Occasionally, we mention recipes from cook books on our site. We'll try to keep this post updated with our thoughts on those books.
Pressure Perfect
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The introduction is like a workbook, where you can fill in information about your pressure cooker to make it easier to refer to later. There are lots of general tips about using and caring for your pressure cooker. The recipes are tasty and result in good presentation, although the book has no pictures for you to know that in advance. Each recipe comes with small variations to change it up and they also have "transformations" which significantly change the resulting dish. Transformations include from adding pasta, changing the meat, different barbecue sauces, and swapping many ingredients to give the dish a different ethnic spin.
125 Best Pressure Cooker Recipes
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Like Pressure Perfect, this book includes some tips on pressure cooking, but isn't as exhaustive as Pressure Perfect. I've had some recipes not turn out, but I blame that on not using the alcohol specified in the recipe. Regardless, it's turned me off of 125 Best Pressure Cooker Recipes. Has a few pictures, but I've yet to make anything with a picture, so I don't know how they compare to actual results.
Jamie's Food Revolution
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This book clearly wants to teach you more about cooking and how to make cooking more enjoyable. Jamie Oliver is one of my favourite TV chefs because he makes cooking seem more fun, and less rote following directions. The book is full of beautiful pictures that illustrate the meal in various stages of preparation. It also includes pictures of normal people with motivational quotes. Jamie's Food Revolution demonstrates some basic technique and pictures several major ingredients. I think the book's pictures are realistic and haven't been disappointed that my meals don't look as good as the pictures in the book.
If you're just starting cooking, like simple recipes (most are one page text and one page pictures), or just love cook books with pictures, this book is highly recommended.
The Joy of Cooking
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The Joy of Cooking is a classic cooking text that is filled with useful information on a wide range of culinary technique. It comments on ingredients and recipes with general advice for most recipe categories. While there are no pictures, there are frequently illustrations to demonstrate technique or to clarify the instructions.
If you're using the page numbers from Plate to Palate, I'm using "Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006."
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