I look for simple, wholesome ingredients.
Menu & meal-planning ideas.
Easy to read & use (large type, plenty of white space, book lays flat).
Basic & variations to recipes, for instance, different ways to cook a potato or make meatballs (how long to bake if the meatballs are 1" vs how long to bake if they are 3").
Room in the margins for notes (doubling quantities, room for comments about how the family liked it, or room to list a substitution).
A section about cooking for a crowd and/or taking something to a Potluck dinner.
I'm also old enough that my cookbooks have only one pasta salad recipe ... macaroni salad. I'd love to see other ideas.
I also like ideas for filling wraps or flat burrito shells.
HTH
Teresa in WV
www.HomeschoolOasis.com
PS: This is also what I look for when buying cookbooks as gifts for young adults just starting out life.
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