Bad cook.

[slaphead]

Can anyone recommend a good book that has simple but tasty recipes for a person with limited cooking skills.

[rekstout]

Although every last drop of soul cries Noooooooooo! I will have to recommend Deliah Smith's How to Cook series - I despise the woman's personality but the books are quite good.

[5029]

I know its not a book, but both the safeways and sainsburys websites have loads of simple recipes (even I can use them!) and an excellent search facility

[froggequene]

There was a book called Cooking for Blokes or something similar, try typing it into the Amazon search engine and it had some good basic recipes.

[Cactus]

I know almost the entire civilized world hates him with his "pukka" Essex boy image, but if you give him a chance, Jamie Oliver has written some really really good books with nice simple (and not much washing up) recipes. He advocates the use of tinfoil parcels to cook stuff in the oven, reducing the need to scrub baking sheets and the like - which is always a plus point in my book! I would recommend his first book "The Naked Chef" to start with - it's so good he's even got a culinary challenged bloke like me cooking my own bread! (and no, i'm not his agent.)

[WendyW]

Delia Smith is your best bet. She gives simple down to earth advice but most of all the recipes actually work!!

[spinner]

Any book by nigel slater, lots of supper, sandwich, easy recipe ideas and the recipes are MUCH tastier than old delias and easier too AND well written.

[aloha]

It was the Moosewood Cookbook that not only taught me how to cook, but how to love it. You'll find it in the library -unless all the copies have been stolen. That is often the case. Oh, and the author is Mollie Katzen