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[Starship]

Sooo any recommendations for a cookbook. Just for info I have a Weber Searwood pellet grill.
Not necessarily looking for anything fancy. I cook for family and friends. Don't need any exotic
ingredients just some every day type cooking.

[Bar-B-Lew]

Barbecue Bible by Steven Raichlen

[Bentley]

allrecipes.com, I highly recommend "Grandmas Corn Pudding"!

[pmillen]

I recommend this site.  The Search function is your friend if you don't want to look through the Recipe sections.

Search works well if you have an item to cook.  I received three good "hits" when I searched on flank steak when selecting "Search in topic subjects only."

[NorCal Smoker]

If you are looking for a pellet smoking cookbook, I am sorry I have no recommendations. If you are looking for a really great cookbook, and are very science oriented, The Food Lab, by Kenji Lopez-alt is by far the best cookbook I have, and I have many.

[urnmor]

Sooo any recommendations for a cookbook. Just for info I have a Weber Searwood pellet grill.
Not necessarily looking for anything fancy. I cook for family and friends. Don't need any exotic
ingredients just some every day type cooking.

There are a lot of great cook books out there however it would be best to know what you prefer to cook on the grill.  I personally prefer books that have stories in them about the either the chef, food or the area etc.  If you are looking for just one or two then I will look at my BBQ books or Southern cookbooks.  I know y0ou probably already do this but today the internet has a wealth of recipes for all styles of cooking.

[Kristin Meredith]

I second pmillen about recipes and techniques on this site -- so many fabulous cooks who are so generous in sharing their knowledge.  However, I do own an old standard which has always been a good reference --  Betty Crocker's Cookbook.  Owned mine for over 40 years and still refer to it.

One I have always wanted to own -- America's Test Kitchen Cookbook.  Currently has all recipes they have tested from 2001 to 2024 and is about $30 on Amazon. I watch the show all the time and really enjoy learning about their recipes on TV.

[Canadian John]

 

  The best of many: "How to Grill" by Steven Raichlen..    He has written many books. This is either the original or one of the first..  The original(s) were top notch, an

 excellent source of all kinds of info. You would have to see it to understand.

 Subscuent books of which there many were simply mediocre at best(my opinion) as 99 +% of what I found to be truly valuable information is in How to Grill.

 And yes, there is a lot of info here. If you don't see it or require more detail, simply ask

[Bar-B-Lew]

I second pmillen about recipes and techniques on this site -- so many fabulous cooks who are so generous in sharing their knowledge.  However, I do own an old standard which has always been a good reference --  Betty Crocker's Cookbook.  Owned mine for over 40 years and still refer to it.

One I have always wanted to own -- America's Test Kitchen Cookbook.  Currently has all recipes they have tested from 2001 to 2024 and is about $30 on Amazon. I watch the show all the time and really enjoy learning about their recipes on TV.

I watched a youtube video from ATK yesterday on how to make ballpark sausage and peppers.  There method was pretty interesting particularly on how to cook the peppers and onions.

[BigDave83]

I have more cookbooks than the law allows, and honestly other than Rytek Kutas' Great Sausage Recipes and Meat Curing, I couldn't tell you the last time I was in one of them.

But we are all different in how we approach cooking, myself I am a simple cook, and some of the things I see posted on here, would be way over my head. There are people here that make some fantastic looking and sounding dishes. As others have mentioned, don't over look the recipe or cook sections here, and take some time and just go through the Food Related section, because there is a lot of things in it that have not made it to the recipe sections. If there is a dish or type of cook you are interested in making if nothing else just make a post and ask.

New things come to me by way of the internet mostly now, the GF will send me something and I end up on YouTube or Pintrest looking for recipes, then i go through 6 or 8 of them and kind of pull a little from each and have at it. Most of the time I find myself looking for something not so much as to what is in it or how to make it but a cook time so I have a basic idea of when to get it started.

[pmillen]

One I have always wanted to own -- America's Test Kitchen Cookbook.  Currently has all recipes they have tested from 2001 to 2024 and is about $30 on Amazon. I watch the show all the time and really enjoy learning about their recipes on TV.

I went to the America's Test Kitchen web site to look around.  IDK if membership's a valuable resource, but it looks pricy to me.  The normal membership rate is $79.95 per year.  Currently, new members can start a 14 day free trial with a rate of $49.95 for the first year.  I'll look at their free youtube videos (there must be a hundred) before subscribing.

[Kristin Meredith]

One I have always wanted to own -- America's Test Kitchen Cookbook.  Currently has all recipes they have tested from 2001 to 2024 and is about $30 on Amazon. I watch the show all the time and really enjoy learning about their recipes on TV.

I went to the America's Test Kitchen web site to look around.  IDK if membership's a valuable resource, but it looks pricy to me.  The normal membership rate is $79.95 per year.  Currently, new members can start a 14 day free trial with a rate of $49.95 for the first year.  I'll look at their free youtube videos (there must be a hundred) before subscribing.

I am talking about buying their cookbook, not signing up for the web based recipes.  The membership rate just seems ridiculous when you can get 23 years of recipes for $30

[pmillen]

I am talking about buying their cookbook, not signing up for the web based recipes.

Yeah, I could tell.  I was just adding info on ATK but it wasn't written well so I can see how you understood me to be addressing your joining.

[urnmor]

Here are three of my favorites BBQ cookbooks in no particular order: Bludso's BBQ Cookbook, Butcher Block by Matt Moore. and Serious BBQ by Adam Perry Lang.