Reddit reviews Three Rivers Cookbook I

I hear ya. I didn't get into the habit of making food to look as amazing as it tasted till after I worked in a few restaurants, I still get lazy most of the time and don't dress stuff up. Particularly when its just me eating it.

Taking you at your word of knowing nothing about cooking, despite some evidence to the contrary in an image above, I typed out my standard advice to someone looking to know more about cooking:

• If you want to learn more about cooking, Alton Brown's books/shows are a fantastic resource because they also tell you the how and the why that is missing from many contemporary cooking shows.
  
  
• A good resource for recipes is a copy of the Three Rivers Cookbook.
  
  
• About the only things I learned working as a line cook at a few places were: some pretty sweet knife skills, how to tell the done-ness of meat by touch, and that I NEVER want to work in another kitchen for the rest of my life. But I still like cooking for myself / my friends.

I think she got it at a church sale, so it is safe, they are going pretty cheap on amazon though… http://www.amazon.com/Three-Rivers-Cookbook-Norma-Sproull/dp/0960763406/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418250067&sr=8-1&keywords=three+rivers+cookbook

In addition to the other stuff already mentioned, maybe a copy of the Three Rivers Cookbook (vol. 1, 2, or 3) and something Mr. Rogers-related?

Edit: Can also get the cookbooks directly here. And there's a fourth volume I didn't know about...