple Cake

Once in a while, the ideal thing is to slide into the kitchen and figure out how to make one thing you truly like eating. There is a big chance that thing is cake, at that point, Simple Cake. This book by Odette Williams has ten quick, unfussy cake recipes and 15 toppings and various recommendations on how to combine them, and an ideal entryway to both preparing and cooking.

Stuffed with reasonable and practical advice, it presents cake as a feasible and ordinary joy of every day. It gives the agreeable affirmation that, as Williams wrote, regardless of your baking experience, you’re more than qualified, and, with time and practice, your certainty and confidence will develop.

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