Standby Cookbooks

Last Monday I posted a two week menu plan, since I knew this Monday (aka today) I would be in transit back from the Izeafest conference in Orlando.  So I decided that in keeping with my typical Monday theme of menu planning I would share with you my cookbook shelf:

I have another crammed full shelf in a closet in the dinning room, but these are the cookbooks that I use all the time-my “workhorse”, go to in a pinch, have a basic recipe for everything cookbooks.  They are:

Mark Bittman How to Cook Everything

Amy D The Tightwad Gazette (it’s not a cookbook but I use the quiche, muffin etc recipes all the time)

Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook (I can’t find the version I have online)

Betty Crocker’s Bread Machine Cookbook

Better Homes New Cookbook (circa 2000 or so)

Herb Mixtures & Spicy Blends

Better Homes New Cookbook (Old one)

You can also see that on the left there are a couple of issues of “Cooks Illustrated“~which I love but choke at the subscription price for.  Also on top is my recipe accordion file-jammed full of the various recipes given to me by family members and printed out from various sites.  If a recipe has appeared on this blog, 10 to 1 it is on a piece of paper somewhere in that file!

So what are your “must have” cookbooks?