Recipe Collecting Gifts

A woman standing beside a stove full of steaming pots and pans.

Hot Flash Cook Book.

Woman reads Nigella Lawson cook book: 'Add butter to the mixture, remembering to moisten your lips ... whisk for three to four minutes, pouting throughout ...'

The Nervous Gourmet:Low-Risk Chicken

"I bought you a cook book. Think of it as technical support."

How to Deal With Leftover Turkey

"And there it is... Coronation chicken"

'It's amazing how many recipes you can find with courgettes in them when you have to'

"It says the box contains all the ingredients needed for a delicious chicken dinner."

"The recipe said to let the chicken rest after it comes out of the oven!"

Vegetable Cook

'I hope it's okay -- the cookbook had some really confusing abbreviations.'

"What's this in the stew?"

"I just explained 'kugel' to him."

15 Minute Meals

When Tia Carmen says..."A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle" it means...she shared her tripe and onion recipe with the new neighbors."

Make Your Own Alphabet Soup Starter Kit

"Look what I found on sale! Measuring cups to use for all your recipes!"

The Criminally Insane Gourmet.

DESSERTS: The Joy of Looking

My old recipes have so many food stains they're practically scratch and sniff.

Tasty and Healthy Food

"How come we have so many cookery books cluttering up the kitchen?...I mean, you obviously don't read any of them."

An excellent sense of humous

"I can take or leave the religion, I worship his gluten free recipes."

"We've got 749 cookbooks...why are we eating cheese on toast?"

"It's my family's special recipe, passed down through generations on the cream cheese package."

"Not the Verity Brewster? The Verity Brewster who invented sweet-potato casserole with marshmallows on top?"

"Actually, he's not so bad, considering that he's recipe-dependent."

How to correctly estimate cooking time

"And it was at the moment I realized that the only thing holding me back from culinary excellence was a bucket-load of butter."

"'TSP' stands for 'teaspoon' not 'two solid pounds'!"

"It never looks as good as the picture in the recipe book."

If you promise the potluck stays low-key, I'll go. Promise? There will be no competitive culinary craziness? Absolutely not! Ok! Great. So what'll we bring? Simple recipes. Grilled garlic-lime tuna with Moroccan chermoula cilantro-cayenne marinade. Let the games begin!

How to make an unforgettable dinner for four